rumpole

A number of players have been delisted recently as a result of rule changes relating to rookies. I understand that Shultz is one of those players and he will be automatically put on the Dockers’ rookie list with the consent of the player and club. Your suggestion is therefore most unlikely.

There are a good few suggestions here - The 23 mature-age bargain gems your club could steal at AFL draft - and three of them are ex-Pies

Not making excuses. Simply expressing admiration for the people who run the Collingwood Football Club and who always fight tooth and nail to get the best deal for the team.

Pies didn’t have to make excuses. In the last 9 rounds of the season they had 7 games at the Gabba, travelled out of Queensland once (to Adelaide v Adelaide when they were at their worst) and had a bye. Well done to them but they really had an armchair ride into the finals compared to us.

Strangely enough, they did manage to hit targets after quarter time when they played us. And they had Walters to kick goals for them when they were needed.

When all is said and done, we were stitched up in Round 16 when the Bulldogs came off a bye and a long break to play the Eagles at Metricon off a 5 day break with Natanui pulling out late. They won by 2 points and their last goal just got through the score review by a fingernail. Next day, we lose to the Dockers off a 4 day break. We needed only one of those results to go the other way and we play finals. Now we need a miracle to make the finals and get to play the Eagles in Perth.

How about a parade of the horses running in the WS Cox Plate?

Hilarious that they dropped Mitch Brown when we met them last year and now he’s in our team.

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.