Jaded No More

Hey, you brought up Mofos and then someone else said "not his own". I went with it Poor Jack, two minutes into his Melbourne career and he's already getting his threads derailed on Demonland. Welcome son, welcome!

Why are we talking about incest on this lovely thread? Way to ruin something innocent and beautiful with your filth!

Yep, when he comes into the system he'll be 2 years ahead of most draftees.

Epic win!

I thought that you of all people would get the joke. You're just saying that all publicity is good publicity, but I for one would not like to have our name associated with sex romps, drunk scandals or Ashley Hansen.

Stop accepting mediocrity. Gees!

I don't think the club would bother having him do pre-season with us if they weren't at least entertaining the thought of putting him on the rookie list. Given how deep the picks went in this year's draft, coupled with GWS and GC once again demolishing the rookie draft, I would think that it's better the devil you know. McNamara has more of a chance of making it than the 97th player picked in this year's rookie draft (and more of a chance of making it than Newton). He was a bottom age KPP picked in a relatively good draft afterall.

Wouldn't be surprised if in getting Howe, who is a more mobile forward with elite endurance, we're hoping to be able to push some of the guys who have been occupying our forward line out of sheer necessity to the half back line. I'm thinking Bennell especially, who has the skills to become a serious attacking weapon out of defense, perhaps even Tapscott. That then releases Grimes into the midfield where he truly belongs. Everybody wins!

MFCSS. Seek help immediately.

Someone needs to tell him to get off the crack before he cracks open his mouth. That article made no sense and is also completely off the mark. If he ends up coaching a single senior game at GWS and if Folau ends up reaching half of Jimmy's feats than I'm a pineapple.

I understand what you're saying, but I think if there were any midfielders or half back flankers with massive amounts of talent available to us, we wouldn't have skipped them. There was clearly no smalls worthy of us disregarding our needs, whereas in previous years we have done that. I think everyone wanted us to draft a tall at pick 11 last year and we got Gysberts, because we clearly thought he was far better than any tall available at that stage. With Jack Viney almost a certainty, and a big list of first and second round smalls already on our list, now is the time to start drafting to fill gaps. Just like in 2 years it will be time to trade picks for mature players to fill other gaps. We were never going to build a premiership winning midfield or defense out of this year's draft, so I really see very little risk in our strategy.

Now allowed to be critical when you don't know sh*t about recruiting. No offense!

Didn't know you were keen to have your way with our 18 year old draftees Well done to Jordie. 2 years of hard work have paid off. Love him!

This is the first time under BP that we drafted strongly on needs. That tells me that we didn't think the draft was very strong and that we believe that we've got enough talent coming through to take a risk on a few talls. Big risk means big reward.

God I love people who come on here 2 minutes after we've drafted a player and complain that maybe we made a mistake. Are you people recruiters? Just calm down and trust the club. We haven't made too many mistakes recently!

Let's hope it's better. Not that these kids have to do much to surpass Newton's achievements thus far.

So we're done for today. On paper looks like we've filled some of our biggest gaps, which is fantastic. If these guys turn out to be good enough to play in a premiership side, than BBBP is a genius.

Perhaps it's who we really wanted so we took him? We don't need to take risks on mediocre midfielders. We have plenty of good ones in the bag, with Jack Viney to come.

Big sigh from BBBP before calling out Howe's name. Is he bored of not getting enough first round action? God knows I am! B)

We got our tall forward. Very happy that we found a KPF we thought was as good or better than the smalls available at pick 12. Welcome to Melbourne Lucas.

Well he's a Melbourne supporter so he got an easy 40 for mental smarts. Not really a level playing field is it? Still thinking we're going with Jack Darling. Just a feeling I've got. Lets see how far off the mark I am.

So sorry to hear about your loss. Glad you can find some solace in your love of our great club. No doubt your mum will be smiling down when she sees Ingo making a guest appearance.

If we could bookmark things on here, I would. But he won't, so bookmark that! B)

What a terrible tragedy and waste of a life. All the best to Aussie and the rest of his family!

Well I'm not an expert on licensing so I don't know exactly how it works, but the club said the jumpers will be in before Christmas, which means December, which was roughly the time frame I was thinking of. With CNY you have to understand that most factory employees live on site, so around this time they leave to go home. And it's not just factories which are affected by CNY, it's fabric mills, the ports, it's even small things like the factories that make the labels for example. I have no idea what New Balance's situation is like, but it is definitely a struggle getting orders in before CNY unless you have been supremely organised. Obviously New Balance have, because if the jumpers are going to be in stock pre Christmas, they should be on vessel now. That means production would have started (and I'm only guessing here) 7/8 weeks ago depending on volumes. New Balance would have booked the factory space quite a while back, but because all AFL merchandise are licensed to the AFL and because we had a contract with another supplier, I assume that actual production wouldn't have started until the previous contract ran out. This would have given us time to sell out the old product, and time for the AFL to sign all the right documents. Also given we have a new emblem, the actual design process probably took a little longer, as we would have had to approve several strike offs. The club is very smart in getting probably the most popular merchandise item into stores pre Christmas, and I'm sure the rest of the product will trickle through between now and the start of the NAB Cup.