jumbo returns

thanks Dalrot - i heard so many different things. i appreciate the info

Could someone please respond to my request? Can I have the dummies guide to the draft? Assuming we win less than five games (don't get all teary or fired up, let's be pragmatic), and Tiges and Blues WIN more than five games, does that mean we get picks 1 and 2? Please explain.....

are you talking from a booming kick point of view? if wheatley returns he must now be anointed the go to kick in guy. bell's decision making lacks poise and I only breathe a sigh of relief when he kicks to the dead pocket. When he aims for someone in the corridor, it's sphincter tightening stuff......

I think Cale Morton needs a week off - he's played all the games this year and he's been crunched a couple of times. His body can't sustain that much punishment. Bring in Sylvia.

Bit harsh joeboy - I was excited today about the onfield direction, with all the 'new' names sticking it up to the Hawks and there are plans afoot for home base negotiations and new sponsors on the horizon. The comments were not 'baseless', merely borne of passion.

Couldn't agree more - well said. The FUTURE looks fantastic!!

I want the boys to play accountable footy, break the lines, deliver with poise and confidence and not be overawed by a very good team. What are your expectations? PS I still think Franklin is a [censored]!!

The general discussion is that Buckley will improve, I'm not that convinced. Will he survive the cull that's expected at the end of the year? Hasn't got a defensive bone is his body. You're right, '59, only time will tell.

Not sure - looks to move okay but poor decision making and poor skill execution seems to cost him and the team. He's missing that inate ability to know whether there's an opponent nearby and seems to get caught out quite often. I know it's up to other teammates to talk around him but he looks slow to me. I don't think he's made the next step. Jury's out...thoughts?

Re: my earlier posts....Franklin is a [censored] and Judd is a prostitute of the highest order.

That's true - I forgot he towelled up one G.Ablett

Exactly! It was a good learning experience for him and he should view tapes of Power, Black, Judd, Harvey (North) to learn how these players break tags every week...

vanlo, i reckon you're underestimating nathan jones. He would have got the ball 20-30 times if crowley wasn't on him. i was talking about putting jones in the back pocket, so crowley becomes a forward and that means crowley's entire mindset needed to change - ie he has to lose his man, lead, create space, etc Anyway, you're right, Harvey was ordinary but I wanted our coaching staff to protect Jonesy more. Look at how the Carlton players block and protect Judd, direct orders from Ratten.

Nathan Jones - you gun!! Welcome to the big time. Freo paid you the respect you deserve and part of your learning process will be to beat the heavy tag that will become a part of your footy career. Hence my disappointment at the Coaching Staff in not supporting Jonesy when he was heavily tagged by Crowley. Options: 1) Instruct other on-ballers to block, block, block 2) Move the Jones boy to the back pocket where the entire psyche of the tagger changes - all of a sudden he's a forward pocket, so the hunter becomes the hunted. 3) Make Jonesy the tagger afainst another player so there's double the fun. The kid was frustrated yesterday, but that's good because this will be a great lesson for him. Keep working, Nathan, you're a beauty!!!

Heeyyy beautifully written - did mummy and daddy do this for you? I think you're the one whose brain has been affected by bong water - the massively intellectual quote YOUR ON DRUGS ring a bell? Probably not. So now we become the bar room brawler with physical threats being your only modus operandi. What would you like? Pistols at dawn? Bottling? Murder? All of the above? I came on this forum to talk footy, not waste my time responding to mindless morons like you - go away.

Unbelievable - You're a real piece of work - you dish it out but can't take it. I can't respond to your pathetic attempts because I'm saddened and depressed at how you butcher the English language. Get thee to a nunnery or a TAFE course that offers remedial English classes. Obviously, you lack the credibility to have an objective discussion and due to your limited vocabulary you can only make personal attacks. PS - would you like me to correct your last pathetic post? Free...

QueenC, that's our problem - no team would offer enough for Bruce or Green. All the emotive histrionics that has unfolded has left me dumbfounded. We need to build a better team and a good way to start is through draft picks. I think that Davey would command a top 15 pick. Having said that, Bruce and Green are, at best, 3rd round draft picks. Not enough.

Eastie Boyz, wazzup dog? You and your homies, should ditch da damaged goods - argue? hell no, fool! I'm jus' tellin' da [censored] to talk proper, yo! Besides, mutha, why would I talk to the biatch? Whirrrrrr!!!!

Hey Cheney - here you go, free English lesson for you... It's YOU'RE ON DRUGS not YOUR ON DRUGS. In this case the YOU'RE is a contraction of YOU ARE, therefore YOU'RE ON DRUGS is the correct expression. Saying YOUR is wrong - that's the possessive pronoun. Hence, JUMBO, STOP TAKING YOUR DRUGS!! Now, I want this written out 20 times before you go to bed tonight - and don't be a naughty boy.

Yep - that's right, let's think outside the square. One of only a handful that has any trade value, straight swap with West Coke for Daniel Kerr or a top 15 pick. It will rejuvenate the careers of both players. To me, Davey has lost his explosive speed and he's reticent to really go hard ever since that horrific hammy tear against the Dogs a couple of years ago. This year has been ordinary, as was 2007. Bundle up his career highlights on a cd rom and distribute to all clubs now.

Me too - like Curly's faithful dog in Steinbeck's literary classic, the Ooze is symbolic of a dream that never eventuated - time to end that dream of a bygone era. I think he should get a couple of cheap games AND the send off. (sorry RR, I'm a sentimentalist)

Hmmmm - Geelong have an excess? Dunno...it seems that Brent Moloney was expendable because he wasn't getting a game with the ones. Brent's problem is a lack of awareness, a lack of the footy smarts, that innate, intangible that cannot be coached. King and Playfair at the Saints, but I don't rate them - just as Rhino said, players that are NQR. Hawks had a Croad they could throw up for trade who also had some MEDIA value - a player our club does not have. I agree with your last sentence. We need to prepare for some suffering to pick up some draft because our list is not a quick fix. I think to try and recruit other fringe players is fraught with danger. The thinking has to be so far left that it would make a Socialist Party convention look like a Young Libs BBQ. Just for the record, do you think Craig Cameron was that good?

Hey Cards13....no, no facts. Unlike most of the posters on this site, who are in the inner sanctum and kkknnnoowww everything, I have no such kudos. Danners wasn't a No 22 man, he wasn't a big fan of No 5, traded matty bishop, failed to develop chris lamb and ryan ferguson....etc. Like I said, only hearsay, unsubstantiated, and I stand before you fragile and naked............figuratively speaking of course!!! I'm not convinced that your comparison is valid - there are so many leagues over there, bigger population, more coin, everything. The teams in the AFL are more coy about their trades, in relation to not giving anyone away that might help the opposition improve their position. Secondly, some clubs will not trade with each other. That's a fact - isn't it?

Interesting reading - I agree that list management was shocking during the Daniher years and we needed to be more aggressive with our turnover. The problem was that players were not offered up for trade when they had some value. I understand that this is a subjective scenario, but no mistake, I'm still shaking my head at the philosophy behind the recruitment of Phil Read, Craig Ellis, Gary Moorcroft and others of the same ilk. Has Craig Cameron gone to Richmond? Was he that good a recruiter?