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Pass. We have enough over 30s on the list as it is.

Translation: 4 - 6 weeks

6. Clayton Oliver 5. Christian Petracca 4. Ed Langdon 3. Steven May 2. Angus Brayshaw 1. Charlie Spargo

6 Clayton Oliver 5 Jack Viney 4 Steven May 3 Christian Petracca 2 Christian Salem 1 Jake Lever

Bottom club with a 19 clearances to 12 lead at half time. Bartlett’s spray isn’t working.

Half Time and neither side has impressed at this point in time. The other thing that’s not impressing is the rain and the predictions that it’s going to hang around the Coast for the next few days and affect our game on Sunday. It should also impact our team selection and I’m thinking Nathan Jones is firming for a return. T. Mac also still a chance as well.

Frank Davis used to umpire schoolboy games in the eastern suburbs about 30 years ago.

Is it possible that one player could be the softest player to represent three AFL clubs?

Collingwood’s season is about to implode.

In the circumstances whereby a player tests positive after breaching AFL Covid19 protocols then his club should forfeit the points for any match that can’t be played as a consequence. If the AFL and the club in question had any integrity, that outcome would be accepted by consensus and we all move on.

In Hannan Lockhart Pickett Weideman Out Jackson Jetta Jones Smith More potency up forward required. Young Jackson a bit unlucky but he will get the opportunities later on. The two veterans know that if you don’t produce every week then your position’s in jeopardy. The message to the whole team is clear and that should spur them on to beat Essendon.

Post of the round. ?

8. Angus Brayshaw 5. Christian Petracca Jake Lever Tom McDonald Aaron vandenBerg

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Nev Tom Jack Max

James Clarry Max and Gus

Neville Jake Jack & Tom