Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 28

[VineValerian]

We could sell them a Koch/Richo/Davies trifecta...

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Supplementary list?

How about just list.

 

[TeeKray]

Travelling on a plane for a couple of extra hours has to be one of the most overrated 'disadvantages' in sport. West Coast are the most successful non Victorian team in the comp (although Brisbane equaled them this year), certainly doesn't seem to have stopped them winning flags regularly.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Travelling on a plane for a couple of extra hours has to be one of the most overrated 'disadvantages' in sport. West Coast are the most successful non Victorian team in the comp (although Brisbane equaled them this year), certainly doesn't seem to have stopped them winning flags regularly.

Its not the 2 extra hours - its the accumulation of extra hours over 10, 12 even 15 years.

There is a reason why there are only 3 WA based players who have played 300+ games in 30 odd seasons, and why so many others on the east coast who do a few 1 or 2 hour flights a year, have achieved the milestone.

 

[TeeKray]

Its not the 2 extra hours - its the accumulation of extra hours over 10, 12 even 15 years.

There is a reason why there are only 3 WA based players who have played 300+ games in 30 odd seasons, and why so many others on the east coast who do a few 1 or 2 hour flights a year, have achieved the milestone.

Fremantle have 2 players in the top 22 for most games played in the history of the comp. Their number of 300 gamers is the same as Port in a similar time frame.

The Eagles only having 1 with 10 more years is a slight anomaly but I wouldn't call that rock solid evidence that the travel is a huge burden, especially when most of the players from one of their great eras were cooked by drug use.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

GREATER Western Sydney has delisted three players, including two who were penalised for their actions at the club's end-of-season function in September. Josh Fahey, Lachie Keeffe and Jacob Wehr have all been cut from the Giants' primary list but the club intends to re-draft all three at November's Telstra AFL Rookie Draft, to free up list spots to be filled at the national draft.