Little Richard

So why doesn't the same ridiculous fear mongering apply to Gus Brayshaw?

Unfortunately Dawes is a bulldozer, but most of the time he just doesn't mark.

Either would be nice and both are light on in terms of key defence. A bag in both matches would be even better!

Sounds like a Roos-type recruit. I've always liked how he's gone about it and I didn't even realise he wasn't getting a game. Maybe snare him with a second/third rounder.

Can see him kicking a large bag against the Blues.

I think we need to at least trade one in, but also draft/rookie a late prospect for the future. Spencer is just not good enough and Jamar doesn't have a place anymore. If those two go it leaves us fairly exposed to injuries or poor form.

I think we only received the offer with about 15 minutes left, so you can understand why it didn't happen. Still, I wish we'd have said yes. We won't get another deal like that for him.

I still think we can get a reasonable offer for him. Despite all the talk of players walking out to the draft, it rarely happens. Plus, we could get screwed over if he were to be a FA... his worth might be deemed quite low. I just wish we'd taken the offer of pick 7 for him last trade period.

I would love to have Zaharakis in our midfield. Carlisle wouldn't be too bad, but obviously there's a cloud over him. Why aren't you keen on Zaharakis?

Imagine if we had two Tom Lynch's... how would the commentators and supporters handle it? We'd have to resort to the old, 'Go, number 40!'.

Was it that Tom Lynch that kicked 9 or 10 in a match?

I don't think that's in danger of happening any time soon.

Neville has been awesome since essentially bringing his career back from the brink. You always know what you're going to get from him and he doesn't give an inch on the field. Love Nev's hardness.

I'd rather keep our first pick to potentially wrangle one of these young guns from up north. Motlop shouldn't be our main priority IMO, but he would be a very good addition.

He's become far more of a 'project' than I'd hoped. I had really high expectations for him this season and he couldn't even cement a place in the 22. His future is far from certain, I think.

I will eat my rather large humble pie and admit that I didn't realise he only recently started playing in the middle. Still, I don't think he can play a similar role to Howe up forward - they're very different types of players.

Yet again, Petracca is not a forward. He is a midfielder.

Don't mind that though, you never know what we're planning. The Tyson trade came out of nowhere, so something like that could happen again this season. Fingers crossed.

You would hope so. If Max left, we'd be well and truly bent over in the ruck division.

Before you get howled down, McDonald and our first rounder for Treloar and Prestia? Edit: I'd rather we kept McDonald, but it's an interesting scenario. Edit 2: Obviously would be separate trades.

That is true Deeluded, and apparent in players like Hannebery who came from Xavs. It's more about the kind of player we were going for - choir boys, who for the most part seemed to come from the private school system. And that was clearly a massive fail in the arse, when we ignored players like Darling and Martin.

I don't think Davey was soft at all. He had brain fades at times, but didn't stand out as soft to me. Was a quality player. Edit: Was a quality player, most of the time.

Oh okay. Well I'm sure there have been plenty doing that recently.

That should have been this year OD. I'm not sure how long I'll continue. I know we've improved a bit but it's just not enough for me, I just don't have the patience to wait another 4 years until we make the finals. Up to each supporter whether or not they continue and if they decide not to, I wouldn't judge them for it. It's completely justified.

This was definitely the penultimate moment that really threw us in the crap after a struggle that was bad enough. We had to manage the list very well after Daniher's period - if we didn't recruit well to replace an ageing list with very poor young talent, we were always going to spend a long time in the cellar. And we recruited worse than anyone could have imagined. BP was a result of all those very poor appointments. People who had little real skill and knowledge in successfully running a football club. We as the members are the ones who have to pay for it the most.