Bigfooty seems to have made Sir Dane a quasi-whipping boy & almost pensioned him off.
But watching him yesterday reminded me of why he’s a champion.
He just knows when to go up for the spoil, when to stay down, where to go to stop his opponent leading out …. and does everything with 100%...
In regards #6, I know I’m being narky.
But I was frustrated when Turner I think it was kicked a goal late in Q4. He ran unchecked from way outside 50 and launched the bomb. Curnow should have been awake to it, but had switched off.
He’s clearly a huge asset to the side. But the defensive focus...
Just got home from the game (and a trip to the pub to celebrate).
Some observations (I’ll start with the negatives, then move to to good stuff).
1. I remember Horse saying AFL games are hard to win. They are. But today, I thought it was our perhaps our worst performance of the season (Hawthorn...
When Harley Reid announces his desire to be traded to Geelong, all hell will break loose & everything will be possible in the panic.
But I maintain that if I could recruit 1 West Coast player, it’d be Ginbey.
The last 45 seconds of the 2005 Grand Final was probably the most thrilling football ever.
But
If it was played today, there’d be umps blowing whistles for all sorts of stupid reasons:
- multiple players running off the mark after Cox took the grab (stand rule violations)
- protected zone...
The rules have become so hideously complex & finicky, the games have become grossly over officiated - which is infuriating.
Memo to the AFL - stoppages are not ruining your “product”. You are.
It’s odd that they haven’t switched to another Brave team.
Kangaroos, Carlton, St Kilda & the other perennial duds never get the commentary love the Bravedogs still do.
I think in the case of a draw, a totally “random” song should be played.
For example, Essendon draw with West Coast - play “He’ll never be an old man River” by TISM.
Swans board, it is my solemn duty to inform you that that our erstwhile colleague & weather guru Mr Donza has unfortunately become a cheese-board & Chardonnay consuming Melbourne supporter & was last seen in transit to Mt Buller.
Did you know that a gawn is a small tub, used to ladle liquids?
So a max gawn is presumably the larger version of the standard gawn.
DQ - teaching you something “useful” every day.
David King’s incessant harping about a few players drives me up the f***ing wall.
He’s clearly trying to drive the cult of celebrity, rather than analyse the game in any meaningful way.
He’s officially gone past BT as my most despised commentator.
Yes, that would be petulant too.
The arguments about the academies has become a game of "opinion ping-pong", with statements out of various club executives becoming more and more hysterical with each return shot.
Unpopular view incoming:
Pridham's statement was silly.
We are not "developing players for the benefit of other clubs" - we are developing players with a view to strengthening the talent pool and game in NSW.
If Pridham's position were to apply, what's to stop (for example) Claremont saying...
I suppose it is worth remembering that in the corresponding game last year, Melbourne towelled us up by 50+
If you look at who really hurt us, it wasn't the usual suspects - it was bloody Ed Langdon and Christian Salem, of all people. Plus Kozzie.
Having said that:
- our forward line that day...