Earl Hood

God I hope you are right and we actually got a first round pick right for the first time in 10 years or more!!!

Watched 7 and 17 last year to practice my spanish and because we had just travelled to Amazonia via Peru. Good movies though.

Well I suppose it is only just starting to look dodgy because most of us had never heard of this punters club until this week. The price of bananas is dependent on quite different criteria I think. Maybe climate in the key growing areas, who knows I am not an expert. Maybe TGP you can inform us of more detail on the punters club and what determines the price of bananas?

It is all starting to sound very dodgy. An assault and a car being torched down at Connewarre, unpaid bills for horses and payments to tax havens in Bermuda! Promises of 25% returns on punting? A sensible person wouldn't go near it unless you are interested in tax avoidance, money laundering or alternatively you are just plain stupid? In Don's case it could just be the latter.

I feel your pain having missed those two flag just. All I think is if we have finally got rid of the overpaid clowns running the place and we have professional people in charge we will go forward,drafting will still have its problems, there will be wins and losses but if the decision making is right, if there is a coherent strategy to get ahead, we will. For so long we have been lead by part time, narrow thinking near do wells on the Board.

Hmmm it seems that the bullshyte election advertising has disappeared. Thank you to whoever. Glad to get back to the usual "singles living near you and just waiting for a call!" Brian Loughnan can go and get st&ffed!!

Do not disagree. But I look at the 90's and wonder how we did not snaffle a cup. We had the list, the talent but we struggled with injuries at the wrong time, example The Ox, our favourite, A Jackovich, Sean Charles, Glenn Lovett, Tingay and Lyon who had played his best football at 25! Yes we had bad luck when we needed some good luck but as I remember it we often set ourselves up for glory and then would lose a succession of games to put us back in the lower end of the finals contenders, never top two, from which we could have won. The common problem was and still is lack of on field leadership. It was then left to too few. We would lose Danny Hughes and the back line would fail or we would lose the Ox and the side would shutdown. Oh for a J Selwood or a Ronald Dale for that matter.

Gee I wouldn't mind a fast leading half forward who can bag 60 to 70 goals a year and a gifted half back/half forward/wing/midfielder who used to accumulate 30 odd possessions per game at his best. They both had their faults but they had talent in spades that I just don't see in this group. P.S. Not Happy with the bullshyte advertising I keep seeing here. Seems there is no escape from this campaign!!