Why was Cripps dropped?

[BringBackLuke]

Does anyone know the reasoning behind Cripps' absence in recent weeks? I don't recall him getting injured and he had a really good knack for kicking goals.

PS - watching the footy at the moment and I just have to say that Harry Taylor is the most overrated player in the AFL. One good game against an injured Riewoldt in a GF and all of a sudden he's described as one of the league's "premier" backman... rubbish

[ando051]

Does anyone know the reasoning behind Cripps' absence in recent weeks? I don't recall him getting injured and he had a really good knack for kicking goals.

PS - watching the footy at the moment and I just have to say that Harry Taylor is the most overrated player in the AFL. One good game against an injured Riewoldt in a GF and all of a sudden he's described as one of the league's "premier" backman... rubbish

Had a operation with "Compartment Syndrome" of the calf muscle said it was a season ending injury, but reported at the start of the week he has rehabbed better than expected and could be back before season end.

[BringBackLuke]

Thanks mate - lets hope he gets back because I loved watching that kid play footy

[Megsie]

CRIPPS...........mate there was so much written about his injury.

[Megsie]

just noticed your name.

no wonder you didn't know what happened to Cripps. Doubt you follow
the saints.

[BringBackLuke]

just noticed your name.

no wonder you didn't know what happened to Cripps. Doubt you follow
the saints.

I'm a 20-year Saints member.

First memories of the footy are at Moorabbin of a bloke called Jeff Hilton with a rockstar mullet wearing no.52 (possibly no.58) in the reserves.

Back then I used to think Danny Craven and Brett Bowie were the same person.

If you want any further evidence of my Saints fandom, I'm more than happy to write a few paragraphs on the virtues of Gordon Fode.

As for Bally - he's a friend, so of course I'd love him back at the club... hate seeing him in the Pies colours - it still doesn't look right.

[saintbrat]

As for Bally - he's a friend, so of course I'd love him back at the club... hate seeing him in the Pies colours - it still doesn't look right.

can you ask him the simple question then- was it the money or the game?

[BringBackLuke]

As for Bally - he's a friend, so of course I'd love him back at the club... hate seeing him in the Pies colours - it still doesn't look right.

can you ask him the simple question then- was it the money or the game?

The game

Luke's intelligence is such that he's never going to have an issue earning money post-football

[Kate]

Craven had a buzz cut, whilst Bowey had the full on mullet. I doubt many Saints fans mixed those two up.

[BigMart]

Bowey was way taller at 5'5"

Craven was only 5'3"


Hilton had a fierce mullet.....

[BringBackLuke]

Craven had a buzz cut, whilst Bowey had the full on mullet. I doubt many Saints fans mixed those two up.

I was 4 - I could barely see over the fence

[Kate]

And yet you were so scared by the events two years later, when you were 6!

By the way St. Kilda last played a Moorabbin in 1992. If you're now twenty then you were 1 or 2 tops when we last played there.

How about entertaining us with your recollection of Arctic Park instead.

The trolls aren't getting any smarter.

[saintsRrising]

As for Bally - he's a friend, so of course I'd love him back at the club... hate seeing him in the Pies colours - it still doesn't look right.

can you ask him the simple question then- was it the money or the game?

The game

Luke's intelligence is such that he's never going to have an issue earning money post-football

iQ and earning money don't always go hand in had.

Ask him how his Uni course is going....

[saintbrat]

As for Bally - he's a friend, so of course I'd love him back at the club... hate seeing him in the Pies colours - it still doesn't look right.

can you ask him the simple question then- was it the money or the game?

The game

Luke's intelligence is such that he's never going to have an issue earning money post-football

already asked my question BUT why Collingwood... and guessing one question will always lead to another- why could he not work it out...

[BringBackLuke]

And yet you were so scared by the events two years later, when you were 6!

By the way St. Kilda last played a Moorabbin in 1992. If you're now twenty then you were 1 or 2 tops when we last played there.

How about entertaining us with your recollection of Arctic Park instead.

The trolls aren't getting any smarter.

Whoa - what's with the hostility? 4 in 1988 = 27 today

And I was at that last game in 1992 - I was on the ground when they honored each team member who played that day

And let's look at this objectively - I'd have to be a pretty sad person to spend my Sunday morning trying to fool a forum into thinking I go for a particular footy team

As for Arctic Park - forget what year it was, but I do recall a rather strange day when the wind changed mid-game so Melbourne had a howling gale for 3 quarters

[St Lenny]

As for Bally - he's a friend, so of course I'd love him back at the club... hate seeing him in the Pies colours - it still doesn't look right.

can you ask him the simple question then- was it the money or the game?

The game

Luke's intelligence is such that he's never going to have an issue earning money post-football

Anyone new is always accused of being a troll, its a right of passage.

Back to LB. I find it VERY difficult to believe money didn't come into it. I believe he was poorly advised by his Manager and Father. But gosh, this subject has been done to death.

[Megsie]

If it wasn't about money why didn't Luke go the Demons??

offered same money plus captaincy!!!!

Of course it's always about money with him.

[meher baba]

As for Bally - he's a friend, so of course I'd love him back at the club... hate seeing him in the Pies colours - it still doesn't look right.

can you ask him the simple question then- was it the money or the game?

The game

Luke's intelligence is such that he's never going to have an issue earning money post-football

Anyone new is always accused of being a troll, its a right of passage.

Back to LB. I find it VERY difficult to believe money didn't come into it. I believe he was poorly advised by his Manager and Father. But gosh, this subject has been done to death.

One of the oddest comments I've read on here in a while. How can you say he was "poorly advised" to go to the Pies? How could his decision worked out any better?

[meher baba]

As for Bally - he's a friend, so of course I'd love him back at the club... hate seeing him in the Pies colours - it still doesn't look right.

can you ask him the simple question then- was it the money or the game?

The game

Luke's intelligence is such that he's never going to have an issue earning money post-football

Anyone new is always accused of being a troll, its a right of passage.

Back to LB. I find it VERY difficult to believe money didn't come into it. I believe he was poorly advised by his Manager and Father. But gosh, this subject has been done to death.

One of the oddest comments I've read on here in a while. How can you say he was "poorly advised" to go to the Pies? How could his decision have worked out any better?