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Wouldn't mind him on the list, but won't want to pay what we'd likely need to.

Should Valenti be given a senior spot? Given McDonald's going around again, perhaps not. Robertson will be out for a while, won't he? He's contracted, so it seems unlikely.

The two main priorities: # KPPs # Quick mids Via low picks/rookie draft: # Rucks

To whoever implied the Rhyce Shaw suspension was unwarranted, I'm sure it wasn't just a drink. I think it's a reasonable outcome. It'll be interesting to see what decision's made on their future. If I were a CFC fan, I'd be hoping we move on Didak.

No - too old, and doesn't fill our key needs. Better to take a punt on someone who can contribute to our predicted flag contention window.

Because High Tower is a Sylvia fan

Yes, I do. It simply makes sense to do this, and it's frustrating when we elect to kick to a short contest, or a contest in the middle of the ground. NB: The unfortunate downside of the mods stickying your post is that it's not as obvious when there are new posts.

My favourite time to watch footy.

Indeed. What would we regret? Best case scenario, TJ may have helped us perform better over the next couple of years, which means little when we'll be nowhere near flag contention.

We want KPFs or pacey players who are young. Do Shaw and Didak fit the mould?

Ouch!

From memory, the raffle is for footy department funds.

I wouldn't be surprised. No info on the NAB Rising Star site yet, though - normally published Tue morning.

I think that would have been significantly more work than the current debt demolition site, which looks like it was slapped together pretty quickly.

I heard that around seven players will be gone. My source? CC, via a daily paper.

Makes sense. I only mention it because this conflicts with what's been mentioned recently on here (or Demonology). Again, makes sense. There have been doubts raised over the alignment in recent times, though.

That's not what Rhino Richards had to say about Heffernan's plight (cf. the post I quoted).

Thus raising the point of why, after a couple of nothing years with Melbourne, he was brought back to Essendon if the Sheedy POV was correct.

That's silly. We're going to have a CEO work for free for the next couple of months, so we won't be paying any more than what we'd done if we'd kept McNamee for the next couple of months and not had to pay him out.

I thought Warnock only moved onto Lloyd after he'd kicked two - it looked like Martin was on him initially. I think Lloyd took a mark in or around the 50 when opposed to Garland, although I can't remember if this resulted in a shot. Lloyd was also given a goal by Sylvia, and plucked one off the back of a pack in the square that would have been tough for anyone to stop...let alone the MOTY grab and goal. As others have mentioned, we're happy to talk about how great our forwards were when they have a good day, but when opposition forwards have a great day it's the fault of our defenders.

There were far more Essendon fans at the game.

Sylvia - increasing trade value

MMM's Doc Larkins suggested the early word was that Garland would miss a couple, but that Davey should be okay to play next week.

That's fine, since the major motive for a smaller stadium is to get a better stadium deal.