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He needs to be a dangerous forward. I can't see him fitting in anywhere else at this point. I'm just waiting now for some comedian to say "Sandringham".

The common concensus on CAC was that there was no concensus, but IMO he's got some big shoes to fill. Best of luck Barry. We look forward to seeing who you can pluck out over the next few years.

That's almost certainly because the place it's hosted at (midnight.net.au) changed their configuration and screwed everything up. Again.

I can see this becoming another "footy players are role models" argument. FWIW I agree with Rumpole in that this should be a matter between the law and Johnson.

This bloke is the most "interesting" one on our list, I reckon. We pioneered the ultra-small-ultra-fast forward role when we drafted Davey, and now everyone else is following suit. Perhaps by drafting Wonaeamirri, we're trying to pioneer the ultra-small-ultra-fast defender; the only type of bloke that might be able to stop one of those forwards.

Sounds like you're volunteering to me Jack!

Good post demonscoast. I've gone from skeptical but accepting to totally disinterested. You could have everybody or nobody in the leadership group and it probably wouldn't make a lick of difference. I think we've all overreacted terribly here.

It is entirely true. If you take out Neitz, White or Robbo you've gotta replace them. As long as there's twenty-whatever players playing, the risk of one of those players copping an injury is constant, for all intents and purposes, no matter who the players playing are. The only way you can reduce the risk is by either not playing the games at all (not an options), or asking the players to go at half effort (also not an option). I also think that there's a limit as to how much you wrap your senior players in cotton wool. Not playing Neitz (for example) at all in the NAB cup or the practice matches is all well and good, but then he won't be match fit come Round 1.

That's not something we have control over.

I'd like us to blood youngsters and win.

Being allergic to the hard ball was what worked against him. He's skillful but I tend to think leopards don't change their spots. Anything we get out of him from this point on is a bonus in my eyes, as I've written him in pen in my "won't make it" book.

I don't read the newspaper at all.

It's not hide-bound negativity, it's reality. Clubs can't have more than one major sponsor, there isn't room, and potential major sponsors will not want to share. When they get a new, very large sponsorship deal, it is always at the expense of an old one. Hards is spot on. There's thinking outside the square, and then there is thinking outside the planes of reality.

PJ is really at risk of being in no man's land, much like Ryan Ferguson was. An okay ruckman/onballer, an okay key defender and an okay forward, but not good enough to do any of them on a regular basis.

Nice! At this rate, you might actually have enough people turn up to have one or two on the bench!

I actually think the "playing a team based around under-23" gets far more air time than it deserves, because the sheer fact of the matter is we've got no choice. Besides a few strays like Wheatley, all our players are either in the under 23 age range, or they're near or on the wrong side of 30. What Bailey is saying to us by saying "we'll playing a team based around the under-23s" is that "Neitz, White, McDonald, Robertson Yze and Holland are all on the decline so we won't get that much more out of them". To quote Jarka, "no shit". The only way he could possibly mean having an under 23s policy is if he excludes older guys like Neitz and McDonald and middlers like Green and Bruce. Does anyone honestly think that those guys won't be part of the regular senior 22 this year?

TJ had no upside. Right. I was and am 100% in the "trade TJ" camp but to suggest he had no upside is rewriting history.

Experience is one of those things you only ever get after you needed it. And there's only one way to get it.

A tragedy that someone so young should pass before their time. As a footy fan it's disappointing as he was one of the best in the business. As a human being it is very sad time. My thoughts are with his family.

The moment you mentioned Allies is the moment I lost interest. Your idea isn't bad, but until my state once again has my own team then I find it impossible to have any interest at all in the SOO.

I agree. I'd also love to it if we could start participating in the riots, burning of everything in sight and generally have to fear for our safety any time we go to a footy match. In all seriousness, once segregation starts we're on the slippery slope towards acting like a bunch of dicks at the football like many around the world do in the round ball game.

I thought the same thing but kept my mouth closed because I thought I was going crazy :D

That's easy to say when you haven't forked out hundreds of bucks to go.

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It's a North home game Dappa.