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D Mitchell said:
He had his best game for the season in a losing side against a team which treated the game as a training run. However good you think he may have been in the past, he was ordinary this season, not ordinary enough to be delisted but enough to warrant a one year contract.
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His second half of the season was the Johnson of old, 40+ touches v St.Kilda, smashing Footscray the highlights. For a bulldog supporter i admire your arrogance " a team which treated the game as a training run" that is complete and utter rubbish, I`m positive you don`t mean it.
 
D Mitchell said:
He had his best game for the season in a losing side against a team which treated the game as a training run. However good you think he may have been in the past, he was ordinary this season, not ordinary enough to be delisted but enough to warrant a one year contract.
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Pity your 'traning run' ended in DISMAL fashion against the Eagles. Your team made loads of progress, but theyre a mile off the top 4!!
 
windyhill said:
His second half of the season was the Johnson of old, 40+ touches v St.Kilda, smashing Footscray the highlights. For a bulldog supporter i admire your arrogance " a team which treated the game as a training run" that is complete and utter rubbish, I`m positive you don`t mean it.
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It's odd being accused of arrogance. I don't know whether you were at the game or not but it was a case of one team not wanting to win and the other preferring not to lose but not really caring, the reverse of the same game the previous year.

Not addressed to you, windyhill but the reference to Solomon was in response to an earlier poster who suggested Solomon as a trade to Footscray. Solomon might be a good footballer if he'd forget about the hard man stuff and concentrate on winning the ball. He's not even good at the hard man stuff anyway. I recall him "taking out" Sam Power a couple of years ago. Power, who's about as skinny as anyone playing, bounced straight up and kept playing.
 
D Mitchell said:
It's odd being accused of arrogance. I don't know whether you were at the game or not but it was a case of one team not wanting to win and the other preferring not to lose but not really caring, the reverse of the same game the previous year.

Not addressed to you, windyhill but the reference to Solomon was in response to an earlier poster who suggested Solomon as a trade to Footscray. Solomon might be a good footballer if he'd forget about the hard man stuff and concentrate on winning the ball. He's not even good at the hard man stuff anyway. I recall him "taking out" Sam Power a couple of years ago. Power, who's about as skinny as anyone playing, bounced straight up and kept playing.
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Yeah a side that is going into their first finals series in a long while, wants to go into the finals after losing to a side that is 15th....??

How about the individual players that would have been playing for a spot in the side the next week - they'd have been happy with JJ kicking 5 goals on them????
 

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D Mitchell said:
It's odd being accused of arrogance. I don't know whether you were at the game or not but it was a case of one team not wanting to win and the other preferring not to lose but not really caring, the reverse of the same game the previous year.

Not addressed to you, windyhill but the reference to Solomon was in response to an earlier poster who suggested Solomon as a trade to Footscray. Solomon might be a good footballer if he'd forget about the hard man stuff and concentrate on winning the ball. He's not even good at the hard man stuff anyway. I recall him "taking out" Sam Power a couple of years ago. Power, who's about as skinny as anyone playing, bounced straight up and kept playing.
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You do realise your side is pretty light on down back. If you're pinning your hopes on Harris, get used to having bags of goals kicked on you often. He's a good full-back, but he's a LONG way off from being in the top 5 going round at the minute. Statistics published often have shown he's in actual fact in the bottom 3 in the competition.

Dogs are much more effective when the likes of Gilbee and Hargreaves are running the ball out and Grant can remain in the square, instead of having to mop up down back. Useful in some games, but teams will have worked that one out by now....a no-brainer in fact.
 
Crave said:
... your side is pretty light on down back. If you're pinning your hopes on Harris, get used to having bags of goals kicked on you often. He's a good full-back, but he's a LONG way off from being in the top 5 going round at the minute. Statistics published often have shown he's in actual fact in the bottom 3 in the competition.


Dogs are much more effective when the likes of Gilbee and Hargreaves are running the ball out and Grant can remain in the square, instead of having to mop up down back. Useful in some games, but teams will have worked that one out by now....a no-brainer in fact.
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Most Footscray supporters would agree with most of that, me included. A good, tall defender is high on the list of priorities. Solomon isn't one, though. He's none of a runner, a stopper nor a tall and the last thing the team needs is someone giving away stupid free kicks when the defence is already under pressure.
 
silk said:
Maybe that's why he can't hit a target... simply can't see them properly.
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Kind of like when it's realised that Homer is dumb because he has a crayon lodged in his brain. Removed it and became a genius!
 
don4eva said:
Kind of like when it's realised that Homer is dumb because he has a crayon lodged in his brain. Removed it and became a genius!
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Homer: Marge? Since I'm not talking to Lisa, would you please ask her to pass me the syrup?
Marge: Dear, please pass your father the syrup, Lisa.
Lisa: Bart, tell Dad I will only pass the syrup if it won't be used on any meat product.
Bart: You dunkin' your sausages in that syrup homeboy?
Homer: Marge, tell Bart I just want to drink a nice glass of syrup like I do every morning.
Marge: Tell him yourself, you're ignoring Lisa, not Bart.
Homer: Bart, thank your mother for pointing that out.
Marge: Homer, you're not not-talking to me and secondly I heard what you said.
Homer: Lisa, tell your mother to get off my case.
Bart: Uhhh, dad, Lisa's the one you're not talking to.
Homer: Bart, go to your room.
 
Crave said:
Homer: Marge? Since I'm not talking to Lisa, would you please ask her to pass me the syrup?
Marge: Dear, please pass your father the syrup, Lisa.
Lisa: Bart, tell Dad I will only pass the syrup if it won't be used on any meat product.
Bart: You dunkin' your sausages in that syrup homeboy?
Homer: Marge, tell Bart I just want to drink a nice glass of syrup like I do every morning.
Marge: Tell him yourself, you're ignoring Lisa, not Bart.
Homer: Bart, thank your mother for pointing that out.
Marge: Homer, you're not not-talking to me and secondly I heard what you said.
Homer: Lisa, tell your mother to get off my case.
Bart: Uhhh, dad, Lisa's the one you're not talking to.
Homer: Bart, go to your room.
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Simpsons rule! :D
 

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Theres talk melbourne are looking to offload Yze, do u think essendon would look at a direct swap? Id prefer JJ, but they are the same age (i think) yze wouldnt have many injury concerns and is probably better skilled, but wont win the hard ball. this might happen if the club and jj dont sort things out and if the demons are actually keen. Like I said would much prefer JJ.
 
vast said:
Theres talk melbourne are looking to offload Yze, do u think essendon would look at a direct swap? Id prefer JJ, but they are the same age (i think) yze wouldnt have many injury concerns and is probably better skilled, but wont win the hard ball. this might happen if the club and jj dont sort things out and if the demons are actually keen. Like I said would much prefer JJ.
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I'd rather keep JJ... even with the foot injury.
 
windyhill said:
You don`t flirt with form going into a finals series " Yeah, let`s drop this game"
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I didn't say it set out to lose, but that it didn't care much either way. It used the game to practice drills and the players, perhaps Morris excepted, made sure they didn't get injured. The following week it played for keeps. The result disproved the cliche. Football is more than cliches.
 
D Mitchell said:
I didn't say it set out to lose, but that it didn't care much either way. It used the game to practice drills and the players, perhaps Morris excepted, made sure they didn't get injured. The following week it played for keeps. The result disproved the cliche. Football is more than cliches.
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Trust me, they ALWAYS love to beat Essendon. Its one of the most important games on their calendar...I hear it all friggin year! A loss wouldve had them frantically organising closed training sessions all week.
 

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Crave said:
Trust me, they ALWAYS love to beat Essendon. Its one of the most important games on their calendar...I hear it all friggin year! A loss wouldve had them frantically organising closed training sessions all week.
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Exactly:thumbsu:
 
Crave said:
Trust me, they ALWAYS love to beat Essendon. Its one of the most important games on their calendar...I hear it all friggin year! A loss wouldve had them frantically organising closed training sessions all week.
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That's supporter talk. The officials, coaching staff and players are different. It's their livelihood, not a warm inner glow. At the end of round 21, the first week of the finals was a lot more important than winning a game where the result changed nothing. Winning that first final was important, winning round 22 wasn't. So it turned out. Interestingly, it was a mirror of the same game the previous season where Essendon, secure by 3/4 time (Footscray would have had to have won by 25 points to have eliminated Essendon from the finals), spent the last quarter trying to feed Lloyd so he could win the Coleman.
 

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