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Judds grandmother will be on our list before TJ

I loved Trapper as a player, amazingly skilled and a deadly kick. But god he was frustrating.

Ripper bloke, still have a training jumper he gave me of his one day that I met him, went out of his way to have a chat and sign any demon gear I had on me at the time.

Favorite memories of him are the final against Adelaide, and his 2 goals against Essendon in the elimination final from outside 50 on the boundary (one the result of Wreckers demolition job on Hird).

Wearing a beard or not he wasn't as professional as we would have liked, the beard made no impact on that. He can look how he wants to look, your looks have zero impact on your footy.

I too will never forget watching from just behind him on the members wing, those beautifully weighted bullets stabbed just over the fingertips of opposition, only to drop onto the chest of a teammate inside fifty.

Skilled, no question, but FFS, can he at least make an effort to look professional and have a shave? If I was coach, I'd be unimpressed.

He isn't a high flying executive, what does having a beard have anything to do with his professionalism?

Herald sun has the following info...

1-3 year players: November 3

4+ year players: November 8

Wouldn't Coll v Port be on TEN delayed ?

Fox need 4 games dont they? And they wont get Thursday or Friday, so it would have to be that game just looking at the scenario.

Craig Smoker.

16 games in 1998 with a bag of 4 in Round 3 in a close match against Brisbane.

Was too small and didnt have enough tricks, but could kick a goal.

Last year he was playing for West Perth - not sure about 2010.

He also knows the clubs recent attitude to aging players, MCDonald, Robertson, Wheatley, Whelan, Yze (all his contemporaries and no doubt friends). There is no loyalty from the club for those at this end of the gravy train. One year deals at Melbourne are precisely that. Compare the Bombers and Mr Gadget, Hawks and that's what I'm talking about. If he can get two years somewhere else with the possibility of an extra third given form from another top club, why wouldn't you take it.

Crawford played on one year deals. If it's alright for a brownlow medallist, I can't see why it shouldn't be alright for Bruce.

Mr Johnson, where were you when the logo was released? Why has it taken you so long to realise you don't like it?

Only a totally untrained eye would compare these classic logos to our new emblem. Here's what some unbiased designers had to say;

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/everything_but_the_stadium_sink.php

I refuse to accept the opinion of somebody who calls our premiership a championship

isnt 1 uncontracted player per club going to gold coast?

Im going to just pretend you are joking...

Brad Fisher could be a good pick-up; but would not get a game in the MFC defence (would be behind a few too many).

I would bloody hope not, considering he is a forward!

How can he KNOW the reality... its all supposition and spin.

Reality is how something appears to a given individual, we all have a different take on reality.

Scotts reality, and one I agree with, is that the cats have an amazing list still with 13 all australians, whilst also having a distinct home ground advantage that most don't share. They will blood kids, but a handful will be good kids.

Your reality is that their period of success is over, due to personnel loss and other teams catching up and surpassing them, being only Collingwood at this stage.

A change is what the doctor ordered, and my reality is that they are still one of the best in it.

I may be mistaken..you know..it does happen. ( and to us all ) Sadly ?? why ? Here he is..rolled out...first day on the job. Any of us could have written his script. Predictable and unbackable at the TAB.

That was a lovely little piece of cake served up the the Cat-Lovers. All fluff.

What was it if not selling ?

Reality?

How often did Robert Flower put in a bad game?

You could count them on one hand i would say. That to me is elite.

I think he was trying to say that Flower was above elite. Dead set legend VS Elite.

Didn't Chris Tarrant say that if Fremantle won't trade him to Collinwood then he will enter the PSD, and if a team picks him up he will retire if that team isn't Collingwood?

Isn't that draft tamperting?

No he said he would think about retiring if he couldn't get a trade to collingwood.

So did deepthroat (Spy&SOurce) - Ox - you were right (he is a dud)

Haha just going on past tweets HT - wasn't surprised that he was totally off the mark.

Great decision by Geelong in my opinion. A fresh face who has achieved arguably more than any player on their list (premiership wise). A lot of respect will need to be earned from this bloke I reckon, the Cats stars wont be able to go by their reputation anymore.

What is he now?

From 89 to 92...something tells me he is 89.

I wonder if the early decision on C. Scott will disadvantage the Dees if they have any interest in Sanderson, ie. with the full complement of staff currently in China. I guess there's always electronic communication, if they want to touch base with him.

There are also telephones I believe

Agree re: some way off tweets.

There were some calls for Sanderson too to be honest. Part of my original post though was in indirect reference to Scott as a possible assistant for our club.

Yeah I know mate, I would take Scott in a second if he is interested.

Said board came to decision late last night. We'll see.

Yeah I saw that too. But its not really going out on a limb. People were calling it days after Thompson left.

I didnt mean this tweet, because I think it will happen. There have just been so many others that have been way off the mark.

What about Gary Lyon? I realise he played in the forward line but Gary knows his stuff and I think our backline need more a manager rather than a coach. I figure with viney coming back to the club it's time to bring in more ex champs.

i think the only prob with this would be the media and bails seeing it as gary being the next coach.

kinda similar to the buckley/malthouse deal.

Zero chance of that happening. I dont think Lyon will ever coach.

He is back at the club already, we dont need to bring back all ex players in a coaching role. It is already good seeing the numbers that Jimmy and Co have brought back to the club. They have really done a great job at re-uniting the old Dees.

HT - Spyandsource is a dud.

Here is the AFL websites take on what we might need. This time of year will never be the same on the AFL website without Matt Burgan's knowledge of the draft picks. But geez we are lucky we have him!

This was put together by 'staff reporters' - so most likely the work experience kid.

MELBOURNE

NAB AFL Draft selections: 12, 32, 49, 52, 83

Delistings and retirements: Daniel Bell, Kyle Cheney (Hawthorn), James McDonald, Brad Miller

Additions: Nil

Approach: The Dees are well stocked on tall defenders and midfielders but may be looking at gaining a mid-sized or tall forward to complement Jack Watts and Liam Jurrah. They could also use a player of equivalent size and pace at the other end of the ground to take on mid-sized opposition forwards.

Dream selection: At 187cm, Kieran Harper looks to have potential as a dangerous mid-sized forward. He is classy and can break open games. At this stage he looks like falling somewhere between 10-15 and will be strongly considered for Melbourne's first pick.

A terrible knowledge of our list! I would have hardly thought we would have needed mid-sized forwards. We all know we need a tall forward, but mid sized? Work experience kid hasn't heard of Green, Petterd, Bate or Dunn.

yes he has, but he still needs to show it more in big games.

6 votes from 2 games against Collingwood this year.

We haven't really played in any big games (finals) in the past few years, so thats a bit rough.

I guess i have probably used the wrong word in 'elite' but name one player in the entire AFL that plays the same role as Maxwell anywhere near as well?

Jason Cloke.

You did mean never play on a man as a loose defender all year and not have to be accountable, didnt you?

I would prefer Newton. Or Danny Hughes. Or anyone.