Mmmmm, Ryan looked in amazing nick tonight. He will be the 4th player out of 50 senior players over 30 years of age. Of the remaining 46 senior players, 40 are below the age of 26. Average age of this group of 50 players is 23.0. Do your homework before making outlandish statements.
Fair cop - we can get rapt up in what we are doing, and as you say, we are doing what every other club is doing. I am also pinning my hopes on the improvement in the large majority of our playing list, whose average age is 22, and who will get better again. Bring on 2013.
Too old has beens? Bentick is 28 and would still be a gun VFL player if not for his work commitments. Pratt is 25, Considine is 23. Clarke is 31 and is no has been. So you will eat your words.
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De La has an excellent development program and certainly wiped the floor with our 19's in last...
The thinking at Bernard's is - they have some real quality young kids and quality guys aged in their early 20's. They lacked quality in that 25 - 29 year age group. Experienced men who really benefit those guys aged 23 years and below. Of the players listed on your thread here......
Bentick...
De La rely on too few. Big men are poor, fitness no good, Bernard's will roll them in H2. Big ground will also benefit Bernard's as they showed last week against St. Bede's.
By the way, get on board the Bernards 18's tomorrow. Have not lost a game since round 11. Win against werribee, and look out oakleigh. Rupo coach told his charges at 3/4 time last week they would win the prelim and then play in a GF - did not count on Bernards 18's coming from nowhere in one...
Can't believe some comments on this web site. Bernards only had a full side the last 3 weeks, and beat De La and St. Bede's twice. Bernards only side to beat Xavs - and Sunday's side had 9 ins versus the team that beat xavs. Bernards will beat De La and then beat Xavs again.
What is this forum for if not to beat our own drum and generate some chatter? It's all in good fun, and the term "rookie error" is a fallacy, particularly in an anonymous on-line forum like this one. An opinion, one that is, admittedly an excited and hopeful one, is still just an opinion. And...
I don't really expect any of the other 8 Premier div sides to take any real notice of us at all. You and I obviously have way too much time on our hands to be going at it in early December, and I really couldn't give a shite what your obviously expert eyes did or didn't see on GF day last year...