Little Richard

Don't mind the sound of this. However I'm not sold on trading off our first pick this year; with Jason Taylor onboard it would be good to see what he could do with it. I'm backing him to bag us a star in the first round this year, hopefully Dunstan or Billings.

We could trade Hogan for pick 47 when his contract is up and make a spot for Fitz. Win-win for everybody!

Yep, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense that he isn't getting games after kicking 50 odd goals last year and dominating the seconds, particularly when we are struggling for key talls at the moment and Spence is a liability.

Haha spot on. Murphy is a better writer than most of the footy journos out there.

It amazes me that Fitzy is still in the twos while Pencil is getting a game in the firsts and performing terribly. It's time to give Fitz a good crack, he's earnt it.

I don't think GC would see Prestia and Jamar on par in value.

If we were to trade Frawley, we'd set our backline back 5 years. You can't trade a gun with no foreseeable replacements. We should do as much as we can to lure Prestia though, barring stupid things like the above.

Juice Newton

Definitely, feels a hundred times worse

Don't forget the Hawks giving away Kennedy and McGlynn themselves. Most teams give up good players. Though thinking of Sydney, have they given up any good players recently?

You could use one, it's spelt misogyny, not misoginy. Anyway I'll stop now because you are a joke. Can't believe you were a moderator.

So right now I could call you a homophobe? You've lost the plot.

Not really misogyny... but while on the subject Caro is a huge misandrist.

There is a part of your argument that I agree with (that it was almost worth a shot just to see how Cook would go) but I just hate the idea of gifting games to players who don't deserve it. It can breed such bad feeling and softness/laziness among players.

Of course percentage didn't matter. However in a club where there was already enough issues with culture, gifting games to rubbish players at the expense of guys who have been working hard would cause detriment to the culture that we really don't need. The feeling among the players would have been bad enough already.

Definitely. Sellar is actually quite handy down back - everyone seems to have forgotten his last 10 games last year when he was doing pretty well. I don't rate him as a forward at all though.

How do you think the other players who had been busting their guts all year would have felt when a spud who struggled in the VFL reserves was gifted a game or two? It was easy to see Cook was in no way up to AFL footy.

Yeah well obviously they are all to be taken with a grain of salt but this one seems more believable than others.

I don't think it's been mentioned on this thread but does anyone else remember the story of Viney having a crack at the players after 186 and Sylvia laughing in his face and walking out? There must still be some tension there, but that isn't an issue with Viney. I don't think there are any issues with/caused by Viney tbh.

Hah, Isaac Weetra! I'd forgotten about him. Wonder where he's playing these days..

I hope he is our next delisting because he is the definition of a list clogger. Great VFL player and not a whole lot else. Keeping players like Spence on the list is why we are so bad... no offence to him, I'm sure he's a lovely bloke.

Caro, is that you?

Viney is one who has to stay IMO. Is passionate, knows and cares about the club and knows footy.

Not the Melbourne Football Club

Richmond by 100. If Gold Coast can do us at the G by 10 goals, Richmond will hammer us. I don't see any reason as to why the players will want to stand up this week as opposed to the last 7.