Wells 11

Here I was coming on to demonland to enjoy the win. Sheesh. I’ve seen enough dees games over the years to know you celebrate 42 point wins.

I think he's a gun ...or would be in a different team. And...this is what everyone said about all of our players for so long. If he's leaving we should def be enquiring.

Love to know if injured or rested. Hoping its the latter.

yep… and again in 89.

yes quite right re 89 not 88! We came back from our GF thrashing in 88 to win the pre season night series. Regardless of weeks missed though , I don’t think either player, Wight or Hughes was quite the same post those injuries.

I think back on that era and teh cost of winning the 88 night grand final against the cats. Both Wight and Hughes did major hamstrings. They both returned after lengthy rehabs but were never the same after. I reckon it cost us a flag. Not in 88 as the hawks were on another level but in 89 , 90 when we were right in the mix.

Port are a serious contender imo. They got poleaxed yesterday but by the end of the year I think they will be right in the mix. But overall point taken. Blues off 5 days makes the Cats game even bigger...and yes putting the tigers away early would definitely be helpful!

well as much as I hate to say it… pies on the G are going to be very very hard to beat from here on.

Could be why Turner now playing forward?

Players have got to have their lives too. I doubt a cooking demo does anything but make him happy.

Or if Kozzie, Fritter, Langdon and Tmac had kicked the goals they would kick 95% of the time versus the pies in that final! Cue similar question v blues the next week. So close...but so far.

Great interview. “ in 2023.. we had to rebuild the fwd line 3 times” Hadn't thought of it quite like that.

Yeah I remember the excitement of that summer with both of them coming. Another false dawn. I’m so glad we won a flag to put memories like this to bed!

Happy to be wrong Deelectable.

I remember that day. Another part in one of the darkest eras in the clubs history.

I’ve only ever heard Moore regret his decision to leave the Pies and have never heard him say anything positive about the dees.

verral looks closer for mine.

i looked around at the team last night , in what was a horrible loss for us, and understood a little why. A. We had 4 New players. Howes, Windsor, Kolt, Woey … all still finding their way against a hardened, focused top 4 team ( Even though Windsor gave us speed and looks great he’s still finding his feet). You could say we’re strong enough to cover for that and we normally might be. But… B. We also have 3 important players playing off very limited pre seasons in a very condensed series of games Oliver, Petty, Brown and three looked spent. Then add in that a two went in carrying some big injuries in May and Oliver and possibly Trac? and we lost Salem early and kozzie before the game. In short we looked like half of ourselves and just didn’t have much to give . Im still not sure how we didn’t get utterly buried. Lots of excuses I know ….but they just didnt look like themselves at all so I’m wondering why. The hope I’m holding is that we really need the break and in the back end of the year ( with more fitness into oliver and Petty and more game time into the young ones) we’re going to be looking a lot stronger than we do now.

usually rumours like this don’t come from nowhere. The benefit might be that it’s really then a 3 week break for him to the tigers game.

We should all expect super fast action now then....things have gotten serious!

We've been so ultimately spoiled in very recent times haven't we? Bowey debuts and stars from the get go in 21. McVee, Windsor, Roo, Howes, Woey hasn't starred yet but looks pretty good. In the dark past, when hope was largely absent I must admit had little excitement about a new comer. Very different these days. Cant wait to see how he looks on the big stage!

which still makes him a very very good player ;-)

LOW IMPACT …. especially as it couid so easily have been high impact.

Interesting to think we may have both Mc Adam and Melksham at the back end of the year. Looking forward to seeing both of them and how we use them.

hope so!