Roger Mellie

I'd be over the moon if we landed Humphrey

Oliver's trip to Sydney was a planned holiday, according to Jake Niall @ the Age. Despite the headline-grabbing 'Oliver jets to Sydney after star midfileder told to seek new club,' they then state in the article it was a planned trip.

FWIW, I don't have Edmond in the Morris 'basket'. I guess we'll find out if he added mayo or not.

Sounds like the media framing the narrative to me. King organises a meeting with Clarry (as he will with all players) to outline his (and the team's) role, expectations. This is as per DannyZ. Media gets a hold of it and Edmond spices it up by saying Clarry's been 'summoned' and giving a negative spin. Morris then chimes in and runs with the sky is falling in for Clarry. It might be worth waiting for the real story before stepping into my MFCSS onesie.

Speaking of 'hypotheticals,' if Russell Robbo has an AFL standard kid (no idea if he has kids), is said kid eligible for Tas and Dee's or just Tas?

I agree with most of what you're saying except this. Excluding Grundy from your list, the rest were very clearly attempts at cheap depth. I don't blame Lamb for recruiting these players with sweet FA salary cap and late picks/FA availability. His instructions would have been to fill these holes on the list with minimum wage players. Not sure how else he goes about it. You're not going to get a Curnow with a third/forth-rounder on $200K. You could try and draft for one but they won't be ready to fill said hole as was needed. What I don't get is the contract lengths. It's totally [censored] us and why we were forced into the need for cheap depth - Viney, Langdon, Clarry, Petracca, Gawn

Not for the clubs with Northern Academies. They need the points to complete their draft-rorting extravaganza. I expect most clubs will be trying to trade picks with them and/or into next year.

There's about 200kms distance between Gold Coast and Noosa. It's about the same distance from Melbourne to Colac. Where would you rather be?

No it doesn't. I expect Jones will be retained (under contract) with two new assistants coming in.

Low possession full back continuing his development this year. He's starting to take the next step with turning defence into attack. He needs to back himself and use his excellent speed.

Has that rare combo of a huge tank and speed. To my eye, he buzzes around ineffectually without having a real crack. It gives me the [censored].

Isn't it two years with a trigger for a third?

Flanders would also be weighing up where he'd get the most midfield minutes.

Hey RoB, Get in touch with Demonwiki, I'm sure @Supermercado would be keen to hear from anyone who can add to his past player history and/or help you with any info he has stumbled across.

Or his best mate, Finn Callahan

A fair chunk of that probably went to Kozzie

I think you'll find his name is N. Jones.

No, you forfeit your victory for being a blurter!

Do you work for the AFL by any chance?

I recall we had a crack at Martin when he left the Suns. His interest in coming to us hovered around zero. I think that was fortunate.

I think CIP inferred he did have an interview and he was well behind the others, so he bowed out with appropriate flimsy excuse.

Hinkley would be perfect for Tassie! The AFL are dumb fools.