TRIGON

Diary note 12th August 2014, 2 days after perigee full moon. James is being very disagreeable this morning.

I think Roos would've ripped into him for a lack of two-way running. That aside, it's a shame when any player leaves a club - especially one he supported as a kid - with such a bad taste in his mouth. Hopefully this sort of thing is better handled going forward.

PSD I normally find myself agreeing with your thoughts. Not so much this one. I think when reviewing that trade period the issue to highlight - and perhaps lesson to learn for the forthcoming draft - was that by having a few NQR's clogging up our list we weren't able to use a late National Draft pick on Rockliff and still pick Jurrah in the PSD. With the caveat that I'm assuming Rockliff was eligible to be taken in the National Draft back then.

Early in the game, but you can see the score in real-time here

Essendrug's arguments are unreal. Should change their guernsey for a sash to a snake.

Give my regards to Pearl.

Essendon, ASADA and James Hird Federal Court submissions made public

A priority pick will help us and the AFL towards the objective of Melbourne becoming a more entertaining team to watch - for both us an opposition fans. And the AFL is an entertainment. Our kiwi cousins have made it official AFL not a competition: NZ tax department

Definitely we should be applying for a Priority Pick - stupid not to! After 8 years on the scrapheap we need to get better quickly - and the AFL needs us to get better quickly - if we're to build a new generation of supporters. As far as drafting and development goes we're under new management and judging by last year's effort they seem to know what they're doing - so I'd back them to use it wisely. As for Frawley going (assuming that he is) then any compensation pick we'd receive is a separate issue.

I would never doubt Jordie's endeavour - admire him for it. However that miss was a sad illustration of mental weakness / a lack of confidence in his skills.

Far out. We have a guy who can't kick a goal from 8 metres out straight in front on our list for another year.

6 N.Jetta 5 T. McDonald 4 J. Howe 3 D.Tyson 2 N.Jones 1 D.Kent

Build a culture of playing out the full 120 minutes per game ever game, always striving to win. Get that right and tomorrow will take care of itself.

Exponentially better!

I beg your pardon sir, I have two from my halcyon days with the Euroa Under 13's.

And Ben McGlynn played pretty well for Sydney last Saturday night.

A mighty effort by Jess.

No sources, just my opinion JVFP, but I can easily see us getting a couple of GWS players onto our list next year. Given GWS's salary cap constraints (yes I naively still believe that they may apply to them) and their need to reduce the overall number of players on their list.

It's NYPD meets MFC...and I like it!

Given that it's multi-cultural round, and with some fusion of theme of this thread and the 2014 draft thread, maybe we should look at rookieing that Korean prospect... Song-sung-blue?

It's not like you to make a vial comment.

I'd bow to your better judgement WJ. Prior to that I was going off the @TitusOReily final point of summation: "I didn’t hear the Essendon theme song at the end so I assume they lost".

+ 1 Congratulations

I see an ad on the AFL website ' why the umpires will be wearing blue this weekend'. Is it because it's traditional for them to wear 'clash' garb in Melbourne V Bulldogs games?

Well, the Tiwi Bombers are already in place as a potential reserves side.