Jerry Lundergard

provided we are taking a midfielder with pick #4, it's Rance for me.

I wonder when Malthouse last offseason was cotemplating playing 9 first gamers this season, he was thinking "we will finish last or second last". I can't understand why people think getting rid of a talented, but incredibly inconsistent 27 year old off our list, will make the difference to our season. I would be thinking injuries for a start will be a factor, as they are for every team. Then after that it comes to down to the attitude of the whole playing group, and also the improvement by the core group of youngsters coming through. The future is definitley not bleak.

The Richmond supporter who called up today, had mail that the Tigers were going to take Cale if they secured Mitch in the trading period. KB quizzed Greg Miller about Morton and Cotchin on his show yesterday because he had received messages from concerned Tiger fans that they were not going to take Cotchin. Miller was very deflective on this topic. I just find it interesting that Mitch wants out of West Coast and is linked with the Tigers like it is a done deal. It's a stretch, but not out of the realms of possibility.

I'll put the question like this. If the Tigers did draft Cale Morton at No.2, do you think West Coast would draft Cotchin?

There is a suggestion that the parents will relocate to Melbourne with both brothers playing together on the one team. Cale is regarded as a top three pick. The Tigers will be getting Mitch relatively cheaply, but a player must agree to be traded. Would Mitch be more than happy to land at Richmond if he knew his brother was going to play there too? I think it's a possibility.

Listening to SEN this morning, it seems a formality that the Tigers will pick up Mitch Morton from the Eagles. This being the case, i am almost certain that part of this deal would be to take brother Cale with the No.2 pick. This leaves West Coast with the decision of taking the next best player in Cotchin, who is a Victorian, and whose Dad has already expressed reservations about his son going to their club. I believe we are an excellent chance of snaring Cotchin, as the eagles, with this Judd experience may opt for one of the highly touted WA boys in Masten or Palmer.

Leuenberger is going to be an absolute gun player.

Yeah, you are probably right. I dreamt up that trade today, but i had Sylvia in Green's place. Anyone like the idea of a straight swap of Jordan McMahon for Brad Miller? Both players on the outer, they need a foward, and we could sure use some run off the halfback line.

I wouldn't like to see him go, but how about this for a trade. Green and pick 21 to Freo for Murphy and Pick 7?

Can anyone tell me where a kid from the Calder Cannons named Tom German is rated? I watched most of the TAC cup final and really like the look of this kid. He plays in the midfied and although not overly blessed with speed and height, he reminded me a bit of Dal Santo they way he seemed to have a lot of time with his disposal in around the packs. Because he is not on the list, i was just enquiring if anyone knows much about him.

I have to admit, i hated your team. I don't think there will be too many changes in trade week, so here is my team. B: whelan carrol frawley HB: pettard rivers bell C: dunn green jones HF: bate newton bruce FF: davey neitz robbo R: white mcdonald mclean inter: johnson sylvia moloney bartram emr: meeson yze (1st rnd draft pick) If we trade miller and TJ, i am hoping for a high-ish draft pick to keep. Meeson has barley played in 2 years so i can't see him playing for a while. And Bartram and Moloney should be eased back in also.

At the time, we actually did pretty well with that trade. No one wanted to see Scott Thompson go, but due to underlying circumstances he wanted go home to Adelaide. So when we came out of it with Moloney, everyone was pretty happy with that deal. Geelong were certainly reluctant to let any of their young players go, but they were desperate for a key foward, and Ottens certainly came up big for them this season. Here's hoping that we can see some benefits of that trade in '08.

Moloney was far from a top up player. He was part of the complicated deal, that got Ottens to Geelong(via our draft pick to Cats which was then given to Tigers), Stenglein to WC and Thompson to Adelaide. At the time, Moloney was a highly rated and promising young midfeidler, who was a core part of the group that won the flag this year. Unfortunately he has been crippled with injuries, which has left us the losers of that deal.

Can someone please explain to me the difference between an inconsistent foward stuggling to get a run in the firsts for a team that didn't make the finals, who we are going to trade with TJ for Pick 11. To another inconsistent foward who is struggling to get a run in the firsts for a team that didn't make the finals who we are going to receive for pick 11. Am i missing something. If Ryan Murphy is as good as everyone is saying he is, shouldn't he have been playing and contributing in the Dockers team all year? Was he injured? Or do we think he is better than he is because of last year's final against us? And if that's the case we may as well keep Miller, or trade him outright for pick 11 if we are only getting a similar player in return.

Go through all the premiers of the last 10 years and tell me which of them has tanked to get draft picks.

Didn't Brisbane win their last game of the season sometime in the mid-late nineties to lose a priority pick? We all know where they went from there. Saying that it has set our club back is a joke. There are much more important things the club needs to address to go foward, with the number one being the seemingley losing culture we have. I am hoping the Bailey era will change this culture of accepting mediocrity, not being able to handle expectation of success and so on. Stuff Chris Judd, stuff priority picks and stuff being second second best.

I think you'll find Sewell was one of the most effecient players with his disposal in 06, and i presume likewise this season. This stat was mentioned during a hawks game this year. I was surprised, but then i watched a little more closely and he hits a lot of targets. He definitely didn't go to the Daniel Ward school for kicking.

I think Mahoney is a great addition. Here is a guy who's perseverence through a series of set backs was able to land himself a spot on a premiership team as a mature age player. It shows his absolute love and commitment to not only to his team, but the game as well. Let's hope he can teach some of younger players the value of being on an AFL list.

I think we should draft a key foward or a gun midfielder with pick #4. My reasons for this are that when i look around the league at gun players in the positions of either a backmen or a ruckman, were any of these guys actually top draft picks? I haven't done the appropriate research, so feel free to correct if i am wrong. These are some of the top backmen. Glass, Rutten, Scarlett(father/son), Egan, Barry, Fletcher(father/son). Where any of these guys top draft picks? The three best ruckmen this year were Cox, Lade and McIntosh. Fraser and White were both No 1. picks, but are not dominant ruckmen(hopefully Kruezer falls into this catergory). My point is, i think that fowards and midfielders are a much safer bet for using such a high draft pick, as it seems to me that backmen and ruckmen can be developed from picks further down.

I just checked out Youtube, and it's hard not to be impressed with Palmer.

Genius. He's got the big fat head and all.

I hope not. He's a head case.

I heard that what Dick Pratt wants, Dick Pratt gets. I guess they were right. Now he has hot himself a Dick Jr.

We'll let Chris Judas know next year what's it's like next year to play in a big game, in front of a big crowd, when we pull down the Pies pants(again!) on QBD. Let us make sure we all get prime positions along the fences and near the Collingwood race, so we can give him the reception he deserves.

Grand Final enetrtainment will never please everybody. I ususally hate what the AFL dishes up, a collection of has-beens and also rans, appealing to the over 40's. I didn't mind this year's, but can see how some will have hated it. It is not like the NRL, where you just have to appeal to a bogan element and your set. The AFL audience reaches far and wide across a spectrum of diffferent people.