Rodney (Balls) Grinter

21 minutes ago, BigBadBustling said:

How about the nickname 'Boo', as in 'Boo Boo'. Yogi Bear's smaller best mate.....

Must have played in some impressive performances in South Australia.

4 hours ago, layzie said:

JT putting in the work early for next year. If it gets us Humphries then it's a home run.

Seriously though, happy to add new dimension to the small forward stocks. Faster version of Spargo?

And hopefully a version of Laurie that can actually perform at AFL level.

4 minutes ago, Redleg said:

That is funny.

They are becoming the kings of the off field sledge.

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.

Also, is the advantage of leaving open one or two regular list spots that we can promote a rookie to the regular list at any time, according to which ones are showing the sort of form that would have them in contention for a seniors game?

I don't quite get it either. If we commitment to take him as a father son, does that carry over to the rookie draft, where we could out bid a club who nominates him before us in the rookie draft?

12 minutes ago, bing181 said:

Apart from anything else, it shows how much more homework clubs and recruiting teams do on draftees than random or not-so-random track watchers.

Or have the inside knowledge from the coach. Gippsland Power seem to be a pretty happy hunting ground for us of late. Wounder if this is how it works at Geelong scooping the cream off the Falcons?

7 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

They met at a BBQ, apparently.

The BBQ down that country road

Only a few more minutes till some more of the most riveting sporting TV coverage we'll see this year!

54 minutes ago, Go Ds said:

Yep! I remember footage showing, mainly handballs, which seemingly proved an almost psychic connection the Krakouers had on field. It was almost like one could well have been blindfolded yet somehow found the other in space, setting up goals.

No pressure .... but imagine if the two Pickets wow us with anything remotely similar. We're halfway there! 🙂

Could be a case of the synergy of putting the two of them together is greater than the sum of the parts of them as individual players, which could be scary.

5 hours ago, Six6Six said:

Old 6 has way too much time on his hands. 😯

Hope you all enjoy this ==> https://youtu.be/tDYs6eUwC2M

Love your work 666.

That goal of Kozzie's against Freo was one of the more enjoyable moments of the season. Glad it got replayed about 3 times from different angles at the end.

19 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Refused to attend a private school because he hated the private school boy tag.

What's not to like about this kid!

18 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Literally confirms himself.

Love this attitude.

Apparently he attended Rowville Secondary college (government school) for their elite sports/football program at some point. A nephew of mine played with his younger brother at East Ringwood and a one of my nieces played with his sister and/or are coached my his mum there, so a real footy family.

9 hours ago, BangBnagBang said:

Lets all agree it doesn't matter what school he or anyone does or doesn't go too. It makes no difference.

Its a boring topic

Only I think in some respects it does matter. Love XT's attitude to turning down a private school scholarship. The private schools love scooping up the tallents from Jnr clubs and public schools so they can wear it as a badge of sucess to have strong sporting teams and bragging rights when these player's get drafted, when in reality all they did was poach someone that was already a talented sports person.

The public school system has been run into the ground and put down by the increasingly govenment subsidised private school system in the country for the past 20-30 years to the point of being something of second class citizens. The properganda seems to be that to be successful in life you need to attend a private school.

I think it's awsome that public school kids can have at least a few role models like Max Gawn, Harvey Langford and Xavier Taylor that shows you don't have to go to a private school with the fancy ties, their own swimming pools, sporting feild complexs and world class performs arts auditoriums to be a sucess.

P.S. Bayley Fritsch is another outer Eastern boy from the public school system on our list, having gone to primary school at Bimbadeen State Primary in Mooroolbark (my youngest son pointed out his photo hung proudly in the office, along with that of former Demon Matthew Bishop and 'cough cough' Sam Mitchell) and then Lilydale State High.

6 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

See I thought the opposite, eeew a Ringwood kid, only worse if they had been Croydon or Lilydale ha ha 😆

He says that he did Auskick in Mooroolbark at the start of this interview:

Stoked with this selection.

Kozzie cuz power.

On 09/11/2025 at 12:19, Wrecker46 said:

You can’t pick someone on their surname but the Rioli’s and Pickett’s seem to be the exception.

The Davey boys went pretty good too.

40 minutes ago, redandbluemakepurple said:

The 19-year-old booted 32.18 at reserves level

Going off the last few MFC seasons, I'm pretty happy to have a player kicking a bunch more goals than points at any level.

12 hours ago, adonski said:

Anyone not convinced Farrow will be a superstar needs to remind themselves we will select him with what was originally St. Kilda's draft pick

Am I suposed to feel better about that? Would that make us get Patty McCartin instead of Trac?

4 hours ago, tiers said:

Here is my proposal. Stick to 18 teams with an eight team final series.

So here's the other million dollar question - which team gets cut?

...personally, I say North and put them out of their misery and send them South to Tassie, or Hawthorn since they love the place that much, they can make it a perminant home base.

I like alot about this proposal @tiers. Certainly has a lot of potential to more fairly even out the draw. Big issue with basing the double-ups on last seasons lader positions is that teams often improve or get worse from one season to the next, based on injuries, the rise and fall of list profiles etc, such that a fair draw could only really be determined in retrospect - or on the fly as you are proposing.

Don't see it as being a big disadvantage of not knowing the last half dozen fixture games in advance as the league pretty much let the time/day of those float around at the moment anyway until a large way through the season.

Love the idea of going back to simultaneous games - was such an interesting feature of going to the footy on a Saturday or Sunday to check in on the other scores of games as they progressed, which I feel has been lost. The inability of teams to game the system is also a great feature.

Personally, I'd like some kind of weighting system applied in the finals system, or even just leave it as the system we had the past 10 years or so. I do like the sudden death elimination nature of finals, making prelims etc and that the best performing teams throughout the season get some reward for consistent performance throughout the season in the way of second chances, weeks off, home games etc, which I think all ultimately improves the theatre.

But all in all, I like this out of the box thinking.

9 hours ago, Tom Dyson said:

also feel the need to reiterate that Max Heath is a behemoth of a man!

So disapointed with the AFL/MFC (not sure who's decision is was) that we are once again playing a home game at Marvel (again against West Coast).

A few years ago the club announced with great fan fair that they'd 'won the war' and we wouldn't play home games at Marvel, but it seems like they have totally capitulated on the issue again.

13 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

Maybe cause Saturday evening is past your bedtime.

If we want this club to survive into the future we need to be able keep the Mobs attention (especially kids).
Play fast entertaining footy or die.

Sorry, constant night games are rubbish for taking kids to the footy. Particularly when most with young families live towards outer suburbia these days, your looking at 12:00am - 1:00am until you get home. Doing that with pre-teen kids every week isn't fun at all.

That said, early Sunday afternoon games aren't that great either, because they tend to clash with Jnr footy, which is typically played on a Sunday.

I am so over the AFL constantly scheduling games to suit whatever their TV masters desire as opposed to the real fans. Please give us back more of our traditional Saturday 2:10pm time slot.