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Swans looking good early. Parker is on fire.

He has been having a argument with Terry Wallace all year on SEN. He thinks the Saints are in front of us while TW thinks we are in front of them. God I wish we had beaten them this year.

Think you might find Martin Blake is a one eyed Saints man.

No way. Rance is a very good player but TMac is not that far behind him and he is younger with more improvement to come. While OMac is in our starting 18 and is a skinny kid who the club clearly see has a future and we hardly have great depth for key backs so giving two for one would be crazy.

I think we shold be looking at Kade Simpson or Shaun Burgoyne for a short term fix in our backline. Both are great decision makers and use the ball well and both are out of contract.

Looking at next weeks games St Kilda, Carlton and Richmond will probably be above us on the ladder.

I would be more inclined in trading him than making him captain.

Does anybody else think we should look at trying to lure Billie Smedts away from Geelong.

I don't think we would get that much for Jamar.

I think given how bad our midfield is we should look at putting one of Clark, Dawes or Watts up for trade in hope of getting a decent midfielder to the club.

Yeah that about sums him up for me too.

Totally agree with you, one of the worst players I have seen play for the Melbourne Football Club.

Eugen Arocca is well worth a look at, has experence with a big club and a minnow just like us and is held in high regard. If Tim Holding comes anywhere near the Melbourne FC we might be a chance to get rescued of Mt Feathertop but other than that we would be stuffed.

In my opinion other than getting Mitch Clark to the club Mark Neeld has done nothing to fill me with any confidence that he is taking the club in the right direction. Another year like this next year particularly after this years recruiting and he will be gone as will Harrington, just my opinion.

I was amazed he didnt get sacked last year and am staggered he is still at the club. With what the club has just done over trade period I think Harrington and Neeld are both on thin ice.

Wow I am amazed at the love for Dawes on here. If he was any good why on earth would Collingwood who are in a window to win flags want to get rid of him, I mean he is a key position player which are much harder to find yet they dont wont him. May be it has something to do with the fact he cant mark and doesnt kick many goals, yeah I can see how he is going to fit in at Melbourne. I can see this off season being the start of the end for Mark Neeld.

100% correct

I hope your right Cowboy, but I dont think players like Byrnes, Ray, Dawes and Pederson will give us much more than Moloney, Rivers and Green who are all out the door. So unless we get quite a few of these gap fillers were not going to advance much further up the ladder next year anyway.

Yeah if I was one of the wealthy members who has donated bucket loads of money to the club I would be quite concerned with the clubs movements at the moment.

Tim Harrington was just on SEN and Robbo asked if we were interested in Farren Ray. The answer was yes and other players like him. Not sure what others think but I am worried with most of the players we seem to be after.

Its called money the same reason Ablett, Scully, Ward and Clark ended up where they did. The club keeps raiding its wealthy members to build a war chest and I think its time the club used it.

Well I dont know about anybody else but I think we should be targeting Buddy. He is out of contract at the end of next year and will be a free agent, we will have ample room in the cap to make him an offer to good to refuse and I think we should do it. Lets not waste our time with Dawes or Pedersen lets get a superstar lets get Buddy.

Holy crap if the club thinks a lack of key forwards is our biggest problem I am realy worried about the people in charge of this club. We need quality skilled mids and then some more quality skilled mids and then maybe we can focus on another key forward.

Lucky we have the war chest imagine the players we would be after otherwise.

My memory from this morning was that Pat Smith said to KB how well Ted Richards is going this year and KB replied with Greg Denham does not think so and then Pat said " Greg has issues Kevin, he's got issues". Pat just being cheeky from my point of view.