Rodney (Balls) Grinter

I'm sure it's been said numerous times all ready, but "HOW [censored] GOOD IS JAKE MELKSHAM!!!" Love this bloke. He certainly had his moments tonight - both bad and VERY VERY good ones, but overall, I love the way he attacked the contest and took on the game by foot. Not gone yet Jakey boy. ❤💙❤💙❤💙

Guess it would depend on when the pod was done, but was the GC coaching job bought up?

The prospect of Kalani may be the most important reason for having an AFL team on the Gold Coast that's ever been put forward.

I'm not sure I've ever given that too much thought Wodja, but I'd prefer a win to Geelong. Take them away from Kardinia Park and Geelong will go to puss in finals from the bottom half of the 8.

...and add pick 22 or whatever to the other end of the anchor also please.

I credit @John Demonic for posting the above in the Freo Death ride thread, but every time I see this guy in the 2021 GF, I think of Mike:

Go Sawannies you good thing!! Loving the death ride.

Time to segway to the Freo thread. Go Swans.

I'm glad he kicked the goal before, but gee I can't stand Pappley

On a serious note, the Bulldogs have some of the best prison tats going round, with Libba the boss in this respect.

I'd have Chandler amoung the more players there, but agree that it's a great sign for continued success moving beyond the core of 2021 premiership players.

Why stop at 190 points? Becoming the first team to be beaten by the double ton would put it even further in clear air beyond the 186. Also having two losses of that magnitude in the same season and a woeful % would surely see them seen as the worst side in an individual season in the past 20 years. There are a bunch of sides like Carlton and Essendon who have had less sucess than us this century now, so the Eagles being seen as lowly as this would be great.

Let's hope not, but if the Sun's academy can do some hard work and help develop Kalani that bit more before he gets to the MFC, that would be karma for loosing Mac Andrew to them from our own academy.

Has been one of our best players since he's been back. Congratulations Christian. Well earnt and so glad he was a part of the 2021 premiership. Seems like such an all round good guy and a great servant of the MFC.

Though I'm not sure it would show up statistically, I thought he was really good at husseling and getting the ball going our way through whatever means up the ground in wet conditions against Geelong a few weeks back.

Agreed. Add to that, that in his first week back against Geelong, I felt Petty had minimal impact and I think he would have actually benefited from a week at Casey to build some confidence. Although he was better against GWS, personally, I don't think Petty is playing at his best 2021 / 2022 level, where his contested and intercept marking in defense was a real feature.

On a similar note, watch from 3:32 onwards:

I think he was just showing off with that shot for goal. Could have comfortably got another 5m closer to the man on the mark and kicked from around 55m as the man on the mark seemed to be not much further out than 45m. Not many players these days can reliability make the distance from 55m, but Bennett consistently kicked them from 60m.

So says the person with the avitar of David Schwartz who's was nearly financially destroyed by a gambling addiction. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.nine.com.au/article/12174638-63f5-455f-85b2-b589dd9ddaa6

That's just taken the MFC gone to the snow in the Range Rover stereotype to a whole new level 58er! 😂 Perhaps it's the overwhelming WA support for our Demons in 2021 and winning a flag ourselves that has tempered my outright hatred of WC into something less bitter. They were a bloody good side under Malthouse through the 90s, so disiplined with their ball use, game plan and had a winning habit that I was quite envious. They probably should have won a few more flags during that era. Still the PF losses we had to them in the West in 94 and 18 cut pretty deep and I was particularly [censored] in 94 when we had such a gun side that had been very competitive for a good 7 seasons, but couldn't crack a flag. Their arrogance in the aftermath of the 2018 prelim was also pretty hard to stomach. Travelling over the West for a prelim is always going to be a hard ask, still in retrospect on both occations they pretty much earnt the right through being consistent through the season and finishing the home and away in a ladder position that set them up for finals sucess - something I'm hoping our Demons of this era can emulate.

Somewhat prophetic. When you look at their performances in 2023 on aggregate as shown up in % I'd say they are in the same sort of hole that we were in around 2011. Of course, we'd already off loaded all the veterans by then and were already attempting to invest in youth. West Coast have been one of the most successful teams of the AFL era, so I'm not particularly empathetic to their current predicament.

I keep waiting for Hawkins to drop off and leave a huge hole in their side, but he seems almost phyically immortal at this point. Surely there's a big hamstring tear and or a bunch of soft tissue injuries sometime in the next couple of years that at his age his recovery will be slow and impactful on his performance? I don't think I wish ill on the guy personally, as I actually admire how well he's been able to play for so long, but in the interests of fairness to the competition with respect to him propping up Geelong's performance and keeping them compeditive, I do hope the end on his career is near. Boomer Harvey was similar. Maybe the AFL should bring in a mandatory retirement age.

Rebrand complete. No where's our $1M consulting fee for this service.

They may or may not have. Not sure any of them were great trainers and may not even have made it onto an AFL list just based on their respective body shapes and if they did make it they may have been cut quickly due to attitude issues. It's a pretty hypothetical question and there is obviously The counter argument that they may have risen to the professional environment around them and thrived. Guys like Alan Jackovic who has openly spoken about his lack of preseason training early on (which he attributed his being injury prone to) might actually have benefited from the more professional environment and that would have been great to have seen him perform at his peak for longer (for us).

That they were not, but they could certainly play football. Add to that guys like Abblet senior, Dunstall, Alan Jackovic and others that may not have made it in the ultra professional, money and image driven AFL era. These guys all put on a show and I think the game had more character back then, due to the diversity of players backgrounds and physical attributes. Also miss the local suburban grounds like Princess Park, the Western Oval and Windy Hill etc. Oddly enough, I even miss Waverly - again character and the game was accessible to the everyday supporter.