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Carlton certainly do have some nice early picks. Amazing how they've managed to do that IMO. They'll be terrible next year but should improve in year 2 of the Bolton era. All my eggs are in the Collingwood missing the 8 basket at this stage. All my prays to the footy gods are about that.
 

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Is Tom Boyd actually on $1.6 million in 2016?

Geez, the Doggies have stuffed themselves royally.

I'm guessing that was because he was still only allowed a second year first round draftees salary this season so that would be smoothing his contract out.
 
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-10-25/chappy-slams-selfcentred-goddard-in-upcoming-book

"I told him after the game that he shouldn’t speak to our young players like that. I could handle it because I never really took anything personally anyway. And what I really saw was a bloke cracking under pressure.

What Chapman has said about Goddard is eerily similar to what most average punters would probably see at home on the television during games and interviews.

I know it's all about publicity but Goddard always struck me as the 'do as I say, not as I do' type.
 
Maybe I'm not as obsessive about footy as I once was but a Paul Chapman book doesn't really appeal to me.

Never liked the bloke by virtue of him always having a day out against the Lions. When I actually met him, he appeared to be a genuine bloke. Still didn't change my on-field feelings for him.
 
Maybe I'm not as obsessive about footy as I once was but a Paul Chapman book doesn't really appeal to me.

I completely agree. Really keen on the Chris Judd book though. Learning about footy and Wrestling in the one book will be good.
 
Never liked the bloke by virtue of him always having a day out against the Lions. When I actually met him, he appeared to be a genuine bloke. Still didn't change my on-field feelings for him.
I don't really have any views on him. I think that's why a biography is a bit meh.

He was a gun player. But, to me, his defining attribute was as a multiple premiership winner. It would be like reading "Grant Birchall - A Good but not Great HBF" or "Shaun Hart - I won a Norm Smith, you know"
 
I don't really have any views on him. I think that's why a biography is a bit meh.

He was a gun player. But, to me, his defining attribute was as a multiple premiership winner. It would be like reading "Grant Birchall - A Good but not Great HBF" or "Shaun Hart - I won a Norm Smith, you know"
Or "Jack Watts - I tried my best".:D
 
I don't really have any views on him. I think that's why a biography is a bit meh.

He was a gun player. But, to me, his defining attribute was as a multiple premiership winner. It would be like reading "Grant Birchall - A Good but not Great HBF" or "Shaun Hart - I won a Norm Smith, you know"

Didn't fully process your previous post with my hangover-affected brain. No, a Chapman book does not appeal to me one bit. Hell, even a Browny, Blacky or Lethal book doesn't appeal to me that much - I've got the Leigh Matthews one just sitting there, but 0 motivation to pick it up. Might have a look now that I have finished exams.

I don't understand all the hype with Eddie MaGuire's book. A family member has a copy and passed it to me to look at - I shuddered at the thought of reading the blurb let alone seeing his rude head on the front cover.

The only one I've read was an Alastair Lynch auto-biography when I was in early high school. It happened to be in our library and we were forced to read something. Surprisingly enjoyed it, and gave me a nice little history lesson into the Bears, the last Fitzroy days and how he suffered with chronic fatigue.(The title was 'Alastair Lynch: with Chronic Fatigue to the MCG' from memory). I had no idea about his struggles when watching him as a young kid.
 
Yeah guys like that who gouge out a great career are generally good for a story or two.

Yeah, they're usually good at winging it.

Foreword By Patch Adams: Often we liked to have a few laughs by pulling each others legs on the footy field but Chris......... well you know...........
 

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I don't really have any views on him. I think that's why a biography is a bit meh.

He was a gun player. But, to me, his defining attribute was as a multiple premiership winner. It would be like reading "Grant Birchall - A Good but not Great HBF" or "Shaun Hart - I won a Norm Smith, you know"

"Sam Butler: An unremarkable journey - (Apparently I'm STILL in the AFL)"
 
Didn't fully process your previous post with my hangover-affected brain. No, a Chapman book does not appeal to me one bit. Hell, even a Browny, Blacky or Lethal book doesn't appeal to me that much - I've got the Leigh Matthews one just sitting there, but 0 motivation to pick it up. Might have a look now that I have finished exams.

Leigh Matthews' book is fantastic. Haven't read any of the others...
 
Leigh Matthews' book is fantastic. Haven't read any of the others...
I'm reading Browny's book. A good read with some genuine laugh out loud moments. I've just hit the McPharlin injury. Christ on a bike that man is tough.
 
The best sports biographies are the ones where the player has something to talk about other than their sporting efforts. The season by season, sanitised review of games is fine if you support that team but, for everyone else, it is a bore.

Andre Agassi's book is an incredible read because his back story is just so interesting.

Lethal's book is great as it is not only a look at his playing career but also is quite philosophical in terms of his views of footy, managing/leading people etc.
 
I'm reading Browny's book. A good read with some genuine laugh out loud moments. I've just hit the McPharlin injury. Christ on a bike that man is tough.
Half injuries, half drinking stories that book.
 
The best sports biographies are the ones where the player has something to talk about other than their sporting efforts. The season by season, sanitised review of games is fine if you support that team but, for everyone else, it is a bore.

Andre Agassi's book is an incredible read because his back story is just so interesting.

Lethal's book is great as it is not only a look at his playing career but also is quite philosophical in terms of his views of footy, managing/leading people etc.

Agassi's book is one of the best i have read. But probably the best i have read was The Golden Boy Kim Hughes. If your old enough to have been alive when he played - i was just a young kid - you will remember he was talented but fell away quickly with the pressures of captaincy and not being liked by some players. Really good book. Goes into many facets of that time and doesn't just deal in Hughes career but also rebel tours and how certain Australian players were a rule to themselves. Highly recommend it.
 
Agassi's book is one of the best i have read. But probably the best i have read was The Golden Boy Kim Hughes. If your old enough to have been alive when he played - i was just a young kid - you will remember he was talented but fell away quickly with the pressures of captaincy and not being liked by some players. Really good book. Goes into many facets of that time and doesn't just deal in Hughes career but also rebel tours and how certain Australian players were a rule to themselves. Highly recommend it.
Golden Boy is a great book - I am biased but According To Skull is a very good read and is very much a to the bone story by Kerry O'Keeffe - there is much more to him than the laugh.
 
Golden Boy is a great book - I am biased but According To Skull is a very good read and is very much a to the bone story by Kerry O'Keeffe - there is much more to him than the laugh.
He is such a great thinker on the game. He had a gift of making listening to the cricket fun while giving the listener a great insight into the game.
 
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