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Player quality was a real issue in the early days.

Gaff had a spotless record before this. Thankfully the Tribunal didn't go soft on what was an unseemly return the dirty 70s incidents a la John Greening and other players. Bravo tribunal.

Regardless. Win a few games and the microscope goes onto the particular commentator rather than the performance of the team. I'm no particular fan of King but then right now he is not saying much different about St Kilda than other commentators.

King may be a campaigner but that is a different issue to him giving his view of St Kilda's less than glorious season, based upon expectation. And if he did not express an opinion, he would not be doing a job. When the only reason your coach still may have a job, if they lose to Gold Coast, is...

No one "deserves"a flag. Teams deserve flags based upon form not players on emotion.

We don't have a Lou Richards round nor a Ted Whitten round or a Jim Stynes round - for a reason. Better to leave the memory of the man as is.

Please be a good Friday night game for once.* *As a backstop, South Sydney are also playing so if the Richmond game deviates into tedium, there may be other options ( any port in a storm).

Whether Mitchell, or anyone else got off, is not relevant to the whether Fyfe should have got weeks.

Fyfe appears to play best when he's close to the edge in terms of physicality. By its very nature, that approach has its drawbacks.

I agree that it is not Carlton per se. But blind freddy could have seen that Sydney v Carlton was going to end only one way. A lot of games are tedious in part, or in whole, but some games are able to be predicted as such. It was the same as the the old Ross Lyon at St Kilda and Roos at...

The record of recent number 1 picks has hardly been glorious, for various reasons including, sadly, injury.

Tell me you sat through the entirety of the Swans Carlton game then. It's only going to get worse though with, as if results go to expectation this week, the top 10 may be separated by at least 6 points and percentage by the end of the round, from the bottom 8. And if we see games involving...

Even the rugby league is a better option these days than most Friday night games.

I remember that moment and to me it stands out given the highly partisan crowds that were prevalent in those days. That ( and from a purely personal club point of view, Adrian McAdam destroying Collingwood and Mick Gayfer at Victoria Park ) was imo the turning point in the treatment of...

I have always asked myself why Casey did not serve in WW1 as he was in his early thirties when the war broke out and not in a war related industry to my knowledge. There was no conscription of course so service was voluntary but numerous footballers as we know at VFA and VFL level did enlist. I...

Easily the Coventry brothers if you are counting just 2 from the names you named. Although the Colliers at Collingwood were also very good. If you want to go back earlier the McShane brothers at Geelong were also very good at the inception of the VFL. Then there were the Pannam brothers for...

It's not uncommon still and if you went through Trove with a fine tooth comb, a few more would appear. It is logical, if nothing else. Young fit men play football with their teams and at the time were highly patriotic ( I expect we would be too if we were attacked). Who the army need - young...

I hope the bloke does well.

I posted this about Joe O'Sullivan on the VFA Goalkicker's thread about a week ago: " "

It's amazing how research we do parallels each other. Look at the VFA goal kickers thread and I came to the same conclusion. I'll post the entirety of that post on this thread.

To be frank, I don't know. But that is a decision made at the higher echelons of the AFL not at the lower echelons.

You simply don't get it. Travel time has nowt or very little to do with how the non Victorian team does in the GF as I've shown earlier. It's non Victorian and Etihad sides sides building a game style built about developing their own home ground advantage.

Tell me how many predominately Etihad based sides have recently won the GF. Tell me how many times, Etihad based teams had the opportunity to play their finals at Etihad as compared to the MCG recently. You talk of Melbourne clubs as this monolithic group of clubs. That said the system is...

To be frank, the grand final will be played at the MCG for the foreseeable future. I'm not going to postulate about other possible systems because contractually the GF has to be at the MCG for the moment ( just as they had that insane contract with the MCG which required there be a final there...

Like it or not, you cannot take the financial imperative out of finals.NM play their games at Etihad yet last played a final there in 2005 and since then have played 5 finals at the MCG. You act as if the Swans have had liberties taken of them, when they are no different to other clubs. As...

This is also a factor. For years teams like St Kilda, Sydney and Fremantle played a low scoring horrible style of football, at the very least adapted to Etihad, Subiaco and the SCG. It was a style that was supremely successful in the home and away season ( and led to great home and away...

Now this travel garbage comes out. Here is the list of interstate GF finalists and the amount of times they travelled in the finals: 2017 - Adelaide - once for the GF 2016 - Sydney - twice (once because they lost a home final against Adelaide) and for the GF 2015 - WCE - once for the GF...

How many times have non Victorian teams played Victorian Teams in the GF since the great Brisbane teams? 7 How many times have non Victorian teams beaten Victorians Teams in a GF since the great Brisbane teams? 6 What was the total amount of those losses? 48, 22, 46, 61, 15, 121, What was...

Actually your research cuts across a number of threads, as do many of the threads on this board. It cuts across the AFL date of birth thread as well as historical inaccuracy thread.

As for Hutchison, this report of 1931 suggests he later played for Footscray but was primarily a Port player http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article182546416