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Grab Majak. Handcuff yourself to him. Drag him around Arden Street Oval on leads every day this week. Rinse & Repeat until Maj gets it. Release Daw against Sydney. Wishful thinking, I know, as Daw is injured. However, it seems we've tried everything else.

Can somebody enlighten me? What am I missing? I keep seeing reports that North should make a play for Waite. In today's Herald Sun I read that Wayne Schwass, of all people, really thinks we should try and sign him up. I can only see downside to this line of thinking. First we'd be getting...

With all the hand wringing and gnashing of teeth that's going on here, it's easy to forget the significance of this Friday's game agains the Hawks. If we win this one, we will have beaten all top 4 teams this year. The curious thing is that, despite everything, for the first time since 2000 we...

Well we'll find out what other clubs do now. Let's see, the Bulldogs for starters. They haven't even got a Franklin to blame it on! And what about the Bombers? Managed to lose to Melbourne, if you don't mind. The Eagles managed to lose to the team that we were so crap in beating last week. Port...

This has probably been spoken about already. However, I purposefully kept away from Big Footy since Sunday because I knew that the venting would have been overwhelming - so I haven't seen it. It's fantastic to see Greenwood & Grima back in the team at last. I believe our structure is now right...

I've just heard Mike Sheehan state on On The Couch that, based on last Friday's performance, Richmond have gone past North Melbourne. Let's ignore the fact that North beat Richmond on Friday for a moment. I'm pretty sure that this is, at least, the third time that Richmond have passed out North...

I'm still a bit shellshocked with what transpired tonight. However, just wind back the clock to 15 minutes into the second quarter. How did you all feel at that time? I really reckoned that we were on our way. I knew that the Saints would come at us. However, I thought if we could get to...

North player attacks the ball around the centre of the ground. He fumbles due to the quirky bounce. Another North player comes charging through, picks up the ball and sets up an attack. The first time I saw this, I thought,\ "that was lucky". The second time I saw it, I thought "things are...

I know the rule was brought in to stop the game from getting bogged down but there is nothing worse in football than waiting for the inevitable "holding the ball" decision when some poor guy is trapped with the ball being held to him. It just seems way over the top to me. It, also, happens when...

The kids were watching Foxtel today (the Disney Channel, I think) and this little piece came on where the daughter of the guy from Mao's Last Dancer was describing her dads life. It transpires that they are all avid Roos supporters. They looked like they were rally into North. They even showed...

and..... Grima. That's all I've got to say except... How much would we have beaten Essendon by if he was in the team?

Greenwood and Grima. Nuff said. They are why we will win lots of games in the future!! Grunt and class.

It's the little snide remarks that really get up my nose! In Sporting Life on the back page of The Age, Mark Hawthorn writes about the RRR/PBS Megahertz v Espy Rockdogs Community Cup game at Elsternwick Park. All good stuff until he has his rotten little dig at North as follows:- "Sunday's...

I notice that Thomas is 181 cms. That's much taller than all the other good "small" players going around like Milne, Rioli, Betts & Harvey. He's also taller than Wells. I think this can be a big advantage for him when it comes to marking the ball. It really allows him to be very flexible and...

I wonder what was going on with him on Friday. From the time he kicked that great goal against Brisbane a couple of seasons back, I always thought he had a fairly good kick. Even last week he was pretty good apart from the little slip up near the end of the game. However, on Friday he looked...

I'm, probably being a bit harsh here I know, given the effort they put in. However, at Etihad tonight, our main leaders (Harvey, Rawlings, Wells & Spud) made far too many seriously costly clangers. When I think back on the game, these 4 guys were the chief culprits on the turnover side of...

This is as low as I've ever felt after a North supporter and it's not because we lost. To see about half our team pathetically chasing after a bigger, stronger footballer was hard to watch as it can get. Well gone are the days of Mickey Martin throwing James Hird around like a drag doll. Today...

I know I fully expected us to run out of puff somewhere around half way through the third quarter but I was still very disappointed how it materialised. Immediately after Wells scored that game lifting goal to put us 7 points up our setup at the next two bounces in the middle were inexplicable...

I've created this thread as a dumping ground for the numerous other threads that are going to be created this year after our very young team, (who practically everybody agrees are going to be up and down this season due to their inexperience), fail to live up to our sky high expectations. I've...

I bought 3 Schimma memberships this year. The 2 kids received their packs yesterday and were really excited. Lots of goodies, particularly the neat little pen. They headed off to school this morning very proud of themselves to show off all the kanga gear. They arrived home to tell me that both...

I got to wondering today about where all this love for Buckley at North developed. I find myself rowing in with the whole sentiment but if you had asked me a year ago, he wouldn't even have crossed my mind. On the face of it, it seems counter-intuitive for North supporters to be so in thrall...

It's been many long years now since the heyday of Mickey Martin. In all the time through the Laidley years we have been crying out for a full back that could compete. Watt, Browny, Spud, Petrie, Hay ... we tried them all to no avail. However, the last few weeks watching Grima in action has led...

One of the more painful manifestations of our present less successful period is our capacity to cough up goals at the very end of quarters. I remember back in Pagan times, the reverse was the case. We would always score at the death, especially when we were in strife. I was away at the weekend...

Everybody seems to be responding to the stuff that Barrett/Wilson/Ralph/Baum have written about North. However, the most pointed negative commentary has been written in the Herald Sun Editorial. Has nobody read this or has it been mentioned in another thread?

I know it's a bit of a harsh call on the guy because I know what he was trying to do, but I reckon the moment that Ben Ross knocked the ball back into play from the boundary during a North attack in the 3rd quarter was the moment we blew the game. At the time we were coming strongly. The ball...

Maybe I had too much to drink tonight but did I just see on Channel 7 Leigh's Bottom Line and did it just point out that Essendon had a bigger percentage of goals than Hawthorn. If that is true, then it must be a new low as far as fatuous reports on a footy game go. I mean Leigh Matthews and Tim...

On Tuesday, April 7 at 1.30 PM, being the school holidays, I headed down to Arden Street with my two sons to buy some gear and have a kick around. While we were there, the entire squad were strolling between the changing rooms and the weights room chatting and looking very relaxed. All appeared...

The events of last week lead to the greatest shaming of a team in the AFL that I have witnessed in my time supporting the game (admittedly, only 25 years). I'm not interested right now in the rights and wrongs re what happened. The fact is that these events occurred and the shaming was...

I've seen both papers today and that's where we're at as far as the tipsters are concerned. Based on this, I reckon we're certainties.

On a lighter and brighter note, here's some totally unscientific info that I've pulled out of my ear - I seems to me that our beloved North appear to pull out an absolute stinker once every 10/11 games approx. Last year we had the following prime examples: Essendon, Freemantle & Port Adelaide...