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The Hoff has gone bad he's no good don't want at all. Reckon Port will make a play for Seaby or Jamie Charman There's also whispers their interested in Hampson from CFC Be a way for CFC to get back into the first rd of the draft. Burgoyne will go to hawks for 9 and 9 will go to carlton for Hampson.

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Get well soon Jimma my thoughts and prayers are with you. Your strength is inspirational thank you for all that you've given to the MFC and all football supporters we love you jim.

Of course all the news out of draft camp is about Fev Parkin and Garry Lyon give their views Also there's a snipet at the end with Rocket on hall Make sure you click on the most recent trade winds video http://www.afl.com.au/Video/tabid/76/video...px#VideoPlayerB

The new kicking test gets it's first batch of results: By Jason Phelan 12:45 PM Thu 01 October, 2009 THE NEWEST addition to the NAB AFL Draft Camp's battery of tests, the kicking assessment, has been unveiled in front of a crowd of curious onlookers in blustery conditions on day three of the camp in Canberra. The new test is the brain child of former AIS-AFL Academy mentor Nathan Buckley, who undertook a study into junior talent development at the request of the AFL, and found coaches and recruiters believed it to be an area that was lacking at the League's showpiece talent evaluation event. The new drill caused plenty of nerves at the camp with one draft hopeful admitting he had been up at 3am worrying about it, but it was generally well-received. Draft prospects Gary Rohan, Dustin Martin, Matthew Panos, Justin Bollenhagen and Anthony Delborello were among those to impress. Rohan, a Geelong Falcon who is already a top five prospect, further enhanced his chances with his performance despite admitting to some nerves. "It was a bit hard with the wind in front of all the AFL coaches and the recruiters that are here," Rohan said. "It's pretty hard, but you've just got to concentrate. Just look where you're kicking it to and listen to the fella handballing it to you. You just need to block everything else out. "Me and my brother back home tried this drill. We've got these trees back home and we'd just try and hit the tree." Buckley was in the crowd as the drill took place and he was happy with what he saw despite the conditions. "We don't want it to be blustery, it's not blustery all the time, but dealing with the conditions is part of being a good kick as well," Buckley said. "It's in its infancy but it's a start. It's something that needed to happen. "This test may not be here next year, there might be something better, and we hope that there is because we want to make sure that whatever is in place is going to separate the great kicks from the poorer kicks. "It's the beginning of what we'd like to see continue in terms of measuring skills in the game like kicking and handballing." A player performing the test gets six kicks. He faces away from the target range of six two-metre wide circles on the ground, runs in to receive a handball from the caller who at the same time calls out one of the targets at random. These are short left or right (20m), middle left or right (30m) and long left or right (40m). The player must turn around a cone and hit the teammate standing inside that target within the allotted time with points awarded from one to five for each kick with a five earned when the teammate marks the ball without moving. The test is taped so AFL recruiters can further break down a player's kicking action, but Buckley believed the major upside of the test would be seen in years to come. "The real benefit for me is for a 13 or 14-year-old who is thinking about an AFL career and wants to be recognised and wants to be the best he can be," he said. "He knows now that in three or four years time he's going to be measured on his kicking and that's important. "If I'm [that kid] I know that I'm going to have to work on my kicking because its going to be judged when the recruiters have a look and decide whether I've got an AFL career or not."

Just posturing from carlscum They've made an agreement and can't be indian givers now This will be the first trade made during trade week. Just got to make sure Mclean holds his end of the bargain up and agrees to reasonable contract terms and passes all the screenings.

Thought I'd dig up 2008 draft camp results so there is some comparrison between this year and last. REPEAT SPRINTS – 6 x 30 metres This test involves players running 6 x 30 metres sprints with a 20-second time cycle. For example, if the player runs 30 metres in 4.30 seconds, he then has 15.30 seconds to recover, before starting his next 30-metre sprint. 1 – Ryan Schoenmakers (Norwood, SA – medium forward) – 24.82 seconds 2 – Sam Blease (Eastern Ranges, VIC – small/medium midfielder) – 24.97 Matthew DeBoer (Claremont, WA – medium midfielder) – 24.97 4 – Nick Naitanui (Swan Districts, WA – ruckman) – 25.10 James Strauss (Oakleigh Chargers, VIC – medium midfielder) – 25.10 6 – Ashley Smith – (Dandenong Stingrays, VIC – medium defender) – 25.14 7 – Stephen Hill (West Perth, WA – small/medium midfielder) – 25.44 Jack Watts (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – tall forward) – 25.44 9 – Alistair Smith (Perth, WA – small/medium midfielder) – 25.48 10 – Taylor Hunt (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – medium defender) – 25.49 11 – Rory Sloane (Eastern Ranges, VIC – medium defender) – 25.57 12 – Tom Lynch (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – tall forward) – 25.67 13 – Chris Yarran (Swan Districts, WA – medium forward) – 25.74 HEIGHT – tallest players at the draft camp 1 – Ayce Cordy (Geelong Falcons, VIC – ruckman) – 201.7cm 2 – Nick Naitanui (Swan Districts, WA – ruckman) – 200.9cm 3 – Rhys Stanley (West Adelaide, SA – ruckman) – 200.4cm 4 – Tyrone Vickery (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – ruckman) – 200.0cm 5 – Jordan Roughead (North Ballarat Rebels, VIC – ruckman) – 199.7cm 6 – Bart McCulloch (Tassie Mariners, TAS – ruckman) – 198.9cm 7 – Tom Hill (Northern Knights, VIC – ruckman) – 198.5cm 8 – Jackson Trengove (Calder Cannons, VIC – tall forward) – 196.5cm 9 – Shaun McKernan (Calder Cannons, VIC – ruckman) – 196.0cm 10 – Jack Watts (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – tall forward) – 195.8cm WEIGHT – heaviest players at the draft camp 1 – Matthew Martin (West Adelaide, SA – tall defender) – 99.35kg 2 – Shaun McKernan (Calder Cannons, VIC – ruckman) – 94.30kg 3 – Nick Naitanui (Swan Districts, WA – ruckman) – 93.90kg 4 – Jordan Lisle (Oakleigh Chargers, VIC – tall forward) – 92.75kg 5 – Micheal Hurley (Northern Knights, VIC – tall defender) – 91.80kg 6 – Jordan Roughead (North Ballarat Rebels, VIC – ruckman) – 91.75kg 7 – Clancee Pearce (Swan Districts, WA – medium defender) – 89.75kg 8 – Tyrone Vickery (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – ruckman) – 88.80kg Rhys Stanley (West Adelaide, SA – ruckman) – 88.80kg 10 – Jackson Trengove (Calder Cannons, VIC – tall forward) – 88.50kg AGILITY This is a slalom-type course where players change directions. The specially-designed circuit, roughly 40 metres in total, is set out in a zig-zag pattern. 1 – Stephen Hill (West Perth, WA – small/medium midfielder) – 7.77 seconds – draft camp record 2 – Jack Watts (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – tall forward) – 8.03 3 – James Strauss (Oakleigh Chargers, VIC – medium midfielder) – 8.18 4 – Nick Suban (North Ballarat Rebels, VIC – medium midfielder) – 8.25 5 – Ayce Cordy (Geelong Falcons, VIC – ruckman) – 8.27 6 – Shaun McKernan (Calder Cannons, VIC – ruckman) – 8.31 7 – Neville Jetta (Swan Districts, WA – medium forward) – 8.32 Dan Hannebery (Oakleigh Chargers, VIC – small/medium midfielder) – 8.32 9 – Luke Shuey (Oakleigh Chargers, VIC – medium midfielder) – 8.34 10 – Liam Jones (Tassie Mariners, TAS – tall forward) – 8.35 THREE-KM TIME TRIAL This is a straight out three-km time-trial held in racing conditions around the athletics track. 1 – Dan Hannebery (Oakleigh Chargers, VIC – small/medium midfielder) – 10min 17sec 2 – Steele Sidebottom (Murray Bushrangers, VIC – medium defender) – 10.32 3 – Sam McGarry (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – medium defender) – 10.41 4 – Tyson Slattery (West Adelaide, SA – medium defender) – 10.42 5 – Chris Hall (Eagles, SA – small/medium midfielder) – 10.42 6 – Michael Gugliotta (Nightcliff, NT – tall defender) – 10.43 7 – Rory Sloane (Eastern Ranges, VIC – medium defender) – 10.44 8 – Matthew DeBoer (Claremont, WA – medium midfielder) – 10.53 9 – Jarrad Blight (Swan Districts, WA – medium defender) – 10.57 10 – Matthew Broadbent (Eagles, SA – tall defender) – 10.57 STANDING VERTICAL JUMP This is a stand and jump test, with the best results from the three or four jumps recorded. To record the jump, a vertex machine is used. A player must slap the highest possible slat on this machine for the best jump to be recorded. Each slat is roughly a centimetre apart. 1 – Nick Naitanui (Swan Districts, WA – ruckman) – 78cm 2 – Shaun McKernan (Calder Cannons, VIC – ruckman) – 74cm 3 – Tom Swift (Claremont, WA – medium midfielder) – 72cm Stephen Hill (West Perth, WA – small/medium midfielder) – 72cm 5 – Jack Watts (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – tall forward) – 70cm Sam Blease (Eastern Ranges, VIC – small/medium midfielder) – 70cm 7 – Ryan Schoenmakers (Norwood, SA – medium forward) – 69cm Nick Heyne (Gippsland Power, VIC – medium forward) – 69cm Bryce Carroll (Western Jets, VIC – medium forward) – 69cm 10 – Michael Gugliotta (Nightcliff, NT – tall defender) – 67cm Ashley Smith (Dandenong Stingrays, VIC – medium defender) – 67cm Alistair Smith (Perth, WA – small/medium midfielder) – 67cm RUNNING VERTICAL JUMP Winner – Nick Naitanui (Swan Districts, WA – ruckman) – 1.02 metres This record equalled Brisbane Lion Jared Brennan 20-METRE SPRINT A straight out 20-metre sprint test, with the best time recorded from three attempts. 1 – Ashley Smith (Dandenong Stingrays, VIC – small/medium midfielder) – 2.80 seconds – Just missed out on the record held by Port Adelaide's Danyle Pearce (2.79 sec) 2 – Jack Watts – (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – tall forward) – 2.82 3 – Stephen Hill (West Perth, WA – small/medium midfielder) – 2.83 4 – Nick Naitanui (Swan Districts, WA – ruckman) – 2.86 5 – Tom Swift (Claremont, WA – medium midfielder) – 2.89 6 – Ryan Schoenmakers (Norwood, SA – medium forward) – 2.90 7 – Nick Heyne (Gippsland Power, VIC – medium forward) – 2.91 Sam Blease (Eastern Ranges, VIC – small/medium midfielder) – 2.91 9 – Luke Shuey (Oakleigh Chargers, VIC – medium midfielder) – 2.92 Taylor Hunt (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – medium defender) – 2.92 Matthew DeBoer (Claremont, WA – medium midfielder) – 2.92 SHUTTLE RUN (AKA BEEP TEST) The shuttle run is held on the basketball courts. Players must run 20 metres before hearing a beep. It starts off slowly and builds up rapidly, with players increasing their pace significantly. The beeps get quicker each time the players progress. It is a last man standing test. Each player gets one warning – if they miss one beep – they cannot afford to miss another one, as they will be disqualified from the shuttle run. An average draft camp run is level 13.3. A very good level is 14-plus and 15-plus is rare. 1 – Chris Hall (Eagles, SA – small/medium midfielder) – Level 14.6 2 – Rory Sloane (Eastern Ranges, VIC – medium defender) – 14.5 Steele Sidebottom (Murray Bushrangers, VIC – medium defender) – 14.5 4 – Luke Shuey (Oakleigh Chargers, VIC – medium midfielder) – 14.4 5 – Jarrad Blight (Swan Districts, WA – medium defender) – 14.3 Tyson Slattery (West Adelaide, SA – medium defender) – 14.3 7 – Dan Hannebery (Oakleigh Chargers, VIC – small/medium midfielder) – 14.2 Ian Richardson (Claremont, WA – medium forward) – 14.2 9 – Tom Lynch (Sandringham Dragons, VIC – tall forward) – 14.1 Tom Swift (Claremont, WA – medium midfielder) – 14.1 The more I look at this the more I can't believe we got Blease where we we did he ranked top 10 in 4 classifications

Doesn't Davey re-signing for 4 years indicate that the players aren't too despondent about 2009. The sky hasn't fallen in at MFC there isn't a mass walkout the coach hasn't been sacked. You'd think this joint was richmond with all the fake hysteria Brock walked or was pushed cause there was no room left for him with 2 more potentially elite mids coming into the side. And we could get a fairly decent trade for him which we'll use on a KPP. Tanking is a negative term given to what every side has done to try and rebuild. Playing people out of position throwing youngsters into the side getting rid of unperforming veterans was all called list management or rebuilding. Ess, St kilda, coll, haw, rich, fre, carl have all done this over the last decade. So finally MFC has realised what's good for goose is good for the gander. Finally we look like we might be uncompromising and building towards a premiership.

Hope to god it's just a hot spot i think it was his talus bone in his foot which is different to the navicular bone injury he has had. However it still points to stuctural problems in his foot if he gets hot spots. Unfortunately the bones he is having problems with take the bodies full weight when walking or running He was a rare shining light in 2008 I hope he get's back to his best asap he is an absolute gun. A diagram of what where looking at

Not convinced about Maric yet he's got a great upside but I haven't seen things that excite me in the same way say Grimes has gone about it. Needs to lift and get a regular position in the team before i can say if he is gonna be any good.

Some must watch video from the first offical day of draft camp. Tom Scully is already an impressive media performer, Interviews with Anthony Morabito and Kane Lucas also. Shifter and Dean Bailey's opinion on what he's seen so far. http://www.afl.com.au/Video/tabid/76/video...px#VideoPlayerB

From Emma Quayle's Thread on Twitter Winmar 3.10 in the 20m sprint Butcher 2.99 Ayden Kennedy (Eastern Ranges) best at 2.88

Two important Articles regarding Tom Scully and Jack Trengove from the AFL draft Camp Scully talks about knee injury and excitement about the dees http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tab...95/default.aspx Brenton Phillips compares Trengove to Bryce Gibbs same if not better http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tab...91/default.aspx

Following Emma Quayle via twitter http://twitter.com/emmasq some interesting news apparently Morabito has done a quad and isn't testing apparently dustin martin's stared in the 20m sprint with times of 2.92, 2.80, 2.90 Have a look also photo of John Melsham doing vertical leap.

^ Who do you have in mind. By the way players should be pissing themselves to come and play for the red and blue new training facilities bunch of young exciting players the can leave their mark on. All the reports should be going the other way maybe i'm deluded

Cam Schwab on twitter: 'Having glanced thru the papers this morning I again emphasise...don't believe everything you read. Repeat after me...' He's maintained the same line throughout the process he seems confident Davey's not going unwavering in fact. I hope this is resolved either way soon it just doesn't look good that people are reporting our players are considering jumping ship.

^ Completely agree 45. There is no way melb coaching staff players decided the fate of that game it was too rediculous a set of circumstances to engineer such a result. Kevin Sheedy in a recent article said that in the Ninties maybe 97 that he had alot of young players and played them out of position to discover their strengths and weaknesses. He wasn't tanking he was doing what coaches should do in a rebuilding or discovery phase. It's absolute dicks like Mark Robertson and Andrew Maher ( a 4 eyed biased dick ) who continually lay the boot in MFC trying to destabilise us cause their wankers. As for Brock he saw the writing on the wall at best he was going to be second string within 2 years with Scully being faster surer by hand, classier and younger. Moloney had finally had a uninterupted season and eclipsed him, Silvia had gone passed him and Jones was younger than him . Brock knew his best option was to get traded while he was still young carltank had always showed interest cause of the family connection and Ratts coaching at MFC. In the end it's a win for both sides.

Sad news condolensces to Ken's family Ken's Obituary from the Herald Sun: Kenneth Graeme McKaige "Ken" McKAIGE. - Kenneth Graeme (Ken) 17.08.1929 - 26.09.2009 On Sat. Sept. 26, 2009 At Peter MacCallum Ken passed away peacefully after watching the game he loved, with those who loved him. After a long and courageous battle, the final siren has sounded. A wonderful father, partner and friend. A wonderful life. Kenneth Graeme, son of Kenneth Senior (dec.) and Doreen (dec.) and Nip of brother Bob. Partner of Glenys. Adored father and father-in-law of Mark and Virginia, Andrew and Meaghan, Catherine and Robert, Rohan and Caroline, Cameron and Kait, Sue and Frank, Larry and Dehanne, Kate and Peter. Adored grandfather of Jessica and Matthew, Marcus and Bianca, Olivia and Michael, Grace, Isabelle, Patrick, Alexandra, Adrian, Dylan, Lauren, Samantha, Kelley, Ashlee, Thomas and Tess. Adored great grandfather of Luca, Thomas and James. It's a grand old flag and what a grand life Go the Red and Blue! Ken's Playing Stats: Debut: Round 11, 1951 against Hawthorn at Glenferrie Oval Last Game: Round 3, 1952 against Hawthorn at MCG Career Statistics (external link) Games: 9 (19 total) Goals: 1 From: Old Melburnians Number: 29 1951-1952 Two seasons at Carlton 1953-1954 Served as President of the Past Players and Officials Association.

Steven Dodd 26yo mid sized defender - 191cm 82kegs Ongoing Shoulder problems reco'ed in 07 ongoing calf problems No need for him in current MFC line up too old doesn't fit the bill much better players being touted as possible trades that MFC could go for in this class such as Josh Gibson bigger and faster than Dodd.

Unbelievable got 2 comments onto Robbo's blog and he answered both Here's the second one: 1:18 [Comment From Luke] Robbo who won out of the Brock Mclean trade MFC or CFC 1:19 I would argue MFC.. three picks in top 11

Finally got my question posted on Robbo's blog 12:19 Luke Question Robbo, Where's Aaron Davey's contract negotiations at has he commited to the RED and BLUE or is he walking? Reply 12:20 club official told me this morning there is s till argy bargy on dollars but confident nevertheless

Absolute crap Judd's not leaving Fev is going going just about gone Probably to Sydney for pick 6 and a player Sydney will see if he can turn over a new leaf

schartz just confirmed you little rippa Davey close to signing comes from cam schwab stuff you essendon up yours collingwood great day

someone call up and put it to the ox what's the situation

Have a feeling the 5pm announcement on SEN might have something to do with davey this is a tweet a mate got after asking where's his contract negotiations at: # @SENNEWS How about some news on Aaron Daveys contract extension?about 1 hour ago from web in reply to SENNEWS