Past #10: Ben Cunnington - will retire from the AFL after * game - 238 games/95+ goals/2x Syd Barker Medalist/Shinboner - thanks for everything Cunners

[Roo316]

F*ck Jason’s comeback was seriously special, I was balling in the stands that night.

Hope cunners return is a Melbourne game so I can come over, will be a great moment regardless of the result.

 

[ferball]

F*ck Jason’s comeback was seriously special, I was balling in the stands that night.

Hope cunners return is a Melbourne game so I can come over, will be a great moment regardless of the result.

Any game where you end up balling in the stands has got to be memorable on some level right?

 

[hsquid]

Any game where you end up balling in the stands has got to be memorable on some level right?

Not sure. Someone tells me i cried in 1998 but that's not even a thing.

 

[Ligma]

I will literally fly interstate to see his comeback game

 

[Caracas]

Oh. The beauty of it if it's Richmond. I know tigs supporters who are still fuming that Jason played his return game against them.

I agree. However, we’d really need to be playing good competitive football to make it work. I’d hate for Ben to come back to a flogging. If I remember correctly, his return after a long break in 2021 was against the Bulldogs and we lost by 128 points!


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[ferball]

Not sure. Someone tells me i cried in 1998 but that's not even a thing.

I think you're referring to bawling.

 

[ferball]

Balling is something else.

 

[Roo316]

Haha thanks ferbs I definitely meant bawling. The good kind though, not the 98 kind.

 

[ferball]

Yeah there won't be a dry eye in the house for that game.

 

[kool kangas]

Yeah there won't be a dry eye in the house for that game.

North just have to make sure it's a HOME game at Marvel for that game...

 

[koshari]

I reckon play him in the fwd line till he builds some endurance. Knows where the sticks are.

 

[amaz199]

Calf injury

 

[Horizons_00]

Get him fresh and ready to go 2023 (if he wants it)

Our club is a mess atm anyways

 

[Smoocher]

Calf injury.

Write off a return this year.

Very dissapointing.

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[Sillygit]

So i feel that the "it's happening" in the title is entirely to blame for this.

 

[amaz199]

Seemingly just a strain.

Kevin White saying it's essentially a minor setback.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Seemingly just a strain.

Kevin White saying it's essentially a minor setback.

He can’t really afford any setbacks even minor if he wants to play afl in the few remaining rounds

Needs a block of full training which probably won’t start for another few weeks as they up his loads

 

[Horace]

Hopefully some good news this. Last weekend, my sister, who is a Geelong member, was waiting to go up in the lift to where she sits in the Reg Hickey Stand (I think) and was asked to wait by the attendant, while our man BennyC and another North player were taken up in the lift. She said he is looking really well and much healthier than she thought he looked a couple of months ago.

 

[benbanjo]

Hopefully some good news this. Last weekend, my sister, who is a Geelong member, was waiting to go up in the lift to where she sits in the Reg Hickey Stand (I think) and was asked to wait by the attendant, while our man BennyC and another North player were taken up in the lift. She said he is looking really well and much healthier than she thought he looked a couple of months ago.

Disown.

Otherwise good news.

 

[Samsquanch]

Disown.

Otherwise good news.

You can pick your friends

 

[Horace]

Disown.

Otherwise good news.

Believe it or not, she got no joy out of last weekends result. She felt for the players and us as supporters and wished the Cats had not been quite so ruthless.

Interestingly, Dangerfield on Channel 7 last night after the game said that he found it difficult watching and seeing how hard we are doing it. He said he had a lot to do with Noble when he was at Adelaide and that he is a good guy. He said we need to hang in there and eventually things will turn around.

 

[DuckYeah]

Believe it or not, she got no joy out of last weekends result. She felt for the players and us as supporters and wished the Cats had not been quite so ruthless.

Interestingly, Dangerfield on Channel 7 last night after the game said that he found it difficult watching and seeing how hard we are doing it. He said he had a lot to do with Noble when he was at Adelaide and that he is a good guy. He said we need to hang in there and eventually things will turn around.

Theres no doubt noble is a good guy. No one has said he is a terrible person.

 

[blackshadow]

Theres no doubt noble is a good guy. No one has said he is a terrible person.

Judging by the comments of some of the pitchfork mob you'd think he's the devil incarnate.

 

[shintemaster]

With all the coaching hoo ha this dropped off the radar - I wonder if we're likely to sneak Ben back for a game or two at the end of the year.

 

[Val Keating]

With all the coaching hoo ha this dropped off the radar - I wonder if we're likely to sneak Ben back for a game or two at the end of the year.

Depends how much the injury set back his fitness build.