2018 Best 22

[Joao]

This took me straight to an email I got a while back. Tools are useless if you have no idea!!!


DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your pop across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted part you were drying.

WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time it takes you to say, "SH**!!!"

ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age.

PLIERS: Used to round off hexagonal bolt heads.

HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle: It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

VISE GRIP PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.

OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for setting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside a wheel hub you're trying to get the bearing raceout of.

WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 1/2 socket you've been searching for the last 15 minutes.

HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new disk brake pads, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.

EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 4X4: Used to attempt to lever an automobile upward off a hydraulic jack handle.

TWEEZERS: A tool for removing splinters of wood, especially Douglas fir.

TELEPHONE: Tool for calling your neighbor to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack.

SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for removing dog feces from your boots.

E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.

TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of bolts and fuel lines you forgot to disconnect.

CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mountprying tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle.

AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.

TROUBLE LIGHT: The home builder's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin", which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.

PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and squirt oil on your shirt; can also be used, as the name implies, to round off the interiors of Phillips screw heads.

AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last tightened 70 years ago by someone at Ford, and rounds them off.

PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.

HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to cut hoses 1/2 inch too short.

HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer now-a-days is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive parts not far from the object we are trying to hit.

MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on boxes containing upholstered items, chrome-plated metal, and plastic parts.

I'll be honest, I didn't read it. (TLDR)

 

[The Joker]

I'll be honest, I didn't read it. (TLDR)

Yeah I didn't expect you to as I knew straight away you would have thought it was a dig at your post. But others may have a laugh so it's all good!!!

 

[sherrif]

After the few games into the year I think our best 22 has already changed a little. My new predicted best 22 by the end of the year is:
B: Logue A.Perace Wilson
HB: Blakely Hamling Ryan
C: B.Hill Neale S.Hill
R: Sandy Walters Fyfe
HF: Bennell McCarthy Cerra
Ff: Mundy Tabs Matera
I/c Brayshaw, Banfield, Langdon, Either Crowden or Ballas depending on form.
Im still optimistic on Logue.

 

[blue shark]

After the few games into the year I think our best 22 has already changed a little. My new predicted best 22 by the end of the year is:
B: Logue A.Perace Wilson
HB: Blakely Hamling Ryan
C: B.Hill Neale S.Hill
R: Sandy Walters Fyfe
HF: Bennell McCarthy Cerra
Ff: Mundy Tabs Matera
I/c Brayshaw, Banfield, Langdon, Either Crowden or Ballas depending on form.
Im still optimistic on Logue.

Not bad, but still think the midfield could be improved with Blakely there, Mundy appears to be more utility now.
Teams will try to nullify our attacking backs, so we could do with a specialist stopper, rather than making Wilson
accountable, or help break a tag.
Darcy should be in consideration for away games, resting Sandi, and interchange you could add Tucker.
Should be plenty of cameo roles from wafl players in the picture as well.

 

[ydraw]

After the few games into the year I think our best 22 has already changed a little. My new predicted best 22 by the end of the year is:
B: Logue A.Perace Wilson
HB: Blakely Hamling Ryan
C: B.Hill Neale S.Hill
R: Sandy Walters Fyfe
HF: Bennell McCarthy Cerra
Ff: Mundy Tabs Matera
I/c Brayshaw, Banfield, Langdon, Either Crowden or Ballas depending on form.
Im still optimistic on Logue.

Pretty spot on, I would play an extra tall instead of Ballas/Crowden though.

 

[sherrif]

Pretty spot on, I would play an extra tall instead of Ballas/Crowden though.

There will be a spot for a pressure forward. Every team has one nowadays.

 

[gungho]

Best 22.

B: Logue A.Pearce Johnson
HB:Wilson Hamling Ryan
C: B.Hill Neale S.Hill
R: Sandy Blakely Fyfe
HF: Bennell McCarthy Mundy
Ff: Walters Tabs Matera
I/c Brayshaw, Banfield, Langdon, Cerra,

Depth: Darcy, Ballas, Hughes, Tucker, Kersten, Brady Grey, Cox,

New guns to emerge: North, Crowden, Switkowski,

Unknowns Dixon, Meek, Apeness,


Never to play for Freo again: Sutcliffe, D Pearce, Sheridan,

End of year retirements/delistings: Sutcliffe, D Pearce, Sheridan, Kersten, Sandi? Mundy? Johnson?

 

[mightymouse75]

And ballentyne

 

[creamygoodness]

Mundy easily play another 2 years imo. Sandi possibly 1 more if he holds up this year. Expect ballas, spurr, johnno and pearce will retire.

 

[ydraw]

There will be a spot for a pressure forward. Every team has one nowadays.

That's why we have Matera, Banfield, Brayshaw, Langdon, Mundy etc in the team.

 

[eastfreo75]

Mundy easily play another 2 years imo. Sandi possibly 1 more if he holds up this year. Expect ballas, spurr, johnno and pearce will retire.

Knowing Lyon, Ballantyne will be playing next year as well.

I rather cut hard, save salary cap space and give another player 18-21 years old a go.

 

[Monument Hills]

So it seems generally from this board that we are wanting to put games into all of the youngsters to gain valuable experience so to push into finals in 2019 and deeper into finals in 2020...that is, except for Darcy - cause we want to play Sandi all year and hopefully next year too? So end of 2019 when Sandi is by then collecting the pension, and we look around for our centre piece ruckman to take over and take us to top 4 and challenge for the cup and Darcy's (i) hardly played AFL for two years; or (ii) left for Victoria for more opportunity, leaving us crying over the lack of an experienced ruckman (the only missing piece of our premiership puzzle - once Dixon becomes our Ben Brown). Wow.

 

[eastfreo75]

So it seems generally from this board that we are wanting to put games into all of the youngsters to gain valuable experience so to push into finals in 2019 and deeper into finals in 2020...that is, except for Darcy - cause we want to play Sandi all year and hopefully next year too? So end of 2019 when Sandi is by then collecting the pension, and we look around for our centre piece ruckman to take over and take us to top 4 and challenge for the cup and Darcy's (i) hardly played AFL for two years; or (ii) left for Victoria for more opportunity, leaving us crying over the lack of an experienced ruckman (the only missing piece of our premiership puzzle - once Dixon becomes our Ben Brown). Wow.

I have the same concern regarding Darcy.

Not sure I will have a lot of people who agree me, but I would move on Sandilands at the end of the year. The idea would be to create salary cap space for 2019 when Hogan*, Coniglio*, Lobb, Martin*, Swallow* and Cripps all coming off contract (*restricted free agents). Plus, we don't lose Darcy.

 

[Steinfreo]

Mundy easily play another 2 years imo. Sandi possibly 1 more if he holds up this year. Expect ballas, spurr, johnno and pearce will retire.

Yeah i was surprised Mundy was only 32, I had it in my head he was 34/35.

 

[blue shark]

So it seems generally from this board that we are wanting to put games into all of the youngsters to gain valuable experience so to push into finals in 2019 and deeper into finals in 2020...that is, except for Darcy - cause we want to play Sandi all year and hopefully next year too? So end of 2019 when Sandi is by then collecting the pension, and we look around for our centre piece ruckman to take over and take us to top 4 and challenge for the cup and Darcy's (i) hardly played AFL for two years; or (ii) left for Victoria for more opportunity, leaving us crying over the lack of an experienced ruckman (the only missing piece of our premiership puzzle - once Dixon becomes our Ben Brown). Wow.[/QUOTE
If they rest Sandi for away games, or at least try Darcy and him together, what is the issue?
I do see your point though, but Darcy has had an interupted preseason, but two rucks can work just look at
West Coast.
It's a very long season so I expect all the senior's to be rested at times, it's not like we don't have options for Balla,
Johnson, Sandi and Mundy.
If we are in a position to maybe making finals, on history Ross will go with experience.

 

[Shadow Man]

I have the same concern regarding Darcy.

Not sure I will have a lot of people who agree me, but I would move on Sandilands at the end of the year. The idea would be to create salary cap space for 2019 when Hogan*, Coniglio*, Lobb, Martin*, Swallow* and Cripps all coming off contract (*restricted free agents). Plus, we don't lose Darcy.

Sandi won't play next year, this is his swan song...

 

[eastfreo75]

Sandi won't play next year, this is his swan song...

How do you know?
Or you just guessing

 

[Silversurfer]

Sandi gona play into his 40s

 

[theGav56]

So it seems generally from this board that we are wanting to put games into all of the youngsters to gain valuable experience so to push into finals in 2019 and deeper into finals in 2020...that is, except for Darcy - cause we want to play Sandi all year and hopefully next year too? So end of 2019 when Sandi is by then collecting the pension, and we look around for our centre piece ruckman to take over and take us to top 4 and challenge for the cup and Darcy's (i) hardly played AFL for two years; or (ii) left for Victoria for more opportunity, leaving us crying over the lack of an experienced ruckman (the only missing piece of our premiership puzzle - once Dixon becomes our Ben Brown). Wow.

The thing is that there are only 17 other #1 ruck positions available, and not many/any vacancies. Darcy is in pretty much the ideal situation.

 

[sherrif]

That's why we have Matera, Banfield, Brayshaw, Langdon, Mundy etc in the team.

No. Only one of those players you have named played a forward pressure role last week (Matera) and even then Matera had more a roaming role playing mostly high half forward with some deep forward. Langdon played almost exclusively on a wing, Mundy as a tall forward, Brayshaw and Banfield exclusively midfied. Forward pressure was hugely improved from the week before and both Crowden and Ballantyne were keys in this area. It would be absurd to drop both.

 

[ydraw]

No. Only one of those players you have named played a forward pressure role last week (Matera)

That doesn't mean they can't play that role.

 

[sherrif]

That doesn't mean they can't play that role.

Im just asking. Have you seen us play this year in the regular season yet? Mundy and McCarthy look a lot better playing as tall forwards then their stats my say as both have competed a lot better in the air than the 2016 versions of the same players. Playing an extra tall would be a mistake as we would then have three slightly slow forwards Apeness, Mundy and Tabs in our forward line for most of the game and we would get exposed massively with defensive run if we went that way.

 

[ydraw]

Im just asking. Have you seen us play this year in the regular season yet?

Yes

 

[Docker79]

Am hoping if Duman shows a bit in his debut it'll prompt the move to try Logue up forward when he comes back from injury.

Our backline already has solid depth with Cox and Hughes waiting in the wings as well.

Logue is athletic, can take a grab and has a big kick on him. Still needs to work on his footy nous but could be a fwd option while we wait for Dixon to come on...

 

[theGav56]

Am hoping if Duman shows a bit in his debut it'll prompt the move to try Logue up forward when he comes back from injury.

Our backline already has solid depth with Cox and Hughes waiting in the wings as well.

Logue is athletic, can take a grab and has a big kick on him. Still needs to work on his footy nous but could be a fwd option while we wait for Dixon to come on...

There is a big question mark about where Logie will end up playing his best football. Like a road he has A-grade athleticism which is not matched by his footballing ability for now. I think he will learn best in the backline, but he can be a weapon if he can go forward.