Everything posted by rumpole
- Demonbracket 2020
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WELCOME TO DEMONLAND - MITCH BROWN
So it looks like we’ve gone off Murray and are looking at Brown now. In his draft year, Mentone Grammar’s Brown was bit of a rival to Brighton Grammar’s Jack Watts. I think he almost upstaged Watts when he represented the AGS against the APS so it would be somewhat ironic if Brown’s career ended in the red and blue.
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Tom Green (Drafted by GWS Giants)
I think it’s a virtual certainty that we will nominate Green and, in the unlikely event that GWS fails to match our bid, then so be it. We get a player considered in line with Rowell and Anderson. If GWS matches the bid, we move on ...
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - HARLEY BENNELL
So in effect, the recovery time from when he had his operation in July is almost 12 months. There would have to be a reasonable amount of confidence about his prospects for a recovery to consider offering a playing contract. I’m not 100% sold on the wisdom of doing this given the club’s injury record of 2019, the fact that we already have a few players on our list coming back from long term injuries and only five places available on our lists.
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Jack Martin
I think it’s pretty clear that every individual instance is different and the risk is different in every case. Mental and physical fitness are all taken into account in the analysis of risk.
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Splitting Draft Pick 3
The reality is that GWS has apparently offered us Pick 6 and their 2020 first rounder for Pick 3. This effectively gives them two top five selections while we go down three places in the draft order with Pick 6 and could possibly get a pick in the late teens in what looms as a highly compromised draft next year. If we were to accept that offer, we would be royally screwed over and our recruiting people would deserve our contempt. GWS need to work a lot harder, otherwise we take 3 and 8 into the draft or simply split our picks with someone else.
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2019 Player Reviews: #23 James Jordon
I think we need to cut him some slack because of his age (born 20 December, 2000) which means he just misses the cut off date for this year’s draft. There are plenty of potential draftees with his size and weight. A full pre season or two will make a big difference on that score.
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2019 Player Reviews: #26 Sam Weideman
Needs to get fit, add a few tricks to his game and take a few steps forward. Perhaps a few tips from grandpa on how to harness his aggression in the contest and at the football might assist?
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Dan Butler
It’s being reported that Richmond won’t stand in the way of Butler moving elsewhere and a fourth round pick has been suggested as adequate for a trade. Problem for Melbourne as things stand is that we don’t have a fourth round pick after yesterday’s trading.
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Angus Brayshaw to Fremantle Rumours
Please feel to put that interpretation of a contract to any competent court in the land and we’ll see how far it gets you.
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
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Farewell Jesse Hogan
He has to recover from his navicular injury as well. Let’s not forget that the Dockers cancelled their due diligence on him a few days before they did their trade for him.
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Farewell Jesse Hogan
Nobody listens. Jesse Hogan isn’t going anywhere, says Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin
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Farewell Jesse Hogan
I think they have described themselves more as being realists rather than shrewd which is how they dealt with the charge that giving away two draft picks early to get Jake Lever might have been “overs”. They are now in the exact opposite situation where they hold all of the cards and the Dockers want to snare a big fish. Let’s see how shrewd they are now.
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Andrew Gaff
So I've noticed.
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Andrew Gaff
Can Tom Browne play?
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THE BOMBERS' DOPING SAGA - THE FAT LADY SINGS
One word - "Robbo"
- Classic Max Gawn Quotes
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
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The 2014 AFL National Draft
When the club was knocked back last year the indication was that if we had another poor year, we might qualify. If we win only six games this year we borderline qualify on the basis of our cumulative poor record. This is especially so in the case where all we would be getting is an end of round 1 draft pick as WJ suggests.
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
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Anyone for cricket?
What were the crowds like today. They were abysmal yesterday. Come on Taswegians - turn up if you want local test matches!
- The No T$ No B$ Thread