it means we MUST find a ruckman. kosi straight to full-forward. sorry to see the end of fraser. has been a fantastic player for our club

if i was RB i'd be on the phone to his geelong counterpart organising a joint protest in the strongest terms

this makes me very angry. policy on the run again by demetriou

Big ground. Sunny September afternoon. No win/loss pressure. Why not mix it up a bit. Take some risks. Move the ball straight down the middle. Exploit the marking skills of our 3 key forwards. ie kick to one on one contested mark situations, rather than play "keepings off". No backward or...

Very thin draft this year and I believe Ross will do some heavy pruning on our list so don't be surprised if we pick up some recycled players from other lists. i've got no problem with "pre-loved" players with one proviso. Their best football must be ahead of them ... not behind them like...

i'd like to see kosi play ff next season. give him that responsibility and watch him grow in the job. move fraser out to half-forward alongside roo or just keep him in the pocket as a handy goal-kicking decoy. only problem is we'd need to find another ruckman. clarke clearly wasn't the answer and ri...

Wasn't expecting a fairytale premiership but wasn't expecting what happened either.... this list has the capacity to AT THE VERY LEAST make finals abnd we didn't.... its actually quite disappointing. i agree. we went backwards in 2007, there is no denying it. let's hope now that RL has had a good l...

We have no real tradeable quantities besides maybe Xavier Clarke or Dal Santo. If the offer on the table is good, I say take it, especially for X. We can't give up Roo, Kosi, Goddard or Hayes, but maybe Gram or Fisher should be used as bait, as both play the runnning back role. don't trade any of t...

I would love to see a new fitness regime next year. Go all out - even interrupt their eating lifestyles yep good point. all too often we were unable to run out a game. perhaps the "numbers behind the ball" tactic of which RL seems so enamoured only serves to knacker our guys by the end of...

here's a few more dispense with the ultra defensive, negative "accountable" gameplan and let the guys with flair play with flair. most of the season our blokes were more worried about their opponents than getting the pill. make them "accountable" for getting the ball. draft, rath...

Winmarvellous wrote:We are, we just haven't shown it for a full game, hance us not making the 8.

i agree. how our talented list (which has made the finals the past three seasons) missed out so badly has me puzzled.

we have underperformed this season given the talent available to us.

our list isn't perfect ... the on-ball division needs work ... but we should have made the finals.

we seem to have fallen back into a meek acceptance of mediocrity

i'd give us a e. we went backwards. let's hope we can turn it around in 2008.

this is more frustrating than supporting st kilda

Munga wrote:golden tackle by goldsack

or money bag, as the pies fans call him

oh well, that's life. we had our chances during the season. see you guys in about february

what's the score?

plugger66 wrote:Cousins plays like that every week so does that mean he has a pill before every game.

he is a wonderful player even without the benefits that amphetamines provide. increased confidence, endurance, concentration and risk-taking.

But no one in 3 years has tested positive to using on match day. I doubt many if any use on match day. They would after the game but not before because you get suspended for 2 years. sometimes cousins and a few of his mates play like supermen with supreme confidence and almost superhuman endurance....

plugger66 wrote:They are performance enhancing on match day.

exactly. that is the worry

plugger66 wrote:They are banned because they are illegal but not because they are performance enhamcing.

so you'd be okay if a horse doped up with speed or some other stimulant won the melbourne cup?

they are performance enhancing.

yep amphetamines and other stimulants (such as cocaine) are banned worldwide in sports because they are performance-enhancing. That is not true. They are only banned on match day. Other sports apart from the AFL dont even test for them out of competition. which bit isn't true? amphetamines and othe...

yep amphetamines and other stimulants (such as cocaine) are banned worldwide in sports because they are performance-enhancing.

good on mick for saying publicly what many on here have been saying for a while.

sort of cheapens the eagles' premiership imo.

if adelaide wins we should play thommo (if he's fit) and give him a good send off. been a great and underrated clubman over many years. if collingwood wins we should play our best team, which, imo, thommo is not in ... but that's only imo. if we attack as we have over the past few weeks we should ea...

The Saintsational Man wrote:Molly Meldrum

i wondered when that one was going to come up.

thanks guys.