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People should let this drop. Seriously. Dave Misson knew what he was doing (one of the reasons Paul Roos kept him on), as does Griffith, who was hand-picked and trained up by Burgess to succeed him.

For a guy who "knows nothing about football" he certainly know what to say when he speaks about football. "High performance", "destination club", "driving for success", "Melbourne is one of the great clubs of the AFL" ... all there.

Have to confess to quickly scanning this, and in doing so misread it as: "Prior to this Paul was Managing Director Asia Pacific for Opium International, a subsidiary of the United Health Group"

If you want to do a full load and have a meaningful long-term impact on fitness, it's 3 months. You also need a period before that (3-4 weeks) to unload so that you're nice and fresh and your body/systems can take what's about to be thrown at them. Also known as off-season/pre-season.

Down the track we also need a replacement for Tom McDonald. Adams is hopefully one. Then perhaps Turner, as personally I feel for the kind of animated, competitive player he is, Petty is better suited up forward. The smokey could be Kentfield. Has played as a forward until now and it's waaaayyy to early to be looking him in this context, but has played down back for a couple of Casey games and not been disgraced.

"Especially with the crew that he has" If we had anything like a top 4 list we'd be in the top 4. Not more complicated than that. (caveat also being that the full list is more or less fully available, which is not our case either)

Delusional.

One week at a time.

Had a serious back injury while at Carlton, and they obviously thought he was cooked. Worked very hard in the VFL to give himself another chance, which was almost lost through last year's knee injury.

Nice running goal to Oscar Mac. Working well, will hold his place at this rate, then who knows for a contract extension.

Sestan could be one of those players who languishes in the lower leagues for ages and then it all clicks and he goes on to a 10-season AFL career. Or not.

Or Tholstrup or Spargo. A bit of choice ... if needed.

Turner in releases Rivers to the midfield?

Melksham for Tholstrup. The lad needs some time at the lower level to develop his game. Catch is, no VFL again this week. Turner should come in as well in the backline, but not sure who for. Someone for Fullarton. Anyone.

+ Jefferson?

This. Needs to at least bring it to ground, but even that seems too much. For a big guy he's constantly being out-bodied.

Apart from anything else, paying the price for playing our future all at once. Windsor and Langford constantly turning it over, Tholstrup doing nothing except bring energy, McVee rusty. Lindsay about the only one who can hold his head up. Will play dividends in the long term, but hurting us now. Also cough Fullerton cough.

Isn't 2027 when Tasmania enter the draft?

11th. Equal with Giants, between Port and the Cats.

Much prefer him to Lyon in that role. Nothing against Lyon per se, but he's both opinionated and forthright about his opinions, which then turned OTC into a bit of a pub discussion when everyone's fighting to have their voices heard. Lyon is better on AFL360 where he only has one person to bounce off/come back at him, while Riewoldt's tentativeness and cooler approach lets others in without the argy bargy.

2b/ Forward half pressure. Stops the opposition launching attacks from the back half.

Not mutually exclusive.

If he goes, get 2 or 3 strong 1st-round picks, use them on Matt Rowell or Harley Reid.

I see that you're new around here.