Jumping Jack Clennett

I like it. Understated, but says a lot! Like our car stickers, which have been copied by other clubs.

Same here......go Port. They can get to the top ,top , top, then they can drop, drop, drop!!

Does Becky barrack for the Demons? If so, congrats, Finks!

Where are the rest of the posts on Chris Judd??? I'm in Perth on holiday, and heard a rumour(which may have been aired on this forum , but I can't find it), that the reason Judd's interested in Collingwood is because Eddie's offered Rebecca a job reading the weather on Ch. 9. Couldn't Ian Johnson offer her something better on Ch 7?(reporter on that 6.30 current affairs, or something)

Interesting that it was the SECOND last Sat in September. What year did it become traditional to have the GF on the last Sat in Sept? It's a bit like the Boxing Day Test. It's not really very old tradition. Victoria used to play NSW around Christmas.

Absolutely spot on, Lenny!

quote 'belzebub59' "dont stop growing as a guy til approx 23-25" How I wish that were true, Beelzebub. Then there would be a chance the Russian and PJ could reach the necessary height for an AFL ruckman under the current rules. And Neaves might have ended up as tall as Sandilands! It varies from person to person, but it's unusual to put on height after the age of 20.

[quote name='barpen' date="i'm the opposite way on that- would rather see ward go than godfrey. " I agree with you, Barpen, and Godders would have finished in the top 6 of the "Bluey" if he hadn't sustained injury.

It just never seems to work. Operations don't work to fix it. Rest doesn't work. Physio doesn't work. The cause of this repetitive strain injury (analagous to tennis elbow etc), which is expressed as inflammation of the tendinous insertion of the lower abdominal musculature to the symphysis pubis, must be found. When it is, prevention will be more effective than cure. Australian football requires endurance running, as well as speed. Doing weights with the legs helps the latter, but is detrimental to the former.

Watch a replay of the first half again, "Tiger". When the game was in the balance, for the first one and a half quarters, North couldn't take a trick. A North supporter on talk-back said it was 23 to 3 frees at one stage. That's how it seemed. And remember, this was when the game was in the balance. Geelong weren't first in every time at that stage. Your trite comment about umpiring not making 106 points difference was pre-empted in my post, and in Kit Walker's. My point was that the umpires turned the game early,and played a much bigger part than they should have in North's demise. You SHOULD give a "rat's a..." about umpiring. It should be at the same standard as the AFL footballers.. On Sunday it was abysmal, and wrecked the match.

Hopefully our new footy dept are aware that Australian football is a RUNNING game. Many many k's are needed under the belt in the preseason. The dogma of the 90's that running causes stress on the body, and is undesirable, is now defunct. What should be banned is weight training of the lower body, which, IMHO is the cause of osteitis pubis.

Same here, Deesrock, though I'm ashamed to adsmit it. Didn't the Umps favour Geelong in the first half!!! Every 50:50 went to the Cats, and time and time again they made the wrong call on "no 15....play on!" Once the game had been killed off, the umpiring evened up. The initial favouritism had NOTHING to do with who was in harder for the ball. The holding the ball decisions by the umpires not only showed a lack of understanding of football, but a low intellect. Strong words, but I really thought the umpires did a shocking job, and should be omitted from future finals.

I like Whispering Jack, Scoop Junior and Deanox, 3, 2 and 1. But there are quite a few others from whom I learn about the MFC and footy. (eg that old guy......what's his name.....?"Axl of Bob"?)

Easy to see Jim Stynes has influenced Shane Neaves in his ruck style. He jumps early, doesn't look at the ball, then comes to ground, only to have the ball hit him on the head! I'm not saying Jim wasn't a great player.Around the ground he was superb! But the rovers never thought he was a good palmer. He just tried to negate the opposing ruckman. In modern footy the ruckman needs to hit the ball to the advantage of the midfielders. Neaves has talent. I hope he doesn't adopt the "jump early and negate" style exclusively. It'd be a waste, since I think he's a more promising ruck than Jamar or Johnson.

I'm already getting sick of my Carlton-supporting mates smugly grinning as they conratulate me on Melbourne's "great win". The Carlton fans behind me on Sunday gave us hell!......"only 4 goals up and we're not even TRYING".....How bad are Melbourne!!!" I always felt that our footy dept would lack the unscrupulous native street-wise cunning of the Carlton cheats. After all, they've won premierships with it. We haven't learned.

Our list contains perhaps three potential matchwinners.....TJ, Bruce and Robbo. None of them needed to be there. Without TJ and Robbo, Carlton would have found it harder to lose. That was a no-brainer.

I re-re-iterate my original contention, which started this thread on Aug 5th. I just hope Dean Bailey shows a bit more native cunning than our Club showed this evening.

Couldn't agree more with you, Scoop. Perhaps the footy dept think they'll get more valuable experience in a VFL final than a farcical AFL gamewhere both sides want to lose.

An intersting aspect to this debate, I think, is the players' boycotting of Ch 7. Ch 7 poured $750 million into the AFL, allowing players to have 2, 3 and 400 thousand dollar incomes. I'm sure it behoves them to give of their time to the station. There must be some clause in the TV station's agreement with the AFL, and hence the players themselves , which REQUIRES them to give interviews etc.I don't think the AFL would like to risk three quarters of a billion. Perhaps the players should let the trasgressors have their come-uppance, and go along with 7's requests, or take pay cuts, and feel free to indulge in a cavalier lifestyle if they so desire.

I'd like to repeat a post I put on "Demonology". Doggy and the Bizz are two of the most courageous players that I've seen donning the Demon guernsey. I just wish I could tell them to their face how much I admired the way they took the heavy knocks for the Club we love(but they'd just think I was piffing in their pockets.....but I REALLY mean it.) The last guy I felt so indebted to for his sheer guts was Steven Icke. How I admired the way he'd back into packs with his head up, eyes on the ball!(what a contrast to Medallist Moore). I'll miss seeing these two great warriors representing our Club, and I think they'll be hard shoes to fill. Good luck to you fantastic guys ,in Hollywood and in the Fire Brigade!

Your 2 statements seem to contradict each other, Rhino.