It's hard for me to dislike Goddard . It's a lot easier to dislike essendon and I must say the press turning on someone else for once , especially a club that has had it's arse kissed since the messiah ( hird ) walked in the door, is a satisfying change. It feels like the scales are finally coming b...

It's a 2 page spread in the herald sun that is actually positive. After the last couple of off seasons we ll take it. Plus Goddard didn't get a mention which is refreshing .

To me , I think supporters perceive us as a bottom team traditionally , who have been playing well for the last ten years and prob thrashing their own team in the process. Some have been our whipping boys (Carlton , Richmond ) for the last 8 years. People would respect us more if we managed to win a...

I disagree stronly. Hawthorn play 4 games in Tassie and their membership base has gone from strength to strength. And besides, we have no choice. If we do slide down the ladder we will be in big trouble financially. We need to embrace NZ and make it work. We also need to show the Docklands that if ...

Had to stop watching - his version of street talk was embarrasing.

Freo still wanted him so that's gotta be a good sign plus it makes it more satisfying if he does well for us. They have Dawson but we now have roberton so it gives us the chance to even the scales.

Lets hope the club is transparent with this issue and supports the off season drug testing regime.[/quote]

I reckon off season drug testing would just see a number of players go missing overseas for six weeks and maybe never come back.

Afl players are no different to any other people in their teens and twenty s . If it surprises you that any of your workmates , neighbours , nieces , nephews, the kids down at the local cricket club etc have taken pills or powder to have fun then your pretty nieve. As they get into their 30s and 40s...

Love the way both he and hickey can string more than two words together and actually seem quite intelligent . Amazingly they don't start every sentence with "yeh nah " .

The club had many areas of weakness, especially with the aging list. Can't fix them all at once. But we're heading in the right direction. Midfielders - tick Goal kickers - tick Speed - tick Ruckmen - tick Lack of height in general - tick In regards to those FBs everyone's talking about it's unlike...

Don't know about "know" they will get good picks but I will be happy with 2 x 200 gamers from our 20s picks who don't get too many injuries but more importantly , don't get the "oh I just want to go home" bug that seems to be getting quite common these days. Anyway ........... I'...

Why do they always assume that more noise is better . 90% of it is gonna be ads played flat out or music that a 50 year old thinks will be appealing to everyone .

It didnt feel that they were much closer to winning a GF than us when we beat them by 71 points this year.

Yep footscray played finals and still couldn't get prime games. They have been typecast as one of the little clubs and will remain so due to the afl pandering to money interests first. We have been very successful on the field, but continue to struggle financially compared to other successful teams...

A home game against Richmond at the MCG?
Tigers would be stoked.

8 twilight games (have the lowest crowd support) the most out of any club with four on Sun. About time the club came out and had an official complaint about it. Why aren t they spread amongst all the lower clubs if they dont want to offend the rich clubs. "The rich get richer and the poorer clu...

mad saint guy wrote:Lazy, over priced and obviously an idiot. We could probably afford to pay him out if this is serious

We may not have to now. Could be part of any players contract that if they get charged.....

Not half as much as Dawson , ball and Ross Lyon .

Its an interesting situation and they must have a plan re new picks and who theyre gonna delist because they turned one pick into a player and a pick, twice in the trading period giving us two extra new players overall. Therefore needing to cut four players from the two draft picks we originally had.

I agree, if we have the chance to pick up a w.a "bargain" go for it but if they re roundabout the same pick as a vic or even a s.a player , choose them for sure. This whole needing to go home thing is gettin old pretty quick. These players getting a chance from a vic side then deciding the...

Surely we can shuffle the deck chairs for one more year ie fisher, sipposs, dunnel, gwilt, mcevoy . They are screwing us on cripps or picks if this is true. Wait one more year and the tables will turn. Where are our gun midfielders gonna come from losing these quality picks.

Probably not any inside source, but something like this: Hooker & Cripps to West Coast, Brown to St Kilda and Pick 26 to Essendon. seems most logical right now.... I would hope involving WC pick 41 also coming back to saints Essendon probably wont deal Hooker at less than 26... but WC cant poss...

We have a history of throwing away early draft picks to try and secure a decent ruck man which turn out to be duds. Hopefully the difference with this one is that he is proven to a stage that we know he ll be good.

I don't do this trade on on principal. Collingwood making out like bandits. How do they always get trades levelled in their favor all the time. Why wouldn't we just do a straight swap with Melbourne, Martin for Ray, instead of dropping in draft too? Probably because the deal couldn't get done. We d...

I heard on the radio today that he played if freos intraclub game at the beginning of this year and kicked 6 goals on Zac Dawson. Now that i think back i remember some wafl forward kicking a bag on dawson and i was rapt. That person was Tom Lee. It was too late to include him on anyones list at the ...