Thehardtackler

If we put in a half decent performance on Saturday, then we will have players banging down the door to play at Melbourne. We won't have to sound them out, they will sound us out.

Now we are in the finals, I think the AFL will want us to thrive. Nicholls should make no difference to the result if we turn up to play again.

Jesse Hogan will be dying to play for us going forward, especially if we can make at least a Preliminary Final.

How did so many teams overlook Sam Weideman. I suppose that he has taken 3 years to develop but imagine him with Hogan next year.

I think Essendon are the complete opposite to Melbourne, not Collingwood. Melbourne is old money traditionally and Essendon are everything that is vulgar about the Nouveau Riche.

Brian Taylor is one of the most unpleasant people I have ever met. At least you can have a beer with Tex.

Hogan will surely stay. Freo won't make finals for a few years, until they can establish a settled culture.

If Norf sign up players like Gaff for 1.2 and Polec for $800000, then how will they keep quality players like Cunnington, who will want their fair share?

Polec is worth no more than $600000. He is not as good a player as Angus Brayshaw.

Gaff may have nominated Melbourne as his club of choice. That would throw pressure on WC to deal or accept whatever compensation they get. Gaff may not want to play for North. Some players prefer a good work environment to silly money.

Jesse Hogan is one of the main reasons I want to watch Melbourne FC. He is starting to look more like David Neitz with every passing year. He is untradeable and will help us to a Grand Final soon. This thread is even more nuts than the Neal Bullen one.

If we get Gaff it will actually make the Fremantle meeting, next year, interesting!

There is no rationale to these tribunal decisions. They are totally inconsistent. There needs to be one set penalty and if it is policed it will stamp out poor behaviour on field.

The umps can be notified by the video umpire and the card issued as soon as it is alerted to the field umpire's earpiece.

No, 1 week. Next time they play it will be sorted. That is the rugby code and is the difference between soccer and rugby. AFL needs to move away from this soft Tribunal malarckey.

See who cares. You waste all this energy talking about an on field incident that should be red carded and dealt with immediately. The game is more important than this garbage that people spew about Gaff and his king hit. The weak tribunal encourages this kind of behaviour. Just get rid of it.

Hate the tribunal. Yellow and red cards like rugby. Straight match suspension for a red card. Players can police the dog acts between themselves. The tribunal system is [censored] weak and is the softest, silliest part about AFL. We need to focus on the games and the players, not the periphery nonsense like fixturing, rules and tribunal decisions. Could not care less what Gaff gets. He has to live with himself for being a coward and he should pay Brayshaw's dental bills and apologise to his family for his cowardice. Weeks is no punishment.

Sen, hinted that we may be interested in Anthony Miles.

The Good: We will make the Top 8. Christian Petracca and Angus Brayshaw will both finish Top Ten in the B & F. Dion Johnstone will debut. Jake Lever will tighten up our defence and our percentage will improve. The Bad: Dean Kent will be delisted. We will lose a couple of matches we should really win. We won’t win the Premiership this year.

Dom Tyson was possibly our best player for a chunk of 4-5 games after he came back from injury. He accumulated 30 odd possessions in successive games and used the ball effectively. He is a gun! Salem has had injuries this year and has been underdone but he is a very competitive footballer. Jayden Hunt was an inspired choice at the draft table. Josh Kelly may not look so good when he is not surrounded by GWS young stars, in another team.

Jake Melksham is a very talented footballer who was misled by members of the EFC that should have known better. He is now an MFC player and I wish him a successful career with us.

Darcy Parish looks a bit like an undersized Isaac Heeney. I am not sure that he fits in with Roos big bodied, tall midfield profile. Maybe we will try to pinch Callum Mills from Sydney.

Essendon Fans would say any player is rubbish who wants to leave their beloved Bombers. Melksham is a really exciting player to watch in full flight. I remember seeing him compete admirably against Hawthorn a few years ago. He has a much harder edge and is more competitive than a lot of the players on our list. At his best Inthink he would possess many of the attributes of Angus Brayshaw and Jack Viney. Have faith in Goodwin, he was a seriously good footballer and a solid competitor. He will get the best out of our players and will command their absolute respect. Go Demons!

Melksham has many of the attributes of a number of our better midfielders. He gets his head over the ball, he is very good at moving the ball forward out the middle, he tackles well and in addition to these skills he has a long left foot kick. I think somebody once said something about Roos really liking left footers.

Michael Talia should be avoided. We enquired about him in his draft year and were advised not to pick him up by his school. I don't think things will have changed in his character much.