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Come on Demons, fly me to the moon ?

Robbo thinks it was a good idea to cut ties - Robbo: Melbourne was right to get tough and trade ‘soft’ fan favourite Jack Watts

The Devon Smith deal comes across as most unusual given that nobody would entertain involving pick 11in a Watts deal.

Beamer was a Bailey man through and through and the story goes that he was disgruntled before Neeld walked in the door. Apparently, made that clear at the 2011 B & F so it was no surprise that they couldn't see eye to eye.

I drove past this morning and it looked as if training was back on in earnest. Anyone go?

If you could name one player at the club who will improve by leaps and bounds in 2017, he would be ???

It's been a bad week or so for the Brayshaw clan with James getting boned and Hamish missing out on being drafted. Hopefully, Angus makes up for both of them.

Retired Tiger Reece McKenzie slams Richmond in stunning Facebook post An extraordinary outburst from a young kind obviously distraught about not making it.

And for the same reason Jack Viney can keep 7.

If the blog's an example, the book is a must. Wry humour and at incisive in dealing with the subject.

After watching Matt Burgan's interview with Josh Mahoney on the MFC site, I'm almost certain that we will upgrade one of our two remaining rookies with our third pick instead of using 84. Just got the feeling from how he spoke.

Everything seems to have gone quiet. I think he might be a better candidate to get across than a Rockliff, both from a cost POV and also fits the no [censored] rule a bit better.

Might be time for an update to this poll?

Congratulations to Bob Dylan on winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. I bet nobody saw that coming fifty years ago.

Yet another job for another person at Bomberland at the time of the injection regime. Not particularly a good look for the AFL, is it?

Patience

It would have to put them strongly back in contention for a top four spot.

He is in this article AFL Trade Rumours: Vickery given a lifeline and North's revolutionary new strategy. Also mentions the Jesse Hogan/Nat Fyfe switch, Tyrone Vickery to Hawthorn and Mitch Brown (Collingwood) to North Melbourne speculation.

Surprised there's such scant interest in this game. For starters, the team has been going along fantastically over the past month easily beating all and sundry, gets up to a 33 point lead and then falls apart to score just one goal in the second half (from eight shots at goal) when the game was there to be won. A couple of hours later, Melbourne falls apart in similar fashion and kicks just one goal in the last quarter (from seven shots at goal) when the game was there to be won. Probably coincidence but a little uncanny.

Whatever the result on Sunday, Demon fans will be left wondering whether their glass is half full or half empty after season 2016. On the one hand, they have seen the improvement and development from a young side growing in stature and reaching the double figure mark in wins for the first time in a decade. On the other hand, they will look upon the opportunities lost in terms of the four games against fellow bottom six teams from last year squandered - Essendon, St Kilda (twice) and Carlton. These were all winnable games where they team performed abysmally, which were marked by turnovers, poor decision making and woeful disposal. Turn those games around and you make the finals. Against Geelong at Geelong, a game that means a hell of a lot less to Melbourne than the Carlton (a team which had lost nine in a row) at the MCG of last week, I wonder which Demon team will come out?

North are consistent - if we get rid of our tendency to lapse badly and string a few wins together, you never know what we can do.

Everything about the game is substandard. Disposal, marking, decision making and of course, the umpiring.

ASADA did not say that ... there was a suggestion very early on in the piece that someone from ASADA might have used words of comfort on AOD9604 but Robbo should know that doesn't equate with the players being told they would be OK for two and a half years. The drug that they were charged with and found guilty of taking was TB4. The reality is that the claim that everything was OK was a con and it's been used very effectively to placate and keep on board dead heads like Heppell who one day might wake up and realise he's been taken for a ride.

In terms of the raw stats you're right. Carey's 1994 was a tad better than Schwarz'. What we don't know is how much further the Ox had to develop given he's a year younger. That's something we'll never know.

When the truth comes out it will be all the better for tennis.