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Great questions George, particularly the third one re do shrewd recruiters learn anything new at draft camp. And also ask re AMV and Howes.

JT has a great record and here’s hoping that these two are more of his gems. BBB, our Premiership FF says hi.

He (CM) certainly didn't work out as planned - one wonders how he may have performed in a better structured club environment with time to develop in the 2s, without thrusting them in as Messiahs.. (Add JW, Maric, Strauss, Valenti etc into that category)

Has any AFL / VFL team had a Koltyn? Depth I would think. Like Dunstan. 🤔 Hopefully Langdon will be flyover the rib injury - can take a long time - and return with full confidence. I was thinking of Sestan when looking at the Viking's highlights.

The AFL, like God, moves in mysterious ways.

Does anyone know the origin of the family name? Norwegian? Hope he isn’t pining for the fjords😮

Or Jock?

greenwaves and DD - whilst not expecting to see much if any of Jefferson in 2024, I wonder why you seem so totally unequivocal that he won’t be seen at all?

Hopefully spending 5 days in Adelaide might convince Harry to stay with us.

We had a teacher at school (in the MFC heydays of the 1950s) whose used to say (pardon my Latin if not strictly parsed) "res non verba" which he said meant "deeds not words". Maybe MFC needs such a motto.

“….AFL is run by amateurs propped up by their own ilk...the media….” Not quite. Amateurs aren’t paid millions plus bonuses.

MFCSS actually They could screw is more by deeming our gather round v Adelaide to be our home game 🙄😮

There was a list on some thread earlier in the year and we were clearly the team to travel there most, by a fair margin. I think it was Collingwood and maybe Carlton / Richmond who went only once in 20+ years. I am sure some tech guru can find it somewhere.

How about ranking it with the IOC?

In fairness, chook, not just injuries but combination / clusters of injuries Petty Melksham Frittata Brown McDonald could not have been worse and we only failed by a couple of shots in both finals.

Like so many “rules” in AFL, much is made up on the run … which club, which player, what does ch 7 and Fox and Sportsbet think???? Not distressing in the slightest IMO that the club has not released any confident information regarding any conversations that may or may not have taken place between the club, a potential draftee and his family. In fact I am glad they are keeping it quiet (assuming that this is the wish of all involved).

OMG ! So a lease is as useful as a coaching contract with cast iron guarantee 🤔🙄 chookrat - nothing personal, but are you naïve? Governments may have “moral” obligation to do things equitably, but have they ever done so?

I may have asked in another threat, but is a Tasmanian a risk given the determination for a Tas team in the near future. Will Gil / Dill formulate rules (on the run of course) that will compel us to give them our best Tasmanian??

Q for experts - do any feel that there may be some degree of reluctance to take Tasmanians “all things being equal” (which of course they never are) given the presumed concessions for the Tasmanian franchise in the next year or two - maybe??

IF, big IF, we were to draft him would the reaction on this site be - great, they will help keep each other happy staying here or - oh no! they will both got home in a year or so? Optomists vs pessimists PS there will of course be the "both are duds - neither won a Coleman or a Brownlow"

Cane Cornes will be telling us all he desperately wants to go home asap. Oh, wait, he isn’t from Adelaide so he probably hasn’t heard of him.

How good would it be if they both “retired” over the off season. BT could try some more confined space welding or amateur electrical work. (Only joking - first sentence excepted)

Wait for the next vindictive installment from the usual suspects. ”A besieged Victorian AFL coach jumped off a cliff whilst in hiding from journalists hoping to share important impartial information, on a remote Indonesian island and was fortunate enough to land near a random surfer who rescued him.” 🙄🤔😡🤮 ❤️💙❤️❤️💙

And what position(s) does he play?

BBP - sounds a bit defeatist. Finish top 2 (or 4) and bugger recent finals history, each season is a new one. Just win the QF and the next two. Easy stuff 🤫