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Stick with it, about a minute in….

Shit news. What a wonderful and inspiring legacy he leaves behind. I’m grateful to have known him and privileged to have fought in the trenches with him. Vale Ron

What a magnificent day for our footy club. What a massive achievement Sonja.

It doesn't sit well with me and deminishes the legacy of 2007. But decisions are made by those who turn up and I'm ashamed to say i completely missed this proposal. Any reports? I presume it was passed tonight? On iPad using BigFooty.com mobile app

Both players would easily have been in our best side but suffered significant injuries and couldnt get back to their best when the quality of our list started to run really deep. IIRC Romero was coming off a knee reco and Smith (aka The Kamakazee Pilot) suffered a ruptured liver.

Nice to see such a quality field. It would be a shame to see any of those candidates miss out. IIRC, didn’t the board voluntarily reduce its number a while back? If they have room, perhaps they can put an end to the closed shop of recent years by bringing in Ashley Admiraal via a casual vacancy…

Yeah, Denis was great at that and he really polished up the Shinboner Spirit during that era and especially after the Carey incident.

Nice post! Two prelims in a row is a great result and our next premiership will taste even sweeter for the mountain we have climbed on and off field to get there. Reminds me of some extracts from The North Story I posted long ago...

This thread reminds me of the frustration we felt back in the early nineties when the club was building a dynasty but started using the team of the nineties tag, before those outstanding under 19 players had earnt the right. Good thing enough members and shareholders stuck fat back then. And...

Here it is http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/archer-in-the-herald-sun.399583/

I remember going home on a real high but waking up to that f***ing disgraceful headline in the Hun which gave the impression Arch had given up the fight. It had the AFL's grubby fingerprints all over it and was a massive kick in the guts. Can only imagine how pissed off TOD must have been...

Nice find Twinkletoes :thumbsu: There were lots of ideas jangling about BF at that time and that's the thread where it all started to come together. The "Supporters Trust" idea referred to become WANM. I expect there is also a thread started by Gumbyroo outlining the concept and another by...

Nice work TOD, great to get some insight into the gig and the enigmatic Roosistence brains trust. :) If I recall correctly, there must be a thread deep in the bowels of BF where Boner first posted that he was up for what became the Roosistence gig? Indeed, I expect that all the events of...

The best sports jurno going round (he's much more than that) and the best article of that period. He'd been in Central Australia visiting indigenous communities for several weeks in the leadup to DBH. WANM had been pestering him to write something throughout that time and IIRC he called me to...

If i recall correctly, Smith and Wilson were discouraged from attending because the club had serious concerns for their safety. Smith, the pugancious bastard he is, came anyway. A brilliant reminder of what we almost lost, the efforts of so many to make sure it didn't come to that and how...

Sorry Chief, i don't think so. It took three minutes to load this page so i could read your post.

Chief, I just want to add my voice to the problem with http://tags.expo9.exponential.com/tags/BigFootycom/ROS/tags.js Forum pages probably take 3-4 minutes to load, and only do so after the request times out. This has made BF unusable for me. Please, can something be done?

Hell no. But in that scenario, get Blighty with Adam Simpson as his senior assistant ;)

The website www.goldcoasttruth.org was the excellent work of Yioughtta, a frequent poster round here a few years back. Haven't seen him on BF for a while but did run into him at the 2011 AGM...

I agree, it all sounds pretty fanciful. But, I'd be interested to know if any North people were part of this conversation. Who were the "powerful high-profile club people" Robbo reckons were sounding out Cook to be our CEO/Chairman? Perhaps a better description of this job title would be "AFL...

Simmo?

Agreed. Has to be the best person for the job and I'm not sure there are too many candidates out there with a North pedigree that would be up to the challenge. When he came on board, Eugene was a CEO in waiting, with an intimate understanding of the commercial side of running an AFL club. His...

Eugene and I didn't always see eye-to-eye. If you took a counter-position, you'd be sure to come away with your thinking thoroughly tested and (sometimes) feeling a little bruised. But his intellectual rigour and the courage of his convictions were exactly what you want in a CEO. His "street...

OS, your sentiment is fair enough. But there are already seven people answerable to the members for the performance of the football department. Their chairman was in the coaches box on Saturday and every year you get the chance to hold him/them accountable... I'm sure they're hurting too...

Dennis might struggle to force his way into the team. But on the same criteria, he's got the coaching gig sown up :)

Did Jim, Phil and Andy ever play in the same team?

Shaun Smith Dean McRae John McCarthy Mark Arceri Scott Welsh

Some names that come to mind: Jim and Phil Krakouer Sam Kekovich Paul Spargo Daniel Motlop Brett Alison Peter Mann Jason Love Paul Bryce Adrian McAdam Steven Icke Anthony Rock

Great work Rick18 :thumbsu: The WANM website contains every statement put out during that period, including the response to the AFL offer. http://www.wearenorthmelbourne.com.au/mediareleases.php