Most of those Geelong players who gave North a shelacking have got kicking and hand passing skills that some of our blokes can only dream about.

I haven't seen any team play like that since the first half of 2004.

Can someone tell me this?

How does a medium sized player who has no ball skills with either hand or foot, but is blonde and can run quickly, get as far as earning a place in a mid-ranking AFL side? Is that all it takes these days?

Don't anyone mention ball magnet. I know all about ball magnets!

Reckon we all love him.

I'm still getting choaked about it.

He has good anticipation of where the ball is going to drop or spill, gets himself in the right spot, and does some good mopping up work. Too useful in that role to pull out of defence altogether.

Supporting the Saints is a frustrating, crazy, brilliant, hilarious, roller coaster ride, and the whole thing was encapsulated in the G-Train.

Thanks for everything Fraser.

The only reason to hate Collingwood is that they aren't actually very good but they are still playing in the finals and we are not. Adelaide looked a far better team and from the opening bounce it looked like a false hope that Collingwood might stand any chance of winning it. They were lucky to stay...

To finish 9th, or whatever it turns out to be, after playing no more than three quarters of football most weeks was something of an achievement. What really killed us was the Hawthorn loss when we had about 10 players missing but still should have been 6 goals in front at 1/4 time, and the Collingwo...

About three years ago, when Sam Fisher was new, we played Sam and Fergs on Richo, with Fergs blocking his run and backing into him.

They did a pretty good job on him from memory.

Played well against us earlier this season.

Would be very handy, but needs to play four quarters. Seems to burst into the game early and then fades.

Raph had one of his better games last night.

Some very brave running the same way as the ball as it was being pumped into our defence.

He also looks much quicker than he did a month ago. He'll come good next season if he avoids injury.

I'd have Bakes shaddowing RL the whole night.

Walk along the boundary with him before the game.

Go out to see the team at the breaks.

Stand with the team and celebrate at the end of the game.

Needs to be a constant presence and a constant reminder of what we are up against.

It was an illegal act which resulted in an opponent being badly injured.

So if you push a player in the back and he smashes his face on the ground and breaks bones, you won't be reported because pushing in the back is not reportable, but you will be suspended for weeks?

Is that the way it works?

If we lose we are dependent on other results falling in our favour. If we keep winning it's in our hands. The thing I've got my eye on is Sydney. We don't want to have to travel there in the first week of the finals should we finish 7th or 8th. Our best bet would be Collingwood or Hawthorn in Melbou...

McLaren is certainly the worst of the lot.

Little Mr Controversial, and seems to think it makes him an expert.

But Vozzo has been appalling lately too.

Had the incident occurred in exactly the same way, but with Farmer uninjured and Baker having sustained a fracture to the back of the skull, what would the verdict have been? Just as it's always the players' fault when they make contact with an umpire, is it always Baker's fault when someone runs in...

How would the argument put by the Tribunal apply in the Kos fractured scull incident against Footscray?

evertonfc wrote:Jiggster me old mate!

Hope things are going well for you old son

Let's hope the Sainters initiate the lad with a win and that the Blues can do the right thing as well! Not a bad start on Saturday, gotta go on with the job....ANICHEBE!

LESCOTT, OSMAN, STUBBSIE. Say no more!!

Professional officials iin other sports (watch British football for example) pride themselves on shutting out the noise of the partisan crowd and, if anything, err on the side of being a bit hard on home teams I agree with everything you have said, MB, but have you ever seen a penalty awarded again...

Good post, and some very good points. In close handballing is shocking at times. Twice in the last quarter by a co-captain brought us undone. Handpassing under no pressure over 10 metres is poor. Too often the receiving player has to bend to take ball around his knees. It's just basic. We have one b...

I can't remember a game where we were so slaughtered by the umpires, but at least 50% of it was that Sydney were too smart for the idiots in yellow. They've adopted the Adelaide tactic of throwing your head back every time you are tackled. They also verbal the umpires when there's a ball-up pointing...

Over the last couple of years a bunch of our players have been given defensive roles, either intermittently or permanently, and there has been popular opinion, if not consensus, here that each of them should be played in the half-forward area. BJ, Fiora, Dal, Voss, TS40, and now Gwilt, to name a few...