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Best Bet Saturday Rosehill Race 3 No.10 Grand Piano (W) $3.80

This is probably the toughest matchup to split for me. Wight with perfect balance and athleticism, Wheels tough and uncompromising with his tackling a feature weekly. Both fantastic clubmen, watching some of the older clips on the site put up by various posters reminded me how good Wight was and Wheels looked like a seasoned pro from the day he made his debut against the Saints in 2000. Had to be reminded that Wheels actually played his first final in his 5th season due to some unlucky late season injuries in 2000-02.

Nice fellas, Macca with Race 1 winner in Syd, Wadda with Race 2, I’m sure Rubisaki was in some of our multis, mine anyway but the Pippie was swallowed up at Caulfield so no good there. Kinane just got me back on track. Edit: Sorry, got it wrong way around. Wadda R1 and Macca R2.

We didn’t lose this game but does anyone remember R1 2003? An almost epic capitulation. Flicking through YouTube the other day I came across the last quarter of that particular match. Couldn’t remember how it played out so I pressed play. We led the Hawks by 38 points with just under 12 to play and they tied it up 10 minutes later before Green kicked the winner.

Huge last quarter, watching it now reminded me how good a commentator Clinton Grybas was.

Best Bet Caulfield Race 2 No.1 Twitchy Frank (W) $2.70

James Cook. 8 goals after his first two games with us. He was injured early in his third and final game. Anyone with a better goal average for under 10 games?

40% off with codes from club at New Balance on now. What do we think of this?

Sheesh, we’ve had some serious talent over the years. Who remembers Tingay’s transformation from a skinny little kid to a beefed up machine? I feared for some opposition players the way he tackled them sometimes. I also remember him having around 16 possessions in the first quarter of the 94 prelim at the WACA before they took him out of the game with some kind of dodgy taking of the legs for memory? Unlucky he’s up against Jako here.

Been watching a few clips lately like most and came across this the other day. Remembering the good bits. Round 2, 2004.

Ahh...what a season! Went overseas just after the midway point of the season and it started splendidly. We thumped the ladder leading Saints by 10 goals and enjoyed another 3 weeks of listening to wins at ridiculous hours of the morning in Internet cafes. Came back just in time for 5 losing games.

Tuned in at a good time. It seems players did everything better back then. Picking the ball up cleanly in greasy conditions, none of this fumble fest we see these days. Players using both feet really well. A much better spectacle than today.

Johnstone for me too. Both extremely talented but when on song TJ is probably my favourite ever Demon. FWIW, I attended a QLD Demons function back in 2012-13 prior to a Suns game and TJ turned up as a guest speaker. One comment I remember and found interesting from his speech was that in his opinion the team he played in back then would have won at least one flag with better facilities.

The bloke from Adelaide Oval cheering all our goals?

Saturday Best Caulfield Race 8 No.5 Wild Planet (W) $3.00 I noticed WA has all 3 types racing today. Can’t recall if they’ve raced on Good Friday previously.

Neale Daniher.

Lewis is not wrong. Mt Disappointment well and truly lives by its name.

Does James Cook qualify? Only the two and a bit games due to injury. A bit of a what if. He looked like an absolute bargain pickup for us in season 2000 if his goal tally was anything to go by in the first 2 rounds.

Have a feeling we might be seeing the Cam McCarthy toe poke that stitched us up late in R4 of 2017.

Didn’t play many games for us but was always told Greg Doyle went by ‘Donkey’.

Don’t know MFM but stumbled across some news sort of related to Red Bull this morning....

No problem at all Andy. Thanks again for all your hard work.

4 points massive if we get them today. We will be going 2-0 after next week.

At the least words of encouragement can go a long way to helping all in need. You can see the rally on this fantastic thread already. Best wishes to everyone on here and their families.

From a football perspective one of the best parts is anticipating a response from the team the week after a loss. We now have to wait 10 weeks that’s if everything returns to normal. Each to their own, I would have preferred a few more samples before judging them too harshly.