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He and Kent have got some genuine mongrel in them, and I like it.

Thanks Neeldy.

The Etihad and North droughts are the most ludicrous.

This is meant to be a judgement free zone, Sir, and I won't have you berating our number one patron.

The OWL is designed to contain the whingers in one location. if you don't wish to read it, don't enter. Now then, can I fix you a drink? Our Shirley Temple is famous.

I know mate, and it brings me a great deal of joy to see it serving its practical purpose

*wanders around to collect a few half empty glasses*

Watto MUST bat down the order at 5/6. He benefits which means the team benefits. Clarke looked very relaxed with some stroke play to remind everyone he's still one of the best going around. Starc is bowling Ike a man possessed. The tournament deserves an Aus v NZ final. The atmosphere will be off the scale.

Thanks be to Roos.

He just wasn't moving freely last season. You could see he was clearly labouring when he was running. IF that is rectified, and reports are suggesting that it might be, then we could be seeing a very different player from here onwards, but time will tell.

So he's a Pies supporter. Revenge for Pendles. Finally

Liking the multi-cultural flair. Greek, Lebanese and now Italian. And all three are guns in the making.

The law of averages says you're right but it then starts to enter a damned if you do or don't scenario. In the draftee interviews posted on the afl website, almost half picked Petracca to win the Rising Star, and they nominated him like it was an inevitability. I'm loving the hype, personally. I'm embracing it.

Given who we grabbed at Pick 40 last year, you bet it does

Every club wants this kid. GWS were falling over themselves to get him and they have midfield talent coming out the wazoo. It's easy to let our history with these picks make someone gun shy. I get that. But we're becoming a very different club to those days.

Our adults, sure. Not every adult. Are you advocating "serious doubts over kicking" from watching a two minute video, that conflicts with a separate few minutes of video? Not some doubt, mind you. SERIOUS doubt. Not meaning to pick on that particular poster, I just don't understand that attitude. With all the importance placed upon kicking in today's game, the touted number 1 pick who has been studied at length has a huge black cloud over this most fundamental skill, and in 2014, this has either escaped the attention of every recruiter, or they simply don't care?

Got a chuckle from this. All so true. Sloane is quite possibly my favourite non-MFC player, but he is a certified helicopter pilot.

In the other highlights package he hits almost every target. So I guess based on THAT highlights package we can say that there are no doubts over his kicking. Huzzah, problem solved. With the amount of analysis that goes into Pick 1 these days, which has progressed further again from when Scully was drafted, I find it difficult to believe, nay, impossible to believe, that practically every recruiter would consider a midfielder who can't kick to be the number 1 talent in the country, especially when those expressing serious doubts over his kicking are doing so based on a two minute video.

Please just stop for a moment and think about what you're saying here. Pretty much everyone in the land whose opinion is worth more than a pinch of muck has him as a top 3 talent, with a majority rating him number 1, and you have "serious doubts about his kicking" based on a few minutes of footage. Think about it logically.

Not an issue. This still qualifies you as an expert under Demonland law. Section 5.3(a) of the Act stipulates that "any poster who judges a potential draftee using online video footage only is to be deemed an expert in the field of draft selection". It's all there in black and white.

He does seem to have a swagger about him, but by god, we need some of that.

If we land Brayshaw and Petracca.... I'm too excited to finish that sentence.

I agree to a certain point. He will be joining one of the lowest scoring teams in the game's history. Dawes lead the tally last season with 20. Jeremy Cameron in his debut season kicked 29. The bar isn't being set all that high for Hogan and/or McCartin to have an immediate impact.

The forwardline will also be +Howe +Garlett +a fully fit Dawes.

They need to get out of his way and let him go home. Absolute no brainer.