We need a combined primary list and rookie list squad of 44 players - excluding category B rookies (with min. 38 and max. 40 on primary list). We currently have 34 on the primary list and 3 on the rookie list. I suspect we’ll go with a 38/6 split, as we had done in 2015/16 seasons. This means we won’t use picks 95 or 96 and will take 3 live picks into the rookie draft. It also enables us to upgrade 2 players from the rookie list as required next year.

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@cecil_anderson

No such thing as upgrading rookies anymore. They can all play anytime.

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Go Blues

Tomorrow's the big day. Hanging out to watch it unfold on the AFL livestream if it works.
And why can't the Vic Govt do this to PP?
https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/more-sports/sydney-will-be-home-to-two-brand-new-world-class-stadiums/ar-BBFvRg9?ocid=spartandhp

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

Madness??????

They're gonna knock down an 18 year old stadium that nobody likes going to because it's 50min outside of the CBD only to build another new stadium on the exact same site?

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
- Aristotle

Complete waste of taxpayer money. Should go to public transport.

$2 billion would go a long way to improving trains/metro here in Sydney or improving access to the airport which is horrendous at present.

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"A good composer does not initiate. He steals."

- Igor Stravinsky

It is hard to get your head around such a waste

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If you allow the Government to change the Laws in an emergency
They will create an Emergency to change the Laws

surely the afl scrap rookie lists and just go 44 on each list and be done with it

Not their money.

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"Get ready, Teddy - you're on": Ron Barassi half time 1970 Grand Final

I think the only difference now is their pay. Rookies are still on lower salaries.

Staggering and a total architectural fail.

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

Etihad Stadium in Melbourne won’t be far behind - the AFL won’t be able to resist the temptation of $1billion sale price, before the Melbourne property market caves in.

They will flog it and cite that it’s no longer state of the art, too small etc.

Someone is going to fund a new stadium at the old Footscray Whoelsale Vegetable Market site.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

They'll need to exhume the bodies first...

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

With Cripps and Ed back, and with Kennedy and Dow coming in, surely we've got to become a lot better at clearances next year.

After tonight's draft we now have 39 senior players on the list.
Wonder if we will go with an extra rookie or use a pick in the PSD on Monday.

This.

Murphy, Cuningham, SPS, Fisher, Lang, Pickett, O'Brien, Garlett, Polson... looks like some good outside run, carry and skill to complement that quartet. Very exciting times ahead. Hopefully Kerridge and Graham are left to dominate in the VFL all year and mentor the young guys.

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Don't blame it on the sunshine, don't blame it on the moonlight, don't blame it on the good times, blame it on the WIGGINS!

Was it just coincidence going after all the Bendigo lads, or is there method to it?

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

Our legends come to Carlton from Bendigo footy. My home town too

Bendigo has been good to us.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

I miss Bryce Gibbs.

From a nostalgic point, Bendigo was Carlton's recruitment zone pre draft days.