Inner Demon

Nostradeemus, I'm calling you out. You have zero understanding of how hard a worker and great a team man and leader Brad Miller is. You are a petty, small man with not 1% of the ability Brad Miller has, who makes himself feel like a big man by unjustfiably hurling abusing at men you claim to support from the safety of the stands and a keyboard. You should be ashamed of yourself, you're pathetic.

Out: Watts, Rivers, Jones In: Frawley, Dunn, McKenzie For those asking, the deal with Maric is that he's done nothing to earn a spot in the 1s. Ever. Wonaeamirri is a long way ahead of him.

6 Morton 5 Gysberts 4 Green 3 Jetta 2 McDonald 1 Moloney

Rockliff has this week's nomination pretty well sewn up.

Why would it be better to try a region that is in a state that will have 2 teams of its own to support rather than a footy mad state capital who have no local team???? Because there's a Club Med nearby??? Wouldn't have thought so.

No, match payments only apply to playing AFL games.

Colossal mistake would be closer to the mark. 4 years they have to blow cash on a kid who's not up to it. Disaster.

We want a player who is so lazy and unaccountable that not even Richmond will overlook it to play him????????? No.

The fact Newton has about 8-10kgs and 4 years on Watts says more about Newton than it does about Watts.

So what is the other major string to Newton's bow? For that matter, what is the first string on his bow?? No, wait, in what way does Newton even have a bow???

Newton only ever has any 'mongrel' about him when the ball is long gone and he throws little cheapies when his opponent's head is turned. I've seen him do this a bunch of times and it makes me sick. What he lacks is the appetite for the genuine contest. He can't use his body to create position and he won't hit a contest with any ferocity whatsoever. He's soft as butter. There is not one single characteristic of his football that puts him ahead of Brad Miller.

Only problem is that JPod isn't the softest player in AFL/VFL history.

Brad Miller has kicked 3 or more goals 11 times.

We knew exactly what we were getting with Gawn. We drafted him injured, it's in no way 'disappointing' that he hasn't played this year, that would suggest that something unforseen had occured. I'd say it's a bonus we're getting him 3/4 of the way through the year. Blease is one completely out of the box. You just don't see that kind of freak accident, we've been appallingly unlucky with him, still, he's back in two weeks and only missing 1 1/2 years. Tapscott is back in 4 so will only miss half of the year. So who is it that we're supposedly losing for "2-3 years"????

No. Weetra gets a hard time undeservedly. The kid wasn't the most talented in the world, he put in at training and did extra work in his one off-season trying to make it and fell by the wayside like so many do. He was only 19 when he played his two games. Newton's one and only redeeming quality as a footballer is that he has grown to a certain height. He's supposedly a key forward who appears to be petrified of body contact and who has never revisited the 'lofty' heights of his 2nd game way back in 2007 when he managed to kick 3. Do people really understand that?? He's had one game where he kicked 3. One game. Furthermore, this myth that he gives us some kind of rucking option is mind-boggling. He's no better than Sylvia in the ruck.

I sincerely hope not. He's the single worst player I have ever seen playing for our club.

So last week was 5 and this week is 4. Doesn't seem that sinister or mysterious. More like basic maths.

Can I propose bans or some other kind of sanction for ever, ever suggesting Michael Newton EVER should be selected in our senior team??

You're off the mark on a couple of fronts: 1) Hunt & Folau do not fall outside the salary cap. They are on something in the neighbourhood of $600K/year as far as TPP is concerned. The balance of their contract is paid by the AFL for marketing & promotions. 2) Neither GC or GWS have inflated salary caps, this illusion is created by the high proportion of their list consisting of draftees on standardised contracts around $60K/year which leaves them with a huge amount of cap space to spend on recruiting senior players from other clubs

I love these moves on the NRL players. I see Folau, in particular, as a very similar story to Nic Naitanui just a couple of years behind in on-field experience. It's awesome for the game in NSW & QLD and it gives fans in VIC a reason to watch the new clubs to check out the freak shows. Furthermore, it shouldn't be ignored from our perspective that the signings of Karmichael & Izzy cut out $1m that would otherwise have been free to throw at our young guns. These big risks take a chunk out of their pulling power for their 'free agency' type opportunities.

The comment that "Geelong paid him no attention" loses a bit of relevance considering 10 of his 26 possessions were contested. Is it being suggested the Geelong players didn't notice the bloke beating them for the contested ball because he was just a 1st gamer??

And the McLean trade.

On all the calls for Bail's inclusion, while I really rate him and loved his play early in the year, I think it's unlikely that a bloke who was almost knocked out then taken to hospital early in the game will be elevated the following week.

My thoughts exactly RR. Do any of the "draft experts" out there still want Talia or Black instead of Gysberts???? I couldn't be bothered trawling through the threads in response to the draft but I'll bet there a few posts in there hurling abuse at Prendergast who are now singing the praises of Jordan.

In: Bate, Scully, Trengove Out: Garland (inj.), Rivers, ??? I honestly have no idea who else we leave out this week. One would assume the 3 ins are automatic while Garland will apparently be missing a few weeks with the knee. Riv, who I haven't viewed as harshly as many so far this year, had a bad game on Saturday and really has no matchup against Carlton, you'd think he'll make way. Beyond those two I cannot pick anybody who glaringly doesn't deserve their spot in next week's team. This makes it even harder to get Jordie McK back in the side. Another interesting week at the selection table, it seems that like Jordie last week, somebody is going to be stiff to lose their place in this week's team.