demoniac

So 2013.

Pops over to Nafan Buckley coaching mega thread on Pies Big Footy for some light refreshments.

Its a masterclass.

Pedders error. Flies under ball. (still having a good game tho)

Grimes. Shuts eyes.

and kick it to Freo?

Kent, Salem and Kennedy-Harris are key going forward as mid/small forwards who can go into midfield.

Kentttttyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Great Drafting Todd Viney. Great play Pedders. Thanks Neeldy!

Arms chopped on Howe. No free.

If you want beauty go to an art gallery.

Vince turnover. (another)

Luckily Hill is not playing! Freo don't tend to blow teams away. Hopefully we put in a 4 quarter effort.

First Darwin game I've missed. Always a great atmosphere in the lead up to games at TIO Stadium only to be dampened by our non competitiveness in recent years.

First Darwin game I've missed. Chose Alice instead. This morning as I was standing at the tram stop it crossed my mind that a second trip to the NT would not have been out of order.

The longer tonight's game goes the more dollars being added by the Hawks to their offer to Chip. They will be fairly desperate to not go into season 2015 with a 33 year old Lake and the mediocre Schoenmakers as their key defenders. Garry Lyon was correct in identifying decision making in possession and disposal as being weaknesses for Chip. He was incorrect to state that his ability as a defender to read the flight of the ball and to play on 'gorilla' key forwards were his only elite attributes. It is his speed which trips up Lyon. Chip has the speed required to play on pacy mids and even smalls. There are not many defenders able to match up on the range of opponents that Frawley can. And that is an elite attribute. I hope he stays and plays as a key defender.

That ump looks like Greedy Smith.

Strauss can kick and run and carry. Hopefully Roos and Co can make him into an AFL Footballer.

Blease impressing. Must be close to AFL selection if he can measure up defensively given offensive threat his turbo speed offers. Nicholson with an awful clanger.

Yep. It is a sport if its not invented by Americans.

Tubby was doing a Barnes. The talented and tragic Sid Barnes more precisely. Wikipedia.... "It was during the Second Test at Sydney in December 1946, that Barnes made a lasting impression on the world game. Having opened the innings, he made his top Test score of 234 and helped to set a world-record 405 run fifth wicket partnership with Don Bradman, a record that still stands today.[40][41] On a rain-affected pitch Arthur Morris was out at 1/24 and Ian Johnson came out as a nightwatchman He and Barnes angered the crowd by launching into a series of bad light appeals - up to 12 were counted - before the umpires gave way and play was ended with an hour to spare.[42] This ensured that Australia would not have to play on a sticky wicket and allowed Bradman to rest his leg until play resumed on the Monday. After the series Barnes said on radio; We could have played on, but it was a Test match and we just had to win. I realised something drastic had to be done or three wickets might be lost. So I appealed after every second ball. I complained of the people moving about, the light, and, in fact, anything, in an effort to get the appeal upheld. Hammond and Yardley were inspecting the wet pitch. I knew there was a chance of losing valuable wickets so I just kept on appealing until the umpires answered me.[43] Barnes played carefully on the still suspect pitch the following day and late in the afternoon Bradman, lower in the order than usual due to a leg injury, joined Barnes with the score at 4/159.[44] Over six and a half hours later, Bradman was out for 234. Barnes was dismissed just four balls later, also for 234, having batted for over ten hours.[45] In his autobiography, Barnes stated that the coincidence of scores was intended. "Lots of people have asked me whether I deliberately threw my wicket away at 234. The answer is yes."[46] He confirmed to an interviewer many years later that "it wouldn't be right for someone to make more runs than Sir Donald Bradman".[47] E.W. Swanton wrote that this "could well have been so for he was a man of quixotic mood and temperament".[48] However the England bowler, Alec Bedser wrote "It was when I was bowling to Sid at Sydney that I first discovered that I could move the ball to leg by use of my wrist and fingers...I held the ball in the same manner as a leg-break bowler with the fingers across the seam...and on pitching I was surprised to see the ball go away like a leg-break. It also surprised Sid Barnes".[49] This would make Barnes the first batsman to be dismissed by Bedser's "Special Ball" which would claim Bradman for a duck in the Fourth Test at Adelaide.

Fingers crossed that he is a one club player, or does not leave till he has a won a few flags. If he realises his potential he will be such an important piece of the premiership puzzle.

Quelle Horror!

2010 National Draft Pick 11 - Gold Coast - Tom Lynch Pick 12 - Melbourne - Lucas Cook Watching that draft I was getting my hopes up as the top 10 selections were revealed that Lynch would fall to us at Pick 12. Missed him by that much... Can't see Lynch leaving GC.

...in one of the Hun articles today.

Maybe Paul Little will take retrospective legal action on her behalf!