Thehardtackler

If we don’t make the finals this year then we will end up losing top end talent. If we cannot retain players then the draft is irrelevant. Top teams make the finals pretty much every year.

Really need a crumber like Garlett in these conditions. Shame he is injured.

Port Adelaide and Fremantle have the loudest cheer squads of the Inter State Teams that come to the MCG. I was in the Cheer Squad and that was my experience anyway. We should have been louder but I feel many of our fans only really get up for the big games against Victorian Teams.

I thought my 8 year old son summed up the game best. He said to me, "Daddy, what is so bad about losing the game is that we have to listen to that awful song again. It is just the worst!"

Stephen May in for Frost. Otherwise, no changes. We were 9 points up in the 3rd Quarter and looking good. We just looked like we did not have the pace in the heat to go with them. It was a similar story against West Coast in the Prelim.

I think that it is entirely possible that not only were some of our players underdone but as the old adage goes, ‘We don’t match up well’ on Port. Last year was a case in point. In a year that we made a preliminary final, we still lost to them but we smashed superior teams regularly.

Bring back the Wizard Cup!

Leave Jack alone! Australia has bigger problems! i would rather blame everything bad on the greedy banks, corrupt politicians and crooked property developers and corrupt unions. i think the fun police should let Jack Watts and others have their chance to blow off steam like the rest of us. He even committed the act in a foreign country so a simple apology to satisfy the bleeding heart liberals should suffice.

I like his vision as much as any of the other draftees. He might just be the goods!

We will play Freo and the Suns twice, just for the media crap about players who have changed teams recently.

Give May No. 1. Preuss 12 & KK no. 23.

Peter Bell just responded to my email about Jesse. Credit where credit is due. He was very polite.

Josh Mahoney is fantastic! Melbourne have been winning the off field battles ever since Jason Taylor came on board. Thank Mark Neeld for that and Josh Mahoney.

I hope that we play Freo twice next year and smash them both times. I am sure that our players will give Jesse some friendly banter.

Garlett is worth 40+ goals a season. Give him a nice bit of fluffy encouragement and he might just perform.

I cannot see Hogan ever winning a GF for Fremantle.

I think the Bell has tolled on this deal. Can't see it happening but I could still see us acquiring Steven May.

Let's work on the basis that the Hogan trade does not happen. Could we offer next year's first round pick for Kade K and Stephen May. I think it would be enough.

I just told him how amazing Jesse is and that he should just do the deal and leave the thinking to those better qualified for it.

You can email all your thoughts on Jesse Hogan to [email protected] I have already done it and told him what I think.

I think Melbourne will happily trade Jesse to West Coast in a year’s time. We will get proper compensation them. This was just about getting a fair deal. I think Jesse will be looked after and won’t begrudge the club a fair deal for losing him.

That is what I was hoping would happen. Freo have cut their nose off to spite their face. West Coast will now almost certainly win another flag with Hogan up forward and Freo have no one to blame but themselves.

SEN suggesting that 11 & a Future First might be the best Freo offer.

I think Hogan will stay. Why would he want to give up on a top 4 side?

Not that difficult to pick between 5 clubs in total.