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I think some of us are getting a bit ahead of ourselves. It seems to me that the second half of the year is going to be harder than the first half, and frankly, it's bloody miraculous that we are where we are given our injuries. If we finish in the top four I'll be well pleased, because we...

What I like about Geelong is that they've done it honestly and professionally; no inflated - or violated - salary caps, no cannibalising another club, no imported prestige coach (indeed, the present coach will probably turn out to be better than their last), and without tanking for years. The...

There was a time - prior to that All-Stars game - when Fraser and Cox were considered to have "transformed" the role of the ruckman in that both could play around the ground as well as tackle and kick goals. I like old Joshie, and I loathe the way some bag guys just because they go elsewhere...

Agree with all the above AND this was a big game, right? And we used to think he couldn't stand up in the big games, right? Well, wrong! He REALLY stood up today.:D

Not so long ago I posted saying that this year Toovey would - like Dane Swan in previos years - incrementally improve to the point of becoming a genuinely great player. Got lots of LOLs and the rest. Ha, ha, ha wiseguys:p

So Blair actually sought Mick Malthouse out and pestered him into giving him advice on how to make it. Hmmm. There've been several player's in the past whom I've felt sure would make it and didn't, most notably Ben Davies. I guess this shows how important relationships really are, which in turn...

I think they are almost all down a bit so far, except Cloke where there's been some obvious improvement. I felt it was a real education last year when Ball and Jolly joined, two guys at the peak of their form, yet they still took about 8-9 games to really hit their stride, what with learning to...

Leigh Matthews made an insightful comment during the broadcast about this. He said that he'd overheard one of the Richmond players during a break saying something to the effect of "Make sure you kick it long down the corridor and sooner or later we must break through..." Matthews comment was...

Can someone please tell me why Holland retired. He did that big hit on someone who's name escapes me in the opening minute of a final (2002-2003???), got penalised about 5 for that, which ruled him out of the first few games in the next year, and then he never seemed to hit his stride again in...

Dawes would have gone in the first ten in the 2006 draft but for his knee (he was pick 28 after Reid and Brown at 8 and 10). In fact, although he's been in the system for four years, he's only played 32 games; he's at the beginning of his AFL career proper. He's at the same point Reid and Brown...

I guess we've got several years of this nonsense ahead.

Actually - seriously - with Tarrant back, why not play Harry up further, a mate for Swanny, same shape too. Hmmmmm!?

Didaicos, all that little error means is that I really don't give a toss for St Kilda, and can't even reliably remember the coach's name. But so what? Please try to learn to address the issues raised in a post in a moderate manner.

Gee, what a lot of nonsense. Have another look at the two grand finals. I reckon St Kilda performed a lot like we did in 2009 when we were bustled out in the finals. They won't fall apart this year and will have learned a lot from 2010. Players like Gwilt and Dawson will continue to lift, and...

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, never, never, never and definitely not!

Aah, but what about his intimidation of Johnathan Brown? A sight for sore eyes and then some. I hope Leigh Brown gets another shot at a GF because he seemed to be a bit down on both occasions this year. Useful moments at best, but still, I love the guy. Journeyman indeed!

Sheesh!!! I never said or implied that Tooves would be a great midfielder like Swan, or great in all the areas Swan is or whatever, only that he has improved enormously (like Swan) and may yet go much further (also like Swan), which, given his attitude (and perhaps also his relationship with...

Got a feeling about the kid after watching the drawn final yet again. He played one helluva game, damn near our best, only turned it over once from memory, but was courageous, flexible, intelligent, calm, going all the time and into everything. His second efforts were consistently first class...

The player missing from this discussion is Leigh Brown, whose recruitment angered many at first, and probably right through his first year with us copped more flak than flowers, but now, well, it's almost like he was always destined to be one of ours and now he's finally come home!!! I'm sure...

I just hope we don't make any more dumb-arsed footy-mentality investments like pubs and pokies. If you need to invest then buy some bloody BHP shares you idiots.

And to think Tony Shaw said he didn't have the skills or ability to be captain. Love ya Maxy!

I can't help but feel that many of us are being led astray by Tarrant's reinvention of himself as a back at Freemantle. All that really shows (IMHO) is that he's learned to be even more flexible and adaptive than he once was. I think that now he'll just play wherever he's needed, probably mostly...

Luke Ball? Luke Ball? What Luke Ball?

Ditto ditto ditto.

I'm from New Zealand; I arrived here in 1991, and I only got into AFL (not having even seen it before) when my universally-disliked brother-in-law ranted and raved about the Hawthorn win that year, and I looked at the disconsolate Weagles and thought, "Gee, I hope you guys turn this around next...

Yep, I'll agree with you on that, and someone else wrote about long kicking and the AFL attempting to encourage it back. I just think, and again maybe I'm wrong, that the biggest difference between us and almost every other team, really lies not so much in tactics as in Malthouse's coaching...

Maybe I'm utterly confused but isn't the Collingwood "swarm" merely a bigger, better, faster and more risk-taking version of the Saint's "press"??? I thought the received wisdom is that they pioneered a tactic - playing the entire game in your forward half if you can - but were laid low with...

I've only ever bagged one Collingwood player, Travis Cloke earlier this year, and most of us were doing so then. Were we wrong? Hmmmm. Then there's this matter of the contract negotiations. Hmmmm again. But I'll happily take it all back - I apologise Travis - now get your bloody kicking boots on...

So satisfying to be proven right, albeit belatedly. Love the guy!:):D:thumbsu::p;)