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Needs to harden up a bit IMO. Was too light and brushed off the ball too easily for mine.

Knightmare on Pascoe (post ACL) Lachlan Pascoe (SA)Best position: General defence/general forwardHeight, weight: 190cm, 89kgRecruited from: NorwoodProjected draft range: Second round onwardsSimilar to: Dane RampeApril Ranking: 16Rationale: Performing consistently in SANFL Reserves but drops marginally as others rise.Strengths:- Long, damaging kick- Vision- Decision-making- Intercept marking- Strong mark overhead- Reading of the ball in flight- Effective back and forward- ProductionWeaknesses:- Endurance

With Col Garland retired and everybody else on contract, it looks as if we're set to recruit four more players to fill our main list. Our last pick will be 47 - around the same place where we drafted Mitch Hannan last year so it looks like there's going to be a little more interest on draft night than there was last year.

You should read the Q & A interview that WJ posted above about his injuries and the isolation a young kid from interstate would experience in that environment rather than rely on scuttlebutt.

Is there any danger that they might get a guest presenter who shows past MFC games?

Who? Kent or Saty?

By golly, Hogan is looking fantastic on the track.

The AFL doesn't have many characters any more but Max is definitely one of them. A very important member of our list.

What is it with footballers and motor vehicles? More off-season drama for Fremantle Dockers with midfielder Harley Bennell's car impounded "FREMANTLE have suffered yet another off-field misadventure with Harley Bennell’s car being impounded after he was stopped by police who discovered he was driving without a licence."

Weren't they saying something much the same a year ago about Angus Brayshaw? A few BOG's at Casey made a helluva difference.

If Prismall is in fact working in a welfare role at the club, he is engaged in an activity involving other players. Full stop. We really need a complete overhaul of the AFL Commission which has abdicated the role it was supposed to have when it was first formed.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

It must be quite an experience for young blokes who were rookied two days ago to suddenly be training with an AFL club. Fantastic stuff!

Pressure on Voss and McCartney now after today's games. WJ's right about Sheedy. He's destroying some of those young kids in West Sydney.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

But do Melbourne's recruiters think that way? After all, their responsibility is to the club as a whole and must transcend the father-son issue. What if they've been really impressed by the form during the year and the testing and interviewing of Brodie Grundy and Jimmy Toumpas? If Gold Coast bid for Jack Viney and we were to pass in him, then they would have opened the way for us to get both of them - a situation which would not be likely if Viney wasn't nominated and left for a second round pick because pick 2 could no longer be used for either Grundy or Toumpas. The Dees would definitely need to think carefully if that situation arose and GCS should not be oblivious to what might happen if it's just a bluff on their part.

And both are Melbourne Demons because they play for the Melbourne Cricket Club.

2012 Premiership Odds Collingwood $3.75 Geelong $4.25 Hawthorn $6.00 Carlton $8.00 West Coast $12.00 St Kilda $17.00 Sydney $23.00 Essendon $26.00 Adelaide $31.00 Fremantle North Melbourne $34.00 Western Bulldogs $51.00 Richmond Melbourne $67.00 Brisbane $81.00 Gold Coast Port Adelaide $251.00 Greater Western Sydney $1,001.00

As requested, Sportsbet odds for the NAB Cup: Collingwood $3.25 Geelong $4.30 Hawthorn Carlton $6.50 West Coast St Kilda $15.00 Fremantle $21.00 Essendon $26.00 Sydney $31.00 Adelaide North Melbourne $41.00 Western Bulldogs $51.00 Richmond Melbourne $81.00 Brisbane $101.00 Gold Coast Port Adelaide $151.00 Greater Western Sydney $301.00

I heard this kid would make the perfect replacement for Aussie.

Hard to believe that a team containing those players could have lost a grand final. The opposition must have been pretty disciplined.

Rather simple. There's one thread for general trade discussion and the Trading Chronicles gets merged into that daily.

Damien Barrett must read your stuff WJ. I heard him say the identically same thing about half an hour ago on Trade Week radio.

The world doesn't work that way.

Could we ask as compensation the right to play GWS twice next season with the opener in round 1 at Blacktown?