Now which other former Melbourne Full Forward (with back problems) does that remind you of. I don't think Juice has the strut yet?

Thought the same thing Graz when I read that

Just noticed this thread has 100 posts up!

Now disregarding the fact that some of those are mine, that's a pretty good effort for a Sandy match. In fact that's a pretty good effort for a dees match!

Thanks also to Andrew/Nasher one of the "Officials" here who thanked me for letting people know about the coverage

No problems, it's good for our site and it's good for your radio station. Everybody wins.

Each to their own Fan... And I think i may have said too little about Wheatley. I'm trying to cut down on the long posts (and failing miserably). What I meant to say was that earlier this year I saw him play a game out of defence in which he looked better than Hird. He was faster, stronger, smarter and kicked 3 goals from about 60. Then he duly gets promoted and is actually a LIABILITY in the AFL.

And I'm saying he's anything but a liability in the AFL. He's a good solid AFL player when fit.

But as you say, each to their own. The FD have the final say.

Well I was at TBO yesterday, and took my radio along to listen in at the same time. I appreciate that it's great you're getting VFL footy out to the masses that can't get to a game, i was disappointed to find the call in my headphones was about 6-8 seconds delayed. It made it impossible to listen play by play to the call, but if you did miss something, you could tune in to see what you missed (such as Chris Lambs report). I did chuckle to myself when you referred to newton as "Roth". Quality guys.

Onto the game, the main thing that came out for mine was the ability of James Frawley. This guy can seriously play. He was everywhere in the first half, it was as impressive a half for a first gamer at Sandy seniors you're likely to see. Sadly he tired in the second half noticeably and that prevented him getting into the best. I think the Melbourne match committee have stamped his papers as a priority to get into the side, don't be surprised if he's given a run next week on that performance.

The other guy that impressed me was Neaves. This guy rucked all day, without a rest and had a good impact around the ground as well as winning his fair share of centre bounce hitouts against an AFL experienced ruckman in Guy Richards. I'm sure he'll come under contention to be listed by the Dees at the end of the year.

Chris Johnson was good, but I don't know if he was best on ground. He rebounded a lot from the half back line, but his skills sometimes let him down when kicking with the wind, frequently kicking it over his targets head. The guy has all the skillsets to make it, but appears unable to take the next step.

I liked the coaches 3/4 time address, when the game was seriously in the balance. We only had a 15 point lead at the break, and were kicking into the wind, after Willi had seemingly swung the balance of the game with goals to Brett Johnson in that 3rd stanza. He implored them to keep their heads, and concentrate on kicking well into the forward line, as they were kicking it to the best forward line in the League. He wasnt wrong, and the boys responded perfectly to his call. (Pity we couldnt kick straight early in that last quarter though!).

And that forward line certainly was loaded. It also has to be remembered that we lost out VFL rep center half forward in Rod Crowe early in the first quarter, as well as Chris Lamb to injury I believe in the first half also,so to play so much of the game with only 2 fit changeable blokes was very commendable. I thought Sauntner at least broke even with Wakelin, Robbo was damaging and wont play another game at Sandy for the rest of his career, and it was the best game from Newton I've personally witnessed (given i've missed a lot of his big haul games), although he still needs to work at doing the little things better (the 2 points he got from playing on hastily points in case).

Paul Wheatley played a great game, but twice got a hit on his heavily strapped problem shoulder and looked in all sorts of pain, so its clearly not right still, thus I dont think he'll be considered next week. Dutchy was a rock today, virtually nothing got passed him. He's as honest as they come, and will again be considered, matchups pending, next week.

We had Billy Picken standing behind us for two quarters today, he has the loudest voice I've ever heard, as he coached his son playing out there for Willi, yelling at him every step the poor kid took.

Former hawks premiership player Russell Greene was also there to watch his offspring go around, looking a million dollars still in his designer leather jacket as he paraded along the scoreboard wing.

Also saw Stephen Tingay walk around the boundary line at one stage, i wonder what stinger is up to nowadays after his ill-fated appointment as a Melbourne fitness staffer?

This Sandy team is really flying now, still undefeated and able to handle anything thrown at them. It will be great to see the likes of Valenti running around with the big V on, in these dark days of seeing the Demons lose every weekend, at least we still get our enjoyment of seeing Sandy win on a weekly basis in the quest for the FourScore. Go Zebs, you Beauty!

This Sandy team is really flying now, still undefeated and able to handle anything thrown at them. It will be great to see the likes of Valenti running around with the big V on, in these dark days of seeing the Demons lose every weekend, at least we still get our enjoyment of seeing Sandy win on a weekly basis in the quest for the FourScore. Go Zebs, you Beauty!

GO YOU GOOD THING!!!

Thanks to Wrecker and everyone else for their reports.

While everyone has commented on Newton, any impression on Johnson who has been listed by BRB as B.O.G? Wrecker why wont CJ pull on the red and blue again?

We're 0-7, have quite a few injuries and CJ can't even break into the side. He's not overly fast or a really tough hard ball winner. I hope I'm wrong because his dad was my favourite player when I was growing up.