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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.

So the scenario is that just before Fremantle takes Jesse Hogan on a tour of their facility, a number of rumours start circulating about him that paint him in a negative light. The Dockers make him a lucrative offer to come home and then give Melbourne a low ball offer which, when rejected, causes them to pull out of doing their due diligence. Most clubs have gone beyond that style of negotiating but the rhinestone cowboys of Freo have yet to learn. I think they might be experiencing a bit of a wake up call at just about now.

Any chance that Andrew Bradshaw going to Melbourne the could be part of a deal involving Hogan?

Tonight just made it harder to get him.

Disgusted they left Shannon Byrnes out of the final squad last night.

No ceegar for India - missed out by 40 runs. I suppose if the Aussies can topple the Proteas over there then we could take the #1 in the world mantle.

Callan Ward already ruled out because of an operation today.

Fair enough but why not just invent some of their history? After all, everything else about GWS is fake and contrived.

and a host of others who were touted as draft picks but weren't selected. I'm compiling a list of these prospects which I'll put on the JT Board when I get around to it.

FOXTEL takes total to $2.6 million Congratulations to the Melbourne Football Club on this fantastic achievement. Let's knock off $3,000,000 by the end of the month and kick on to $4,000,000 by the end of the year.