Straight Sets Simon

The media so badly want Hogan to leave.

Oliver's "physical superiority"? He was fat as a junior and still managed to dominate, imagine how much better he will be when he puts on more muscle.

I can see him playing the first four or five games at Casey to get up to speed before playing a dozen or so games for Melbourne this year.

We had trust in the guy who drafted them, if he did his job properly he would have identified this and never recruited them in the first place.

As someone said earlier, the common trend with most of those players in the photo is they aren't natural competitors. Viney, Kent, Salem, Hogan, T. McDonald, Petracca, Brayshaw, Oliver, vandenBerg, Tyson, N. Jones, Gawn, Stretch, ANB, Jetta and Harmes all are naturally far more competitive.

I wasn't saying "please leave".

Please.

That would be the worst thing that could happen to the AFL.

What I find amazing is that Clayton Oliver stormed into top 3 contention without a single game being played. Therefore, even if Toumpas was touted earlier as a higher pick there's no reason it couldn't change.

You don't know anything about football because you don't go to watch training. Watching games isn't the same as training.

Harsh.

Here's a tip Billy, Hawthorn and Geelong see action in September because of what they did in November many years ago.

Parish could be an A+ player, but I know Oliver will be an A grade player.

Oliver's body shape has already changed a lot but I can see it changing even more over the course of this pre-season.

It's "he's".

That's the only thing about his game that made me squirm, he almost throws it when he bounces.

He played in the VFL and by all reports handled himself very well.

I think Essendon would have taken him over Parish.

I love the fact that we didn't get the player that was hyped up all year, how many of those players have actually gone on to be become stars?

Good hands, beautiful kicking action.

I will never forget it, ever.

The difference is when I saw his highlights he wasn't rated a top pick.

If we take Oliver I'll be a bit smug because as soon as I saw his highlights (I know it's hard to read a lot into them) I rated him highly.

Did he really say that?