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Has anyone heard what he intends to do next season?
Surely he is good enough to be picked up in the draft? I'd still love to see him at the eagles.
thegur
I think he'll be picked up by a Vic team late in the draft (if he nominates), or the pre-season draft
Richmond seem interested in him??
daddy_4_eyes
3 Nov 2003, 10:45
Any chance of us redrafting him with our 4th rd pick?
With Freo Missing out on Heath Black, Read must be a chance for them
The Mission Man
3 Nov 2003, 11:08
Earth to Frodo. Come in, Frodo. You appear to have taken too many of the red pills. We are concerned that you may be delusional and/or confused. Please reattach yourself to the main pod and only eat the special NASA space food we packed for you earlier.
If Phillip Read goes anywhere near the Fremantle Football Club he'll be leaving in a box.
Au_Blue#24
3 Nov 2003, 11:25
Originally posted by The Mission Man
Earth to Frodo. Come in, Frodo. You appear to have taken too many of the red pills. We are concerned that you may be delusional and/or confused. Please reattach yourself to the main pod and only eat the special NASA space food we packed for you earlier.
If Phillip Read goes anywhere near the Fremantle Football Club he'll be leaving in a box.
a few games into season 2004 with ready playing for your mob and you'll be erecting statues of him. He may be easy to hate when in opposition, but he'd go ok with freo as you havent got one of those in ya face type players who could turn the most passive well mannered player into a complete head case.
it worked with dale - although a little to well from mr read's painful perspective !
daddy_4_eyes
3 Nov 2003, 11:28
They hate Read, but they love Cook. Go figure :o
quiksilva
3 Nov 2003, 11:42
I heard on the news he is training with Melbourne
Originally posted by daddy_4_eyes
Any chance of us redrafting him with our 4th rd pick?
No, they were trying to get rid of Phil at all costs this year. Eagles were hoping for a trade but didn't get it so they deslited him. Apparently been causing trouble...but I'm not quite sure what it was yet though.
TheRealBuzz
3 Nov 2003, 11:51
Yep, he's training with the Dee's over the summer. No doubt they're just trying to save Travis Johnstone the embarrassment of another hiding next year.
Oh, and he's already played a number of games for Freo. I mean the Sharks, Bulldogs and Dockers are all one in the same, aren't they? Or is that just when the Dockers want to wear those cute little heritage jumpers?
The Mission Man
3 Nov 2003, 12:05
I hadn't realised they were cute, but a lot of time gets spent here discussing costumery so I will, of course, defer to your more considered opinion on that.
Thanks.
Originally posted by TheRealBuzz
I mean the Sharks, Bulldogs and Dockers are all one in the same, aren't they? Or is that just when the Dockers want to wear those cute little heritage jumpers?
I'll bash you all over the countryside if you put me in the same class as a ****en Sharks supporter again :eek:
This comment must be from a northern suburbs person then.
The Mission Man
3 Nov 2003, 12:12
Oh, and those cute little jumpers, they are not connected to the East or South Fremantle Football Clubs. Guernseys very similar to them were in fact worn by a whole other football club called "Fremantle" more than a hundred years ago.
Fair amount of heritage value in that, I'd suggest.
He will get picked up by Melbourne.
carneagles
3 Nov 2003, 13:19
Originally posted by The Mission Man
Please reattach yourself to the main pod and only eat the special NASA space food we packed for you earlier. Can you still buy Space Food Sticks? Geez they were tops. No idea what went into them but they were bloody tasty.
MM, I would have thought you'd be keen on the Dockers picking him up, given that the likely alternative is that he plays on for East Freo. Now there's a conundrum to test the old loyalty factor.
The Mission Man
3 Nov 2003, 13:39
We're not locked into just those possibilities. He could always get a job travelling with the circus.
Or Melbourne could pick him up. Same diff.
dockertor
3 Nov 2003, 13:51
Originally posted by carneagles
Can you still buy Space Food Sticks? Geez they were tops. No idea what went into them but they were bloody tasty.
MM, I would have thought you'd be keen on the Dockers picking him up, given that the likely alternative is that he plays on for East Freo. Now there's a conundrum to test the old loyalty factor.
My God, your right Carny, We gonna have to consult King Solomon on this one!!
ImperialPurple
3 Nov 2003, 14:01
Originally posted by carneagles
I would have thought you'd be keen on the Dockers picking him up, given that the likely alternative is that he plays on for East Freo. Now there's a conundrum to test the old loyalty factor.
The tricky thing there carny for Sharks/Dockers supporters is that he would be on the Dockers list but playing for East Freo each week. Doubly unpleasant.
Originally posted by The Mission Man
Oh, and those cute little jumpers, they are not connected to the East or South Fremantle Football Clubs. Guernseys very similar to them were in fact worn by a whole other football club called "Fremantle" more than a hundred years ago.
Fair amount of heritage value in that, I'd suggest.
Whatever gets you through the night I guess.
Though I doubt it would ever happen, The idea of Read being drafted by the Dockers would be beautifully ironic.
The Mission Man
3 Nov 2003, 15:02
In only an Allanis Morrisette kind of way.
It will never happen. It will be like the fans of your football-related company thinking that because there was a Fremantle Football Club in the 1890s, the contemporary Fremantle Football Club has in some way a right and duty to acknowledge said club in any events celebrating the heritage of Australian Rules football.
No, scratch that. That could happen.
It'd be like Karl Langdon knocking back an advertising job on the grounds that he wished to preserve his dignity.
I've never seen anyone use the words "Karl Langdon" and "dignity" in the same sententence before - interesting juxtaposition.
Fremantle (that is the Fremantle area and not the FFC) does indeed have a proud football heritage - the Eagles have benefited from it very nicely in the past, thanks very much.
The Dockers may have a spiritual link with the original Fremantle footy team but the suggestion that a direct continuous link exists between the Dockers and the Bulldogs and the Sharks is about as accurate as suggesting that the Eagles have a direct and traceable lineage from West Perth. (now there's a thought)
The Mission Man
3 Nov 2003, 16:11
No-one from the Fremantle Football Club has ever claimed such a direct and continuous link. We have however claimed the heritage and only a weirdo carved out of dugong buttocks would deny that.
Originally posted by Exeter
The Dockers may have a spiritual link with the original Fremantle footy team but the suggestion that a direct continuous link exists between the Dockers and the Bulldogs and the Sharks is about as accurate as suggesting that the Eagles have a direct and traceable lineage from West Perth. (now there's a thought)
Well, there could have been a link, but both the history and administration of Souths and Easts was snubbed at the birth of the FFC in 1995.
ImperialPurple
3 Nov 2003, 16:15
Originally posted by Sera
Well, there could have been a link, but both the history and administration of Souths and Easts was snubbed at the birth of the FFC in 1995.
It would have been like asking a kid to choose between his/her equally devoted and loving parents...
or doing a Sophie.
Originally posted by ImperialPurple
It would have been like asking a kid to choose between his/her equally devoted and loving parents...
or doing a Sophie.
IP, you make more sense every day.
ImperialPurple
3 Nov 2003, 16:19
Originally posted by Sera
IP, you make more sense every day.
:o
not sure I can make sense of that comment though.
Originally posted by ImperialPurple
:o
not sure I can make sense of that comment though.
Do you ever get the feeling that you are missing the point?
Originally posted by The Mission Man
No-one from the Fremantle Football Club has ever claimed such a direct and continuous link. We have however claimed the heritage and only a weirdo carved out of dugong buttocks would deny that.
Only in left profile and then only in the morning sun.
A fanatical Dockers mate of mine is constantly carping on about the Fremantle heritage the Eagles have - i.e. Jako, Monkey Brennan, Chris Waterman, David Hart, Woosha, Mainy et al.
That would suggest that the Eagles too have a Fremantle heritage, arguably more so than the original Dockers lineup. Does that make them the Fremantle Eagles?
Sort of a zen koan really.
ImperialPurple
3 Nov 2003, 16:31
Originally posted by Sera
Do you ever get the feeling that you are missing the point?
Sadly - often. So now I'll do a pauline. Please explain.
BTW - did you notice the size of the lump that my tongue was making in my cheek?
ImperialPurple
3 Nov 2003, 16:33
Originally posted by Exeter
Fremantle Eagles?
Anathema. Wash your mouth out, and don't ever think such thoughts again.
Poaching and thievery does not equate with history and heritage.
Originally posted by ImperialPurple
Poaching and thievery does not equate with history and heritage.
Fremantle Prison?
carneagles
3 Nov 2003, 16:46
History and heritage = poaching and thievery + time
The Mission Man
3 Nov 2003, 16:56
fanatical Dockers mate of mine is constantly carping on about the Fremantle heritage the Eagles have - i.e. Jako, Monkey Brennan, Chris Waterman, David Hart, Woosha, Mainy et al.
He or she is just using Standard Response #35 in the "How To Annoy Weavils" Handbook.
By the way, those names, they're not "heritage" - they're players. Your flags were won with Fremantle players. Players from Fremantle, where there was originally a club called the Fremantle Football Club. As there is today.
No-one said history was meant to be neat. Following Italian politics would be easier than following the shenanigans that have gone on over the hundred plus years of Fremantle football.
But the links are there. They are being built on every day.
What's weird is that it took a Victorian-led administration to start really strengthening the ties that bind.
I leave you with this: Luke Mcpharlin's grand-dad played Centre Half Forward for the East Fremantle Football Club. His Gran is proud as punch that the legacy continues. That's heritage in action for ya.
Talk to Granny McPharlin about "direct and continuous links." She'll tune you in.
The Mission Man
3 Nov 2003, 16:58
Carny, that's as succinct a summation of world history as anyone will ever need.
Originally posted by The Mission Man
I leave you with this: Luke Mcpharlin's grand-dad played Centre Half Forward for the East Fremantle Football Club. His Gran is proud as punch that the legacy continues. That's heritage in action for ya.
Talk to Granny McPharlin about "direct and continuous links." She'll tune you in.
In that context McPharlin bears more than a passing resemblance to Luke Skywalker only he appears to have succumbed to the dark side.
If only he used his power for good instead of evil.
I would have thought any sporting team largely derives its sense of heritage from the players who have donned the club jersey throughout its history. The Eagles have heritage, with important parts of it inextricably linked with the Fremantle area.
And we never poached them from Fremantle - Freo as a team weren't even a dribble down the trouser leg of the AFL when those famous Freo progeny scaled the heights with the Eagles.
Originally posted by Exeter
Fremantle Prison?
:p
The Mission Man
3 Nov 2003, 17:34
If only he used his power for good instead of evil
I see this as a sure sign of your theological derangement. You poor devils think you are "good," but you are the Evils, the West Coast Evils, and you're flying high.
For a significant portion of your football-related company's history, you had as head coach The Father of All Pies - Mick Mephistopheles. Of course, he anglicised it to "fit in", but that's just part of his devilish ways.
You are corrupted but not irredeemably.
Originally posted by The Mission Man
I see this as a sure sign of your theological derangement. You poor devils think you are "good," but you are the Evils, the West Coast Evils, and you're flying high.
For a significant portion of your football-related company's history, you had as head coach The Father of All Pies - Mick Mephistopheles. Of course, he anglicised it to "fit in", but that's just part of his devilish ways.
You are corrupted but not irredeemably.
That would explain his fully rotational head and projectile green vomit.
Malthouse was a faustian bargain that brought us much fame and glory. The only problem was that you felt so cheap, dirty and used after the event.
I'll trust in St John and pass on the Dockers apostasy.
goaldrush
4 Nov 2003, 09:20
Bugger!
That's a big blow now that Ready has been delisted. I hope that he gets redrafted
KiNgCliVe26
6 Nov 2003, 16:11
He might be training with the Demons. But i've heard from a source (not sure on the reliability) but he will be a magpie next year. Apparently soon as he was delisted he and Mick spoke. When Malthouse coached your lot he said read would play a **** load of games for the eagles.
Originally posted by KiNgCliVe26
He might be training with the Demons. But i've heard from a source (not sure on the reliability) but he will be a magpie next year. Apparently soon as he was delisted he and Mick spoke. When Malthouse coached your lot he said read would play a **** load of games for the eagles.
Wouldn't be surprised. Looks like after the grand final Colliwobbles that Mick is trying to start an Eagles re-union down at the pies.
Goldenblue
8 Nov 2003, 11:10
Originally posted by Sera
Wouldn't be surprised. Looks like after the grand final Colliwobbles that Mick is trying to start an Eagles re-union down at the pies.
:D
Originally posted by KiNgCliVe26
When Malthouse coached your lot he said read would play a **** load of games for the eagles. That was back in the days when he had knees. (Read that is, not Malthouse (although he had some too))