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The Age, By Caroline Wilson November 10, 2005 Mark Mercuri and coach Kevin Sheedy have spoken about the 31-year-old returning to Essendon after a year out of the game. Related: - Harvey gets Dons' OK to deal with Dockers - 2006 NAB Cup draw RETIRED Essendon club champion Mark Mercuri...

"Such uniform will be worn at all matches subject to the rules and directions of the AFL" If the AFL rules state that we are compelled to use a clash jumper when playing away against team X, it would not be a breach of our constitution to abide by those rules. If the AFL rules state that we...

Is the medal thing true? Where does this info come from? I don't really think he would be too happy to receive it. I think dropping him was one of the biggest mistakes we ever made, he wasn't bad player for the swans after that (imagine if he had played for us in the 96 prelim????)

I think we should get him back. Let's not forget it was mainly salary cap pressure that lead us to trade him (we were paying part of his salary at Richmond. We have missed his ability to be the link man in the midfield, with Wellman gone, and Murphy notorious for delivering poor "2nd years" it...

Good work Stevo, when I was putting together my list (above) I just couldn't work out why I had to get rid of so many players. Anyway, I think it means I can take 2 players off the delisted list: Hunt would come back first (it was a tough decision letting him go in the first list) and then I...

Good point Nandoz - Back pocket should be Soloman not another Wellmann. But then again 2 Wellmans would be handy (not to mention 3 Hirds). You should see how messy my bit of paper is, it is a pretty hard task to put the team together, but we are definately very, very deep.

Probably not at the start of next year but by mid-next year: (with an emphasis on a bit of speed) B: M.Johnson Fletcher Soloman HB: Wellmann Lucas McPhee C: Bullen Hird Winderlich HF: Haynes Lloyd Rioli F: Cupido...

I think I would go with these 34: ALLAN ALVEY Bolton, Mark Bullen, Marc Cartledge, Tristan Cupido, Damian Fletcher, Dustin Forster-Knight, Robert Haynes, Ben Henneman, Aaron Hille, David Hird, James Johns, Courtney Johnson, Jason Johnson, Mark Laycock, Jason Lloyd, Matthew...

Pretty disappointed that Collingwood didn't renew his contract. Does anyone know of either Anthony or Chris are still cleaning windows for a living? A few years ago one of our neighbours got them in. On a serious note, good luck to TD. Maybe Neale needs an extra set of hands?

I think we made a deal with Doolan. I think the players can put a price on their heads when they enter the pre-season draft. So basically we agreed to pay him (an extremely) high salary, so that other teams had to pass on him. So technically legitimate, morally....

Yeah, Ben Doolan was one we poached. But we were regretting it for years after that...

From realfooty (the Age): 16/10 "The Hawks are also working hard to secure another tall defender, Essendon's Mark Bolton, in what would become their compensation for the loss of Jade Rawlings to the Kangaroos. The Roos and Hawks have virtually agreed on their sides of the bargain - the Roos...

Maybe Gary Ablett Snr is going back to his original club. Forward pocket would suit him just fine. Crawford + first round draft pick for Russel Crowe

Channel 10 has been pretty good on the trade news (or lack of). Nine and Seven are too busy covering the Rugby and Cricket respectively. Good look to Soloman at Georgia, at least we won't have to pay any of his salary at his new club. At least his dodgy kicking won't be as big an issue. But...

I think we are going to have to make some tough decisions this year. With SES and Barnard retiring, and presumably Johns and Haynes being promoted. We need to find a way of creating another 4 or 5 spots for the draft (if we can fit a full complement of 38 under the cap this year). Even if we...

Capuano anyone? He would be pretty cheap, and he would be there in an on-field ruck support role, without hindering Hille's or O'keefe's development. ( I am assuming that we couldn't afford McKernon ) Also, good to see Simon Madden back at Essendon. He has helped Hille's game along this year.

Maybe he could retire or play in the SANFL

I think the operative word is "stand". Bolton is the best decoy CHF we have ever had. But Somerville was a better decoy ruckman.

Maybe Mercs could retire and he could be given a $500K a year job as a Bendigo Bombers administrator.

I fear another fire sale down at Essendon this year. I think the "heffernan clause" makes it a lot more difficult for clubs who have a lot of uncontracted players to get good value out of the trading period. We should go for a couple of older midfielders who have 2-3 years left in them. I...

Yeah maybe not next year, but probably the year after. Winderlich and Watson are going to be gun midfielders for sure