Remember when we bought in Michael Gardiner admittedly on a lot less Kanga. He’s played 3 games in 2006 at West Coast. His first year with us he didn’t play a game before 9 in 2008. I cannot recall that far back, I’d imagine he didn’t have anyone supporting or believing at 30 he’d be of any use. In ...

Remember when we bought in Michael Gardiner admittedly on a lot less Kanga. He’s played 3 games in 2006 at West Coast. His first year with us he didn’t play a game before 9 in 2008. I cannot recall that far back, I’d imagine he didn’t have anyone supporting or believing at 30 he’d be of any use. In ...

I remember the Alessio incident when he had 100kgs of Stafford on top of his ankle.

It was Greg Stafford who Bakes was rubbed out for 2 weeks for attempting to strike. Laughable

I believe Mark Arceri may have played at Vic Park the day Nicky & Gilbert ran riot

I thought we let Parker go to early as well but with a tight salary cap and possible lack of opportunities I understand. Those that bag out Kent need to watch the blocking he does to allow King space from Andrews on Friday night. His big backside deliberately was placed in front of Andrews subtly a ...

Yes it does. Lack of fitness will see an increase with injuries & errors under duress. Players as the game increases use the ball with less clarity, almost like you’ve been on the beers. I know this first hand with my sport cricket, I’m the king of the 25 each week with a brain fade dismissal al...

Alarm bells had to be ringing when Hannebery took out the Christmas time trial. I text my old man halfway through the 2nd quarter that we are done. You could see the lack of ability to get to contest and skill errors under fatigue increase. I’ve lost count this year even in wins like the north game ...

At least Freeman has saved us from stupidity by not nominating for the mid season draft.

Skunk is going at 65.25% accuracy over his career. 201 goals & 107 behinds. I will say that skunk does have a tendency to miss vital shots but overall 65% is quite solid.

Loved Sinclair’s game, rarely wastes a disposal & often parked himself in front of hawkins in the first half. For a small bloke I was pleasantly surprised with that part of his game.

There is a great big myth that Nick Riewoldt was a poor kick when he first started. That couldn’t be further from the truth, in fact he was a very good kick. To break it down this is Roo’s career accuracy. 2001-2004 - 120 goals & 69 points 63.49% 2005 - 2008 - 200 goals & 135 behinds 59.75%...

There is a great big myth that Nick Riewoldt was a poor kick when he first started. That couldn’t be further from the truth, in fact he was a very good kick. To break it down this is Roo’s career accuracy. 2001-2004 - 120 goals & 69 points 63.49% 2005 - 2008 - 200 goals & 135 behinds 59.75% ...

Right now early last quarter and hard ball gets are 112-109. Uncontested possessions are 256-131. We’ve won 5 quarters for the year. We are kidding themselves if they think they’re fit enough to play league football.

He was up on the wing with Timmy Membrey for a lot of the third quarter last night as they pressed up. Every time we kicked it out in his direction he was outmanoeuvred or someone 5 metres in front would mark. This could be a set up thing as all our defenders could see when they kicked the ball forw...

31 goals & 27 behinds with quite a few out on the fulls too. We have a lot more bigger issues than King’s accuracy. What concerns me is his 2nd half fade outs. Last week, he kicked his first ever career 3rd quarter goal. His football off short breaks falls away particularly after halftime. Is he...

I sat on the bottom deck on the Docklands side of the ground. Late in the first quarter I text my dad that we will lose by 10+ goals. You could clearly see when every player was coming to the bench they’d be almost walking as if they were climbing Everest. On the flip side the tigers blokes were spr...

On a whole I was quite happy with last night. Limited injuries & a win. I thought we might go through the Billy Ocean’s with a long season ahead bit that certainly didn’t occur. You can tell that those on the fringe, (Webster, Bytel, Hunter, McKenzie, Wood) were desperate to impress and push the...

Long is a frustrating player for mine, he has brain fades and is prone to giving very silly free kicks up. But I agree with Scollop in that his good outweighs his bad. People only look for the negative things he does. When he runs and carry's the ball he can kick with both feet and be more challengi...

Let's judge now. Being in and out of the side is disruptive to the team. We're better off having a reliable B or C grader in the side, in his stead. It's a physical game - his body can't take it. Respectfully - I absolutely 1000000 x bazillion disagree with this. A team of reliable B & C grader...

The big issue with Webster in my opinion is that he lacks the ability to break the lines hence why other younger players were preferred. He is also very one sided, opposition know that he is limited a left foot that can be hit & miss. Webster was part of the sideways Richo ball movement days. I’...

In my opinion if Geary play’s back we will find it extremely difficult to win. The biggest fault on Geary in the backline is he panic’s under pressure and quite often our other defenders become nervous when he is nearby. Up forward he has been brilliant in a number of games firstly stopping his oppo...

I suspect the knee injury he suffered in round 1 is limiting his usual output. Up until half time he was close to our best player. I believe his lateral movement and kicking penetration has been directly affected by it. He had 22 disposals against Collingwood and was far from our worst. He may have ...

1. Plugger - miss the old Moorabbin days with the big man at full forward 2. Nicky Winmar - I have a signed footy record with “9” circled the day he kicked a bag against Melbourne at the G 3. Jason Heatley - loved watching him in 97 at Waverley, beautiful kick 4. Lenny - who doesn’t love Lenny 5 - G...

The McEvoy trade is an interesting one. I could be wrong but I believe he was one year away from being a restricted free agent when he was unwillingly traded. In my opinion, at the time our salary cap was still at the absolute maximum due to poor governance around the 2007-2011 period. At this stage...

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...