I was uneasy when FA came in for a number of reasons...bigger clubs pulling good players from smaller clubs, the competition heading towards the EPL style where only a few will ever be there. I was always hopeful that the salary cap would be the safety net, but given the deals that seem to be allow...

Hehe technically ( apart from people who get up at unearthly hours ) the curtains would fade less during daylight savings. With daylight saving , you wake up and open the curtains ( getting them out of the sunlight ) an hour before you otherwise would have. For those farmers worried about milking th...

Free trade is the way to go. It largely would depend on the contract size. Assuming he gets decent pay ( and I wouldn't want him to go if he didn't ) then we should get end of round one or the pick after our second round pick. Both of these are more than we'd get for trade and North who want him can...

Despite his lowly role at the Saints he was a member of the leadership group.

Its good we may be getting delaney, Bruce and Bugg and losing dal and Fisher. its good if we want to be down for longer than I thought. we need mids. yes we need one key back but im not sure we need 2 in the one year especially as one is no good IMO and Bugg is just a BP players. Why has our name n...

If I was organising the work, the trading process would be along the lines of. Coach produces list of player types he would like. Meeting with Coach, Recruitment and Head of footy. Head of footy decides if coach wish list is in line with overall direction and needs of club. Recruitment goes away wit...

seems to be a lot of me me me down there. Who gets to make the final call on Dal? is it the coach? the football director or the club? My opinion for what its worth is that the coach has the final call. I don't see the point in having a highly paid recruitment and list management team that spend all...

Because the best players like Voss, Hird and Buckley are always better coaches then no-name spuds like Clarkson and Lyon.

As if we will trade 21 for Bruce! Relax peoples I'd rather trade it for Bruce than for Delaney ( Who I consider would be the main guy only until Bruce takes over ). To me Delaney seems to be just one step up from a VFL full back. If Simpkin can bulk up 4Kg he's Delaney -3cm. Bruce at 21, is 197cm a...

Fisher and our third rounder for the Dogs second rounder?

Brad Scott unfortunately seems delusional about it , does not seem to understand the landscape . North Melbourne have to approach Saints with "Godfather deal " not the other way around. Personally feel screw them if by end of week they don't offer anything special. Give Dal 3 year deal an...

Teflon i agree north have nothing 'on the table' for us to be excited about. Eastern i wouldn't bother adding the mr to scott - wouldn't trust the whinging git! Biffer scott actually believes he can exert media pressure on St.Kilda to get Dal Santo for peanuts because.... he believes north deserve ...

So what's the story. Where are the pokies? Are people supposed to go there just to play them? I can think of other ways to lose a couple of million all the while making more of a social experience. Can you onsell a pokies license? lose? lose? It brings 2 mil to our club of precious money per year, ...

Pick 3 for Parker and Reid and we have a deal gentlemen 2010 draft FFS! Why did we choose Cripps (WA) over Parker (local and tough Langwarrin kid)? John Peake was seriously an agent of sabotage at our club. Yep it was so obvious. The official AFL jay Clarke phantom had us taking Pitt ,( who has wor...

Wonder who selected Dowler and Thorpe? On Markworth... Raw, but is a good mover... Dont know but I think you suggested we look at Thorpe again. Why would you mention who selected those Hawks players apart from again having a go at the club. You are amazing if not very consistent. Agree on Markworth...

Wonder who selected Dowler and Thorpe ? On Markworth... Raw, but is a good mover... Good point I don't think I want to go there. Drafting is a certain amount of luck and they need to draft for it. 2003 would have been a good year to make big trades, in fact we got Gram and Guerra ( who unfortunatel...

I think Armo should be kept out of these conversations. Hasnt set a foot wrong. Club warrior. He is really an innocent bystander. I think the issue has been the Fisher-Dusty link. Given that Richmond are very sensitive to Martin, and his ahem, special needs, wouldn't they be worried about who he ha...

Nothing to say tho mate. He's on holiday and is oblivious to what is being said on this site or what people think might happen while he is on holiday and with who. No footy = too much time to come up with crazy ideas. Need something to talk about tho otherwise this site wouldn't be what it is. :lol...

He seems to get more of the ball than ( for example ) Wright, but he's no Jarryn.
However it has come to my notice that since the last wave of delistings we have room for another Tom.

So what's the story.
Where are the pokies?
Are people supposed to go there just to play them?
I can think of other ways to lose a couple of million all the while making more of a social experience.
Can you onsell a pokies license?

If the COL in Sydney is such that it justifies a 20% higher salary cap for the Sydney clubs, then what about the Adelaide clubs where the COL is 25% less than it is in Melbourne (and 40% less than Sydney)? Does that mean Adelaide clubs should have their salary caps reduced? Also, why is housing ass...

Isnt he ( another ) a HBF?

Essendon are insane if they think they can drive a hard bargain on Crameri… The dogs 2nd round pick (eraly 20's) is very generous considering Crameri is out of contract, has PSD written all over it… I hope he walks, nobody wants to see Essendon allowed back into the draft. I wonder if Crameri had t...

Given the number of weeks in trade week, I don't think they'll be doing 9 to 5 at Etihad.

Does that mean that the best Hawthorn can get for Buddy is pick 19? Or can they slip it in wherever they see fit? Mid First Round and one pick below the club's First Round Surely... It would seem fair. But then they would be changing the rules to suit Hawthorn. Unless they want to somehow compensat...