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I suspect that Hawthorn are laughing behind our backs. The Hawks didn't even want to keep him, but have been playing the media just to inflate the price. It's worked a beauty. North are acting mad, desperate, insane. BB

Apollo, did you see Fairley in the first five years of his career? did you see Scholl in the first five years of his career? you know, people might not like to hear this, but mick martyn was atrocious more often than not in his early years, and I used to want to get rid of him. then they...

There are clubs with a winning culture and clubs with a losing culture, and while the shinboner thing has holes in it I'm happy to perpetuate the myth to keep the winning culture going. A winning culture doesn't mean winning all the time, it means working positively towards winning the share of...

Petrie is not a Carey type. He is a Fairley/Scholl type. I will take that. He'll serve us well. Trading him would be lunacy - and they won't do it. BB.

When Petrie first broke into the side Pagan was still coach. Petrie looked really good in his first few encounters, better than you'd expect of such a young bloke, and Pagan said at the time, 'He's a great kid, you can keep belting into him and he just keeps getting up.' I remember cringing at...

There are two governing factors in determing which team a person barracks for. A club's success at the time, and parental influence - the latter probably just (just) pipping the former in terms of sway. Despite our success in the 90s, there was constant talk through that time that we might...

Caro is a great feature writer, probably the best AFL-focussed feature writer in Australia right now, but she's a pretty ordinary hack at the day-to-day shoot-from-the-sleeve column. Her great flaw as a journalist is, of course, her Richmond bias - when she writes a feature on someone that bias...

The Coach is one of the all-time great footy books. Powers isn't much of a writer (although he is a writing teacher), but what he did there was create a classic. It must be read by every kangaroos supporter, or you aren't a true supporter. :) i've read it about 20 times over the years...

I agree with Borscht. We did finish 7th. Fifth was a brief moment in time, not the end-game. Reminds me of the early 80s when we finished top after the H&As. Then got smashed two weeks running at Waverley in the finals (no sign of shinboner spirit that year), to go out in straight sets...

This might be a bit hard to take, but the Roos onballer we need to re-evaluate is Simpson. He's strong overhead, has great endurance, gets a lot of possessions and we all love him. But: opposition sides do not fear him. He rarely carries the ball, doesn't kick many goals, gathers possessions but...