Fritta and Turner

5 hours ago, radar said:

In the final Q, Petracca heavily tackles ? Hunter and wins a free in our D50. 
Games over,  CP runs by, gives Hunter consoling pat 

I thought that was Macrae but them Dogs players are not my strong suit.  Lost interest when Ted retired....

4 hours ago, TRIGON said:

Max's comments illustrate how much the system has changed since the 70's and 80's.

Sure has though any kid at the local primary who is good at sport can be offered or is encouraged to apply for a sports scholarship at the local grammar school.

Angus had a great finals series.  Who would have thought he would kick the goal to put us in front.

I don't want to turn into an arrogant sh1te so would it be possible to produce a highlights reel for the doggies defence?  I have a spare 15 secs in my life....

Thanks.

Absolutely fantastic.

Firstly there should be a Forum trading period - any poster who cannot spell a premiership players name gets traded to GCS.

Hibbert really?  Its Hibbard, hubbard hippo ah fruit cake.  You know who i mean.

I think we need key position - lucky for may to get through with a torn hammie

21 hours ago, loges said:

Does anyone on here need to fess up that they cracked it after the Bonts goal and stormed out only to check the score at 3/4 time and think WTF.

No.  After what I had drunk (to calm the nerves) storming was not an option.  I did let out my best plaintive Aw C'mon Dees.

I will confess to saying to the Mrs when Angus was having that shot on goal 'Get ready to catch this'.

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Wells was probably afraid to admit that no-one at Geelong actually knows where Casey is. 

or more likely who Casey was....

20 hours ago, Mach5 said:

Interestingly, talking to a cats staffer yesterday who had asked Wells after the prelim if he was aware of Fristch and tried to draft him. His answer was that we’d gone to great lengths to keep Fritsch well hidden. I find this response quite amusing. I’m fairly certain he was playing regularly at Casey, demonstrating  exactly the qualities that he does now, in the same role, and 3/4 of this forum knew we were keen on him.

Having said that, they did get Tim Kelly before Fritsch, but I’d have Fritta over Lachie Fogarty.

Even I could see that Fritta had AFL potential.  Sounds like just an excuse.  If he was hidden it was in plain sight.  Perhaps he had some baggage.

Can i say that I was amazed that a player of this caliber was still available so late in the draft (usually means you have picked a stinker).

Relief.

Gratitude.

And with modern media there are so many ways to relive the moment.

4 hours ago, hemingway said:

This thread is so old hat, but years down the Trac it is still revisited. 

Let it be Gawn, I say....

When my son was 10 years he wanted to be as close to the Pie and Chip stall as possible

2 hours ago, Anti-Saint said:

 

many many many thanks for going to this effort

I am enjoying every morsel of your post and of our Grand 2021.

The "Offsiders" did a great 30mins IMO 

https://www.abc.net.au/sport/offsiders/sunday-september-26-full-program/13558796

Go Dees!

Thanks for the link.  It's good to see commentators genuinely stunned as to what they witnessed.

If memory serves me correctly I think Bob Rose said when the Pies finally saluted in 1990 : Is this it?

Thats not me.  So happy from when ANB kicked us to a 42 point lead. Party party party.  Extended family on Whatsup or what ever went delerious. My last thoughts at night are game higlights and guess what I am thinking of when I get up. Feel great towards all past players and the MFC family.

Though I have stopped yelling PETRACCA.

3 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

Meaningless gloating  and disrespectful to Tom McCartin who, through no fault of his own, couldn’t fulfill his potential. 

Even more disrespectful if you confuse Patrick with his brother Tom?  Agree on the gloating though....

Picks 22, 30, 32, 34 and 41......someone needs to tell Wells thats not the age of the players you have to pick.

Well I would be looking for growth in the current team so Bowey, Petty, Sparrow, Jackson and Kozzie hopefully can get even better.

But where is our next debutante?  Hard to show your wares without the VFL.

I would assume we are offering Hibberd a 1 yr contract and he is hanging out for 2 yrs

It gets thirsty up here in FNQ

On 10/13/2021 at 9:13 PM, dees189227 said:

I think I have watched that final quarter so many time I think I can name our goals in order on who kicks them. 

It's funny because almost 3 weeks on when I watch bits I am still amazed we are premiers. Coming home form work the other day I listened to Dennis Cometti call on mmm of the last half and just sat there smiling. I think the more I watch it the happier it does make me. 

This afternoon I saw the last 9 minutes on fox footy and I found myself seeing things that I have previously missed. It is something I will never get tired of watching. 

When he was not commentating you could hear him moan/groan in the background - called the result before I did in the last.

14 minutes ago, Kent said:

if that is so then it is unforgivable

Not necessarily.  The Dees are probably the fittest team going around at the moment.  It probably takes 2-3 seasons to build up a solid fitness base, it doesnt happen overnight.  When May arrived he wasnt fit.  Apparently Tracca was told that if he wanted more time in the mid field get fitter.

14 hours ago, TRIGON said:

They were all there together in 2020. So what changed?

Fitness would be one....

This was too good to be published in one post.

Like AFL trade period it should have been systematically released over a week.

Who would have thunk it.

Here we are worried about a young star going home interstate and guess what, he brings home to melbourne instead.

To see Lukes mum absolutely ecstatic and dressed in complete red and blue says volumes.

Just between you and me I think Luke may have told his mum what a great place the MFC is at the moment.

How the heck did we do that?

I have been watching a replay of Rnd 23 vs Cats ( because I can ok).  It is character building.

2nd quarter Bowey gets stripped of the ball in a Danger tackle and they both go to ground.  Bowey gets up immediately and runs to the next contest which turns into a stoppage.  Danger is still on the ground.

Danger is obviously a better player than Bowey but there is much to be said for the reflexes and attitude of youth.