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me too - same letter, but I wouldn't expect an individual answer - the NUMBER of letters is the key

Yep - if you were Scully, Trengove, Watts, Frawley, Tapscott, Jordie, you might have to face the choice of 1) playing with a whole lot of kids who get pushed around, with a game plan you don't believe in, for a club that's soft or 2) go to GWS and play with a whole lot of kids who get pushed around, but have a coach with a track record of success and hardness, and get $$$, and know that you will be playing finals footy soonish. That's a real risk. How must Trengove be feeling now? How mush The Sainted Jimmy be feeling now?

John Kennedy... but agree 100% - and chance of that happening = 0. Even we happen to scrape a win, what an inditement... we'll get there on pure talent. Just imagine if we hard heart. For the first time in a long time, itlooks like some aren't trying. I don't think any AFL player doesn't try... but some of them sure look like it. TV just about to interview Bailey - might be my last post as laptop-fire interaction imminent.

Watts - effort and skill. I wonder if he's slow to get rid of it after a mark 'cos there's no one presenting and he's smart enough to not just want to bomb it? How would he go in a good (1/2 good, 1/4 good, 1/8 good).

Interesting to watch the cat's defence. As the Hawks forward press up, the Geelong defenders retain their structure and have Taylor + Scarlett ( +/- Mackie) within 30 m of goal. Not a great analogy, but it's a bit like a netball team defending against a great Goal Attack - let her roam all over the ground, but the defender stays at home and stops her re-entering the circle. Seems like good coaching to me - the Hawks will win, I reckon, but it's good to see how structure can be maintained.

Cloke & Dawes- big men up forward might be even more useful as fatigue sets in. The running brigade get slower but ... oh, you know the rest.

: ) Is is just the mists of time... that team seemed so much more powerful than our current young team. Oh for a Bennet / Strawb / Grinter / Yates / Lyon - never mind the Sainted One! We can only hope... and wait and support through thick and thin, I guess.

Watching the old Melbourne Essendon game served as a timely reminder of just how good we have to be to win a Flag ( the "Melbourne v Essendon: Round 3 1990 Third Quarter" thread). Big bodies, incredibly hard at it, great skills. I never understood why we got rid of John Northey...

How is this in anyway good? Time to form the Bring Back John Northey Action Faction. (It's hard to be patient when we get this tripe served up) 1964 in the Southern Stand seems a long time ago.

the leighoak? s'pose they will have it on?

I take it all back. Watts may or may not cure cancer, play in multiple premierships for the Ds and win a Nobel prize. But he is in the contest, tries his guts out and has extaordinary talent.

Bate: avenue to goal Watts: why waste bandwidth?

That is a <really> good question. The boy doesn't need any more pressure about anything, but I would love to know if that's a dressing over a wound... not sure what the op would be with a long dressing there though.

So, the coodabeens are banging on about all of us going to the snow etc etc etc Insulting as usual As usual, the only answer is to get to the G on Monday. (after the exams - imagine - exams on QBirthday Monday - at least it's in the a.m.)

from the Age article: """ Following medical assessment, club doctors were concerned about the blood supply to the toe and transferred Colin to the Epworth Hospital, where a test revealed a clot in the main artery on the top of his right foot. """ So, it's an <arterial> thrombosis (clot) - that's quite a different thing from a <venous> clot - which is what most people are talking about. DVT is a venous clot (usually in the calf and higher up) that can dislodge and get into the lungs - very serious. Sylvia has a clot in one of the arteries supplying his foot - they don't say what treatment he is receiving - so, no point in speculating about the time to recovery. It won't travel anywhere except, rarely, break up and go into smaller vessels in the foot. Not what we need for QB, but not what Sylvia needs either - can be serious.

The knee has two major cartilages both shaped rather like a crescent ( from the Greek, not Latin ). There's a medial (inner) and lateral (outer). So, he might have "done his cartilage".

um no, carpe is the imperative mood of carpere - a command. latin doesn't use the infinit to express purpose (going to london to see the queen would not be videre) but who give a continental - what a great win!

lets hope: watts to the press "Veni Vidi Vici"

At Etihad. Just heard mckenzie out rivers in. Any info out there? Injury? Surely not form!