Excluding 1st year players, who are some current players for your side who have never been omitted for form reasons since making their debut?
Chris Judd famously played one game in the WAFL for East Perth, then debuted the next round and has never come close to being dropped...
A couple of...
since we lost waters to injury, we have benefited greatly from the form of sam butler. his reliable foot-skills have allowed us to get the ball safely out of defense and have taken some of the pressure off hurn who seems to be revelling by having another reliable kick alongside him in defense...
for mine:
1. Daniel Kerr: at his best, easily a top 5 midfielder in the competition. a proven gun since his debut season, he should be primed to remind the AFL world of his talents. in effect, has had 2 years off to 'freshen up' his body and if he can stay on the field for the majority of the...
to me, it was easily.
all night i thought we were bound to lose but somehow got suckered into thinking we had it with a minute left. then cox bombs away instead of choosing a safe option, kennedy completely misjudges it and the umpire makes a howler of a non-call.
the most deflating loss...
we all know barlow singlehandedly transformed this club from basketcase to contender by showing them what real, hard footy is all about.
will they revert to the dorkers of old now that he's gone? will the insipid, laughable, easy-beat culture resurface?
unfortunately, i'd say it's more...
His complete and utter pantsing by Reiwoldt basically lost us the game within 20 mins. Despite getting a bizarre amount of praise on this forum, MacKenzie:
- Lacks strength in the contest.
- Has little or awareness of where to position himself.
- Is one of the worst kicks in the AFL...
Should we not seriously look at trading Adam Selwood to GC next season?
He is for some reason quite highly rated among a lot of football "experts" despite having little to no attacking flair, poor decision making, poor kicking skills and somewhat of a lack of pace.
This is no doubt due to...
mckenzie
ebert
spanger
nicoski
embley (on last night's evidence anyway)
a.selwood
s.selwood
priddis
and that's only including the guys who played last night. i'll excuse naitanui from the list by virtue of the fact that he's a 12 game ruckman.
teams have already worked out if they...
just listening to kennett on SEN, who i loathe, but actually has some reasonably logical views on the state of the AFL.
leads me to ask... what do you see as the 5 most significant problems our league most resolve at this point in time?
here's mine:
1. Uneven fixture
2. Unsustainable...
we all know about the PP situation... 2 more wins and we blow a top 5 pick. we all know that there is nothing to be gained from this season but getting games into the young guys.
so assuming you're a rational football follower like myself, which remaining game do you actually want us to win...
i seem to remember an unnamed former captain starting out as a classy forward pocket and very quickly evolving into an elite mid. can the same thing happen with lecras?
if we could have him averaging 25 touches, setting up attacking plays, resting up forward and still kicking the occasional...
only the deluded would deny this glaring parallel. both players that have achieved the ultimate with successful franchises and earned reputations as the greatest in their respective sports. and both players that chose to take the challenge to move on to a team which is the laughing stock of...
when the eagles conquered the AFL in 06, robert walls declared (repeatedly, to anyone would listen) that their premiership had been "tainted"...
the question can now be legitimately asked, would you consider hawthorn's premiership to be "tainted" for the same reasons?
(watch what you say here...
Now that it looks odds-on for West Coast to regain their superstar, let's have a go at predicting which petty, self-motivated Victorian media figure will drum up the most anti-eagle sentiment...
The obvious bet:
franklin, bateman, williams.
without these players the hawks would be a bottom eight team.
the question is, will it feel like a hollow victory for victorian hawks fans next week, knowing that the vic players on your list are boring, limited contributors clearly playing second-fiddle to...
predict which one of the overrated PUSSIES will be exposed the most by their direct opponent tonight.
odds on is harley, the least talented premiership captain/all australian of the past decade. then there's steve johnson, who would undoubtedly struggle to maintain a career in an average...
ablett and bartel.
the cats will be exposed the moment one of these two misses an extended run of games or is forced to play with slight injury. the rest of their list is largely interchangable with players from other teams in terms of quality.
the eagles of course, in their premiership year...
Predict which one of these wildly overrated players will embarrass themselves the most tonight.
Koschitzke is the obvious bet, but Riewoldt seems poised after being the laughing stock of the footy world last weekend. One can't discount Dal Santo either as his lack of pace often comes to the...
with what seems to be a mass exodus of sorts at freo, the question has to be asked... is freo's insipid and pathetic losing culture to blame?
their players no longer so any light on the horizon... to their young non-WA players, the thought of being loyal and ending up like pav (ie. an...
his 01 season vs kerr
2001 St Kilda, Games 20, Kicks 6.8, Handballs 4.8, Disposals 11.6, Marks 4.5, Goals 0.1, Behinds 0.1, Tackles 0.4, Hitouts 1.2, Frees For 0.2, Frees Ag. 0.2
2001 West Coast, Games 19, Kicks 7.7, Handballs 7.8, Disposals...
Surely I can make this thread here without it being merged, moved or deleted.
The Victorian media have launched another assault our club. They pressured us into abandoning and sacking our favourite son, and now yet again they are targeting our best player.
Tall poppy syndrome at it's...
what is it with this crappy website? every time i check it for the last few months they have some rugby crap at the top of the page... weekends, weekdays, morning, night... always some rugby garbage and the footy stuff is pushed to the side or down the page...
do they not know which sport has...
i know some wafl clubs are actively involved with scouting and developing young indigenous talent from remote parts of WA, but it must be said it's disappointing that our club hasn't profited from this.
it's very disappointing that we haven't unearthed a home grown indigenous star this decade...
considering how ordinary our players have looked this year after subtracting our two best players... suddenly it seems absurd to be comparing it to the overall class of the side circa 94.
if you took the two best players (matera and jackovich) out of the 94 team, you still have a host of...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q6mKp3pVak4&feature=related
probably been posted and seen by many, but seriously... this is for the that call themselves supporters daring to suggest he's trade bait.
this sh*ts on any pretty much any judd highlights vid you'll find... the marking, the tackles (LOL @...