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I like that Pruessy boy

Just about every time the vision comes back on the E Coli Wobblers get a free kick: the count must be 45 to 3....

Just about every time the vision comes back on the E Coli Wobblers get a free kick: the count must be 45 to 3....

WEll they do have all the technological support the USA can give them.

Just watching the replay of the famous 2014 win in Adelaide, by 3 Points, the first year of the Roos regime. There are 6 players still on our list: Viney, Jones, T.McDonald, Salem and Kennedy- Harris and Jetta. That's a BIG turnaround...

Football was a totally brutal 'sport' in those days. It was sanctioned assault and very rarely punished. Sure, every now and then someone would get rubbed out but Dermie and Co, Mathews and Co, Scott, Dipierdomenico and Co, Nicholls and Co, Balme and Co assaulted other footballers week in week out and got away with it.

In Barassi's first year as Carlton coach, Nicholls knocked Anderson senseless and essentially legless. In those days they kept players on so Anderson played the next 2 quarters from memory. There's footage of it somewhere on you tube.

Yes, what Nicholls did to Tony Anderson wasn't exactly 'nice'.

Barry Davis. oops, should have scrolled down, already identified...

Des anyone a, why Burgo isn't still employed by the D's, B, what's he doing now?

Since Adam and Eve. It's called mother's milk. Snort, suck, guzzle, every baby goes through the process. Keeps them alive, I believe...?

Like Brian Wilson did when he left the Northey fold and kicked the winning goal against us in 1991?.... I always liked Kent and thought he had great upside. He WAS injured a lot though which no doubt frustrated him more than it frustrated his supporters. Injury is not a crime however. He reminds me of Vardy, Sean Charles and Warren Dean, terrific players who simply had bad luck.

He had a good a career at Melbourne as was possible. He was injured most of the time he was with us. I loved him, loved his attack, but....

I was there. I thought he'd kicked about 15 by then. A great act of genius from BB, he must have felt for poor Ray Biff who copped a spray at half time you could hear from Glenferrie station.

He could have had more. I'm not complaining, just noting when he gets his confidence mojo and senses that he REALLY belongs, he will take teams apart.

I watched it all yesterday afternoon. Geelong missed some sitters and the free kick against Selwood when Hawkins was shooting for goal muffled their chances. Had we kicked straight it would have been game over. I'm not sorry Tyson is gone, he was tres ordinaires. Weidemann was not very useful as a second ruckman and he'll need to get involved a bit more as he has a tendency to sit outside the action, a criticism a friend who has watched Weidemann since he was a junior made as well. What I liked was the grunt, the skill, especially Tom McDonald's marking in the first half, and the relentless attack on the ball.

I am a huge Spargo fan. The Demon Coaching staff obviously are as well. When you consider his age, I believe the doubters on this thread will be haunted by their lowly assessment in years to come. In a nutshell, the lad has ability and beautiful awareness. He will be a beauty.

Fork on through the rain, as Gerry and the Pacemakers once sang...

For what it's worth. I know a chap who barracks for the Lions, an ex Fitzroy fanatic, who has known our Weidemann since he went to school with his daughter of the same age. He has followed his progress through the various under age competitions - he grew up in Vermont, a very strong Aussie Rules football region - and he vows he has not seen anyone with the same ability, potential and attitude. He was critical of some aspects of Weidemann's Finals games - he said he is still not running in and imposing himself the way he did when he was a junior, adding, but that will come when he gains self belief and more confidence. I also saw him kick 6 goals in the first half against a strong Box Hill side in 2017. When that player presents - as he already has against Geelong in last year's Final - consistently, as he did that day, we will no longer be having this meaningless debate about what have we lost now that Jesse has gone. The bottom line is, he's gone, ta ta, over and out, like Watts, like Frawley, like lots of players who have left the Melbourne Football Club. In the meantime, the Melbourne Football Club as it stands now is poised to go to the next level. When Hogan left, he left a great opportunity for Weidemann to grow and blossom. I am confident we will have lost nothing, just as I am confident that Hogan will kick the odd bag for Freemantle, just as I am confident that this outcome will be, So What?

Good luck with all that; it's a massive challenge. My wife is going through similar issues with her parents.

You're making me cry.

I thought you were much better than hemingway makes you out. You were a Garlett type...

Made from corn flake packets or rice bubbles?

He had it good, this doppelganger boy; he should have tried being 7 years old in North Sunshine in 1957 being sent to the local catholic school wearing nothing but lederhosen, a t shirt and a pair of underpants - home made to boot.