Cranky Franky

A lot of supporters (as well as players) live in Fantasy Land when it comes to the last year(s) of their favourite players. Most careers just limp along & fade out. Age & injuries respect nobody. Look at Carey, Lockett, Modra, Ablett - all should have retired well before they did. Bizzell was a great player now he is only a spare parts man. Anyone who thinks he is going to recapture his form of a few years ago is deluded.

Trouble with Scott is that he got into the habit of not taking the first option. He would get the ball then instead of doing the obvious thing ie quick kick or handball he would try & take on the opposition then if he beat his man he would look around & try & try & take on another man invariabaly he would just get tackled or turn the ball over.

Just goes to show that a lot of people that do this must spend all of 30 seconds on their research. Alves & Hardeman are out for obvious reasons. Laurie Fowler is a walk up start - he was not only a back pocket but a very good on baller & Alan Johnson could play in several positions. Also Glen Lovett is in for mine - one of the most underatted players of the era - never played a bad game & rarely beaten plus could play in many positions. The trouble with Danny Hughes at full back is that he struggled with anyone who had some pace - maybe Shanahan would be a better bet.

Exactly none. But I think that on achievements so far Joe's credentials are a mile ahead of Isack's. Of course I could be completely wrong on this matter. I would love to see both players do well although if Joe does well it will always bug me that he went to a low life team like Carlton.

I was really hoping we would draft Joe Anderson & was very surprised when we got Weetra @ 62. Carlton then got Anderson @ 67. Weetra has potential but has only played at u 19 level in SA. Anderson has been playing in the firsts against men since he was 16. At 17 he won the Darwin B&F, was a very good player in the team's Premiership side & captained the NT under 18 side. He was rated by commentators to be one of the best young players to come out of the NT for a while. His grandfather Jimmy Anderson was an NT legend & one of the best ever players to pull on a pair of boots. I just thought that Joe was a mile ahead of Isack in terms of ability & potential. Just hope this isn't another Joel Campbell or Mark Berts effort.