Thanks for the Summary...

skeptic wrote:
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Hopefully X is FULLY involved with this aspect!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And there is the rub.... What is best to try and win a flag this year, What is best to try and win a flag in 2008, What is best to try and win a flag in 2009 are all different things - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - What is best to try and win a...

The Saints will be better in the short term if Harvey and G play on. However, with the rest of the player st. mart listed, one has to question whether the sort term benefit really compares to the long term risk. And there is the rub.... What is best to try and win a flag this year What is best to t...

it is becoming increasingly clear that the club erred gravely by sacking GT Yes they did err gravely......they did not sack him early enough.... the following players, and why have their careers not gone to plan..... (the post on X, and after writing a brief history of Barry Brooks on another post ...

The main lessons here are .. IF you trade....only trade if you get something reasonable or good in return... IF you go for picks...then do not fritter them away...(ie look at the Haks for well used picks...) By and large when a good player goes you do not receive good value back (and get less from t...

Barry Brooks: Tasmania U18, All Australian U18, First round pick 2001 (#15) - 7 AFL games in 6 seasons....Ruck Matthew Ferguson: Vic Country U18, All Australian U18 , Second round pick 2001 (#22) - 8 AFL games in 5 seasons....HB/HF Raphael Clarke: Northern Territory U18, All Australian U18 , First ...

With the apparent large amount of young potential ruckmen available for this years draft, we should look to use our second draft pick for one, and take another as a rookie. We should retain Matt Clarke as a part time ruck coach. ??? I am not sure what your source is....but having heard Sheehan talk...

As of the END of this season... 36 - Robert Harvey................ No 34 - Andrew Thompson.......... Yes 34 - Matthew Clarke............... Yes 31 - Fraser Gehrig.................. No 30 - Aaron Hamill................... No 29 - Michael Gardiner............. No 29 - Brett Voss......................Yes

With the apparent large amount of young potential ruckmen available for this years draft, we should look to use our second draft pick for one, and take another as a rookie. We should retain Matt Clarke as a part time ruck coach. ??? I am not sure what your source is....but having heard Sheehan talk...

The story behind Joffa getting dropped after 99 matches was that the person who's record he would have broken four matches later was on the StKFC Board, and didnt want his record overtaken by Joffa. Selfish. Simple as that. He played in the 2's at the G and was back in the team the next week. ??So ...

vacuous space wrote:Experience isn't the problem. We had one player under the age of twenty in our side, and he was one of our best. The problem as I see it is that we have too many guys - of all ages - who aren't pulling their weight.

Good point

We should just pay him whatever he is owed and then there wouldn't be an issue. However, my deeper instinct says it's Rod's job to pay him, not the club. He personally hired him - and then fired him - so surely the buck stops with him? RB did not personally hire him...it wasa Board decuison of whic...

Just hitting his straps....

Interesting to note that Dal was about our only young mid who did not balloon up with too much weight training......

spert wrote:GT clearly didn't put much emphasis on player development, and injury has been a factor for some. .

That is it in a nutshell....

Who cares if it is in the press????

The key issue is that GT wants $200,000 out of my club....

No one person should be judged on any one incident......


But when you see a pattern over time..................though some refuse to see it....




Show me the money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think we should take a look at how Richmond played the filth on Friday, put there best up forward and went fast, straight and direct to their forwards and forced the barcodes best asset, their running out of defense to become accountable and lose their effectiveness, by playing exciting attacking...

Gilbert to be the king of swing fora couple of sesons and then he will settle into being an awesome CHB. You want 10 odd players to be art of the midfield...and BJ will assist with that without be a key midfielder. He will be a backfielder....but yes will also play HF at times. Gram to be feed up fo...

I think part of the reason is that our midfield as a unit has not been that good this year....

....and conversely that most oppositions midfields have been good this year.

We do not have the midfield edge that we use to have.

The hush money was evidently only meant to be $100,000 but GT never actually signed....so the money is not owed....but GT wants it anyway.


Not sure what the other $40,000 is for?????

Evidently claims he never tooka holiday...so wants to be paided now.....

All part of his $200,000 claim


As stated by Caro

Plus RB and GT signed off on the $1.14 million...though evidently was significantly discounted...

On the over muscling....my personal pet theory is that this had a lot to do with our string of hammy's...and now that we are more endurance foccused it will dissipate. In athletics I look at sprinters...and they always seem fragile with lots of injuries...vs the long distance runners who just don't ...

On Armo...Banfield has publically stated that he is not fit enough.

A huge pre-season should see him right for 2008.