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  1. Ben the Gooner

    List Mgmt. Trade Hypotheticals

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    Coaching Roundabout - Coaching structure for 2015 finalised

    Doesn't seem to be any thread for this topic, just bits and pieces scattered across other threads. I'd say it's almost certain that we'll be looking to find at least one new assistant coach next season, possibly/probably two. Vacancies: Adelaide senior coach Melbourne heir apparent/senior...
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    Analysis The Bigger Picture

    I don't really care about the specifics of tonight's game. We need to start thinking about premierships, and why we're not winning them. All my comments below are not related to form. There's no point worrying about form until you have a team good enough for form to be relevant. As far as I...
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    Meet Up Tanked X: Free BJs (London Tavern Richmond, 12.30 PM Sunday - Pre-Pies game)

    Sorry, no idea where that "s" came from. Free BJ. He did nothing wrong. Anyway, somehow the season has flown by and this is our second last MCG home game, our last being in the floating Rd 23 fixture. Come on down, have a couple of sherbets and fortify yourself for the prospect of Dane Swan...
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    Politics The Hangar Politics Thread

    Character assassinations on the Prime Minister, libel against the Treasurer and slander against one of the biggest football clubs in the country. Poor Fairfax.
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    Opposition teams line up here II

    Kelvin sheedy's great thread needs reviving. Tom Derickx and Dane Rampe from 55m. Are you ****ing kidding?
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    Toast The Positives

    I dunno about anyone else, but I'm not interested in engaging in a week of Chicken Little responses to a game between half of our side and half of Freo's side. Yes, it's disappointing, but I'm more interested in what our full side will do against their full side in September. Firstly, full...
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    Toast Finals

    I don't think enough attention is being given to the fact that, in a little over 2 weeks, we will be at the MCG (I suppose mathematically AAMI is a chance, but it ain't happening). We will be playing Richmond, Collingwood or at an absolute stretch Port Adelaide. We're back, and we're about 95%...
  9. Ben the Gooner

    Crichton Medal - BF Table?

    Now I don't know about anyone else, but I don't think I've ever had a year where I've so passionately and so fiercely been behind the boys, enjoyed every win quite so much and taken every loss quite so hard. I've never wanted to tell so many people to suck a bag of dicks either. So with that...
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    Roast The Media Watch thread

    Because we all love our beloved media and commentators. I reckon we should keep the ASADA stuff out of this thread, so that we can revel in the glory of Luke Darcy's eliteness and Jon Ralph's in-depth analysis. And let's not even mention Damien "20-20" Barrett. It's Jon Ralph who kicks us...
  11. Ben the Gooner

    Toast We are a top 4 team

    I'm pretty happy with our performance tonight. Losing sucks, and I don't want to make a habit of it, but we dominated long spells of the game, probably 2/3 of the game when there was some heat in it, against the best team in the comp and only really kicked ourselves out of it. I watched this one...
  12. Ben the Gooner

    Make an out-there prediction

    I don't mean predict that Dean Brogan will win the Brownlow or Sydney will win the spoon, but this is the thread to make a prediction that you think could happen but not many others do. Personally, I think Collingwood are a chance to miss the 8, and I think Brisbane will finish above Richmond.
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    Oppo Camp Which opposition player do you rate highest?

    Yes. Fyfe is this generation's player IMO.
  14. Ben the Gooner

    Team v Blue Scum (IN: Stants, Paddy, Zaka, Hooker. OUT: Colyer, NLM, Baguley, Gumby)

    B: Hardingham - Fletcher - Heppell HB: Carlisle - Hooker - Browne C: Dempsey - Watson - Stanton HF: Davey - Ryder - Crameri F: Monfries - Hurley - Hibberd R: Bellchambers - Zaharakis - Hocking I: Melksham - Jetta - Lee - Lonergan E: Colyer - Baguley - Lovett-Murray
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    Oppo Camp Dear Carlton, we're ending your season again (Banter Thread)

    Last time we showed everyone (except Collingwood evidently) how to beat your front running midfield and watch everything crumble because of it. This time we close the curtains mathematically. Thanks for coming.
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    Arrogance at the Selection Table

    We're a really good team. Tonight does not change that. We have an effective gameplan, and a playing list which has bought into that gameplan. That is why, before tonight, we were the only team not to have been flogged. Even when we were crucified with injuries, we had depth players stepping up...
  17. Ben the Gooner

    MVP V Melbourne Rd 10

    5. Watson 4. Hardingham 3. Fletcher 2. Zaharakis 1. Carlisle ****ing deplorable.
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    Free Agency

    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/who-is-up-for-free-agency/story-e6frf9jf-1226278832964 http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/who-is-up-for-free-agency/story-e6frf9jf-1226278832964 Who of that list is worth considering and actually a possibility to move clubs? IMO, if their clubs...
  19. Ben the Gooner

    2012 Player Sponsorship

    We have $35 left over from last year and the sponsorships this year are $650 per player. To maintain our sponsorship of Colyer and Howlett, I will need to have paid $1300 by February 3 next year, so we should be aiming to smash past that and hopefully look for a third player. Same as last...
  20. Ben the Gooner

    2012 NAB Cup Team

    Round 1 we get 20 players + 2 subs. IMO Watson, Stanton, Hocking, Fletcher, Pears, Hardingham, Zaka, Melksham, Hurley, Monfries, Crameri, Ryder, Heppell and probably Hooker and Howlett are locks in the team so we should play a handful of those guys and the kids/fringe players. I'd like to...
  21. Ben the Gooner

    The Grandma Police

    Don't **** with them
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    The Hangar Chess Thread

    Getting seriously excited for the movie about Bobby Fischer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1777551/ Can't wait to get it on DVD.
  23. Ben the Gooner

    Toast It's Finals Time

    Well boys and girls, it's that time of year again. The mighty EFC is back where it belongs, so I thought we should tidy the place up and get into that finals spirit. We're playing the blue ***** in two weeks time, so I thought we should make our avatars our favourite moments from Carlton games...
  24. Ben the Gooner

    Post-match discussion vs. Western Bulldogs

    Stunned Monfries is popping up. I thought he was dire.
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    Changes v Richmond

    Might be a positive thread this week! IN: Dyson OUT: Welsh (inj.) Fairly straightforward: Reimers to FF like he did in the second half, Dyson to be the sub. B: Hardingham - Hurley - Hibberd HB: Fletcher - Pears - Heppell C: Stanton - Prismall - Melksham HF: Monfries - Crameri -...
  26. Ben the Gooner

    Building a Premiership Team (and how it doesn't happen overnight)

    There seems to be a lot of negativity around at the moment, and a lot of it is borne out of inflated expectations. To illustrate where we are at currently, I thought it'd be worthwhile to look at how the Collingwood premiership squad was built. The players I considered to be important to their...
  27. Ben the Gooner

    What is our best 22 for the rest of the season?

    In other words, ignore Winders and Dempsey. IMO, the forward press is breaking down as we bring more kids in, and combined with our lack of a defensive element to our forwardline, it makes goals from rebound 50s far too common. Therefore I want to get some more mature players in and around...
  28. Ben the Gooner

    Happy birthday Olly

    May your day be not marred by the ****ing socialist alternative.
  29. Ben the Gooner

    Toast Normal order to be restored on Saturday!

    I won't say that the last result against Carlton is anomalous because of coaching incompetence, because, let's be honest, Carlton haven't had a competent coach since Parkin left. But the Dons are a far better side than that Rd 19 debacle. Jimmy Hird (that's what it looks like to have a legend...
  30. Ben the Gooner

    Roast It's difficult to be a defender these days...

    ... unless you're playing on Michael Hurley. In which case, you have a license to scrag, hold, chop arms, push and general infringe on him. What does his man have to do before Hurley gets a free kick?

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