Little Richard

I would hope that we look to trade our first pick again, as there should be some good quality players available. If not, draft the best player we can with our pick.

I agree that we are a couple of players away before we really have enough grunt in the middle, but we can't just focus on one aspect of building a side and ignore the other. There's nothing wrong with picking up Suckling and also going for one or two bigger bodied, inside midfielders.

If he's a free agent, we still have to make him a money offer.

I wouldn't have called Suckling soft and cannot remember any instances where he has appeared so? Is slim which people often associate with softness, but I haven't seen anything untoward. But he isn't someone I'd want us to give a lot to get.

Matt Suckling of the Hawks is OOC and has put off talks. Would be a nice pick up for the right price - deadliest foot in the league.

Unfortunately we don't really have the luxury to develop players for that long in our position, IMO.

I don't see any reason as to why we wouldn't have a good go at picking him up. Fits our needs right now. But our needs are pretty much everywhere.

Lachie Henderson would be a good get, IMO. Flexible, good pair of hands and would compliment Hogan and Pedersen up forward, with the ability to swing back.

Back in the days when anything seemed possible, Luke 'Bull' Tapscott gave Rhys Shaw one mighty shoulder in the chest (and I believe) broke some of his ribs. Luckily Viney delivers this kind of behaviour on a consistent basis.

The extremely frustrating thing is that this is an all too familiar pattern. He has some very good traits, most notably time in the contest and amazing awareness, but as you say his form fluctuates wildly. He tantalises with a patch of good games every single year and has the equipment to be an amazing player. My feelings toward Watts fluctuate like his performances - sometimes I'll scream for him to be traded and other times I kind of like him. There is no doubt that if he can get it together for a period of time, he's a player that we really need to hold onto. At this stage, all we can do is hope that Roos, McCartney and co have gotten through to him and he consistently performs like he did last night. If he does, people will forget the first part of his career fairly quickly I think, much the same as happened with Goddard.

You're all doom and gloom olisik. He'll be right mate.

I'm interested in him as a prospect but he's hardly set the world on fire. Wouldn't want to part with much to get him, although we could be in a good position to low ball Brisbane as he's OOC. Edit: Statistically, last season wasn't bad for him at all, and he is only 19 and 7 months according to footywire.

Bird could be a good suggestion. Hard nosed and hard working (I think?) player pushed out of a very good midfield. We could do much worse.

It's a harsh view to take, but sometimes I feel as though Watts really embodies the mental scars. Even more than that, they were branded upon him by the club, in the darkest days through which his whole career has been. I don't think he'll ever have a successful career with us and he is not the only one (of course). We need to send him onwards with the others and get what we can for them, which will be mostly just list space. Continue to turn the list over, and it has been working the last couple of years with Taylor and co nailing the picks and the trades.

No to Toumpas, Hunt, Michie, Garland and Dunn. The rest I'd happily be done with if we can find better replacements, most by delisting and hopefully a trade for Howe if he doesn't pull his finger out. To add to that, I think Cross will probably retire.

I'm extremely happy to see the names we called out this year, however - those saying 'this is our best draft ever/in a long time' - that is impossible to tell at this stage, and impossible to tell for at least a couple of years until we see the kinds of players these highly touted youngsters become. It looks good at this stage, but some need to keep a lid on it, plz. For all we know these two could be the next Scully/Trengove combo.

Fantastic to see Misbah's innings. I never thought we'd win this series but I don't think we should be taking too much out of it. These conditions won't be faced very often. Although this is the case, we really, REALLY need to work on playing spin bowling. Steve Smith is the only player that looks relatively comfortable facing Babar, Shah and Hafeez.

Davey Warner looking very dangerous at the moment and I have to say, Younus and Sarfraz's centuries in Pakistan's innings were really great, for different reasons.

I think this series has serious upset written all over it. They'll have to fight hard to win this.

Definitely. ODI's are obsolete now. We should be sticking to tests and T20I's, which they rely on to bring in those who don't usually support cricket. I'm not a big fan of it myself but it's something different.

Bit of a fizzer this series. Watched a bit of the first two ODI's and I can say it wasn't very exciting at all.

He is great! Saw the Mazerunner the other night and I definitely do not recommend it. Cool concept and based on a book which I haven't read (think it's aimed at teens but gets good reviews) but the script was atrocious, the acting nothing special and although the first half was watchable it spiralled into rubbish the last hour.

I saw the trailer for The Equaliser - looked like a storyline that has been done to death but Denzel isn't in a lot of bad films, so I think I'll check it out.

A deal like that would really be fantastic, I agree. Petracca is the kind of player we have missed over the last few years (excluding Viney who was always coming to MFC) - formidable body, tough in and under and very competitive so I'd like to see us draft at least one of these guys this decade.

I haven't been following Petracca very closely until today, when I read a few articles and watched a bit of footage. Not a lot of research admittedly but I already get the feeling we need Petracca like we needed Ollie Wines a couple of years ago. I bloody hope we get it right this time and I bloody hope the Saints don't try and take him at one, which I think is now a very real possibility.