Very sad news. A man greatly respected and loved. A loss to society at large.

B: Dempster, Simpkin, Gilbert HB: Goddard, Fisher, Ray C: Montagna, Armo, Cripps HF: Schneider, Riewoldt, Hayes F: Milne, Kosi, Steven Foll: McEvoy, Dal Santo, Jones Inter: 3 out of Siposs, Ledger, Gram, Blake and Wilkes Sub : Saad, Stanley or Milera (impact players) Emerg from: Stanley, Peake, Polo...

The worrying thing is that Goddard's management appears to be pushing for an unrestricted ruling. This means that they are actively seeking to offer him opportunities at other clubs. The only thing unrestricted free agancy does for the player is allow him to move to any club he wants even if it is f...

...Evidence by the fact that Malthouse recruited Ball, who is not by any definition, a good kick... You are joking. He kicks both feet and accurately, albeit no longer 50 metres. He is precisely the type of "get" that got them a flag. He is not a good kick. Actually in the Collingwood sid...

hard to imagine a player being picked purely to play reserves Normally, I would agree with this statement but the Suns and GWS are in a very unusual situation. They have no shortage of very good young talent coming through but really only lack in the leadership area. Some mature bodies and heads is...

I just joined the 496203 league. So brace yourselves Twodoggs Marauders are coming through.

For me the cult heroes were Joffa Cunningham, Greg Burns, Jayson Daniels and Rocket Rod Owen. All were a little different, Joffa and Burnsy were as hard as nails and did on occasion display a bit of white line fever. Daniels "the ginger ninja" was pretty much the worst kick in the league b...

People are saying that he has been disappointing for a number 2 draft pick, but that needs to be taken in context. The top ten draft picks in 2000, excluding Roo and Didak, have all been underachievers and as such Kosi is not so far out of place. He has given us well over 150 games which puts him co...

Before somebody corrects me. There was one row of seats around the fence at Moorabbin, but you needed to be early to secure one. You are 100% correct Sir. A friend and I would always show up for the start of the reserves game and usually bag ourselves a seat on this narrow little run of timber. We ...

It is not enough to look at the individual players to compare the teams. You need to look at each part of the team as a unit and compare those. Even that is difficult because of the changes to the way the game is played. In 97 it was a very traditional backs, mids and forwards structure with each ar...

GrumpyOne wrote: At least we are not named after a member of the British Aristocracy, as nearly every other club is.

Like Arch Duke Western Bulldog you mean.

B. Blake Gilbert Dempster HB Goddard Fisher Dal Santo C Montagna Hayes Peake HF Schnieder Riewoldt Ray F Siposs Koschitzke Milne R McEvoy Armitage Steven Int Jones Stanley Cripps Sub Saad We need a fullback and I think Gilbert has the size and speed to be a really good player in that position. We ne...

I always had a soft spot for David Rhys Jones.

Absolute head case but was highly skilled and a fantastic mover. I loved watching him and Joffa Cunningham going at each other like men possessed.

Another looney I quite liked was Doc Wheildon just purely for s***s and giggles.

The problem here is that no other club had access to him. He did not nominate for the draft only the rookie draft meaning that if we had wanted to draft him we couldn't. They broke the rules to hide a player from the draft and have now been caught out doing it and the AFL has simply turned around an...

That wouldn't happen to be a camera phone, would it?

I moved to Australia late in 1981 from England and at school was immediately thrust into playing footy. In England I had played primarily rugby union and cricket. I was a big lad, over 6 foot at 14 and very broad shouldered, built like the preverbial brick outhouse. That gave me somewhat of an advan...

Put me down for 5.

How and when do you want the money?

When he first made it into our senior squad it was because he was a long driving kick and quick across the ground. He was not always an accurate kick but when you had multiple forward targets like Roo, Kosi, Hamill and Gehrig it was less important to be accurate than it was to get the ball in quick....

That's great, those crime statistics show Seaford is safer than the City of Port Phillip which contains such horrendous crime hotspots as Ripponlea, Albert Park, South Melbourne and St Kilda. The Police Service Area of Frankston showed 1113.7 crimes against the person per 100,000 as opposed to 1231...

That's great, those crime statistics show Seaford is safer than the City of Port Phillip which contains such horrendous crime hotspots as Ripponlea, Albert Park, South Melbourne and St Kilda. The Police Service Area of Frankston showed 1113.7 crimes against the person per 100,000 as opposed to 1231...

I might go. Although I dont like venturing that deep into Seaford. thats right clarky ... there's murderers rapists and junkies on every corner ..... fear for your life ..... :roll: :roll: :roll: Really? I cant say i know of any murderers and rapist's around that area. If you have ever actually bee...

It is all to do with expectations. Saints supporters are the big dreamers, the great passions in our lives are internal and not from external influences. A Collingwood, Essendon or Carlton supporter does not enjoy winning as such, but insteed receive sense of superiority when their club is doing wel...

Garry Kasperov? They were discussing the Sicilian Defence and it's impact on Bobby Fischers Random game and holding the ball interpretations.

A Thai Ladyboy.

The ghost of Christmas Past.