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And what happens to all those prospects for the Under 18s competition who might be a year or two away from making the squads?

Jeremy Cameron for mine.

Now, there’s an omen for you! It’s no different from 1964 this year as we’ve been given a week’s break to rest up for the run home.

Mark Stevens on 7 News has tweeted:- “Steven May on track to play this week in Tassie. Dees fully expect him to make trip, setting up Round 1 appearance.“

Clickbait. The story about Bennell is almost a week old. It talks about Friday’s practice match v North Melbourne in the future tense. The original story wasn’t exactly what you would describe as “Bad News For Bennell” but rather, as bad news for those who want to rush a player when he’s not ready. That’s something completely different.

As late as 4.40pm yesterday, some Saints fans were trying to tell me that they didn’t regret the fact that their recruiters picked Patrick McCartin as the number one ahead of Tracc. They even had a thread going on Saintsational about it. Here’s a quote from poster “Linton Lodger”:- “No thanks. Fat and overrated”. Another from “Saynta”:- “In a word. NO”. ?

I agree.

Buckenara is certainly entitled to his views. He was a champion footballer, played in premiership teams and has experience in the recruitment industry. However, if he’s going to make statements about where he ranked a player then he needs to also demonstrate that he has a record of accuracy with previous draft predictions. In fact, he doesn’t and it’s worse than the average pundit (not that we can expect perfection in this game).

Saints v North Melbourne - Round 1

Just out of interest who did the data analysis at the club this year!

Nick Robertson is 24, 190cm, is quick, has good disposal and is a handy tagger who was surprisingly delisted by Brisbane. If we can nab him, we would have a free hit at him as a Delisted Free Agent.

The best coach on earth won’t achieve much if the club can’t get them on the park.

2019 NAB League Northern Knights 6.1 6.3 10.3 11.3 (69) Western Jets 0.1 6.3 9.4 12.5 (77) GOALS: Northern Knights: D'Intinosante 5 Cox 2 Bowne 2 Howard Boyd Western Jets: Manton 4 Jeka 2 Reynolds 2 Clarke Cousins Honey Failli BEST: Northern Knights: Sturgess Davies D'Intinosante Taylor Philp Cox Western Jets: Manton Cousins Failli Kennedy Reynolds Crimmins 2019 NAB League Eastern Ranges 1.6 4.6 5.10 7.10 (52) Sandringham Dragons 1.0 2.2 4.4 5.8 (38) GOALS: Eastern Ranges: Rossiter 4 Sonsie 2 Stapleton Sandringham Dragons: Bergman 2 Courtney O'Leary Mackay BEST: Eastern Ranges: Rossiter Ross Garner Smith Stapleton Mellis Sandringham Dragons: Watts Byrnes Burke Bowey McAsey Bergman

Seen watching the Pies game yesterday.

6. Clayton Oliver 5. Nathan Jones 4. Jake Melksham 3. Christian Salem 2. James Harmes 1. Sam Frost

6. James Harmes 5. Max Gawn 4. Michael Hibberd 3. Christian Salem 2. Clayton Oliver 1. Jay Lockhart

Have you seen the format? Some people are concerned that it will further degrade the game but by me - it’s already a bust and I doubt it will attract an overseas audience or last very long.

Relax everyone. The AFLX is for the kiddies. If you’re over 18 years of age, look away.

Volunteer of the Year Award goes to Barbara Box - 15 years of volunteer service to the club.

Three new Life Members inducted - * Head Trainer - John Stanaway for twenty years of service. * Neville Jetta - for being Nev, champion person on and off the ground. * David Thurin - Foundation Hero Legend and dedicated member of the MFC Board.

Glen Bartlett has opened proceedings at tonight’s MFC 2018 AGM. Anyone there?

You can’t underestimate the point about wantaway players not being a health hazard to the organization. The players themselves might be professionals and give their all on the field but the atmosphere always gets strained as soon as they or the team has a bad day and the media gets on the case with their speculation. We traded out one player who had no contract and two with one year left and now have three players well and truly tied to the club plus AVB is on a three year contract. We did well.

Agreed that he needs to pick up his game in 2019. In view of the exodus of many others who were regulars at Casey during the season, he will come in handy for depth and possibly might also be joined by his brother who IMO was a little more impressive.

I’m rather surprised in view of Jeff Garlett’s rather inglorious end to the season that he hasn’t been shopped around (at least there has been no suggestion). I would have thought he might have gotten some interest from clubs like Gold Coast or Brisbane.

Rest assured, the necessary phone numbers are inside every recruiter’s contacts and calls are being made even on the weekend.