Scoop wrote:saint66au wrote:Quite surprised no-one has mentioned this today..
There was a snippet on the back page of the Age sports section today intimating that there was talk at St Kilda of Westaway stepping down and Michael Nettlefold replacing him. The rest of the snippet was just cheap shots at our lack of stability.
Saw that too....also was another snippet about GT and Caro on Footy Classified, with further cheap shots at GT.
Who the f*&k is Cameron Noakes anyway....another hack to fill in during the silly season......read more like a refugee from BigFooty, where you would expect to read this sort of crap, rather than the Sunday Age. I know that Psst is not the most serious of columns, but these two snippets had somewhat of a BF edge to them.
noakes is a f*** wit isn't he????
here's the article..........
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Cameron Noakes
December 28, 2008
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NEWS that sacked St Kilda coach Grant Thomas replaces North Melbourne champion Glenn Archer on Channel Nine's Footy Classified piqued our interest last week. Of course, The Age's chief football writer Caroline Wilson is also on the show and it will be interesting to see the dynamic of this panel (or in particular, Caro and Thommo) when the show begins next year. Thomas, after he was sacked by St Kilda, was a columnist for The Age, albeit briefly.
You see, the newspaper also dumped Thomas after he attacked Caro, his fellow columnist, on radio. Thommo was given a chance to apologise but he refused because he's that sort of bloke - hence, no flags but back-to-back sackings.
Thommo is also famous for not believing in ruckmen, not believing in game plans, not believing in young recruits, believing in Aaron Fiora and Mark McGough, the rotating captaincy and giving the football world the expression "going forward" (in my dictionary of corporate gibberish this means "in the future" and is usually used superfluously). Wilson, who is in the US, could n
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