Supermercado

Knowing our luck they'll all catch a flesh-eating virus from the water.

Nah, whoever stopped Jones going on accidentally screwed us (unless he was ill then his immune system screwed us)... http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/the-goal-that-undid-the-dees-20130220-2ero3.html Meanwhile a reminder that voting on Round 1, Part 2 closes at 7pm tonight.

As an alternative thinker I demand Harry O go for a ridiculously high number.

Both yet to come in first round action (see the full list of upcoming matches here) There should be some more thrillers on offer in the next round of matches. You can visit the site to pick a winner in the following Round 1, Part 2 matchups: D. Neitz vs S. Charles S. Godfrey vs G. Rigoni G. Hutchison vs M. O'Sulllivan F. Giampaolo vs L. Fowler D. Clark vs M. Febey G. Baker vs B. McLean A. Leoncelli vs S. Woewodin C. Bizzell vs G. Lyon C. Bruce vs A. Battiston S. Eishold vs B. Bailey G. Yeats vs A. Lovell Gerard Healy vs G. Hardeman L. Jurrah vs C. Morton M. Byrne vs K. Dyson D. Bell vs E. Spalding P. Keenan vs J. White Happy voting election fans.

Sadly I've only got a handful of these from around 1982 (I wish there was a 30 year rule where documents were made public a'la the government), but here's another one of my favourites - the great Kentucky Fried Chicken swindle of 1982.

Note the way this memo lays the groundwork for MFC Facebook page users 30 years later by butchering his name twice. Not sure whether Kerry and "Larry" (presumably Les) Bamblett moving in together is being spoken of as a good thing or a bad thing.

Has been quite brisk (better than our usual comps anyway), up to 164 for the first matchups with 23 hours to go before the first winners are revealed. A few potential spankings here, plenty of hot contests in coming days.

Debate about horse racing aside you would hope that players would understand now what they are and aren't going to get flogged for by the media for saying. Obviously not. Hopefully he'll get away with this because there's a lot of other big news on.

Congratulations to Austin Wonaeamirri for winning the warm-up event with 22%. Tears before bedtime for Paul Bryce and Robert Pyman who were the only players who failed to register a vote. The first round proper will kick-off here at 7am Wednesday and run until 7pm Thursday night. Good luck getting your favourites up.

Comrades, The main event will begin at 8am Wednesday - but until then here's an Under 19's Grand Final at 9am style curtain-raiser http://mfcdemonblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/practicebracket.html

Going to TAB Sportsbet to back John Clennett (even though I'm not entirely sure who he is).

To clarify the top 128 was chosen by games played + a handful of wildcards. I'd love to have included bizarre novelty players like Hayden Lamaro but that would have blown it out to a 256 person tournament - which I'm sure you'll agree would be extremely unwieldly. Maybe next year we'll do an obscure bracket for players under 30 games only. Happy voting sports fans.

On what actually happened I'm relatively happy. On what forums and Twitter built me up to believe what was going to happen I'm going to jump out the window.

2 + 3 for Mitchell, Reid, Malceski and Sydney's first pick. Go on Swans, your cap is stuffed.

I thought his name was actually Tyron Armitage Manly Warringah. Very disappointed to click through and find out the last bit is a team.

At what point does Eddie come out and threaten to pull the pin on Queen's Birthday like he did when we tried to pinch their recruiter.

At the expense of forcing kids to run around in an inferior competition when they could be cherry ripe to play in the seniors. The whole point of a draft is that you're taking a punt on every pick, I'd rather confine kids to running around Burbank Oval or Frankston unnecessarily just to spare the blushes of our recruiters. I reckon it should go the other way and the draft age should be lowered but like Hogan under-age players picked aren't allowed to play seniors. The time they spend around the club could be regulated and they could have a limit on the amount of VFL games they're allowed to play but it would give them a taste of the system for a year without throwing top picks to the wolves by expecting them go out and prop up [censored] teams from Round 1 in their first year. Would also add an extra element of strategy in that some players might not nominate at this point so recruiters would have to decide whether they drafted an excellent prospect now knowing they can't use them for a year or an older player they can drop into the senior side straight away. There are probably 3000 flaws to this plan which I just came up with, so please feel free to list them in the space provided below.

He will be reminded I'm sure!

So his manager didn't say anything of the sort and Bagbag Barrett put his own spin on it. This is the same guy who claimed we were about to unveil Scott Burns as coach - avoid at all costs.

A pass compared to last year, but a failure by the standards of any reasonable club. Still, I gave it a C because I didn't expect us to be any good so was pleasantly surprised in the first 13 rounds then back in my comfort zone for the last 10.

Greg Denham looks like an even more of a stroker than I'd expected him to.

Should have biffed somebody last week, put his feet up in Round 23 and come back next year for another crack instead of getting rubbed out. It's like our half time 'melee' in R23 last year against the Bulldogs when the same players had spent the previous 21 weeks rolling over and dying - fine time to start showing some mongrel.

Jetta. Dunn started to pick up in the second half of last year, but he was still great this season. Pedersen in second place. Tyson was probably better than both of them as a player, but he had plenty of time to get it right the other two were on the brink.

With the crowd noise piped in over the loudspeakers. Shambolic.