Moron. So in three years, all our players will be players that are currently on the list? In 3 years of drafting, we won't draft a single player who will be in our 22? If that's the case, we may as well all jump off the bandwagon after 2010... How many AFL games has Allen played...you've put him in ...

WRONG WRONG WRONG baker is toughest player. You dont understand something here... it takes a good month for players to get the feel of AFL speed and intensity again AFTER INJURY. Baker has been good what the hell? Raph - will get there remember he was great before injjry and will be again very soon...

Wayde Skipper, you are a dog. do ya reckon he did it on purpose? really? All the best to X in his recovery and fantastic news the club is backing him. The incident happened right in front of me at the Willi ground. Brilliant chase by Skipper, tackled and turned X beautifully, and was rewarded with ...

Whether we win or not, the game needs to be close just for the players' belief, and to show that we truly are contenders. If it's a blowout then we lose credibility. So yeah, I think it's a blockbuster. Credibility? Who cares? If we lose to Geelong by 60 points in round 14...do you really think it ...

Continuity...

The longer they play the same back 6....the better the back 6 will get

meher baba wrote:

James wrote:As for Birss, he wouldn't be getting a game this year so far, but he'd be handy to have around as depth. You can never have enough quality midfielders.

Are these two sentences meant to be related in some way? Personally, I can't see how.

Birss was nothing close to a quality midfielder.

Getting ahead of ourselves? Comparing McEvoy and Stanley to Brogan and Lade in a few years...gee, i seem to remember a number of people comparing Dal and Ian Stewart a few years ago...didn't exactly happen did it? Attard was a terrible player, didn't deserve to play as many games as he did but due t...

So what you're saying is that if someone like Roo has 4 poor games, you drop him? Coz he's bottom 6? nope. it's a complex equation, i know, but i'll try to explain it. some players have played 167 games, kicked 348 goals and averaged more than ten brownlow votes a year for the past seven years. som...

What if after round 18 we hav been gauarnteed a top 2 spot? Surely then it would be worth considering giving two of Max, King, Gardiner, Hayes, Ball, Roo, Kosi and Dal a rest fort he last 4 games.... Am I right in reading this Armoooo, you'd advocate that 2 of these players not having played any fo...

borderbarry wrote:Best percentage ever when competition over ten teams in size.

More like best percentage since before the AFL (VFL) was even a professional organization...back when teams would start games late and play them out in the dark with no lights.

saintsRrising wrote:Out of interest....are spoils 1%ers?

Yep

Dawson had 10 spoils, thus giving him 4 1%'s other than spoils

Anyone who disses Max, past present or future can meet me behind the sheltersheds after school Absolute legend of this Club who is to be afforded all respect. No exceptions 8-) Have never seen any of the football public (media, opposition supporters, coaches) describe Max as anything other then a g...

Er, no. That's why I mentioned them, mate. Perhaps I should have been clearer and said 'apart from the finals last year.' The point I am trying to establish is that we rarely get blown away and that this has been a fact for many years. Almost every single port game in the past 5 years (excluding th...

Gardiner - Dominant MacEvoy - learning Quite a good combination. I say keep Benny Mac in. He has to get the games in him sometime, and looked quite at home yesterday. Composed and got his hands to hit a bit. Should be good match ups in the ruck next week. Gardiner v Ryder Benny Mac v Bellchambers (...

I don't want to sound negative but depth is like a lot of things in AFL clubs, it is subject to perception. During the early stages of the 2007 season I recall an article in a WA paper about the Eagles depth. The eagles were flying and they had a 'Harlem Globe Trotters' feel about them. Exit Judd a...

essendons kids bodies will crumble under our pressure. Carlton needs Murphys, Gibbs, Stevens put under blow torch. Collingwood CAN match that...for how long is the question. Hawks/Cats (and maybe Lions ast home) are the sides IMHO that physically can stand up to that pressure. Cats have shown they ...

[A lot of people have forgotten about players like L.Fisher, . Yes Leigh is probablya barometer of how we are going... He is probably still about the same...maybe a slightly better player. But as gone from being an automatic selection to can't get in because the quality of the team has improved. Ex...

I'm extremely glad to say that i'm supremely confident a game plan like this has no weakness whatsoever. If we play with the intensity, heart, passion, and brotherhood for each member in the team that we've had this year, then success is our destiny. Its the same concept for life, if you put enough ...

Isn't it geat to be scratching your head on who to leave out...because no one deserves to be ommitted.... ....and also wishing that one of a number from the reserves could get a senior game because they are good enough to. Was not that long back you would look at the reserves and think...err no one...

I heard on the radio the other day, that this was the first time since 1920 that a team has maintained a percentage % greater then 200?

I'll chip in 2 shares.

Clash Jumper looks pretty vintage imo.

Just has this 'olden' day feel about it.

Yep...the AFL can afford to employ 200 people to work on an indepandant website like the MLB No doubting the AFL site is crap, but we just dont have the resources and money to emply 200 people like the MLB do to work on a website. More power to Essendon for doing their own thing. You can bleat all ...

Thread title is wrong....

It's Etihad Stadium now ...

Yay



Docklands it is...