Undeeterred

I find the 'player owes club' argument hard on the basis that clubs draft players acting in the club's interests. It's isn't as if they're doing someone a favour - they are doing it because they think it will make their football team better. On that basis, I don't think players owe clubs anything just because the club was clever enough and ahead of the curve enough to find a player who was otherwise in relative obscurity.

At least you are consistent, but you are wildly overstating our power here. Regardless of the posts above from Wrecker, by saying nothing about staying, Jesse is clearly implying he wants to go. If we can't do a deal, and he refuses to sign long term, we have a massive distraction contract-wise next year right when we don't need one, along with a player who clearly won't want to be there next year, and who already exhibits poor body language when things go his way. This is exactly why Gold Coast want to get rid of May. It isn't worth the hassle. Even if Wrecker is right, a player who is torn is going to have a really hard time properly committing, if Freo refuse to give us a fair deal. He really has to go now, and we really have to take what we can get, all posturing aside.

Do you seriously think he hasn't??

Fairly drastic solution, but ok!

Whoever is driving this speculation, the die is cast in my view. He has to go - there's no way he can sign up to us with any credibility given how long he and the club have let this go on. He's definitely going.

Depends. Are you Jason Taylor?

Surely you have something better to do!!

Can't be that important.

Given we've had the same discussion pretty every year, I wouldn't get too excited about whichever journalist it was and their credibility. I could have written that article.

Points mean nothing to us. If Port want to get up to 4, they will trade 9 and 10. Simple as that. They don't care about how many points are in the balance.

So shut it down then!

Bit rough to dump the poor barstad for a prelim, then make him show up and do this. WTF has he done to them??

Quite - they don't grow on trees obviously. I think Bugg and Garlett and Kent were so far gone by now that they didn't really have a choice. And the formula has been a winning one...

Just out of interest, who would you have had instead of them?

'Blip of a failure'. Can't you read? Just wondering. Enjoy spending the entire summer wallowing in one game, rather than getting some perspecitve.

Yes. And unbalanced. It's entirely boring when someone has an agenda, and is on the lookout for anything to push that agenda. Jones was rubbish yesterday. But he's not on his own there.

If he didn't cherry pick all the time it would be fine. Where's he been for a month ? Anyone can pick out and post unbalanced nonsense.

Sorry, you are right on this bit. On our last performance, we are a top-4 side stacked with 20-24 year old up and coming superstars, missing two of its most important structural players, who hit a physical and emotional brick wall after a run of huge games, bringing us to the finals for the first time in 12 years, and who were overawed by a big game but who will learn and grow and naturally overcome yesterday's blip of a failure. Sounds quite good to me.

He's not speaking on your behalf. He's telling someone else, who said you were on the right track, that you're not. Which is pretty usual fare for you.

Um, he had a shouting match with a Carlton fan in the crowd last (?) year... Not sure that statement is entirely correct.

You should have made sure he couldn't.

This. Combined with the fact that this is a total free kick for us, with absolutely nothing to lose. We're on today I reckon. Except for Nicholls, that AFL-infiltrated spy, trying to bump us out.

Frost, Omac and Gawn. Hibberd in a pinch. They aren't going to bring in a flaky Joel Smith and move Fritsch out of a position that has been working just to cover Nathan Vardy for 5 minutes a quarter. We'll be fine.

Ludicrous suggestion

Oh don't worry, I'm not remotely concerned about losing. But Nicholls is either one of the most incompetent people to ever umpire, or unafraid to hide his biases and willing to flagrantly display them.