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My inside sources tell me the reason Abbot beat Rudd was that half the country voted for some guy called Roos. Go figure.

For what it's worth, I agree with him. That's where I've always seen as his best position. Great disposal into the forward line where it's needed, and a good sense of the game which would allow him to drift forward or back as required.

Sorry. One thread is about Jack Watts. The other thread is about Paul Roos. That picture is about both.

If you say you don't like something that inherently implies you don't like another thing, then you obviously also don't like the second thing as well.

"I don't like dogs" "I don't like people who have dogs" Either way, you're probably not going to let any dog owners over to your house. It's the same thing; the same result.

That is surprisingly comforting to know.

Fitzpatrick was terrible last week, but great this week. Toumpas was great last week but terrible this week. Demonland's Official Conclusion: Fitzpatrick is great but Toumpas sucks.

Because he's probably never played in tropical conditions before.

Oh, go and throw darts at a picture of Jack Watts.

I petition that the initals JT be exclusively reserved for Jack Trengove. All other players must be referred to using some other method.

There are about four or five players at the club who don't make me have a heart attack when they get the ball in their hands. Jack Watts, Aaron Davey, Colin Garland and Jimmy Toumpas are those players. The rest need to go to an Auskick session or two.

I guess you don't know what the word rookie actually means.

I've been critical of him (perhaps only because of how high my expectations were), but he has an amazing kick and is apparently aware - and is working on - his weaknesses. Good on him.

I disagree on both counts. He actually is involved in a lot of possession chains, which means he doesn't turn it over. And slow? I don't think that's true either. He's no Patrick Dangerfield, but he's also no Jack Trengove either.

Agree on Pederson but Byrnes has been one of our better players this year.

Don't forget to pack the bar b cue.

I'd read it, but I'm worried that there'd be too much sex in the book (it being written by Gerard Whately and all).

The only thing that can replace a meal is another meal.

What would be more embarrassing to us? That our rejects are actually good, or that they suck? Surely it's the latter.

"Pine for the fjords!?" What kind of talk is that?

It's barely a footy thread. If it weren't so popular, I'd say it should be put in the Off-Topic section of the forum. But if it did go there, it would die a slow and horrible death because nobody ever visits Off-Topic.

Is that because the ice sucks or because it's a crime to put any ice in beer whatsoever.

Agreed. I hold no ill-will towards Chris Judd (or Tom Scully) for pursuing the largest contracts they could. But the extracurricular payments Judd gets makes me extraordinarily skeptical of his moral outlook. Likewise, Tom Scully's willingness to lie to people he had worked closely with for two years is just totally unnecessary and (to my mind) non-sensical. In the words of the judge from Shawshank, they strike me as "particularly icy and remorseless men." It chills my blood just to look at them. I don't have any real problems with lying, per se. It's unnecessary lying that I detest.

I was defending him against people who wanted to delist him two years ago. I still reckon he has at least as much to offer us as Jordie Gysberts.Bottom line is I bags'ed him first. You can still support him, but I'm first in line!