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Colin, the AFL has purchased Etihad. I'm not sure if they've made any announcements about what they intend to do with it, though. The idea of redeveloped suburban grounds has nostalgic appeal, but I'm not sure it's an economically viable option. How many games a year would be played at any such ground? While secondary competitions and summer sports such as cricket and soccer could also use the grounds, there is a substantial cost involved in bringing a suburban ground, such as Princes Park, up to the standard necessary to accommodate the expectations of today's football goer.

I don't think it's a big call at all (unless your referring to the question of whether Fremantle's and Gold Coast's best teams would also beat us). And hardly surprising given we've never had a team good enough to win a Premiership during that time.

I'm more interested in the backstory. Why champagne? And why (apparently) hasn't anyone yet taken a sip from theirs? They don't like it?

Xarron, I think you've misinterpreted what I intended to say. Nevertheless, let me make clear I don't believe Jack's a mercenary and I certainly didn't intend to disparage him in any way. I was trying instead to foment some inter-club rivalry. Obviously I failed.

The world can be a confusing place. I consistently find that those who work the hardest for success humbly claim they were lucky, whereas those whose success was just due to dumb luck try to argue that they actually worked very hard.

If I've learned anything from being Demonland, it's not how well our players go, but apparently how much better any player picked later in the draft goes which will determine how good this deal was.

Joel MacDonald has just made it on to the Australian Financial Review's Young Rich List for 2017 with a valuation of $100 million. The full list will be released on Friday but the AFR has written him up today. Here's the link.

No need to "cut and fill" Just cover. And while they're at it, join it with Richmond Station so users of that facility can cross over Brunton Avenue without putting a foot on the bitumen.

I would have thought every kid named Jake would have the nickname "Snake". I know we regularly refer to Melksham as "Milkshake" but I wonder whether his real nickname is also "Snake". Anyone know?

My favourite bit of PJs comments was when he said that Jack Watts will always be a Melbourne person. It may not have been intended, but it was as if he was telling Port Adelaide that they'd contracted a mercenary who will never fully commit to his new club.

I'll go further. It saddens me to say this, but if every team with the possible exceptions of Fremantle and the Gold Coast created their best teams of the last 50 years, ours wouldn't beat any of them.

My comment about Josh Mahoney is a simple one. Peter Jackson has replaced just about everyone at the club presumably because he thought the club could do better. Mahoney has remained. I assume from that Peter Jackson likes what Mahoney has been doing. That's good enough for me.

I guess there is always the possibility that he only wanted a one year contract if he thought he could within that 12 month period convince the club to extend him on much more financially rewarding terms. (Unlikely strategy , I admit as it's a very high-risk way to proceed.)

I read these words allegedly from the pen of Mark Robinson a number of time. I've been troubled by the logic* of the statements. Is he saying that we had 28 top 20 picks or 28 draft selections overall between 2006 and 2011? Similarly, as he has said the Demons didn't salvage "anything notable" from these 28 draft selections, is he also suggesting that Max Gawn, Tom McDonald and Neville Jetta don't qualify as "notable"? *I realise some might say Mark Robinson's writing only has a passing resemblance to logic at the best of times.

I don't believe I've seen him. But if he was standing sideways I might have missed him.

Just based on those figures, he will snap in a slight breeze. Needs about 20 kg more.

What about a cheese platter?

Sometimes I think there are people on Demonland who would argue over whether it would be better to trade for a bag of chips or a set of steak knives.

So, Chewy, are you going to stick with the Demons now or are you going to shift your allegiance to Port?

I can't believe that a 20 year old is classified as "mature age". That's a pretty loose use of the word.

Wasn't sure of the right place to post this tweet from Cale Morton. Nice sense of self-deprecating humour: Remembering the ultimate 'mega-trade'

Let's just assume for the moment that he's received more kicks up the backside than we know. What would have been the next step for the club? Now, I don't know that he did, indeed, receive said kicks, but if he had more kicks up the backside than his average kicks per game, then I can understand why the club might have been motivated to move him on.

Just as we're apparently paying part of Jack Watts salary, I wonder whether Balic's father will be paying part of his son's salary.

I'm sorry to see Jack leave, but he's just the latest in a long line of badly treated players (eg, Grimes). Not badly treated by the current management but through those dark days of 2008-2013. That Jones and Jetta not only survived but have appeared to thrive is testament to their inner strength. Jack Watts may never have been the superstar we all pined for, but it's clear that he was given more opportunities than most of the 2008-2013 crop to show his value but for whatever reason couldn't reach whatever standard Goodwin is looking for. Whether that standard is on or off-field, or both, matters nought.

Screwed on the Lewis deal? How so?