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I saw Werridee posted and I assumed you had posted our best 22 for next season with Gaff in the side. So disappointed!

God bless the 2012 mini draft.

Great job and great resource. Tim Bull Smith out of contract... get the mad man signed up!

Will win at least two of those. Port we will annihilate

Kane Cornes could only fit two Demons in the AFL.com team of the week. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-05-29/kane-cornes-team-of-the-week-r10-who-makes-it Hes usually pretty spot on, but he was way off on this. Hibberd, Oliver, Jetta, Lever, Viney and Gawn all robbed. Yes we should have had 8 players in there after that masterful performance.

Screw the media, they're irrelevant.

And he leads the league in goal assists. Should be in the All Australian discussion, his impact on games is huge.

Need a new thread for the records we are breaking ourselves.

Gawn and Hogan missing half the season each was the reason for that. They lead us contested marks per game this season again. (T Mac third).

Thats incredible. I notice we are 18th in the league in bounces. We have had 34 bounces all season compared to Esenedon with a league leading 109. St Kilda and the Doggies are in the top 5. Again proving that speed is largely irrelevant in the AFL. Ball movement is king.

I actually chuckled a few times at how he just went after the ball, bulldozing through multiple Crows players and they couldn't do a thing about it. He decided he wanted the footy so he just went in and got it in a sea of players. Like he just said '[censored] it, I may as well hit top form second game back from a long layoff'.

Jason Taylor and his assistants are freaking awesome.

Another 24 possessions, 6 marks and a game high 3 goal assists. Can not believe how good he has been, pick 31, first year player, started as a forward the first month and looked very dangerous, suddenly moved into the midfield/wing the last few weeks and is now racking up the footy and looking like the prototype winger of yesteryear. Let the good times roll!

Back to our favourite hunting ground Etihad this Saturday vs the struggling Doggies... If we weren't returning from a warm game in Alice Springs Id be tipping the first 200 point game in the clubs history.

The Hulk really is incredible. 20 touches, 11 marks and 5 goals. His workrate is phenomenal.. now up to third in the Coleman with 26 goals on the season. And the goals are only half the story. All Australian lock.

Got absolutely destroyed by Bernie Vince.

I'm no expert but it would surely be impossible to play AFL footy (and many other sports) without a big toe.

Really wish he would have held off on making those comments until the scan results come in.

You gotta be effin kidding me

Not saying he would have been a first rounder, but he clearly has talent/potential if half a dozen or more teams were after him. So while we wont have our first round pick we are adding a draft age player at no cost to help cover it. The last paragraph of The Age article touches on that - 'The decision is also a boost for Melbourne, who appear finals bound for the first time since 2006, as they do not have a first round draft pick at this year's national draft having traded a future first rounder to Adelaide to secure Jake Lever. '

Hes good enough, but he hasn't played an AFL game since 2016, we are loaded with big bodied mids/forwards and the team is hard to break into and will hopefully be even harder to get into as the season progresses. Reckon he and the supporters would be happy enough if he came back injury free and was able to play the season out at Casey and attack a full preseason for once. He deserves a fair run at it.

True. And for reference heres the article about him from 6 weeks ago that mentions half a dozen clubs after him including the Pies and Cats. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-04-06/vic-clubs-chasing-son-of-australian-sport-champions

Almost feels like gaining back the first rounder we traded away in the Lever deal. Lever + Bradtke for two (hopefully) late first rounders Glad to read that Geelong and Collingwood were into him. I hope they are crying in their cornflakes.

204 centimeters, athletic, still growing, great sporting pedigree. Our player development has done a complete 180 from the dark day and is now looking elite, so its hard not to be a little excited about this kid. We should all be glad he chose the MFC over other clubs, as @RalphiusMaximus said above. edit - Just realized his mum is Nicole Provis.. yeah thats a hell of a pedigree indeed.