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Did this last year in our darkest hour - doing it again, because that's the sort of person I am. As it stands, today's ladder, the sides still a chance for that bottom half of the 8 are: 5 WCE 52pts, 123% 6 NM 48pts, 114% 7 Geel 48pts, 112% 8 Ess 44pts, 110% 9 Freo 44pts, 109% 10 St K 40pts...

So this is a Mark Stevens (Herald Sun stats-based writer) opinion piece on last year's Rising Star field. http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport-old/afl/rising-star-award-winner-dyson-heppell-overtaken-already/story-e6frepkx-1226306446365 Has Sam Reid basically overtaking everyone. We all...

They've taken a markedly different approach to last year. For whatever reason. May not be all bad, story will be told later in the year.

List ages, according to Rohan Connolly in the age: My question - is this correct? My own calculations below, with and without rookies the age column is "(today's date - DOB) * 365.25 " the average speaks for itself. Apologies for the formatting with rookies without...

On the sport of Aussie Rules... on a leading authority on world sports history, cracked.com. Obviously a lot of research has gone into this, and the author is of high intelligence, class, and good breeding: Read more: Australian Rules Football | Cracked.com...

Is one to watch, could affect the bottom line. Unsure if the Slipper/speaker situation changes things. Now, here's a 22 I think we should select: Pears Fletch Hardingham Heppell Hooker Myers Melksham Watson Stanton Zaha Hurley Crameri Reimers Carlisle Monfries Ryder Hocking...

In the wake of the derailment/subsequent closure of a couple of "X club announces Y profit" threads... is it worthwhile thinking about having a short-term "financials" board, (a sub forum of the main boards, similar to the 'hot topic' boards) over the off-season?

$1.6M profit, as announced by Robson Not too shabby. For a club that - according to certain "journalists" - is spending $2M on 2 new coaches instead of about 400k on one, as well as putting on extra staff, interesting the total footy dept spend increase barely made $2M. Interesting. Went from...

Just to show how hard 3AW's "rumour file" works to verify their 'rumours' before putting them to air; some kid started a rumour last night that Brenton Sanderson had walked out on the Crows just to see what'd happen. AW, of course, ran it, "switchboard flooded". Took about 2 minutes flat for the...

Wow. 6 trades done in the last hour? Typical! No doubt held up by the obligatory big trade that couldn't quite get across the line. But a very, very busy trade period... was it every club bar Freo involved somewhere in there?? I know I'm gunna be struggling to keep track of who's pick went...

"Talk about sucking the umpire in.... Nothing in it. Got pushed in the chest by a hand - dropped down like a tree as if he had been hit with a solid punch in the face. But with the MRP as is... Nothing will happen." Blah blah blah herp derp derp "Considering that his teammate, a...

ESSENDON defender Michael Hibberd has been interviewed by police over an early-morning altercation on the Mornington Peninsula yesterday. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/police-quiz-essendon-player-michael-hibberd-over-altercation/story-e6frf9jf-1226105812782 Just what we need!

[/FONT][/FONT] http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/a/Williams-hangs-up-the-boots/8406 And for the 'Source?' brigade, Whomb had it a couple hours ago.

Lot of talk, and excitement, about the "17yo picks" that GWS can deal. Facts are, only for a quarter of a draft year are eligible, and they can't play for a year, and the risks of picking a kid a year out are higher, rather than lower - all of which has got me thinking: What's more valuable to...

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/bombers-show-style-now-for-substance-20110703-1gxbq.html http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/bombers-show-style-now-for-substance-20110703-1gxbq.html As much as we all love Hirdy pulling his hose out, the article is spot on. Done as well as he possibly...

Run home's interesting. Went through it, back-of-an-envelope type stuff and going 2 pts for games I can't pick. this is what I get. Demons 26 pts: Dogs (50/50); Port (50/50); Hawks (L); Geel (L); Carl (L); WCE (50/50); Rich (50/50); GC (W); Port (50/50) ~ 14 more pts = 40 North 24 pts...

No joke - and good on him (her?) too. http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-4608-0-0-0&sID=198133&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=15206201&sectionID=198133 {ps is there a 'media' tag?}

That I've not seen anyone touch on. From rd 1 last year: #1 Neagle. #2 Dyson. #3 Gumbleton. #9 Prismall. #12 Welsh. #16 Pears. #20 Slattery. #29 Davey. #33 Williams. #37 Reimers all played. That's 10 blokes in that 22, who did not play on the weekend. Replaced by: #7 Jetta. #10 McVeigh. #14...

Richmond's culture of "excellence" of the Essendon rejects they've picked up? After the unabated success of Tristan Cartledge, they went back to the well of awesome talent that was Tom Hislop, then Bachar "don't make me tackle" Houli, and now Patrick Smith has seen the writing on the wall that...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/if-the-prize-is-big-enough-then-all-standards-are-compromised-in-afl-nrl/story-e6frg7t6-1226017305814 No longer our problem. Following the beacon of excellence that is Richmond FC. Thank ****, personally. Just remember kids: Brad Miller, Bachar, Tom...

And Jobe installed as captain coach, according to this " Rookie coach Jobe Watson's new mantra " Onya Herald Sun... keep setting the bar lower & lower. 2nd year captain, rookie captain, rookie coach, delisting candidate... who really cares anyway

Fresh off the printing press, from the "2008 Premiers tattoo" collection of premature Geelong ejactulation media: Geelong Cats True Champions Premier 2010 Can see this becoming as collectible as 'Leigh Colbert - Great Geelong Captain' VHSs and the much-sought-after "Gary Ablett Jnr...

Looking at the start of our fixture: Can anyone tell me a good reason why we won't win at least 6 of those??? Beaten every one of those sides (bar GC, Bris and WCE: all of whom will likely be pretty poor) either this year or last. Only two trips, and they're both east coast, where we can...

Deal at Telstra dome. Outdated facilities Missed the chance to move the bowls club 2 years ago, now council changed the zoning & we can't move them across the road Coach on a 2-year deal, turns out he was a dead duck Low-end of spending on footy department Poxy list No marketable big name...

You're not seriously going badly enough to lose to us, are you? Hall/Morris/Cooney/half your flipping list out coming off a 90 point flogging. Fletcher & Winderlich possibly back in. If you are so inept you cost us 14th spot & pick 8, I'll be ropable with both your club & mine. Just do the...

Just wanna get your thoughts on whether Mark "shotgun" Williams has been a successful signing. Was pretty good on Scarlett, good v Carlton, didn't get a touch the other two he played and picked up an injury at some point. Is it too early to judge the success of his signing? What did you think...

Who has more idea about footy. A box of pizza shapes, or optimistic Collingwood supporter BBQShapes?

Went to a Logies after party. There for an hour, then went home stone cold sobre. What kind of sad, tee-totalling loser is standing in a room split 50/50 between irritating advertising executives and hot, half-dressed, vapid TV bimbos, and doesn't feel the need to get absolutely w***ered on...

http://www.essendonfc.com.au/matches/preview.asp?round_no=4 Can someone do a screenshot of that??? Team: Essendon B: Henry Slattery, Tayte Pears, Dustin Fletcher HB: Courtenay Dempsey, Cale Hooker, Nathan Lovett-Murray C: Kyle Reimers, Jobe Watson, Jake Melksham HF: Sam Lonergan, Scott...

IMHO we're developing one of the best marking sides going around. Gumby - pluck ANYTHING from ANYWHERE when he's up and going Hurley - absolutely mint in a contest Paddy Ryder - check the highlight tapes. Party trick marks. Tayte Pears - stands under anything and invariably gets the right result...