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eflreceiver said:
Yes he did, I have a friend at Mt Eliza that rates him. I think the Rams recruiting has been very astute with what they have and what they need. Time will tell, I have heard a few more names are to be announced.
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Dear Santa,
All I want for Christmas is a quality ruckman.
PS. I've been good, do not pay any attention to what GMac says.
 

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CliffMcTainshaw said:
Dear Santa,
All I want for Christmas is a quality ruckman.
PS. I've been good, do not pay any attention to what GMac says.
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I’ve been a better boy than Cliff, so all I ask for are a quality ruck, CHF, FF & a nice sprinkling of mids.

I’m also in more need than greedy Cliff.
 
eflreceiver said:
The rams have picked up Fallon Wanganeen, Damian Murray (Bayswater), and Aaron Foss (Mt Eliza). Very targeted recruiting.
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I wouldn’t listen too much to talk of targeted or astute, smart recruiting etc. Not just in this case but generally. Clubs take who they can get, EB have lost a couple of top players and haven’t replaced them - they either have no money (unlikely as those players have left) or they just haven’t been able to land anybody. I’d say these blokes are just who they’ve been able to land - they’ll be a bit handy but I have zero doubt they’d be targeting better players and just haven’t landed them yet.

It happens, it’s not generally a reflection of the club or those there, recruiting is very, very competitive and difficult. It’s also about momentum, one brings two who brings three etc. Maybe EB just haven’t got one on the hook this year, maybe they did last year and maybe they will next year.

Plus it’s only xmas so a long way to the season still.
 
Bunk Moreland said:
I wouldn’t listen too much to talk of targeted or astute, smart recruiting etc. Not just in this case but generally. Clubs take who they can get, EB have lost a couple of top players and haven’t replaced them - they either have no money (unlikely as those players have left) or they just haven’t been able to land anybody. I’d say these blokes are just who they’ve been able to land - they’ll be a bit handy but I have zero doubt they’d be targeting better players and just haven’t landed them yet.

It happens, it’s not generally a reflection of the club or those there, recruiting is very, very competitive and difficult. It’s also about momentum, one brings two who brings three etc. Maybe EB just haven’t got one on the hook this year, maybe they did last year and maybe they will next year.

Plus it’s only xmas so a long way to the season still.
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No doubt about that, they are no longer a money club and recruit within their budget.
 
eflreceiver said:
No doubt about that, they are no longer a money club and recruit within their budget.
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I would hope they are. Their overspending and poor management in the chase of success and ‘keeping up with the Jones’’ nearly put them to the wall. Bringing in high profile imports and not spending time on the locals was a path that was always going to end in tears and it nearly saw the club come to an end.

Hopefully they have learnt although history often repeats itself.
 
Just looked at their elimination final team, so assuming no departures. They had 41 points.

11x 1 pointers

The other 11 will drop a point next year so that brings them down to 30 points total.

Walker and Greenwood will be a 6 pointers = 42 points.

Still short of the 46 limit. Not sure if there is anybody else who didn’t play in the elimination final. Or if they will have further recruits. Paul Amy says on Twitter there’s another big one to come.

I think they also have a number of VFL listed players who don’t play any given week as they’re at the VFL.
 

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magpies2013 said:
Mitch Davis from Montrose off to the Mpnfl. Big loss but have picked up a heap.
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Spot on maggie 2013 , certainly a loss loosing Davis, but boy have the demons added a heap of talent to a list that won a final last year! and Gary in his second year of knowing who is who on the list, one would have to think they will push hard at a GF tilt.
 
purr hana said:
Spot on maggie 2013 , certainly a loss loosing Davis, but boy have the demons added a heap of talent to a list that won a final last year! and Gary in his second year of knowing who is who on the list, one would have to think they will push hard at a GF tilt.
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Agree Div 1 looks like it’s going to be a cracker this year so many teams look capable of playing off in the big one. Montrose Mitcham Mooroolbark Wanny Sth etc all look strong and who knows what Sth Belgrave will do. Out of all the divisions div 1 looks the most exciting.
 
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Anyone catch the article about Daniel Donati's best team from Balwyn / Barwon Heads ?
Nice to see a couple of ex Lilydale lads mentioned
 
Well it’s a holiday that not everyone supports. So I’m simply going to put up a list of 26 Australian questions.

Read through all the questions and try and answer them BEFORE checking the answers in the Spoiler below. No cheating!


1. What was Carl Adolph de la Ledebur’s association with the Essendon Football Club?

2. What was the real name of Henry Handel Richardson?

3. On what date was the first ever official national day, called 'Australia Day' held?

4. How many aboriginals are estimated to have been killed in Queensland between 1820 and the early 1900’s?

5. Who was Mary Putland?

6. Today we know a Drop Punt as a dill or maybe an idiot. When the term first originated, what did it mean?

7. What is the oldest living thing in Australia?

8. Mal McGregor-Lowndes owned a half share of the racehorse, Fine Cotton. Even before the Fine Cotton affair McGregor-Lowndes, had a conviction for doing what?

9. Who said, "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up" and who was the remark made about?

10. What does the word Canberra mean in the aboriginal language?

11. What was the Emu War and who won?

12. What was the famous statement made by Geoff Raymond to end the live news report from Cheviot Beach on the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt?

13. Which is the only State whose population voted to secede from the Commonwealth of Australia?

14. Why were the Kangaroo and the Emu chose for the Commonwealth Coat of Arms?

15. Which State is represented by the Southern Cross on the Commonwealth Coat of Arms?

16. Valentine Keating was the leader of the Crutchy Push, a standover gang which ruled the streets of North Melbourne from 1895 to 1905. The ‘Crutchies’ made their living by demanding drink, food and money, from pubs, shops and members of the public. What qualification did you need to be part of the gang?

17. Which rock is the largest rock in the world?

18. What is Vegemite made from?

19. What makes Wombat poo unique?

20. Who is the only Australian Test Cricketer to have scored a century and taken 10 wickets in a Test?

21. Who was the first English captain to come to Australia?

22. Melbourne's Stuart Spencer and Richmond's Tom Allen have the distinction of jointly holding a VFL/AFL record. What is that record?

23. Two brothers who both played for different VFL/AFL teams, also played in the first-ever Premierships for their respective clubs. Who are they?

24. What is “Slim Dusty’s” real name?

25. In what years were the $50 and $100 dollars notes introduced?

26. When did the people of Australia first legally become Australians.

1. Carl Adolph de la Ledebur, was a hired as trainer for Essendon Football Club in 1891. The era of coaches had not yet arrived but the use of professional trainer caused consternation. During this time, in 1893, Ledebur added "Doctor" as a prefix to his name, and advertised: "the new therapeutic method of treating disease by hypodermic injection of organic liquids extracted from glands etc." To put it simply, the testicles of dogs, sheep, guinea-pigs, goats etc were pulverised with a mortar and pestle and the resulting fluid filtered and then injected into a patient with the aim of raising testosterone and other hormone levels. Injections from 20 different animal glands were available, spermatic fluid being considered the strongest. It is unknown if Essendon players were injected during his time.

2. Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, famous for her novel “My Brilliant Career”.

3. The first ever official national day that was actually named 'Australia Day' was held on July 30 in 1915, the first official Australia Day held was actually to raise funds for the World War I effort. Australia Day officially became a public holiday for all states and territories only 29 years ago, in 1994.

4. Number of Aboriginal Australians historians estimate were killed in Queensland from the 1820s until the early 1900’s is 65,180.

5. Mary Putland was the daughter of William Bligh. During the Rum Rebellion she saved her father’s life by laying about the force of soldiers with her parasol, fending them off as they tried to get through the bedroom door to arrest her father who was hiding under his bed.

6. Drop Punt was rhyming slang for the word 'campaigner'.

7. Australia’s living thing in Australia is a Huon pine located in the Lake Johnston Nature Reserve in Tasmania on Mount Reed. It is believed to be part of a stand of trees and clonal colony that dates to 10,500 years ago, though no individual tree in the stand is of that age. The oldest is believed to be about 2,000 years old.

8. McGregor-Lowndes, boasted a fraud conviction for selling yellow-painted sparrows as canaries.

9. Paul Keating in reference to John Hewson.

10. The polite meaning commonly referred to is Meeting Place, however, in the language of the local people, the Ngambri, it is used to describe the space between Black Mountain and Mount Ainslie, and means "woman's cleavage".

11. In 1932, the town of Campion, Western Australia, was the site of one of Australia’s greatest, and strangest, military failures. As many as 20,000 emus had been feasting on the region’s wheat crops, devastating farms, so the Seventh Heavy Battery of the Royal Australian Artillery decided to put an end to the situation with three soldiers, machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition.

However, the military quickly discovered they had underestimated the awkward-looking bird. The emus were good at quickly breaking into smaller groups, were so fast they were nearly impossible to hit with gunfire, and didn’t seem to care even when they were hit by the bullets! The military also struggled with guns that jammed and vehicles that were unable to keep up with the emus, who can reach speeds of 50km/hr!

The war only lasted a week before the military gave up, and just 50 to 200 of the 20,000-strong emu forces were killed. Ultimately, the Australian military had to admit that not only had they declared war on big birds, they had lost. Luckily, there were no human casualties

12. Geoff Raymond, announced on Live TV that the search Harold Holt had been called off for the night, “after coming to a dead halt.”

13. Independence for WA- In April 1933, 68 per cent of West Australians voted in favour of seceding from the Commonwealth of Australia. However, they needed permission from the British Parliament before they could officially become a new country, called imaginatively, Westralia. Meanwhile, Australia's Federal Parliament was arguing that Britain should not interfere in Australian politics. The end result was that Britain never made a decision. Consequently, Western Australian remained part of the Commonwealth.

14. The shield is held up by the native Australian animals, the kangaroo and the emu, which were chosen to symbolise a nation moving forward, based on the fact that neither animal can move backwards easily.

15. Victoria – the Southern Cross

16. “The Crutchy Push, with one exception, consisted of one-legged men. The exception was a one-armed man who kept half a brick in his sewn up empty sleeve. He led his followers into battle swinging the weighted sleeve around his head. Behind him came the men on crutches – each one expert at balancing on one leg. The tip of the crutch was used to jab an opponent in the midriff. With the enemy gasping for breath the crutch would be reversed and the metal-shod arm rest would be used as a club.”

17. The world's largest rock is not actually Uluru, but Mount Augustus in Western Australia. Mount Augustus is actually twice the size of Uluru.

18. Vegemite was created by the left over Yeast used to create Beer - that's why it tastes so good!

19. The bare-nosed wombat is the only animal in the world to poop cubic poo. This furry Australian marsupial squeezes out nearly 100 six-sided turds every day. It is believed that wombats evolved cubic poop in the first place because because they climb up on rocks and logs to mark their territory, the flat-sided faeces aren't as likely to roll off from these high perches.
20. Betty Wilson became the first Test cricketer, male or female, to score a century and take 10 wickets in a Test. On a wet wicket, she took 7/7 in the first innings which included the first ever hat trick in a women's Test. In the same test, she top scored with 12 in Australia's low first innings and then scored a 100 in the second. Taking 4/9 in 19 overs in the second, she set another record for the best bowling of 11/16 in a match

21. Captain Cook.

22. In 1956, Melbourne's Stuart Spencer equalled Richmond's Tom Allen's record for the worst goal-kicking accuracy in a VFL game. Tom Allen kicked 11 behinds against North Melbourne in Round 14, 1949. Spencer kicked 11 straight behinds against Geelong in Round 5, 1956.

23. Graham & Ian Cooper. Graham played in Hawthorn's first premiership in 1961 and Ian played in St. Kilda's first premiership in 1966.

24. Australian singer David Gordon Kirkpatrick is better known in his singing career as Slim Dusty, he adopted the stage name “Slim Dusty” in 1938 at age 11.

25. The the $50 note was introduced in 1973 and the $100 note a year later.

26. No one was Australian prior to 26th January 1949. On the 26th of January 1949, the Australian nationality came into existence when the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 was enacted. That was the day we were first called Australians and allowed to travel with Passports as Australians. Under the Nationality Act 1920, all Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders born after January 1, 1921 gained the status of British subjects. In 1949 they automatically became Australian citizens under the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948. Before then, all people living in Australia, including Aborigines born after 1921, were called ‘British Subjects’ and forced to travel on British Passports and fight in British wars. We all became Australians on the same day! The 26th January 1948. This doesn't mean the situation for indigenous Australians was magically better on that day. It wasn't, not by a long shot. It was a first step though and we're constantly moved forwards since then.
 
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