Recent content by thejester

This is the kind of thing that happens when the site owner comes in and calls TGO a ‘meme’. People think they have carte blanche to slander, to denigrate, to - and it pains me to say this - suggest TGO is anything other than a serious scholar of football

I mean the same guys at WCE who have memories of winning were also elite players not that long ago - premiership year B&Fs, AAs etc - and are clearly not totally washed. North have no one within cooee of that level of talent/maturity.

Someone posted up a list of highest ranking (using an ELO system I think) games from players under 20. They all belonged to Bont and Nick Daicos except for Harley Reid's on the weekend (the point of the list) and...Brandan Parfitt.

Think the war in Ukraine might be a more concrete cause of inflation my man

This is Fox's hundred flowers campaign brother. Let those who doubt TGO come out and bloom in the open, then hit him with the lawnmower.

We heard for years about Clarko's devotion to the methods of Bill Belicheck and that he was playing chess while everyone else was playing checkers. Tragically* Clarko found out the hard way that the emperor had no clothes.

I think teams would absolutely bite on that deal if they thought he was the difference between a premiership or not. Win one and the last 2-3 years of a terrible deal become forgivable.

I’ve never heard him be bitter but I’ve absolutely heard him give some pretty gratuitous criticism of Stanley’s work rate.

I think what makes this funnier is that Riewoldt’s philosophy is If You Are Not Winning You Just Need To Work Harder, and he clearly saw Stanley as someone who was too soft to embrace that and thus was doomed to failure. Ten years on Riewoldt not only has to face up to the fact Stanley won a...

Not sure if it’s just nostalgia but guys like Blight and Barassi had/have a cultural legacy too - integral to the life of the game. Hardwick and Clarko might have fourth acts in their careers that get them there but it hasn’t happened yet.

‘Slobbo’? Mervyn would do well to remember the words of an earlier prophet: those without sin can cast the first stone

By current midfield I meant the guys who are fit. PFD is absolutely in a category of his own.

Couple of times late Atkins attacked loose balls at stoppages in a way that no one else in our current midfield can (or at least does). Reminded me of his absolute best form from mid-2022. Happy for both to play at the moment.

Probably because none of those things influence expected score?

Great win given the midfield we had out there - Dogs only really got on top in the second half (really the last quarter) and that has to be in part that some guys started getting leggy. To do it without Holmes getting involved either is hugely encouraging. Rhys instrumental, as with Conway last...