The Third Eye

I wonder how many changes Roos has decided to make to the list this year? Will he let go of more players to rid the club of the old culture?

Perhaps as part of a larger deal to get Polec from Brisbane to Adelaide. The Lions will need an extra ruckman for back up to Leuenberger if Longer leaves and Jamar or Spencer could be involved.

... any day now, we'll do a deal ...

Announced on 3AW that up to 13 infraction notices are to be issued to Essendon players in the very near future. And now we learn that we're chasing two Bombers in trades?

Combine all those with the lack of apparent care for the club and his off field antics and you can understand why such a highly regarded player at 17 or 18 managed only once in ten years to crack it into the club's top 5 in the b & f. Roos and others might have made noises about wanting to keep him but if we're adopting the no DH policy then he was the one who had to go first. No issues from me.

Not such a happy moment for the punters who took your advice and are still waiting for Serengeti Miss to arrive at the finish line.

Right. Just a dumb footballer who introduced a bikie gang leader into an AFL club's rooms at a time when the ACC is investigating links between ... well, um, er bikie gangs, illegal betting and the supply of illicit and banned drugs to football clubs. Are there any other connections between this particular club and bikies (like someone's old man)? Probably worth investigating but why waste your chief football writer on that sort of thing? Surely to goodness your football writer should be describing the finals action and writing stories about Stevie J and Ollie Wines. Leave the investigative stuff to your crime writers Mr. Fairfax. They're far better qualified and won't sweep anything under the carpet because of club loyalties or because they're doing the bidding of higher authorities in the football world.

I once took a hat trick in a junior game of cricket but must confess that two of my victims were young kids who came up from the lower age group to make up the numbers. Do I qualify?

Have to disagree.Geelong had 31 scoring shots to 20 and 65 inside 50's to 39. The Cats missed a few easy ones too while Port's last two goals came out of their backsides. Had Geelong kicked straighter, it could easily have been a blowout. Kudos to Port for their great season but I suspect that clubs will now start working them out. Their entry into the forward 50 is often very wide and hence, their inaccuracy.

You can't build Rome in a day. It took Bailey almost four years to build a flakey outfit that was home to a large number of footballers who were comfortable in their skins at an environment that didn't always require them to push too hard. Neeld had not only poor cattle but the wrong kind of cattle to achieve the task he set out to achieve and it turned out he was most likely the wrong person. But let's not forget the poisoned chalice that he inherited which is exactly what Roos recognised in that article. He would also by extension, recognise exactly what he's stepped into at the club and therefore, unlike Neeld, will be far better placed to resolve its ills.

St Kildas footy ops manager Hutchison made redundant Good bloke. Used to coach us once.

I heard that he was 50/50 to get the job.

Tweet @3AWisfootball: Jon Anderson tells 3AW Breakfast the #AFL is looking favourably towards giving Melbourne a priority pick. @RossAndJohn are staggered.

Agree with this.Why tempt fate?

Great initiative. Hope they come back rested, revived, healthy and ready for 2014.

I think Ayres has been much maligned for his last year or so at the Crows where he's rumoured to have "lost the players". He's shown that he can coach at the next level and has been consistently successful for a long time at Port Melbourne. If he gets rid of the mullet he could be a chance for the Brisbane job.

There will be only one player infraction notice issued in the near future and ironically that will be against St. Kilda's Ahmed Saad who drank a milk shake containing a banned substance to which he tested positive. The poor bugger will be put out for two years like Wade Lees and one or two other VFL players. The Essendon players won't be dealt with until the final ASADA report comes out and that won't happen for a while. ASADA is now getting its teeth into the NRL and (we hope) will soon be interviewing Dank. Later still, it will look into some of the other AFL clubs involved like us.Let's not forget what WADA boss John Fahey said about it taking 2½ years in America to get to the point where charges were laid against Lance Armstrong and others. In any event, we'll be taken well past the trade & draft period which I think is going to be a disaster for Essendon. Who would take a Bellchambers, a Gumbleton or any other player from that club if there was the slightest chance that they might be found later to have been on the gear and then rubbed out for two years?

I'm guessing here but would I be right in saying that LA Vuelta is the team that represents Los Angeles in the Lingerie Football League?

My reaction is that the picture's worth a thousand words. Sorry if I'm being ageist but we need people who are young, modern and vibrant and not someone who looks like he's straight out of Dad's Army. This would make us a laughing stock of the AFL if we're not that already. Bartlett for me at this stage.

The guy's name is Tyson Gay. How could that possibly be censored?His attitude is diametrically opposite to that of Essendon and its players though.

Not enough credit given to Mark Neeld for engineering such a dramatic turn around in form after the cataclysm that was 186.

I always said we should have drafted Adelaide player Rory Sloane in the first place - Eye on the future, Adelaide may trade Sloane for high draft pick

Bump.

Where have you been this last week?

Rape is an insidious crime that affects innumerable victims and only a small percentage of perpetrators are brought to justice. That's the nature of the crime and the criminal justice system but if police officers have been involved in covering up such a crime then their own crime should be dealt with harshly. This is a story that hasn't gone away and has so many facets to it. The media will ensure that Milne will be a recurring headline and the Saints face a gigantic dilemma as to what to do with their player. Do they treat him differently to Lovett? And wasn't there another player involved in the shenanigans?