Rodney (Balls) Grinter

‘I kicked 10 on him’: Cheeky draft banter as AFLX captains reveal full teams https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/aflx-draft-2019-live-tracker-draft-pool-updates-order-results/news-story/203d1c198629ea9050cbf4e5d66d72f5 ..."But the funniest moment of the night came when Betts selected ex-Sun and new Dees defender Steven May to join the side. Betts said May could play on the likes of Hawkins and Riewoldt. But the star Tiger was quick to remind Betts of his double-digit goal heroics against the Suns in 2018. “I kicked 10 on him last year,” Riewoldt quipped. Hardly a boast against the Suns team of last year, but a good little cheap shot for Steve May to take on board and remember the disrespect paid to him by Riewoldt when we play the Tigers in round 6 - payback time!! ...he can use this AFLX rubbish as practic to stalk him and psych him out.

It was on delay. I gave up after watching the middle half of it. Now there is 30 wasted minutes of my life I won't get back. About the biggest thing I took away from it is what a punchable head Patrick Dangerflog has.

So if McDonald and May happen to line up against one another, they need to remember the advice of a coach I once had gave us during an intra-club practice match - "Go hard and create a contest, but don't f#*%ing kill your team mates!" Could be interesting to see what kind of form and physical shape May is in though and how he goes on the likes of Hawkins, Cameron and Riewoldt at the moment.

Soo hanging out for AFLX 2019 to kick off in a few hours time!!

I hear what you are saying. If there is a sense of disapointment to this it should be that Jack at his best under Roos has shown he can play footy. Sure he may not have been and probably never will be the most courageous player, but he could be a well above average player in other aspects and a valuable member of a sucess full team if he was prepared to knuckle down and play the team game on and off the feild and that appears to be what he is failing at.

So true SWYL ...and Boonie is still quietly lauded by it by many, exposing an extent of hypocrisy in all of us, in so far as it was ok to do it in that era, but not now. Conversely, I wounder how the Australian cricket team and footballers of that era's image would have faired if smart phone and social media was a thing back then? The media and popular culture seem to promote the party scene and laud some excesses, but are pretty quick to start tearing people down when it all goes pear shaped. A higher standard also seems to be applied to sports people than to the broader acting and music part of the 'entertainment industry' as well. There is an extent to which some of this smart phone, social media thing is good. I'm sure that some of these celebrities (sports people and others alike) act like arrogant entitled pigs at times and the exposure of some of their worst deeds probably keeps that in check to a point.

Not laying all the blame at the feet of Daniher, because it's the responsibility of all the club leadership to create and foster the right kind of culture, but I'm not so sure all was well on his watch, when you look at the problems and behaviours of guys like Ward and Schwarz during his time. These guys are grown men, not boys and there becomes a point where the senior players need to accept responsibility for their own behaviors and the impact that has on team culture and I think that is the worst aspect of Watts behavior. Not saying that breaking serious mental addictions to things like gambling or drugs is easy either BTW. I agree with both sides of this in a way. Viewed in isolation, this event from Watts is pretty harmless, but in things he context of his apparent history of parry boy behavior, it becomes more corrosive to team culture and an off feild distraction I'm sure both Watts himself and Port could have done without. He had a great chance to make a clean break from all things he his kind of stuff with Port, moving to a new club and new city away from his former social group and had a good opertunity to knuckle down, get serious and salvage a few good years at the end of what will otherwise be viewed as a fairly mediocre playing career, but appears to be whittling away the opportunity. A bit sad really.

Players of eras gone by always talk about what an honor and achievemen it was to play state of origin footy. It was a real highlight of their careers. Patrick Dangerflog has been pushing for a new pick your own team format of elite level rep sides for a number of years now. At the end of their playing careers, few/no player will look back and say "remember that great AFLX game I played for Dangerflogs lightening bolts?"

I had actually suspected that May and Jetta would be picked for the indigionous team, but a little suprised by Trac. Milkshake was our 'AFLX star' in last years (cough cough) premiership. Seriously about my only interest in this whole rubbish comp will be seeing how Nev and May go. It's just a pitty that it falls such a long way short of the All Australian selection Nev deserves (hopefully that will be righted in years to come). My only other interest is seeing Dangerflogs and Hodges side loose. How anyone could pick an old, slow player like Hodge in this 'fast/high-speed game' is beyond me.

Agreed. Whilst he would have been on decient coin with us (I'm guessing somewhere in the range of $150K - $300K), one year of that isn't going to go that far and set you up for life past footy with other career options to walk straight into. It's hardly like he left chasing $1M per season like some.

Port who? Of course the mighty MFC has more profile/relevance than that backwater rabble.

It's a horrible look, particularly given the rumors and his history. Jack must have been hammered, high or stupid to let someone video him doing this. I guess this is what some get for paying over the top for an 'education' at theses exclusive private schools.

P.S. any chance of a change of screen name to "Bring-Back-Kent" ? A bit of symmetry there with Dean also heading off to the Saints!

Not to mention that Dean was there and ground it out with us for a number of years when we were the joke of the competition. His shoulder injuries of the past two seasons really were unfortunately timed as both of them occurred at times when Kent had worked hard and reestablished himself a spot in the side. Copping big crunches like he did and subsequent dislocations is probably less to do with the frailty of his body and more to do with the hardness with which he attacked the game. Doing his hammy again earlier this season was also unfortunate because again he had struck up some good form and was giving us multiple goals per game, but his hammy's were more his acchilies heal for us. I wish him well at the Saint's, so long as he doesn't play well against us; which he probably will in one of the 5 games per year he plays for the Saint's.

As I've stated before, getting this done before Rd 1 will help provide stability to our season. I guess once all the actual substance is sorted out and Goody has effectively signed on the bottom line, then the next consideration might be when to announce it to generate maximum publicity for our membership/sponsorship drives etc. We seem to be somewhat media darlings at present and need to milk that for all that it's worth whilst it lasts.

I've got myself a pair of those studded flip flops to kick the footy with too.

I was glad to see him get another opportunity at AFL level, but I think he would have quickly turned into a player I strongly disliked as soon as he played a few games in that rubbish navy blue jumper.

I have Fox, but haven't had a problem getting my Demons fix over the summer as I have a stack of great games from the last fee years recorded on the IQ which I have been watching on repeat: 2019, the two winning finals, our late season win against the Eagles & GWS, both Adelaide and Bulldogs games. The Carlton game is a bit of a favorite (I still get a kick out of watching Bernie put Daisy on his [censored] in thay game), and also the Essendon game as our season was turning the corner. 2016 our breakout win Vs the Hawks; 2015 our win down at the Cattery; A few years back Fox has a series of Max Gawn classic games which were pretty good value.

I wounder if Stephen Tingay had a clause in his contract about not falling through glass windows!!

I'm sure that early career schoolyard injury didn't help, but I'm pretty sure it's not the reason Blease never became the AFL player the equal of his athletic ability. As far as I can make out, the biggest injury impact on Patracca's career to date was when he tore his second ACL at training during his first preseason (. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/melbourne/melbournes-no-2-draft-pick-christian-petracca-tears-anterior-cruciate-ligament-at-demons-training/news-story/00dab6be48b7f26bc8ea59b8817f9d72) It wouldn't have helped loosing a season of onfeild development, but similarly, don't think that has nessasrily been the key limitation on his development as a player. Honestly my assessment is that the occurrences of an off the ground injury significantly negatively impacting an AFL players career are pretty rare. If they are a good enough player an isolated incident just becomes a footnote in their career bio. By far the biggest injury exposure these guys face is playing and training. Sure these guys earn good money, but they are not the club's property. To restrict them to everything under the sun that might remotely cause them an injury would be completely draconian and robbing these guys of the opportunity to live life during their youth/prime. Let's face it these guy's already sacrifice a fair bit compared to the average individual to get where they have got. As others have pointed out, most players will be self regulating with regards this kind of thing and in instances where they are not, the the club, team mates and it's leadership have a role to educate them and inform them of the consequences. It's only habitual repeat offenders that are really a problem for which there are natural consequences and I think most players are smart enough to work that out.

P.S. After 10 years of misery in AFL terms and never having witnessed a MFC flag in my lifetime, I similarly have a no sympathy, take no prisoners policy with respects to our opponents.

That's not very sporting of you, but I agree. I guess the other thing is that if Wines is injured and doesn't play, it could save us the irritation of watching him play and thinking how much better it would have been for him to be playing alongside his best mate for the red and blue.

Echuca apparently. https://www.sen.com.au/news/2019/01/27/terrible-mistake-from-port-adelaide's-next-captain/ Looks like a dislocated shoulder if Cornes is on the money. It is a pitty, I was looking forward to Wines going head to head with Viney.

I wasn't so sure I liked the co-captains thing, but watching the way Jones and Viney lead the team back down the race after our finals victories, neither of them looked out of place as joint captains, thus I'm quite happy for it to continue. I really think there is a role in the leadership team for all of T Mac, Nev, May and probably Lever as well. When you look at our side these days, I think it is really packed full of guys with leadership qualities. Even when you look at guys like Melksham and Hibberd, Vanders, our young mids/onballers , Billy Stretch/ANB are pretty solid citizens, I think there is plenty there to work with. It should all bode well for our ability to manage ourselves out on the ground with the lack of the team runner role during play from this comming season and beyond.

I have little doubt that Harmes will be in the leadership group in the future, the same could also be said of Gus, Trac and Clarry. But for now I think we should just let these guys play footy and let them just keep developing their leadership skills and status quietly in the background.