People forget that we were 23 inside 50s up on Geelong at half time of the Grand Final. Still finished +16. Eddy didn’t get a game in the 09 GF side either. I’m not sure Ross can be blamed for Schneider missing from the point of the square, McQualter from 20 out, Milne not making the distance when h...

It looks like Sean Ralph-Smith in the photo. Game appears to be the 1991 game with Lockett kicking 13 against the blues

Dunstan finished 8th in our b&f last season & was very good in the back half of the season. He is a slow burn is Dunstan, the acquisition of Hill & Butler as well as hopefully a fit Hannebery will allow us to better utilise his skill set. He has runners with foot skills to distribute the...

Very sad situation. At times in 2016 if you take out isolated highlights of some of our games you could see Paddy was more than up to being a very good player. Unfortunately concussion issues have prevented that from happening. For the club it is just stiff number 2s. No different to Tom Boyd having...

There is a reason why Geelong are happy to let him go. We are like the lost dogs home.

No interest in picking up discards from other clubs who cannot get a game

Absolutely agree on the whole “Mad arse supporter of a club” meaning stuff all. Look at Tom Lynch for example. As one eyed pies supporter as you could find but when he had a choice of club back to Melbourne he went Richmond as the $$$$ and term of contract was more rewarding not to mention marketing...

In my opinion we as supporters severely overrate Bruce. He had 18 goals on the board after 15 games this season. Granted he had some injury issues but that seems to happen most years. Someone said he is a hardworking GOP and that is spot on. Has he ever had a high finish in our b&f? I rate Membr...

The main issue IMO is Big Boy was 1 year off becoming a free agent at a time we were about to rebuild and at that time not a lot of cap space. Hawthorn most likely would have been in the premiership window & would come at him with a huge offer. We likely cashed our chips in early before free age...

We are years away from even contending for a flag. Surely we all remember the Monkhorst, Matthew Clarke, Capuano debacle in the early 2000s. Gun player Goldy but getting on in years & bringing him to the club in my opinion is a woeful decision. I’d rather we took Draper & use King eventually...

I'm on the Caracella bandwagon as well. At the very least we need to interview him. Played his footy under Sheedy, Matthews and Malthouse. He has been Neil Balme's right hand man at both Geelong & Richmond's premierships this decade, anything he has been involved with has been successful. Someon...

This was an enjoyable win against the Eagles back in ‘92. Didn’t get there until quarter time but gees.... that was a bloody cold day at Arctic Park! I also went to the famous Brisbane game at Arctic Park when it was 8 degrees with hail so thick you couldn’t see anything. Those were the days... Yes...

Went and saw the full game. We need to keep our expectations low on King for now. Today was his first serious hit out against men and not boys. I couldn’t have been more impressed. He flew for a ball on the wing in the first quarter and the crowd just went “whoa”! It was like in the movie “The Blind...

Watched on TV, my dad went to the match but I stayed home. Poor old Pater Caven his nose in, I always wondered what reception he gave Plugger when he joined the Swans. I have a feeling it can't have been too good a reception given a couple of years later he was at the crows playing a premiership ag...

Remember when Scott Watters tried to turn Stanley into a full back! His best position moving forward was always going to be as a ruckman. I recall him having a huge game against Kruezer and then a week later ripping a hamstring in the first quarter against Natuanui at Subiaco. At the time we had McE...

Paddy was allegedly out practising his goal kicking yesterday with a specialist coach.

If that is the case, I don't think he will be announcing his retirement anytime soon and will at some point attempt to come back.

Lachie Henderson and Zach Tuohy have been pretty handy players to request a trade from Carlton in recent times

ASL: 36, M, Bayswater
Favourite Sainter all-time: Plugger
Favourite current Sainter: Gresham
Breakout player for 2019: Josh Battle
Predicted Finish: 11th
Most Brownlow votes 2019: Steven
Surprise player for 2019: Callum Wilkie

That was well worth the 3 hours viewing this evening. Some vintage plugger footage bringing back many memories. A few news articles I’d never seen before!

I’m optimistic we will be far more competitive next season. At this point it is too hard to predict a win/loss tally for the first six rounds. It was less than two years ago we belted Hawthorn by 75 points in Launceston admittedly with Roo still running around. Late last season we lost to them by 4 ...

I wouldn’t be too concerned at this point. Tony Lockett crossed to Sydney at 29 after 2 injury and suspension interrupted seasons with us and he turned out to be pretty useful there. I’m not too fussed if we get just a serviceable player. Having him out there will allow others more of a chance to ge...

What do people expect, we play on the car park in front of 20,000 style crowds on a weekly basis, currently near the bottom with terrible player development & a vanilla coach in Mr 33%. I’d imagine we were quite aggressive and offered large sums of money to all of the premium types. Apart from m...

I think the big issue we had at the time with McEvoy was that we were about to head into a rebuild and he’d be a free agent a year later and in demand by a team such as Hawthorn. They would have then dangled the big carrot of becoming a premiership ruckman on good coin. The alternative is to remain ...

Something hasn’t been right with Billings all year. I know he did a hammy around Feb, he has no power or depth in his kicking. My guess is he is playing with a leg injury possibly OP. Cannot kick the ball 50m at the moment, has no power at all in a running sense. He was close to All Australian last ...

I believe Newnes may have had shoulder surgery around Christmas time hence his lack of tackles this year. He has had no strength in it and hasn’t been able to stick a tackle. His worst is better than a lot of our 2nds player best and that’s why he keeps getting a game. I’d say it is starting to impr...

I’ll reserve judgement on Paddy. He has been underwhelming mainly due to concussion issues. The Hawks game in Launceston stands out for me in his 2nd year. The ability is there, looks fit during the week but for some reason on game day he looks like the Michelin Man. Wasn’t great yesterday at all bu...