St DAC wrote: A first ... the only post of yours I agree with 100%. Well said ...

(I don't necessarily completely disagree with your other posts, it's just that I'm a contrary bugger ... )

So am I, which is probably why you generally don't agree with my posts 100%

I don't think we can really predict what either team will do on Friday night. The Crows are going to be fired up and highly stressed, which is one of those unpredictable things: they could freeze (as they have done at crucial stages in the last two finals series) or they could roll over the top of t...

I have never supported drug testing by the AFL for illicit recreational drugs. My understanding is that this has been foisted on our sport by international drug-testing agencies who are themselves compelled to promote this by the absurdly puritanical USA: the country which probably consumes more ill...

Solar wrote:for mine the loss of smith (because of injur) was huge, could have been ANYTHING

Absolutely, and I was very sorry to see him go, but he hasn't really turned out to be that much of a loss: an effective contributor at the Hawks, but not really a danger man.

There was a time in the mid-1990s when Darryl looked like turning from a reasonably good player into something approaching a great. But it never really happened that way. Shane was never quite as good IMO. I think they were lboth osses to the side, but not to the extent that we should be tearing our...

Lappin was a good player for us, and typically stood out in most of the Blues games I have endured in recent years (although, to be fair, that wouldn't be hard). I agree that, if I were a bookie, I would see this announcement as grounds for further lowering the odds on a Demons win. Personally, I th...

I think Francis Leach is (or was) married to one of his former colleagues on Radio National: Lyn Holtain (not sure about the spelling)?

Virginia Trioli definitely barracks for Carlton, i can remember hearing her talking about it when I was briefly living in Sydney a couple of years ago.

I can't see that Kerr is better than Lenny. or better than lenny in anyway that would separate them. speed about the same tackling Lenny better delivery about the same hard ball gets about the same loose ball gets about the same field kicking for goal maybe kerr marginally better defencive skills l...

IMO anyone who thinks lenny isn't one of the top midfielders in teh competition and has been since about 02/03 is a pharking idiot, thats my opinion. I dont know what you expect from an elite midfielder if lenny isn't it? Lenny compares favourably with any midfielder int he competition on performan...

and Gilbert. . Yes Gilbert is certainly showing some SPECIAL early signs.....and Gram is another who had an awesome season last year. But one good season does not an elite player make. I agree, one season is not enough to draw a firm conclusion. But Gilbert looks to have the potential to become som...

Lenny IMO stacks up with and against the best midfielders in teh league. can play inside and outside, can run and carry, can't tackle, chace, does 1% like shepherd and block, can kick 45m plus accurately, can get his own footy, and gets 25 plus touches a game regularly enough to be consistently eff...

The problem with the term "elite" is that it is a bit vague: eg, Lenny is a fabulous player, but I don't think he will ever become a "marquee player" of the Hird, Buckley, Voss, Carey, Harves, Riewoldt, etc. type. For me, he is on the level just below this: a terrifically-talente...

http://writingcompany.blogs.com/this_isnt_writing_its_typ/images/baghdad_bob_1.jpg and now the press from AFL No players have been caught with drugs, drugs in their system or blood or urine tests with drugs. Ben cousins is a national hero there are NO TANKS in the AFL, the pigdogs who claim there a...

As someone who is first and foremost a football fan, I think it is a tragedy to see a great and proud club brought to its knees by a succession of the ACCC's, ASIC's and the National Crime Commission's "most wanted". I feel really sorry for players like Lappin, Whitnall, Kouta, Fev (yes ev...

It's a shame it's a Foxtel game, I'd really like to see it now but I'm not sure I'd pay to see it... i will be watching it...will have the same fancination as those tellie shows that show car accidents...... I agree: I think it will be a hoot. AFL: the only outdoor sport which allows players the ch...

I point to Jonathon Hay. no injunction on his comments. he said basically the same thing, about the hawks. IMO the hawks have been rumbled. bit of a worry....hay and thompson...two former hawks...both suffer ing from depression........i won't say anymore at this stage...... Mmmmmm......interesting ...

My guess is that 'found in the gutter' actually means 'stolen by my girlfriend who is a cleaner there at nights' or something similar. Too bloody right it does!! Almost certainly a cleaner, or more likely a boyfriend who is a security guard (who would be more likely to have a key to the records cab...

He is an outside finishing player. At tht moment he is have to do too much inside bullocking stuff and that is just not his thing. It is not where his skill and value are. Agree 100%, but not so sure I agree with the next comment. His skill is fwd of the clearences but we just cant release hin ther...

Stokes could well be personally behind the Channel 7 stories about drug cheats. He is renowned for taking heroic, self-defeating stances on things like this: eg, his hugely costly campaign attempting to prove that the late John Marsden (the Sydney solicitor, not Melbourne writer for teens) was a ped...

All this stuff starts to get a bit repetitive. Thommo and M Clarke are going anyway. From the way he played on Friday, Voss should probably go too. We will also probably be waving goodbye to Raymond and probably at least two out of Sweeney, Gwilt, Brooks, Ferguson and McQualter. We probably won't be...

Look, the whole current AFL tribunal system is a farce, as was the previous one involving Mr Collis QC (so who'd trust a QC anyway). The AFL has never really thought through why it has a tribunal system or what it is trying to achieve with it. The whole system has evolved through an endless process ...

And for anybody who thinks I'm being too harsh on WCE, if any Saints player did what these scum did without showing any genuine remorse, I would be just as judgmental and demand their sacking from our Club. Be careful in making such a blanket statement, MM. I am tempted to ask you about how you fee...

and I have not read that ice or crystal meths are much help with endurance. Well it is - believe me, the doctors and the cops. They can run all day... no all week... with out stopping, that's gotta help with endurance. Agree out of season no testing for anything - it's their life. Well, if you're r...

BAM! (shhhh) Absolutely fabulous post. You have succinctly expressed in about three paragraphs some of the key things I was trying to say in my mythbusting thread of a couple of weeks ago. Probably my only difference with you is in relation to how much we miss Goddard: he is a terrific player, but -...

performance enhancing substances used as a stimulant during say a training regime, that enhances long term endurance and strength build up may be considered cheating. I had read that ice/crystal meths burn holes in your brain and lead to a medium-term decline in motor and other functions. I'm sure ...