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With the number of empty places on our list, how can we afford to trade enough picks to get into a position to nab Reid? I get the feeling we might look at using what we currently have and what we get from the Grundy trade to end up with a couple of top ten picks without actually improving beyond the Freo pick (I’d assume the JJ late second round pick will go to Adelaide for McAdam) and then look at the Wizard and possibly someone like O’Sullivan or Caddy, as well as a couple of second (and third?) rounders. If none of this makes any sense, I’m blaming my medication 😂

I’m of the view that as we have a number of list spots to fill, we’ll probably not offload picks in an effort to move up in the draft chasing the likes of Reid, Duursma or McKercher, but rather, we’ll go for either Caddy or O’Sullivan, both of who look like excellent prospects… particularly O’Sullivan who I think has possibly been rated a bit lower than he deserves. Interesting times ahead.

Poor old Tom always gets pushed into the shadows.

Xander, the not so great.

To be perfectly frank, I agree!

Reading that Big Footy thread, they’re saying that Rucci clarified that it’s a Melbourne based club, as opposed to the MFC.

Assuming he qualified to play, which he doesn’t, I think you would find that considering Fritsch went for scans on his foot today after Sunday’s scare, they would not be risking one of our most important players in a VFL game.

Yeah, back in the day, I used to really look forward to reading the Harley Reid thread. 😉

As someone with stage 4 cancer I can empathise with your health situation and wish you all the best. However, that won’t change the fact that I have found some of your posts to be a little too self aggrandising and often, without being able to cite specific posts, just a rehashing on what was already being speculated in the media, but as if it were a great revelation.

If he were a racehorse, he’d be DNF.

Actually, I am 🤣

The long range forecast says 70% chance of rain, but that’s in the morning. Afternoon is cloudy with some sunshine. But I’m not relying too much on that forecast as they rarely get it right.

My son and I are in Bay 2 Row AA

Not if you’re an interstate member 😁

Yep, they couldn’t pick up a Nikon the post, nor if the ball Canons off a players finger.

They use cameras now?? I thought they had some guy on the sidelines with a mallet and chisel and a stone tablet.

Yeah, I’m not sure what I was thinking, but that was definitely a bit of a brain phaart on my part.

Yeah, sorry, a bit of a brain phaart on my part.

This probably says more about where my head is at than anything else, and this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but I’ve often thought about the fact that a touched ball going through the goals is awarded a behind, while a touched ball going between the goal and point posts is also awarded a behind. Shouldn’t the latter be either a ball up or a boundary throw in?

Agree with all of that, but, and I’m probably wrong, I thought all goals were reviewed before the centre bounce to restart play took place… in which case, how could that not have been picked up? It beggars belief!

I saw the mini replay on Foxtel a while ago and the ball clearly misses the post, but the weird thing was the commentators trying to say that it clipped the padding… 😵‍💫

That’s something that can affect both teams… I don’t subscribe to this ‘umpires are out to get us’ conspiracy.

Thanks matey… it a bit of the ‘how long is a piece of string’ situation. Chemo can last from 3-6 months or even longer. The optimist in me says I’ll be back doing it again early next year, but the realist says don’t hold your breath. 😁

Wow! I’d never heard that before… thanks! I don’t think I’d ever have picked that as The Last Time.