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Excellent Cale Morton interview with Ben Gibson, well worth a look/listen: I saw it on YouTube. Fascinating insight into the down years a decade or more ago. Morton certainly comes across as a pretty smart bloke!

”The watch with Ben Gibson” 

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Cale was also on the Sunday footy show (I think) a few weeks ago and came across really well then as well. Been in a very good paddock by the looks and seems like a smart young man.

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4 hours ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

Good listen. I thought Gibby was going to ask him point blank if it was true that Gawn spewed on Tom Scully in China but they didn’t go into a lot of detail on that front.. 

Gawn has probably qualified for an autobiography when he retires, and I'm hanging out for big vom revelations.

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6 hours ago, Left Foot Snap said:

Cale was also on the Sunday footy show (I think) a few weeks ago and came across really well then as well. Been in a very good paddock by the looks and seems like a smart young man.

Yeah finally managed to put on a bit of weight which is nice. Another preseason and he'll be ready to roll.

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1 hour ago, Chook said:

Yeah finally managed to put on a bit of weight which is nice. Another preseason and he'll be ready to roll.

Only actually 34, I guess he got delisted in his mid 20s

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BG: 'A good culture is a team that wins, a bad culture is a team that's losing'

There you have it. No more correspondence should be entered into.

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On 14/06/2024 at 21:17, Supermercado said:

Gawn has probably qualified for an autobiography when he retires, and I'm hanging out for big vom revelations.

Surely a job for Demonblog publishing.. 

it just struck me how if you’d asked 1000 people in 2010 which of Max & Scully would be the 6x all Australian, 2x B&F winner, premiership-winning captain of an AFL club and which one would be none of those things approximately 0 of those people would’ve picked Max. Absolutely absurd how things turned around. 

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On 16/06/2024 at 15:38, Fromgotowoewodin said:

Surely a job for Demonblog publishing.. 

it just struck me how if you’d asked 1000 people in 2010 which of Max & Scully would be the 6x all Australian, 2x B&F winner, premiership-winning captain of an AFL club and which one would be none of those things approximately 0 of those people would’ve picked Max. Absolutely absurd how things turned around. 

If Max is up it we can go minimum 500 pages.

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3 hours ago, Supermercado said:

If Max is up it we can go minimum 500 pages.

And Dusty would have been handy before $cully or Trengove, who even at his fittest still looked a tad slow. The Dusty and Max draft would have been epic.

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On 17/06/2024 at 20:11, Fromgotowoewodin said:

you’d be at 200 pages before you got past technicolor yawns and darts on the way to training

There hasn't been a footy biography for real sickos since The Red Fox. Time to go again. 

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On 17/06/2024 at 21:26, Wizard of Koz said:

And Dusty would have been handy before $cully or Trengove, who even at his fittest still looked a tad slow. The Dusty and Max draft would have been epic.

We had 4 picks within the first 20 and six overall at that draft. Max was taken as our fifth pick behind Scully, Trengove, Gisberts and Tapscott. Imagine if you had a crystal ball and we had selected:
Martin, Cunnington, Fyfe, Gawn (of course), Duncan and picked up Dylan Grimes with pick #1 in the pre-season draft.  We'd have won six premierships with that list, although in second thoughts we probably would have debuted them all on Queens Birthday and scarred them for life.

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1 hour ago, Big Col said:

We had 4 picks within the first 20 and six overall at that draft. Max was taken as our fifth pick behind Scully, Trengove, Gisberts and Tapscott. Imagine if you had a crystal ball and we had selected:
Martin, Cunnington, Fyfe, Gawn (of course), Duncan and picked up Dylan Grimes with pick #1 in the pre-season draft.  We'd have won six premierships with that list, although in second thoughts we probably would have debuted them all on Queens Birthday and scarred them for life.

They would have been Melbournised and delisted within 3 years

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14 hours ago, Supermercado said:

There hasn't been a footy biography for real sickos since The Red Fox. Time to go again. 

I’d say take my money now but you’re gonna need to wait til he retires to get all the good gear, hopefully 2030ish


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On 16/06/2024 at 15:08, Fromgotowoewodin said:

Surely a job for Demonblog publishing.. 

it just struck me how if you’d asked 1000 people in 2010 which of Max & Scully would be the 6x all Australian, 2x B&F winner, premiership-winning captain of an AFL club and which one would be none of those things approximately 0 of those people would’ve picked Max. Absolutely absurd how things turned around. 

The only thing Scully had going for him was his elite fitness, was never going to be a great player, Dustin Martin was always a better player then Scully, but back then how you ran was put far to high as a  Quilty 

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46 minutes ago, Demon trucker said:

The only thing Scully had going for him was his elite fitness, was never going to be a great player, Dustin Martin was always a better player then Scully, but back then how you ran was put far to high as a  Quilty 

D****d Autocorrect!

(Though I did look it up: the record for his work is $270,000, apparently)

 

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