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Not Jordie! Please clarify Drake?!

Time to throw a spanner in - Davey to be traded end of the 2012 season. Won't fill a role in Neeld's structure a la Medhurst at Collingwood. And before you all boo and hiss, we haven't seen much out of him in two years in my opinion, and it's an opinion I maintain - I think he's played one good game in the last two years, and that was early 2010.

Sheahan to be elevated is my tip, simply because that way if (god forbid) another ruck were to go down, we can throw Clark in the ruck and throw him thus not damaging our structure awfully...

Is ACL at this point really a season though? I mean I know he won't play as he won't have a preseason etc., but is the recovery time really, with 3 months til season start, a season-ender?

Ah, the off-season...

I know one who is waiting for them to start winning to crawl out and start watching football again...even if I have to buy him a damn membership when it starts to come good.

Why not? If we get a 30,000 attendance home game, get paid to do so ON TOP OF this, plus get lucrative sponsorship opportunities, I'm all for it.

Want to know the dark side of that side of ownership? Ask Leeds United. Powerhouse of club football in early 2000s, missed Champions League, went bust, owner walked out, collapsed to 3rd tier of English football and have only recently started recovering. Or Portsmouth, whose club was sold to a succession of persons closely associated with an arms dealer, then subsequently sold to a fraud.

If we drift out to around $5 pre-NAB Cup I might have a bit on it. Have to wait and see.

Jimmy's journey On Jimma, on the last couple of weeks. Compelling...amazing,

70 years since Pearl Harbor today...

Yeah, I reckon I'll take both Congolio and Wingard (he'll play a lot at Port). Hopefully they don't put Goddard on the ridiculously high horse again this season.

For 2012? Picking up Patton and probably Bastinac (missed all of 2011 through injury but raked them up in his first season).

Hear me out before the booing... Now, all the training reports I've read have noted LJ struggling with a lot of the running work, with half-pace efforts even leading to him blowing up. Now, while I know the talent he has, if this is how he's going his fitness is almost certainly way down on the rest of the group, let alone what's expected. With Misson's training report suggesting that the team will focus more on the footy rather than the fitness in the new year, it's surely doubtful he will be with the main group by then. I know he only had his first full pre-season last year. Could he take another year, have another pre-season end of next year with fitness-building throughout 2012 and thus really not be at full flight (fitness-wise...hope he is jump-wise!) til 2013?

Not saying that - Garland is the better CHB, but Garland is better against a medium forward, which he eats for breakfast. Sellar will be good for those games with that hulking CHF/FF gorilla type - the Clokes, the Rougheads, the Browns. Not because he's better than Garland - but by using him to put on a contest with those it frees up Garland to take on a different forward and use his distribution once he gets the pill.

I want us to go back to back. But more than anything, I WANT A FLAG!

Sorry, meant in this case, where they have CCTV as well

The one pushing for mine will be Tom McDonald (assuming he becomes a back). Davis I just don't know where he'll slot considering. Probably in the firing line is Rivers...but if we're doing well...

So, Sellar is best rated by Adelaide supporters and by history as a CHB. Thus, I give you the new MFC backline. Fullback: Frawley. Obvious choice. Centre-half-back: Sellar. Will be used to take on nominated forwards (your Cloke and the like) or as a stay-home contest spoiler and interceptor when not against a hulking forward. Back Pocket: Bartram. #1 counter to small forwards everywhere. Back Pocket: Garland. Targets the second or third forward depending on the forward line and whether Frawley has to man up. Half-back flank: Tapscott. Kick-ins and his around the ground smashing. Half-back flank: Rivers. Third man up, loose down back, the role he plays best. Grimes to midfield, stops Rivers from taking a man and getting demolished (see Trav Cloke) and allows Blease a wing.

Maybe it's just to outright get his tank up? They're trying to cardio-boost him?

Such a joke of a thing, the mistaken identity defence...

A far better pickup than the Setant for a big bustling prospect. I was wondering why the name rang a bell, and the Gibbs stuff would be why. Tell you what, he is a unit. Haven't seen him play, but by god, that photo... Judging by all the 50/50 talk, I'm okay with that. I mean, it's pick 54. Go and look at the history of 54 on here, we really do not have much to lose, particularly in a draft like this.

Brock @ Carlton is generally pretty entertaining when he gets on the park.

2008 turns into the forever Watts v Hurley debate. I still agree with not taking NikNat too - I wouldn't want us to be on the end of a C. Judd trade. 2007 was a rubbish draft. Of the top 20, the only players I rate are the top 2 (Cotchin/Kreuzer), Dangerfield and Taylor. I'd put J. Grimes in there as well if he'd stay on the park more (he is good, don't get me wrong, but the injuries are very concerning). 2009, plenty of clubs missed Fyfe (hell he was Freo's 2nd pick!). Martin v Trengove I prefer JT. And I'm not mentioning...him. The only maybe one is Hannebery. We'd clearly been watching the Chargers (Strauss) - but even then Strauss had started to cement himself before the leg went. You can um and ah over drafts in hindsight too, remember. I think we're doing pretty well.

Too early to tell. Sylvinator makes a very, very good point. Furthermore, while there has been a complete turnover of staff in the coaching area, surely Neeld will look at Prendergast's recent successes and change the needs that he judges rather than remove him? We've picked up Davis, Tom Mc, McKenzie, Jurrah, Evans, Nicholson, Lawrence and Bail under Prendergast, all late in the draft. That's a massive strike rate for picks that are generally unsuccessful. I'd say Neeld will simply get Prendergast to change targets rather than remove him.