Salems Lot

Nicely put Drunkn, I feel like I have been a fly on the wall of an AFL career through your excellent input. All the very best for the future and I hope Dec can re-kindle his love for the game at some point.

Thanks to both of them.

in a year when we have faced up to so much disappointment & negativity, is there a chance we could keep our individual tiffs and tantrums to a minimum. I am sure that it will make DL just a little bit more bearable when all I need is score updates and match day feedback

of course, I survived the Neeld era, I can survive anything

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/richmond-tigers-dump-five-coaches-as-afl-killing-season-erupts-20160829-gr40hd.html

I think he is actually a medical practitioner (correct me if I am wrong Webber)

As I just mentioned to SWYL, we have been told all season that we can't use injuries as an excuse so it is not a valid argument to state that we only beat the opposition because they had injuries. I also seem to recall pantsing GWS in round 23. Apparently they were tanking for some reason....(I genuinely heard this from a supporter at the game)

But....we're not allowed to use injuries as an excuse........

my favourite player Peter Giles came from there. Gilesey!! what a guy.

What pick did we have to give up?

The closest to a counter argument I can make is our decade on the 2000's. Up and down like the proverbial brides nightie.

don't forget Newman

Give them one; we have demonstrated clearly how little effect they have on developing strong culture which is what this inflated-pigskin caper is all about.

Looks like this page is being written by grade sixers. We won with 1 fit rotation. Enjoy it in a year of disappointments. For the record I thought it was great to hear Jayden acknowledge what a year from hell it has been. Call yourselves supporters tsk! tsk!

squad should be cherry ripe for the finals period!

IMHO - trade for elite outside mid and draft for best available

Well done everyone, this has become areally irritating thread....sigh....Demonland sucks sometimes

I asked the question on another thread so if anyone can help I would appreciate it. When Jones caused the reversal of Viney's free kick, why did they also get a 50m penalty too. The same thing happened at Casey yesterday and it does not make sense.

There was real fracas on the forward flank in the last quarter. Coburg were going the knuckle and a couple of our players arced up. At the time we had a shot on goal from CHF. Because Preuss was spotted retaliating to a dog act from a Coburg player the kick was reversed and a 50m penalty applied. Very similar to Jones' effort yesterday. What I don't understand is why the 50m penalty is applied. Surely reversing the kick should be the penalty. If anyone can explain this I would appreciate it.

The Freo Supporters near us were chanting as if it was game over at the 5 minute mark if the last quarter............................................................................................................................................LOL.

He makes us better!

Absolutely; workmates are already making cracks about us tanking...good grief....

The first half of the season puts paid to predictions such as what were made at the start of the year so the idea of going off the first half of the season to draw your conclusion about the second half is folly. Whilst I doubt we will make the eight I do think that this is not a rational thing and a couple of wins could put us on a winning streak. We have our injured players back and the run home does look a bit more doable. Reach the eight and it is game-on

For all that has gone wrong this season, No.11 is not one of them. He is our genuine A-Grader and deserves our respect and adoration. It should not be up to him to kick goals for us although it is great when he does. My concerns are more to do with our forwards who seem to have forgotten the point of the game inside the forward 50 arc! Kick a sausage roll FGS!