Chook

Is it really an advantage in the beginning of the year when all the players are so short on match fitness? It probably is, but who knows?

Yeah. Glad to see this thread really ticking along. It's like a runaway train; not even a forum wipe could stop it.

Davey and Watts both in the backline? You serious? We'll be looser than Jenna Jameson's cooch back there.

And so it begins. Jack Watts vs Scott Cummings, Mach II.

Heartbreaking . . .

Oh yeah. Forgot about Gillies. Wow was he bad. IN: Jetta, OUT: Gillies would be good.

Would've liked to have seen Jetta, and I'm glad Nicholson wasn't dropped. I wish we had the playing resources to drop guys like James Frawley but we simply don't. All in all it's about what I expected. Rodan will be feeling pretty down on himself that he got dropped straight after playing his old team against whom he wanted to prove he still had "it."

That's where you're wrong. One sets a good example, and one doesn't.

I'd rather a plodder who can't chase than a slacker who won't chase.

Damn. And I had a feeling that Jack Watts thread was just getting ready to go bananas. What a shame.

Looks like a great project player in the Morton / Gysberts vein.

Glad to hear you're so dedicated to preserving precious bandwidth.

How dare we talk about one of our most important and underperforming players? What is this, a footy forum or something?

Didn't he also say that the way we trained was not the way we played. Having five game plans is all well and good, but if the players can't even execute plan A successfully then Plans B through E would surely be equally unworkable too right?

Come on guys. It's just a hamstring. No need for conspiracy theories; we have enough solid things to complain about without inventing more.

Did you get a response?

Can anything ever go right for us?

Finally. At last we have a one-stop shop for all our miscellaneous grievances and nitpicks.

He presented the new players' jumpers before the game. It's not much, but it's more than most have done.

Imagine if every supporter at the game followed these rules. The players would get the message pretty damn quick!

I think a lot of people have been so spooked by the development of guys like Morton and Gysberts that they're just expecting every slightly-built youngster to fail utterly. Toumpas will be a huge litmus test for the club. If we can get him to become the AFL footballer he so clearly has the potential to be, then a lot of our problems will have been solved.

Sure makes the crap dished up to James Magner seem like nothing.

Thanks for that insight. Cam Schwab sounds to me like one of those guys who is so busy looking up the ladder that he doesn't realise how many fingers he's treading on during his climb. Not good.