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Sadly for Rhys-Jones he will be primarily remembered by the footy public as a thug. Having been in front of the judiciary 25 times in his career, he is the most reported player player in history. He would just snap. However he was also supremely talented; quick, agile and skilful. He kept Brereton goalless in the ‘87 Grand Final and won the Norm Smith.

JVR has bit of the early years Petracca strut about him. Love it! Also love that he is wearing the #2. Will do it proud

Before everyone goes Tomlinson there is nothing he can do when the ball comes in lace out. I thought he was ok ish

They both scream cult figure. Watching Casey games Sestan has the ability to do the extraordinary. It may not happen every quarter but it is fun to watch when it does. Someone here also stated that he is already the best kick in the team. Verrall is big, mobile, coordinated and can kick. This observation is on the one game I watched of him but pretty much anyone could have seen the kid has talent.

HTF Salem walked straight into the senior side without finding form at Casey has me stumped. He is timid and has zero hurt factor

We were beaten by the better side on the day

We could actually win the whole bloody thing this year, while Taylor sets us up for the next decade with picks 4, 18 and 22. Get excited Sue.

To be fair most players get sacked. Very few get to leave on their own terms.

That is unbelievable! Unique. I have never seen a goal like that in 50 odd years of watching footy

Yes he is their Nathan Jones

That’s brilliant! Such a mum thing to do

The last two decades of #1 draft picks from 2002 are Goddard Cooney Delidio Murphey Gibbs Kruezer Watts Scully Swallow Patton Whitfield Boyd McCartin Weitering McGrath Raynor Walsh Rowell Ugle-Hagen Horne-Francis and Cadman If you redrafted these drafts now bugger all of the #1 picks would go #1 again. Who knows, perhaps Harley Reid is different, but I’d rather back Taylor to pick his 3 best in the top 25 rather than just the one shiny bloke who is currently at the top

Melbourne V Richmond luck scoreboard. Umpires had a shocker - Demons 0 Tigers 2 Richmond were without their key forward and one of the pre-season Coleman favourites in Tom Lynch. Their first ruck in Nankervis, second ruck in Soldo. Also Nathan Broad, a 3 time premiership player, Jack Graham 2 time premiered player and 2nd in the Tigers B & F and up and coming Key defender in Josh Gibcus. We were close to full strength - Demons 5 Tigers 0 We can’t whinge as overall we won the luck scoreboard 5-2.

Ok, so that was disappointing. Let’s look at the positive though and work out who would be good to pinch from Gold Coast.

True, but there is a spring in my step every time those [censored] lose. And I have been pretty springy stepped for a good decade now

I’m surprised there are supporters of any club who don’t hate them. The performance enhancing drug regime of 2012 was cheating at its worst. The fact that James Hird never took any responsibility for for the scheme, the fact that both supporters and the Essendon hierarchy at the time felt they were hard done by and the fact that there are 34 players and ex players wandering around today STILL not knowing what that Club put into their bodies is a disgrace. I would have kicked them out of the competition And yeah, for us, there is also the out and out thuggery of the 2000 GF

Honestly Tomlinson was unlucky to be dropped. Definitely deserves another shot. The backline will miss Lever but will be fine

ATTENTION DEMONLANDERS. We are all officially in the absolute sweet spot of supporting this club. We can peruse top 5-10 draft talent while ALSO being a realistic chance at a flag. It wont get any better than this for us.

Gift? No. But I can imagine that if two players were seen on level pegging for the sub role, then the Club may give it to the bloke who is only 3 games from life membership. Personally I want Jake to get to 100 games for the Club, it is a significant achievement. He probably wants to too. As long as it isn’t detrimental to the team performance there is still room for a bit of feel good

Most of you have interest in 2 games a week - to watch Melbourne win and hope Freo lose. I hate Essendon enough that I’d rather Freo won if it guaranteed an Essendon loss. The rancid cherry on the top is my utter contempt for Jake Stringer.

I’d still have Flower just over Oliver but I understand how some may not.

Born in ‘64 A bit off topic but I’d love to see how our 1975/76 ‘centreline’ of Alves, Wells and Flower would go against our current day version of Langdon, Oliver and Hunter.

The bloke is a national treasure. He is a [censored] funny satirist and takes the [censored] out of every team. That’s what he does!

I was against getting Grundy but he was very influential tonight I am very bloody happy to have him

Judd McVie is shaping as my new favourite player. So clean. Salem has significant competition for his spot