binman

I tell you what...

I'll change my avatar to Binman's choice for 6 months from the day he plays his 11th game (won't happen) and you can dictate my signature for the corresponding period.

Excellent.

Good to have you on board the Watts train Ron.

I think they will rotate up and back, at different times both plus Petracca will be out of the square.

Thanks. I read somewhere that he might slot into a third tall role early dawes

playing next season. ..pretty good.

Playing round 1 ... not likely

If he shows form in magoos i reckon they'll blood him before seasons end in a 'lesser' game.

In reality. ..totally up to the kid. Those who put hand up and bash on doors...will be heard.

And what position? A true full forward with Jesse chf? Has he played mainly out of the square?

Assuming he is injury free what is the likliehood of him playing next season?

Done.

EDIT: to be fair, I should have his avatar the entire summer. You taking months off means I should at least have a 6 moth avatar.

Game on. Best of luck. I hope he doesn't get injured.

As for the avatar i don't mind if you have 6 moths in your avatar as long as the head of each is a smiling jack watts.

Yep. It's on.

No need to take a sabbatical though. I just get to choose your avatar for a 2 month period as well.

Don't let me down here Jack.

Well i wasn't offering you the bet but i'll take it none the less. Go Jacky boy.

By the by technically NAB games count as proper season games weren't specified, but in the spirit of the bet we'll make it the season proper.

Crickets thus far from PD by the by

Watts won't play 10 games next year. They want a team of "22 competitors" and clearly he isn't.

Would you like to have a bet on that?

I'll wager he will play more than 10 games and if i lose will take a 2 month sabbatical form Demonland. If he plays more than 10 you change your avatar for two months to a pic of Wattsy of my choosing.

How about it are we on?

Listening to their interviews they all have a bit of mongrel in them.

I'm starting to look forward to our version of the hawks Anti Social Football

“I want to compete. I hate losing and I’ve got a strong set of hands and really aggressive at the footy,” he said.

Sound familar? This was a quote from Hullet but could have been from any number of players recruited to the dees in the last two years (and you can chuck in Hogan and Viney as players cut from the same cloth)

The bolter narrative is ridiculous. From those who watch TAC he's been well in the first round calculations for a large part of the year and just kept getting better and better. Then turned up to draft camp looking like an AFL footballer (or an 18 year old one).

100% agree. The fact that he had a brilliant second half of the season, played solid VFL games and did well at the combine might have keen factors in deciding to make him our target but that is very different from him being a 'bolter'.

I have little doubt the club has had Chunk jnr on their radar for the last two years given the directive from Roos as to what sort of player he wanted them to recruit with our first (and subsequent) pick; ie a physically strong, competitive, see ball get ball beast. I could also imagine Roosy saying it would be nice if that player is a good chance to be AFL ready come round 1 next year. Cj ticks all those boxes.

What I have done (which I saw an older lady have at the footy one day), is get them all sewn together to create a rug or blanket. It looks pretty cool and puts them all to good use. Then just add them as the years go on.

I saw her and had the same plan. Around the same time went into an op shop and there was a whole bunch of 2012 scarves. I bought a handful, to boost my supply and had them all in a garbage bag waiting for the inspiration to sew them together (well to be honest for my wife to sew together). Then someone (wife or kids are the suspects) threw the bag out. Perhaps it was a sign

They were told to count to three and say cheese. Brent struggled.

Which is funny because he's wearing glasses because he believeed the bloke who told him it makes you more inteliigent

Good article on Oliver here.

States how we met him at his home after the draft camp and that we were a lot nicer club to talk to than Essendon who ripped into him.

What a bunch of flogs!

Suck on these apples Essenscum.-

Melbourne considers Clayton Oliver with first pick: Plays like Ollie Wines

Inetersting - if true - that according to the article most clubs rate him no 3

This photo of Oliver makes it look like he's eaten Darcy Parish for breakfast.

I loved this line from the article: The stocky but explosive midfielder.

I got one half of that equation right in my footy career, such that it was.

He's a big lad in that photo, however he really trimmed down by the time of the combine. He looks completely different.

I had to laugh at his AFL.com video. Funny, upbeat kid. He jokes about his weight but also says how competitive he is.

Funnily enough this combination of competitiveness but being a bit of a character makes me think we'll take him. Reminds me a bit of Petraaca (without the bravado). Part of what Roos is trying to build is a bunch of competitors but also an enjoyable, collegiate environment where the players are mates. I reckon Oliver would be a popular sort of fella and would contribute to that vibe.

We did? When?

Don't ruin a good story HT

My final go at 3 and 7 is Oliver and Weideman.

A Roos type mid, with plenty of upside and ready to go and a key forward, who will need time, but could be part of a top two pronged attack, with JH, for years to come.

Let the record reflect that i agree and also predict we will go Oliver and the weed (sounds like a trippy kids book).

So because we don't have trading on draft day (yet) - clubs cannot target players?

If ever there was a year to target a player at 3 it is this year - there have been two players seemingly set in stone at 1 and 2 since before trade week.

Agree. Based on the really fascinating interview with Taylor on afl.com and more recent comments my sense is that they have their player locked in. Given the seeming certainty of picks 1 and 2 surely this was a key driver in the decision to get pick 3. If we go oliver,who seems to fit the roos mould, then I reckon that decision was along time ago

I think we are already set up well for the future, this draft will be the cream on the top...

Would you believe it will set us back 2 years? No? Then would you believe it will set is back 6 months? No? Well how about the average length of a post game player interview?

He's back.

Quigley's Draft Rankings

He'll get some wrong and plenty won't agree, but he has an exceptional eye for talent.

Thanks PD. I have to say he makes a pretty compelling case for Francis and given his size i could imagine Roos being a fan. I like the fact he describes him as a natural footballer who backs himself.

You don't know any of that,.

And who says the cops are right? I have been done for failing to stop at a stop sign and it was complete bollocks. It was about 20y ago. The cops were bored, it was in the middle of nowhere and they looking for a reason to pull someone over. I just happened to be the bunny passing.

Really? A P plate driver with very little experience of driving on the roads, out and about in the early hours and one assumes either alcohol or drug affected (because obviously if that were not the case he'd happily take a breath test) and you don't think there is potential he was putting others lives at risks? Really?

Probably most bizzare thing i have ever read on here.

And that is well and truly saying something

No you supposedly don't, but I know that you'll be secretly reading them.

I hope Charlie is taken care of in all of this because whether or not we draft him or not, the media have not done the right thing by him and that's not acceptable in my view.

It's going to be hard for him to rock up and take center stage on Tuesday night with all of this surrounding him - I feel for the kid.

RB i'll be reading any reports you post.

But please spare me with any sympathy for Curnow. One he'not a kid. Two he put other peoples lives at risk for drink driving and failing to stop at a stop sign. He's got no one but himself to blame.

He deserves all he cops.

We're the boys excited on the impending joining of Clayton after next week?

If we don't pick him is that a Clayton's pick?

No joke - I can confirm that I have the blinkers well and truly taken off over here.

Ooooh k. I suppose you think 9/11 was a CIA conspiracy and the Yanks didn't actually land on the moon.

Sheez.

Not saying he willingly gave himself a police record, more likely certain people new what he was going to be up to and had a hand and it playing out the way it did.

Surely you're joking. I hope so

If it was going to be Curnow, it won't be now.

From this article:

Curnow's agent Paul Connors, said in a statement Curnow had made "a poor choice".