Little Richard

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

Much of the delivery was landing right on top of the forwards heads, just like last week. If it was a bit better I think you're right, he would have kicked a few more.

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.

A ruckman is a huge problem for us. When we play better midfields, with ruckmen who are better than our own (which is essentially always), it's like a game of keepings off. Our midfielders just can't get their hands on the ball and the opposition win clearance after clearance.

Max Rooke! Now he was a great, no nonsense player. Loved him.

Great game from VB and a really good start to the season. Dare I say it, Michael Barlow come again? Hope no one else has said that yet...

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.

I'd have to agree with that. Doesn't stop him playing some good footy though!

Too many tattoos for your liking Jose?

I think they'd probably prefer to stay in their home town, especially if the dad is sick as reported. Probably what any family would do in that situation.

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.

Having difficulties with the editor at the moment but the shoot went very well! Recently saw the sequel to the Raid (The Raid 2: Berandal) and it's very good. There's very little substance to the story of each movie but I haven't seen martial arts action sequences as brutal and physically impressive as these - both films are highly recommended though not for the squeamish or those who don't like foreign films with english subtitles (so much better than listening to stupid dubbed voices). And I'm directing another short in three weeks! Hopefully the first will be finished soon and I can share it with the DL community.

Agree with this. Wasn't early consensus that he'd go pick one? If he does, he'd be a good fit for the Saints (if they stay on the bottom).

Farmer was the most exciting player we've had in recent memory. Here's a toughie - who was more exciting, Farmer or Jakovich?