Earl Hood

Oh well once you get smashed in the clearances all day as we were, many players are going to look bad no matter how hard they try. So the 3 word analysis will reflect that but not inform us a lot.

Alas not. But any recognition would be a bonus for my tireless work in the Banking and Franchising Industries!

Russian interference eh?

Wrong year!

Pro have a good look in the mirror mate! FFS that is exactly what you do. Facts are secondary in your war on those you deem to be dangerous lefty loonies which I have stated before is everyone politically to the left of Genghis Khan, in your mind!

What success? Are we getting ahead of ourselves?

Hope the Crows can bounce back.

You are right but how many times has Hodge had one of these competitive collisions and never gets injured? While the other player gets carted off. It is amazing, given there is not much of him, he is no Leigh Matthews but he has often been just as lethal (without the behind the play king hits of course).

Continuing the memory lane posts of 1973, I don’t remember the match in question but I remember that year I played winter Pennant tennis on Sundays for Grace Park and played against Ross Brewer who might have represented MCC in tennis I think. I remember he had kicked a bag the day before we played. Amazing in those days he would play VFL on Saturday and tennis Sunday. I played local footy on Saturdays myself but was often stiff and stuffed when I played tennis the next day. In those days rehab for me after footy was a shower and a dozen pots at the club bar!

I think it was around 2005 or 2006 first round against St Kilda and I was sitting with 2 Saints mates and 20 minutes in Wrecker takes out Del Santo with the best hip and shoulder I have ever seen. The noise of the impact was extraordinary to hear and to see as well. Del Santo was stretchered off, as my Saints friends said 20 minutes into the season and he is stuffed! But Wrecker had injured his neck and left the field some time later and missed a few weeks. So it evened out.

Avengers Infinity Wars anyone?

Ch 7’s Stevo said Mitch Hannan went off for scans today? For what I don’t know.

Yes was anyone reported? What were the Umps doing, there are 3 for every game?Do the VFL have a match review committee? Probably not if they don’t have the camera coverage I suppose.

I think he should be tried down back, suspect he has all the tools needed to be a mobile intercept back, depends if he can read the play back there. He doesn’t mind tackling people but we need to give him time there to prove he can play the role.

That is absolute gold. I was thinking at the time, George Reeves and Superman but this is so much better!

Great stuff just downloaded the Fagan version but not picking up Zingg on iTunes music library. Anyway managed to download 3 or so related great songs from this lead. Micheal McDonald, ex Doobies and so on. Thanks for that. Somehow lead me to Randy Crawford and Foreigner and on and on...

Happy to alternate but only if we get one or two extra home games against the other big Melbourne based clubs. The fact is we get absolutely screwed financially with the fixture every year. Except for QB and ANZAC eve alternatively we get stuff all big games at home.

The run home looks fairly even for all the top clubs except the Dorks. They must have the easiest draw for the season, rarely travel to foreign territory, take the interstaters down to Tassie, play the rest at the Gee. So I am guessing we can expect them to finish around 4 to 6 and again be a good chance in a very even season.

We got done for NOT tanking!! If my memory serves me correctly.

Many were saying that of ANB up till about 3 weeks ago but look how he has prospered. I see Stretch in a similar vein, has some good attributes and is a solid trainer and wants to be the best he can, given time and a chance he may surprise. I would not write him off yet.

Yes but he is not a natural footballer, he is a big strong athlete with acceleration for sure but I don’t think he is the answer.

Here’s hoping that J Smith, Keilty, Hunt, Petty all put in blinders for Casey tomorrow. Then we can choose a replacement based on how the teams matchup.

Yes played 2 finals in 2006 but can’t fathom what point he is trying to making.

6. TMac 5. Jetta 4. Oliver 3. Gawn 2. Fritsch 1. Hogan

I remember 1990 well, I took the year off from work, in the days when you could take long service leave plus extended leave without pay and still have a job when you got back. Backpacking across Asia I could only check in on the footy by finding an Australian Embassy where they always had a reading area and a catalogue of daily papers. So I would catch up on 7 or 8 weeks of match results at a time. These were days before email, the web, WiFi and smart phones. Just letters and newspapers back then. Didn’t we win the first 6 or 7? Then had our usual losses in the middle before regaining form toward the end. I remember I made it to London in time to be able to watch Drew Morphett compering The ABC Winners on my hotel TV showing the first final where we beat the Hawks and Dermot Brereton lamenting that he could not believe they could lose to us two weeks in a row! Great stuff but then I was travelling again and found out we lost to the Weagles at least a week after the fact. And yes I thought at the time we have stuffed up a great opportunity because this was a gap year in between great teams, so was 1991 by the way and guess who snatched that one? One bonus was being out of the country and therefore missing the Collingwood celebrations.