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Again, people have such short memories. A fully fit & firing Trengove would be like having another Tyson, except right-footed, stronger & could run all day. If he's almost-but-not-quite fit & firing, then it's half-back etc. Trengove fully fit is top-drawer midfielder. He's not as limited as Scully.

"Yeah, a king hit is just a good fair bump."

He really caused some concerns among the Dogs. In their desperation to find someone of sufficent strength to try to keep him away from the ball and stop him burying their mids in crunching tackles, at one stage they had Crameri standing him at centre bounces.

Happy to watch it again. But do I really have to listen???

Adds such a lot to the midfield, and brings others into the game. So a first year player has imperfections. Big deal! It's his effectiveness that's the thing.

Any chance we could dress up the original Hulk as Jamar & line him up against Sandi a.k.a. Andre the Giant?

What's your beep test?

Totally and absolutely disagree ... ... because from tonight's performance you've got to include VandenBerg, Salem, Michie & Newton as our future too. And Kent and Viney. And we haven't even seen Petracca yet.

VandenBerg is too old, isn't he?

It was unbelievably soft, just put his arm up to defend himself. One of about a dozen soft soft frees to Tiges.

Me too. But he doesn't lack finesse either. His kick to Garlett was perfectly weighted. And after his great smother he couldn't have "plated up" that goal to Newton any more tastefully if he'd been on MKR. But the best thing about him is he knows the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

So as well as getting Frost, we also pick up VandenBerg. Another good reason to keep plundering GWS!! The gift that keeps on giving.

Beautifully weighted kick too - it would have to be for Jeffy to take a contested mark.

Yeah, it wasn't really a smother I guess. But as you say, it showed how completely comfortable he is with the physical stuff, because he chose exactly the right thing to do. He didn't try to tackle him, or to knock the ball away, which would have been ineffective. Didn't hit him too high or too low, and didn't overcook it and risk a free. Just hit him hard enough to knock him right off balance, and the ball just dropped so that he could pick it up uncontested.

And two of the best smothers I can remember seeing, both of which led to critical goals. In his first game!!

Best concert ever was Jan 1976, the Eagles at Festival Hall, which STARTED at midnight. One of their first few with Joe Walsh.

Certain Kind of Fool?

he's certainly got the perfect disguise ...

Can't decide whether this is finely-honed satire or just plain dementia.

I definitely remember Joe Cocker having to cancel a show (during my exams!!!) in the mid-70s because a lot of things went wrong. They then rescheduled the show to start at midnight after he had already done a show earlier that night, which was a spectacular success. And I'm pretty certain it worked so well that a few other bands did the same when they ran out of dates for an extra show. I remember trying to find my way home at 2.30am from Festival Hall after an awesome midnight show by, of all people, the Eagles (probably because it was their first tour after Joe Walsh joined) in about 1975, not long after Cocker did it. In those days a Joe show could be sublime, or it could be a mess. He was never "so-so".

Seems that #1 is settled as far as the Saints are concerned. Just that nobody else can predict them with any degree of certainty.

I find that hard to believe. Only 65?????

What? You mean they won't debut on QB?? It could be twice the hoopla!

As they say ... to err is human, but to really stuff things up you need a computer.

You could preserve them for posterity OD!