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I heartily endorse this thread. Hopefully we can contain all the: to this thread - The Ollie Whinge thread

nah but hoverboards of course

or forward one year as the sequel utitlised

dude he was clearly our best player that day and he was in the middle - the fact he has done SFA since then is the issue

nobody cares what you think, why are you reading this site then hero? PO

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I felt at the time, and still do, that whoever was behind the R2 televised address knew exactly what they were doing which was exposing Neeld as being incompetent - with a view to having him removed for the good of the club. The fact we got absolutely demolished in the match only helped consolidate it.

well said

remember singing the song about 800 times at the corner hotel after the game god damn i want to be back in the finals

Jordie McKenzie's appearance is dubious

still have my doubts on him, just watching r22 now, early in the third Howe kicked it to him on the lead, kick was shanked meaning a constested ball contest. He got first hands on it in heavey traffic, but as soon as he did his head shot up to see the would-be tackler, promptly flinched and the ball slipped out of hands, losing possession. He is not fumbly at all, it was purely the pressure and anticipation of getting hit. Somebody like Hurley would not have looked at anyone, just made sure he took possession cleanly and smashed/baulked his way through the tacklers to dish it off. It was one of those situations where the tacklers were sort of flat-footed and a big man should be able to get enough freedom to at least get his hands free to dispose. Such a tiny difference in conduct but such a massive difference in the result. There are bigger more obvious things like this that he does, but there are also many smaller ones like this that go unnoticed/unmentioned.

and he is a surplus asset who can get some badly needed midfield quality in exchange

exactly and the [censored] population around here tends to borrow most of their comments from what they hear on the telly. The amount of times I have read somebody parrot a response as if it was their own is ridiculous. it's the main reason for Naitanui-overrated-itis for example

64 games into Jack Watts' career he had the breakout game last week, at season 5 his worth is STILL being discussed... I don't know why anyone even bothers thinking about it for first year players... it is truly absurd IMO even a bloke like Trengove is in his 4th year and I am not comfortable forecasting anything about him, because you just don't know, nobody does

kinda sounds like the noise when somebody kicks it.. toomp

oh really is that what happened is it speak for yourself, I am not a cretin

i'm not necessarily disagreeing with you entirely.. but I wish people would stop mentioning this as if it somehow adds weight to this Watts situation.. If anything it SUBTRACTS from it, for 2 reasons: 1) it is completely irrelevant as a reflection of our club, everybody in Australia knows he was offered and accepted an obscene amount of money and that's all it was about. Whoever had the number 1 pick that year would have lost Tom Scully to GWS 2 years later. Surely that is not up for debate. 2. We ended up being major beneficiaries out of that situation for a number of reasons. I thought this was generally understood around here? As many others have said, there is no reason to suggest that the departure of Watts, if it happens, won't end up being a positive event in the end. Don't get me wrong, I very much want to keep him, but attaching Scully to the situation in order to make it seem worse is poor play IMO

That's the post for me I don't care about any of the following issues: Should we have taken NikNat? Should we have debuted him on QB? Has his confidence been shattered? Has Bailey and/or Neeld been guilty of playing him out of position? He he shown much so far? What player might he become? What compensation are we likely to receive? All of that is peripheral stuff, and mostly relating to the past, which makes it irrelevant. The real issue is that we need to keep this player because he is required, and because a line needs to be drawn on our status in the competition

hmm yes the guy that is simultaneously labelled a complete dud yet a massive loss, amazing how that works

bout bloody time, they have been going around longer than Michael Tuck

in breaking news Dean Bailey has been sacked!

Jamar was with us for 7 years before becoming an All-Australian, only the last couple of those did he start showing anything at all - I know MJ's a ruckman, but still I don't think the jury should be in on CM yet. On the other hand there's a million McLeans, Millers, Bate and Newtons that got all the years they wanted and never delivered

2011 Moneyball 2011 The Tree of Life 2009 Inglourious Basterds 2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 Burn After Reading 2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2001 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Spy Game 2000 Snatch. 1999 Fight Club 1997 The Devil's Own 1996 Sleepers 1995 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Se7en 1994 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles surely you jest

I believe the expression is 'balls deep' gentlemen

I was going to post practically the exact same thing. I opened the article expecting the usual coach speak we are accustomed to.. when asked about Davey most coaches would say something like 'Aaron's very highly regarded at the club, and we know that he will get back to the performances we know he's capable of' but Neeld just gave the 'if he doesn't perform as expected he won't get a game' love it

THAT'S GOING STRAIGHT TO THE POOL ROOM!