Everything posted by Cranky Franky
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Tyler Keitel
Classic QB. I was going to ask if he was related to Harvey.
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CASEY: Rd 09 vs Sandringham
"More than serviceable" no he was not up to it although he played as a defender back then. Probably not a bad idea but can't see clubs drafting 28 year old on ballers. Maybe if key fwd or a ruckman.
- VOTES: Rd 11 vs St. Kilda
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Time to Blood Jeffo
I had written him off too & happy to be proved wrong but let's keep it in perspective. After a season & a half that's probably the 2nd time he's been named in Casey's best. He needs a few consecutive performances like yesterday before being considered for promotion.
- PREGAME: Rd 11 vs St. Kilda
- PREGAME: Rd 11 vs St. Kilda
- PREGAME: Rd 11 vs St. Kilda
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Sunday footy show - Who is the greatest Demon of all time?
RDB clearly the winner. Warne Smith - Captain, 2 Brown lows & a Premiership has to be 2nd. Robbie the best I've seen followed by Lyon.
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Time to Blood Jeffo
Struggling to impose himself at Casey so promote him up to the next level - sounds logical to me.
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PREGAME: Rd 10 vs West Coast
Yep you were right & I end up looking like a goose Mind you his selection totally contradicts Goody's earlier comments that McAdam would not play until he had several Casey games under his belt. Let's hope this works out better than the Petty or Bowey returns when they were clearly underdone.
- PREGAME: Rd 10 vs West Coast
- PREGAME: Rd 10 vs West Coast
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Premiership Rings?
More American Imperialist carp. Just like that stupid hall of fame. Surely we can come up with something original. Premiership stubby cooler !!!
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TRAINING: Wednesday 8th May 2024
Ruck rover - what a quaint old fashioned term.
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CASEY: Rd 06 vs Williamstown
Well the selectors have put him on the bench. Middle of last year I said he was looking like Lucas Cook & have seen nothing to change my mind.
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Gendered domestic violence issues.
Jeez that both depressing and alarming. It opens the question on Tarryn Thomas. In my view any player suspended for DV or related matters would need to demonstrate with testable evidence that they have changed. And not just issuing statements of cliched PR weasel words. Something like volunteering for a year with a DV organisation would be a start.
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Gendered domestic violence issues.
Good point 1858. In my 38 years in the workforce the only certain DV that I knew about was a bloke called PG. He was jockey sized & an alcoholic. His much larger wife would come in at lunchtime on payday to grab his cheque. PG would often come in with black eyes & mumble about walking into doors.
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Gendered domestic violence issues.
Hear hear Kev. I agree we have a long way to go to stamp out domestic violence but I'd like to put in a slightly different perspective. As Crikey has pointed out the rates of domestic spouse homicide are about half of what they were on the mid 80's. You can look this up on the Australian Institute of Criminology statistics. There has been a definite spike this year but the stats are trending in the right direction. We now have women's refuges, AVO's and police take domestic violence more seriously. The AFL & NRL now take action on players charged with DV and society rightly shuns them whereas previously it was ignored. We have a long way to go but things are moving in the right direction. And finally don't forget that while the vast majority of victims of DV are women & children around 10-15 % of the victims are men.
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Clayton Oliver: A real Mensch.
Yes but it's only become popular in the West because Jewish idioms have become standard on American sitcoms like Seinfeld.
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Clayton Oliver: A real Mensch.
Mensch is just more US cultural Imperialism stolen from Israel. How about Clarry is a good bloke. Or a bonza fellah.
- PREGAME: Rd 08 vs Geelong
- VOTES: Rd 07 vs Richmond
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Best Recruits from Other Clubs
Joel McDonald was arguably the biggest "howler" we made in recent history. For some reason bizarre PR reason the club was telling its members what a coup it was recruiting Joel when in fact he was a plodding journeyman. Anyway we took him & next pick Tigers picked Dylan Grimes (whose brother Jack was already at the Dees). Probably the crime of the century.
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Demonstone's ANZAC * (Another Nerdy Zeitgeisty Academic Challenge)
You should get some award for reminding older supporters of Barry Ough. Picked for 1 match, sat on the bench, wasn't used then left the Club shortly after.