Rodney (Balls) Grinter
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They we pretty obnoxious throughout most of the 90s when they were a force as well. -
Imagine all those booing fests. I think it's tonned down since their expectation is they will loose any week anyways.
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Give them another decade or so of irrelevance and hopefully that changes. Maybe even more so if Freo can actually be half decent in that time.
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And so what if one of these clubs that did a trade for better picks on the premis of not bidding on the club they were dealing withs player then double crosses them and bids on them anyways? I know it's unlikely and that club would never receive that same sort of trust in a deal again, but it it could set your club up better and seriously push back a close rivals recruitment, then surely you'd actually have to consider it right? Similarly, I think the AFL should be holding players that nominate for the draft and then nominate a club or their terms to account. I'd also love to see a rival club draft someone like a Luke Ball or Jack Martin, then just offer them a contract of whatever they could afford and say, don't like it, don't play for us and get nothing for a season.
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"...man it sucks to be an Egales fan right now". I think it just sucks to be an Eagles fan full stop.
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We were red hot going into that finals series. If only we'd won a few more games earlier in the season and got ourselves a top 4 spot. Travelling to Perth to play a rested, well drilled West Coast in the prelim killed us, just like it did in 2018.
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Yep, those guys were great, Pike and Jacko were definitely also personal favourites of mine, but to also have stars like Lyon, Stynes, Wight, Tingay, Viney, Neitz and also some really serviceable depth and quality role players beneath them. Just check out the team list from that season. I had to search it up as my memory was somewhat letting be down beyond Lyon, Schwatz: 2 Stephen Tingay 24 8 3 Garry Lyon 24 79 4 Chris Sullivan 11 3 5 David Schwarz 25 60 6 Glenn Lovett 11 11 7 Darren Kowal 14 2 8 Graeme Yeats 19 0 9 David Neitz 24 2 10 Martin Pike 16 25 11 Jim Stynes 25 10 12 Todd Viney 25 3 13 Allen Jakovich 13 51 14 Rod Grinter 9 2 15 Paul Hopgood 6 1 16 Andy Lovell 24 29 17 Brett Lovett 25 14 18 Sean Charles 13 24 19 Paul Prymke 24 1 20 Matthew Febey 22 4 21 Steven Febey 25 3 22 Jeff Hilton 19 9 23 Kevin Dyson 18 6 24 Phil Gilbert 10 5 25 Jason Norrish 15 1 26 Greg Doyle 13 8 27 Sean Wight 24 0 28 Glenn Molloy 6 1 29 Andrew Obst 16 3 34 Dean Irving 6 2 35 Bradley Campbell 1 0 37 Andrew Lamprill 4 1 41 Peter Rohde 14 2
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Two of my favourite games of footy. That team was good enough to win a grand final, if only we could have kept them all on the park.
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I think most people could reasonably differentiate the fans and their team mates from management. There were alot of fans that had nothing but love for Clarry, similarly Max and I really think he should have been able to compose himself to at least thank them - surely that's something a half decent player manager would also have a bit of a word to him about. Who knows maybe he'll acknowledge the MFC faithful at some point, but if he doesn't, then I think that would be pretty poor form.
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Agreed. I'm not saying they won't be best 23 at some stage soon, but I'd be looking for at least some kind of stand-out performance in practice matches against other teams to say that the new recruits are seniors ready. To me this goes for L.Pickett and Taylor. Based on his AFL/senior level performances to date and a good preseason, I'd be quite happy to have Culley in the 23, but honestly I think he's got to put in a string of consistent high quality, high output games before he replaced Langdon in the starting 18.
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@Demonland updated the title to: 2025 Player Reviews: #4 Harvey Langford
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And then you have 'The Moose'
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Hey Clarry - the orange looks good on you. Dare I say it; it matches your hair. Maybe you can go get a tan on Manly, Bondi or Coogee, but perhaps Cronulla is more your style 😉. Keep keeping on Tiger, but I hope the Kings Demons smash the Giants next season. P.S. give 'The Brand' a good uppercut if you come up against him.
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Was the other player hanging out and laughing with him Toby Bedford?
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I can only really associate with the legends of the likes of Hassa Mann, Brian Dixon, Ron Brassi, Bluey Adams and that era through the stories and respect that my dad always speaks of them because they are not really of my era. But that their names are still know and spoken about so passionately and favourably all these years on really does say something of the character and manner in which they served the club as players and then in later years as past players. I think I somewhat yearn for the time when in a somewhat less professional era more players seemed to care more for loyalty and service to their club than picking up the next $8M, 5 year contract that they might or might not have the commitment to see out. I guess a few others that I see as loyal respected recent past players that have held onto a strong association with and/or service to the MFC would be the likes of Aaron Davey, Matthew Wheelan, David Neitz, Adam Yze (to an extent) as well as (though not a player) The Reverend, The Great Neale Daniher. I feel even Bryon Pickett to an extent has contributed in this space through his support for Kozzie to remain at the club and perhaps in future years we may well look at Kozzie himself as a great all-round contributor to the fabric of the club. I guess within the most recent crop, it would also be pretty hard to find someone who bleeds more Red & Blue than Jack Viney and it will be interesting to see what others might also step up post career - perhaps the Jake Melksham, Tom McDonald types will. It's so sad what happened with Gus Brayshaw as I think he also played that club ambassador role so well, but now understandably would prefer to stay somewhat more detached (at least for now). To me it's this kind of service and characters that make following a footy team seem more meaningful and worth while. For all the talk of the ruthless professional era that football is today, I think all the clubs, players and powers at the AFL would do well to think about that 50,000 to 100,000 people don't go down to the local stock agents to cheer on the NAB Vs the ANZ or CBA.
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I look to more recient times and there is that past players co-hort lead by Rod Grinter & Paul Hopgood, represented in the media by Garry Lyon, Todd Viney and Jimmy Stynes before his passing. The next batch I would say includes guys like Robbo (love him or loath him for his match day 'entertainment' role), Brad Green, the Wizz (to an extent) and increasing Jeff White. I think it has become a fair bit more stratified in the professional era, but I can see Gawny being a MFC ambassador for many years to come as well as Jonesy, but I'm not really too sure who else at this point.
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Smarter than your avERAge bear 🐻
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Must have played in some impressive performances in South Australia.
And hopefully a version of Laurie that can actually perform at AFL level.
Agreed. I think some of it is actually pretty rude and disrespectful to other clubs, when the GWS official club Web site is posting / trolling about players that are still contracted at competitors clubs, but when they take the mickey out of their own Re Stinger and St Kilda based on their poor form with Leek Aleer, then it's fair game.
...also this:
Had to laugh at the Giants socials page. In the comments, someone suggested to give him the locker next to Clayton. Lol. I laugh, but it's so likely those two will be very damaging for GWS together. If the Giants arn't pushing for top 4 and seriously contending next year, there is something very wrong. Watching them dismember Sydney in a half a quarter after being well behind bought back memories of the 2021 GF for me and showed what GWS can do. It makes me cry when I see Jesse and Toby Bedford line up for them and probably will with Clayton as well.
Another asides, XT and Winsor are already mates having played together at Rowville Secondary College. Will be good seeing them link up coming off half back through the centre of the ground as they are both seem like great creative and line breaking players prepared to work the angles. On this note, how many times might we see us go coast to coast - Taylor to Windsor to Pickett to Pickett.
