DemonWA

Grimes has had repeated bad runs with injury for his entire career to date. This is fact. How can you state so matter-of-factly that Grimes' body will not continue to let him down?!

i honestly think that they should have given Fev the fairy tale and picked him up to finish his career in navy blue. Could have been the last piece of the puzzle that they need to be a serious contender, rather than a team that thrashes poor side which allow their mid fielders to kick bags of goals (ie US!)

touch wood!

Jack Grimes is would be a lock the next captain if he wasnt so injury prone, even still he might get it. Having met him, its fair to say he ticks all of the boxes. As a smokie i'd be happy to see given the captaincy given to Col Garland - good communicator, intellegent, backs into packs, does the 1%ers

I rented the 1st one from the video store. some sick [censored] there. Would be interested to see number 2 purley to see how they could possibly continue on from the end of number 1? On a similar note, how gold is the South park episode?!

agree with WJ regarding the WA teams. Eagles played out of their skin in 2011. Freo were injured all year long. Would expect them to be around the same mark this year, both finish just inside or outside the 8

A gun rack... a gun rack. I don't even own *a* gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. What am I gonna do with a gun rack? Waynes World

Neeld comes accross as quite indifferent when asked about our players and club in general.

Way before my time, but that article is great - really paints a picture of one of the greats of the club at that time. RIP

As i’ve told you 1 million times, do not exaggerate

Jamar - Gives our mids first use against most opposition rucks Moloney - MVP of 2011, enough said really, he barks the orders in the engine room Jurrah - Kicks goals everytime he plays Frawley - #1 defender Clark - should give us a more functional forward structure

Yout know its the off season when we have posts picking holes in a young up-and-comer who goes about it in the right way. He's not perfect, but who is?!

yeah McKenzie will play. Realistically i'd expect Nicho to be the Rookie to be upgraded to the senior list (as was the case with Juice last year) and one of Magner or Couch will get Gawn's LTI spot. I cant see this, alont with our draft picks, being enough to keep both Mckenzie and Gysberts out of the side.

Neeld strikes me as the type of guy who wouldnt have wanted the job in 2007. If he was into starting from scratch he would have picked the Dogs or Saints?

its easy to slag Bailey now, and will be even more so when Neeld & Co have some on field success. But i think it would be unfair to compare Neeld Vrs Bailey as single coaches, as Bailey didnt have Misson, Craig and a swag of assistants, and assistants to assistants at his disposal. Both Neeld and Bailey had previously worked as assistants at clubs who had won flags. It suprises me that Bailey, having been at Port for their 2004 flag didint demand the same types of things that Neeld has. I guess it goes to show that there is no one formula for success?

agreed, he stuggled with the running on the first day of preseason and since those initial reports alot on here have forgotten about the games he's played and his obvious talent

Magner, from watching the highlights he seems like he's ready to go, like Beamer #2

we can only judge him on what we saw on the field i guess, but its only part of the picture

?? Big call based on a handfull of poor performances by Green in 2011.

Good to see Green is up there with the fittest in the group.

interesting Presumably the players/clubs would have known this was coming, so perhaps thats why we look the "ready to go approach" in the rookie draft this year??

Nicho seems to be killing it at preseason + played well last year. The new VFL lads would have to be pretty decent to skip infront of him? One of them will get elivated eventually, once Grimes' does his yearly long term injury

Spencer does a knee one year and Gawn the next? Who siad we could have too many rucks?!

from that list the only one im "worried" about is strauss, due to his most recent injury.