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Toumpas: 11 disposals and 5 marks in just over a quarter of footy. Sounds like he too was headed for a 30+ possession game. Toumpas, Riley, Salem, Harmes … something to work with? BTW, Blease's stats aren't too shoddy either.

N Jones: more Brownlow votes

That high?

Worse than the WC game. There, we were overrun by a slick outfit. Not true of today, we should be matching them.

Not sure what role McKenzie is supposed to be playing. What happened to the blue-collar scragging, tackling machine we knew and (sometimes) loved? Looks lost.

At least JKH has an excuse (inexperience). As for the rest ...

If it's up to him to make his own calls, then you can't actually give him a way to back out as that right is not yours to give. Anyway … back to JT and his foot?

Too obvious! He's also been included ahead of Nicholson, Byrnes and Blease. Has earned his stripes, and will now hold his place in the team. Pleased for him.

"Trengove sustained a stress fracture in the same foot in December 2012, affecting his 2013 season. However, that stress fracture was not in the navicular bone."

Neville Jetta gets his chance? Has earned it from all reports, though who to drop?

… we had 3 pages of this after he was drafted. Believe it's been done to death, but heh, going to be one of the ongoing memes on Demonland I suspect.

The presence of Dawes, even with his 8 possessions, shows just what we've been missing ONFIELD these lasts 5 years. Now with Jones and Grimes, who both played Captain's games yesterday, plus players like Dawes and Cross, you'd have to hope/expect that players coming through now won't have to deal with what many of our "he was a high draft pick, what happened?" players have had to. Perhaps no accident that Frawley puts in his best game for a long time playing alongside Dawes.

Thanks for the reports WJ.

The King Prawns in Black Bean sauce aren't too bad either.

http://watchafl.afl.com.au Subscription, yearly or by match, month etc. Works OK/well, though is better on an iPad through their app. But started at 4.45 this morning, not sure just how much of a Demons fan your daughter is, that's hard yards there. Slightly easier across the water, where we're an hour later.

Too complicated.

That's "if" rather than "when". Just in general, not in response to this post, think some here are underestimating the severity of Mitch's condition, or this condition in general. It's a long road, sometimes a road without end.

People with Depression are Not Just “Sad” Just as cell growth is normal in a person, we call out of control cell growth an illness—we call it cancer. Depression is exactly the same. Depression is when a normal, human emotion gets out of control to the point where it is no longer normal. Considering someone with an illness merely to be “sad” is an insult to that person and minimizes an illness that takes thousands of lives every year.

Riley is off the LTI list. Played at Casey last week.

Not disagreeing, but most clubs would struggle to cover their 3 key forwards and 2 key rucks out (and/or retired …). It's not so much the "outs" but who the outs are and the role they play. If we'd had had Dawes, Hogan and Jamar/Gawn on the park, but an extra couple of mids out, we would be seeing things quite differently. Once again, no accident that when Adelaide lost Tippet and Walker they went from being finalists to also-rans.

Frawley vs Pick 2? Hmm. I'd go for Pick 2. By the law of averages, surely our next high pick will turn out to be a legend-in-the-making?

Has to be 8 weeks. Minimum. Don't know that it's going to be factored in here at all though.

Seen the ruck stats?

It's an AFL piece by Ben Guthrie from AFL Media, automatically, fed through to the MFC site. Jumping to conclusions?

Well, he has a highly-paid contract for one. Suspect part of this, from his end at least, is to remove one of the main pressures he's experiencing, which is the feeling of letting the club and his teammates down.