Diamond_Jim

Andrew Brayshaw was pick 2 and now has 50 odd games under his belt. Out of interest why do people say he wouldn't be worth pick 3? Thanks

I think that is called a gameplan Mr T. Something our illustrious coach struggles with. On a serious note the number of times he was free for the handpass in a damaging forward position during the finals was amazing

one lot got Warwick whereas the other got Rupert Strange what a different outcome

Club should have given serious thought to cancelling this activity. Might have finally sent the right message.

half a million puts you in the top one third of players. Now that is not the top one third of 22 but the top one third of the list ... ie top 15. At age 25 players tend to maximise their value so 500k for either Tomlinson or Frost is not outrageous.

The only positive I saw in 2019 is that we got rid of Darwin. Hopefully 2020 sees no trip to any of Launceston, Hobart or Kardinia Park but methinks we will as usual see two out of three.

It's not a them it's a "her"but I agree she was bad Definitely time for National geographic or similar before watching Roosters V Storm

Taking Tomlinson and paying him the rumoured salary would be so Melbourne

nah ... I'm pretty sure we hold that. I think we even broke our own record Would be nice to lose that record though

GWS letting him go reminds me of that agricultural term... "culling"

Richmond starting to run away.....

must admit ... that decision floored me. Time Gawn learnt to take advantage of the new rules

obviously not targeted at the MFC demographic ?

The irony is not very sweet Please give us a decent gameplan

AFL statement has echos of those by the tobacco industry so long ago not to mention the asbestos industry, the anti depression drug industry...you name it. Strange that it appears in the NYT and doesn't appear to have been picked up by the Australian press. Also in the statement, Andrew Dillon, the league’s general counsel and general manager for game development, said, “The A.F.L. is committed to world-leading management of head trauma in sport.” “At every stage,” he added, “our decisions have been guided by research, and we have had a conservative approach, putting players’ health first.”

GO GIANTS !!

Hard to believe that a club can be in the GF nine years after its inception and of course been in the finals for three years before. Out of interest who is credited with their now brilliant policy of draft young and trade. Looking at GCS and where they are you have to give it to them. West Coast won within seven years of entering the comp and Adelaide within six. Trying to see some positives from an MFC perspective but staring at the GC priority pick and their Darwin zone it's hard to see.

Our man Tomlinson has made the team !!! https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-09-26/grand-final-teams-richmond-and-gws-locked-in

the failure to correctly diagnose his foot injury which was found in days if not minutes by the Richmond medicos is sadly reflective of this club. It's never been explained. Would it have been different if earlier diagnosed. Who knows.. probably not but we all know it was a major fail.

Guess the Oliver story..... I want to improve the kicking side of my game... Not sure re Gawn........perhaps holding him back for the captaincy announcement and the membership drive

Expect Dusty to be targeted. With our luck they'll use Tomlinson and he'll come over with a six match ban !!!!

GWS have been very physical with their starts over the final series. Could be a fiery first quarter

Could we have a repeat of the Alistair Lynch "massacre". Had not thought about that.

Well ... here it is ... are we excited... probably not Coniglio has ruled himself out which leaves spots to be found for Greene and possibly Whitfield. Richmond will be raging favourites and deserve to be. Do GWS have someone to stop Martin, Lynch and Riewoldt? Will Cameron do a Tredrea and sacrifice his game by playing upfield and allowing the likes of Finlayson to kick a bag? And of course how will the prospective Demon in Tomlinson fare?

Probably right LH wonder what the equivalent of a Visy ambassador is at Collingwood. As an aside American college footballers are not supposed to be paid but there is a network of rich/influential alumini known as "boosters" who they use to circumvent the rules.