John Demonic

It was all about Panasonic Cups in those days.

Why? Some sort of agreeememt with the big wigs sitting in that awful solitary megatron stand towering over the plebs on the commentary side wing?

Why are we always playing finals at Waverley in 87/88 ?

If we would have had Luke Hodge and Buddy Franklin then yes. Although first we need Croad to trade to Freo.

One of the best games ive ever seen us win alongside the 94 win against Carlton with my dad. I find that bitter sweet though, as its kind of embarrassing that these are the quintessential wins of my 30 years barracking, and no grand final wins etc Stunned to put it mildly, a fight broke out on the ponsford upper level after the siren. I assume it was a livid blue not used to having a finals win not served up on a silver platter and a gloating demon fan giving it to them after they prob gave it to them all 1dt half We had a ceiling that was well below EFC unless we learnt how to FLOOD them, which in retrospect, we shouldve done. We were beneath them as a collective and did not have enough football talent to negate any physicality they imposed. I mean with all due respect to our defense, but does: 26 Daniel Ward 27 Anthony Ingerson 44 Alistair Nicholson HB: 42 Peter Walsh 28 Matthew Collins 21 Steven Febey Look at all like a premiership defense? Honest battlers that give it their all, but were blown out of the water. I know our forwards didnt give much of a yelp, but they were simply matched up well with a competent defense. And our mids gave it their all too but we just could not stem the tide when they had too much strength on every line inspite of any thuggery Out gunned pure and simple, nothing to do with balls. You dont get to a GF without balls.

I recall at one stage Norm Smith winner Peter Matera, and Tingay were the two best wings in the competition before the position lost its fashion

Jako would be murdered by zone defenses, STINGA could still get a game on our wing. STINGA

Or a daily online gym video feed of Luke Jackson lifting weights and bulking up for the next 10 months

Which Febey? Do they come as a package? In that case: 21. Mcdonald (Tom & Oscar) ? Jk it's obviously Steven

An alcoholic

And how many John Hopoate's

Starting to resemble Eyes Wide Shut more than Aussie Rules Football

A big game of Marker's Up with the kicker bombing it long from 80 into a forward line huddle of 30 players

my criteria is nobody bringing up his name in the 3 or 4 yrs ive been lurking and posting. Marcus Seecamp is another, not obscure, but i think im the only one ive ever seen bring him up! i think it was a convo with you Rod about bringing in some muscle to stand up to opposition belting Gawn behind play.

He was untackleable as he could hear the opposition coming from a mile away

He was a Craig Smoker?

Another year without curling will just about be the death of me.

He got the action, he got the motion. Yeah, the boy can play

When will we get a doco on Wattsy coming clean on his addiction to mammary glands and swimming?

The more i see people whip out this 4 week block as our measuring stick, the more i am repelled and feel like the real foundational hard work came from winning 10-12 matches in the 3 seasons leading into it. You only have to look at 2019 to see how fast it can all crumble with the advent of improved teams league wide Which brings us back to the question of Jesse and the work HE DID in that period from 2016-2018. Why are we so quick to devalue it? If he can return to that, how much is he worth to us in light of our current woes. Probably a lot more value than an inconsistent season from Gus again.

Yes, but i am only disputing that we went deep into September. Producing some kind of competitive performance verging on an epic tussle, win or lose, is surely a better criteria of depth than just making a prelim. Showing up in the 3rd week in more than just name. Did The Roos go deep into September in 2014 and 2015? People scarcely will remember they were even there.

Imagine if the Coronavirus had kicked straight. Close to a 200 point spanking

No, but they've certainly not even been close to being grand final worthy teams since 2015 in the Hawks case and 2013 in Geelongs. Bit of a stretch to plan our future premiership attack on a forward line that defeated them both in 2018 Im beginning to think there may have been some truth in the Clarko quip about dancing fron the rooftops.

Surely going deep into September means being competetive against any of the best 3 teams (WCE, Coll or Rich) in a prelim All we did was beat Geelong and Hawthorn.