Straight Sets Simon

If people here could pick one of Kelly, Bontempelli or Cripps, who would you take now? I'd go with Cripps.

Just what the world needs, gambling on lotteries.

Tyson is good, but as Sheedy (allegedly) said, he's "not great". Cripps is probably the best of the three, thankfully we have Oliver who is the closest thing in the AFL to Cripps and those two will most likely be the best two midfielders in the AFL for a decade.

Forget Kelly, if we had the pick we should have taken Bontempelli or Cripps. Sheedy isn't wrong about Tyson either.

What would we have to trade to GWS to get him?

Excellent again. Two players from Casey who finished on top of the ladder and played in a Grand Final. Do Melbourne really need a stand-alone VFL team?

Excellent.

Hi, dad.

Barrett clearly gets his information from player managers who don't always (and shouldn't) know the details of what is being traded.

Let this be the last time we deal with Essendon for a very long time.

Change the thread title. It's done.

Dear Essendon, You still don't know what you injected Michael Hibberd with, stop being a bunch of pricks. Yours sincerely, Clint Bizkit

I just binge watched Narcos, loved it.

I always maintain that Grimes wasn't the same after breaking his collarbone, he never regained all the muscle he lost.

The biggest myth about Lumumba is that he is quick. Over his first five metres he's not much quicker than Trengove, if you don't have quick acceleration then you're not quick.

No, his two years haven't been too long but just enough for us to see that he probably isn't up to it. I wouldn't be upset if he stayed, but he's regressed since last year I feel.

No.

I'm more concerned about holding on to players for too long.

Melbourne and Casey games. I rated him highly last year, despite big numbers in the VFL has just looked off the boil this year.

I rate JKH, needs a good run with injury but that may never come. He would have helped a lot if fit today.

I wouldn't be upset if he stayed but I think we only need one of him or Garland and Dunn has more currency, therefore we might jag a fourth round pick for him.

I feel like the delistings this year will be the final purge from the dark times before Roos took over.

ANB looked classy at times last year, this year he's looked unskillful and messy.

Trengove gets another chance because he just signed a contract and I can't see anyone else wanting him. The reality is he was found out to be too slow in 2011, but he deserves another chance for all he's been through. I'd have no issue with trying to offload Kennedy.

My list of changes at the end of the year (delisted, traded or otherwise): Dawes Grimes Lumumba Terlich Newton Max King Michie ANB Dunn or Garland Matt Jones