Salems Lot

Tapscott - "Vanity" - They've "got taps!!" - sorry, its the plumber in me

He will be able to teach Frosty Miller how to kick a goal from outside 50m

1 Trengove 2 Scully 11 Black 18 Ball 34 Gawn 50 Thorpe Nothing outrageous here, just the way it will be!

Shelly Craft

Barassi to Carltank!!!!

Just a question here? Does the number 1 pick get a higher sign on contract than the other draftees?

Agreed. He's not good enough to worry about.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/rfnews/jack-...8043836478.html Fantastic article about this fellow. I went to school with Richard Loveridge who played with the Porks in the eighties and he seems like a very similar kind of guy. Good at everything including humility. Hard not to like!!

Love the comment about the spear throwing champion. Gold

OX on SEN suggested that McDonald does not fit into our structure. Reckons the back 4 are pretty well in place

David Cordner?

OK, I have been putting my mind to what would make him feel at home and am prepared to donate the following items CannonBALL run 1 & 2 Frank Sinatra's Take Me Out To the BALL Game - on second hand vinyl Strictly BALLroom The French movie classic La BAL CasaBALLanca Glen CamBALL's greatest hits And my framed photo of Naomi CampBALL If this doesn't do it nothing will

Done and Done! Me and the junior

Text Message from Jimmy, Flash has re-signed for 4 years Never in doubt

Hmmm, ask Ritchie Van den Berg how the Porks solved that conundrum <_<

Proud 4th generation demon supporter. Started going in the very early 70's with my Mum and 2 brothers. MCC Members, thermos, travel rug, the whole shebang. In fact, my grandparents split when my Mum was little and she lost touch with her Dad after that, the only time I ever saw him was from a distance - him sitting in the old Smokers Stand on match day - bizarre! My first favorite player was Glenn Honey. He never played in the ones but we used to watch him play in the twos. He was pretty ordinary but I remember that he had a great beard. Ah the joys of watching footy as 7-8 year old. My 5 year old (fifth generation) has no choice in the matter, comes most weeks and was one of the few supporters who was upset after the siren at the Richmond Game!! One of my earlier memories is of seeing a player take a place kick for goal (a la rugby) at the lakeside oval. Not sure how the count down clock would have dealt with that one! Since we are in the off season, why not add in some of your earliest memories A last one of mine is the pall of cigarette/pipe smoke that used to hang over the seats on those wintery afternoons in the 70's. P.S. One last one, the players getting dressing gowns to wear at 3 quarter time, when did that stop? Sorry, I have gone off on a bit of a reverie here but I am sure that there are plenty of other posters out there

Hmm, yes, I thought of him as I typed but to be fair, he burst on the scene at the start of the season and never looked back. I guess that I am thinking of the situation that we have been in lately where we have effectively been gifting games to players because there was simply no one else to pick. Give me as many Flashes as you can; I like em, I like em!!

I must confess that I hope that none of our rookies get a game next year because that would mean a few things 1. We were still having problems with injuries - surely this will not happen again next year 2. The players on the senior list have not developed as hoped 3. We are not winning enough games to be competitive. This last 3 years has surreptitiously changed our ideas of how a season runs I.E. a good season is a settled season - look at any of the top teams, they tend to get through the year with minimal lineup changes. That is what I want from our team. The idea that we get through the year having called upon maybe 28 - 30 players maximum means that we have played well, stayed injury free and created genuine pressure on the list for selection. Go Dees!!!!

Yeah, i went as well, didn't see Butcher's goals, I was wrangling a 5 year old as well I thought Scully's last quarter was match winning for the Stingrays

Yeah, I went today as well, the thing that impressed me about Scully today was his tank, the kid ran all day, did not come off once and rested in the forward line. I was slightly underwhelmed by him for the first 3 quarters but he came alive in the last quarter and basically brought the Stingrays to life. He seemed to be playing on the wing initially and really came into it once he was put on the ball. Fantastic by hand, absolutely fantastic, some of his kicking was a bit up and under though. Butcher - a good touch in the first 2 minutes of the game and then seemed to float around a fair bit, he is a big lump of a lad though. No goals that I saw.

I have noticed a lot of people putting packages together for trade and am of the opinion that other clubs are like us in that they don't want to be cluttering up their list with "stocking fillers" If we want to trade for a player, we will more than likely have to trade one highly rated player -e.g. A Rivers or a Grimes rather than a couple of mediocre players. I am not advocating this by the way but it is useful to walk a mile in the other clubs shoes. I.E. would we give up 2 spots on our list for The Russian and Belly - I think not..

Precisely

The was an interesting article in the little paper today about the fact that BP is not totally discounting the possibility of trading pick 2. He says that it would be highly unlikely but will not rule it out. He also mentioned the club being prepared to aggresively chase the right players if they present themselves. No specifics but it sounds like exciting times ahead. Phase II continues to develop.

Funnily enough, I rang the club yesterday to find out if that was the final total that was posted. According to the woman that I spoke to they are still sifting though the final cheques etc before posting the final amount.