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What they are saying at Waverley Park Drive

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43 minutes ago, TRIGON said:

I agree with you about Saad, my Carlton supporting brother drinks the cool-aid and says he's great. What I generally see is long kicks to nowhere mixed in with short kicks that too often miss their target in pressure situations.

Sorry but he reminds me of Hunt, full tilt out of defence and blasts it to no one in particular or does a little dinky kick that falls 5m short of it's target.

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    19 hours ago, Demon_spurs said:

     

    =Really feel frosty needs to go. I reckon four goals in the first quarter and a half came directly from mistakes//turnovers/frees by frost.
    I love his passion, but we are a team that severely lacks polish at the moment. We need Blank back there.

     

     

    Is this a real person or someone they hope to recruit in the mid-season draft 

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    1 minute ago, Sydee said:

    Is this a real person or someone they hope to recruit in the mid-season draft 

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    3 minutes ago, AzzKikA said:

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    funny show - unfortunately wouldn't be allowed these days 

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    16 minutes ago, dl4e said:

    Don't get too hard on Frost. He might actually make some right decisions tmrw. Now that would hurt wouldn't it ? He is not worth booing though. As for Jackson in a few weeks he should get the rounds of the kitchen.

    Dont boo Jackson, he played about 40 minutes of great footy for the Dees which none of us will forget.

     

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    36 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

    Some of the media pundits have him in their rolling AA side. Yes he does put up some clangers, but i think its those around him that make him look terrible.

    When he receives the ball or wins a groundball, the whole team should sprint forward for a quicker transition and create opportunity, but they dont and Saad is often sprinting into traffic with no options to go to hence the clanger.

    If you put him into a hard running team like Colling or Geelong or even us, he would be a weapon.

    Disagree. He's a horrible decision maker and ordinary disposer. 

    Those media pundits are like those MFC supporters that loved Frost. He looks exciting and flashy sprinting off half back, but he does it at the wrong times, misses targets and unlike Frost, is pretty ordinary 1v1.

    He's the guy that I'd be playing through if I were Melbourne. The turnover game we now play, should score heavily off his sort of speculative nuffiness.

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    1 hour ago, A F said:

    Yep, he's a real weakness in their system, but they don't have elite kickers or particularly good decision makers off half back, plus they're paying him a mint, so may as well use him.

    If Carlton wins a flag with Saad in their backline, I'll be staggered.

    JJ won the norm smith going at about 12% efficiency for the Doggies, Saad May do the same one day 😂

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    I tried to go in and update with some more quotes via Big Footy, but it was making me feel a bit ill. The feed was as boring as their jumper. (I think I need a long hot shower now)

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    7 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

    Frost used to give me nightmares. I still very occasionally watch Hawks game and experience elevated heart rate when I see him near or with the football. 

    On the contrary, I find it highly entertaining. Especially as I have a Hawk-supporting mate who thinks Frosty is a waste of space and a terrible example for their young players.

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    58 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

    JJ won the norm smith going at about 12% efficiency for the Doggies, Saad May do the same one day 😂

    Probably not, that would require them to make it to a Grand Final.

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    3 hours ago, jnrmac said:

    People have got short memories.

    Frost got booed loudly a few games back because he was getting very aggressive and downed a Melbourne player 

    They haven't booed him for leaving melbourne. He was just a d*** when we played the Hawks with his faux toughness.

    That's right, I was at the end where it happened. There was no booing until he did that and then it just became a bit of irony that it was him that was being booed. 

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    17 hours ago, Grapeviney said:

    Hi everybody,

    I’m actually out here at Waverley right now, still stuck in the car park from a game in 1986. 

    Which is your car?

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    1 hour ago, TRIGON said:

    Probably not, that would require them to make it to a Grand Final.

    And a final series. I see they're watering down that sort of pressure already...

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    11 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

    I'm at Glen Waverley station now. Anyone got 20 cents and a pair of Dunlop Volleys they can lend me for the two bus rides and half an hour walk to the ground?

    A real Einstein who decided to build a venue there. Obviously the land was cheap. I still remember the muddy carpark and the icy wind through the stands.

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    6 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

    A real Einstein who decided to build a venue there. Obviously the land was cheap. I still remember the muddy carpark and the icy wind through the stands.

    Sounds like the experience that awaits down in Hobart when Tassie joins the competition.

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    8 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

    A real Einstein who decided to build a venue there. Obviously the land was cheap. I still remember the muddy carpark and the icy wind through the stands.

    Yes ...the land was cheap..

    There was a promise to extend the sparks to the park.....   and then they didn't 🤷🥴

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    Basically, every part of the project was poorly thought through.

    • Location
    • Design
    • Surrounding infrastructure
    • Surface
    • Supporter amentaties
    • Supporter experience of actually watching the game

    I actually cannot think of one aspect they got right - not one.

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    2 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    Yes ...the land was cheap..

    There was a promise to extend the sparks to the park.....   and then they didn't 🤷🥴

    Yea that old line.

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    3 hours ago, John Crow Batty said:

    Which is your car?

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    Wow, they photoshopped in some sunshine. I didn't know they could do that back then.

    Looks like a centre diamond so maybe around 1973?

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    36 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    Yes ...the land was cheap..

    There was a promise to extend the sparks to the park.....   and then they didn't 🤷🥴

    Much of the land was my uncles dairy farm and market garden. 

    He hated the encroaching suburbia and moved to the bush (Clyde). Lightning strikes twice now Casey fields. 😄 

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    3 hours ago, John Crow Batty said:

    Which is your car?

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    I was struggling for a moment to figure out what this reminded me of, and then I recalled that once upon a time an insane youtuber played The Sims and locked every pet in the neighbourhood into a single room. the game was unable to process the accumulating vomit in an enclosed space and eventually glitched out to distribute the puke piles in expanding spiral-patterns from the source room, covering blocks in every direction.

    Waverly Park.

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    1 hour ago, beelzebub said:

    Yes ...the land was cheap..

    There was a promise to extend the sparks to the park.....   and then they didn't 🤷🥴

    because the gummint saw waverley park as a threat to the mcg.  the afl built it so they had a bargaining position with the mcg/gummint.  no rail line was dirty pool after it had been promised to that developing area

    it was claimed by many that the area was at that time the demographic centre of melbourne

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    3 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

    Basically, every part of the project was poorly thought through.

    • Location
    • Design
    • Surrounding infrastructure
    • Surface
    • Supporter amentaties
    • Supporter experience of actually watching the game

    I actually cannot think of one aspect they got right - not one.

    And watching players with legs missing below the knees chasing an invisible ball on the other side of the ground.

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    3 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

    Basically, every part of the project was poorly thought through.

    • Location
    • Design
    • Surrounding infrastructure
    • Surface
    • Supporter amentaties
    • Supporter experience of actually watching the game

    I actually cannot think of one aspect they got right - not one.

    At least the sprinklers worked….

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