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Looks like Jarrad Schofield on the far right of that photo. He coached Subiaco into the WAFL gf today with a win over an inaccurate (East) Fremantle :thumbsu:
His son was the Jr mascot. Read somewhere during the week his young lad is a massive port fan.
 
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On either the ch7 or ABC news tonight they had footage of Hewitt and Port man Thanasi Kokkinakis greeting the Port boys in the players race about 10 m in from the ground after the great win. They had big grins on their faces and shook the players hands and the players happily greeted them back with big smiles and yahooing.
 

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Was just thinking, with Burgess' recent contract signing and the announcement of a partnership with UniSa, would UniSA maybe be contributing to his salary? Pretty clever if that's the case, being able to pay a highly sought after fitness coach a competitive salary with the help of outside sources.
 
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Just a general thought, how bad has the 2009 draft top 25 picks been?

We've got those who have made it: Martin, Talia, Fyfe, Jetta
Those who are starting to blossom: Carlisle, Pittard, Bastinac, Rohan, Cunnington,, Moore
Injury prone: Trengove, Morabito, Butcher, Menzel
The inbetween: Black, Stevens, Griffiths, Moore, Sheppard
Then the plain old bad/where are they now?: Scully, Melksham, Lucas, Howard, Tapscott Weedon Gysberts

Compared to 2010 draft whereby I would think a bit more than half have made it.
I think Scully definitely deserves to be in the in-between category. Is he living up to his draft position and hype? Nope. But he is a solid enough performer who GWS can count on getting about 20 touches and 5 tackles each week. His career has suffered due to having to play an inside midfielder role from a very early stage given how much the sides he and played in have struggles. Clearly was drafted as an outside midfielder with endurance being his big asset. Almost certain he'll go on to play 200+ games.

I view Moore in a similar way. No he's probably not going to be superstar, but I think he'll make a fine, consistent AFL footballer.
 

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Freaking Cows supporters at work.
Before
"Port will be out first week. "
"Port will get flogged by Freo. "

Now
"Barracking for Port, they are a South Australian team after all"

**** off I thought the other mob was the team for ALL South Australians and Port are just an unwanted club? Now that Port are in a prelim,
They are also a team for ALL South Australians.
 

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Freaking Cows supporters at work.
Before
"Port will be out first week. "
"Port will get flogged by Freo. "

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"Barracking for Port, they are a South Australian team after all"

**** off I thought the other mob was the team for ALL South Australians and Port are just an unwanted club? Now that Port are in a prelim,
They are also a team for ALL South Australians.
Let them, they won't get anywhere near the joy that we get from what our club achieves, and there will always be that underlying jealousy.
 

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... Pretty clever if that's the case, being able to pay a highly sought after fitness coach a competitive salary with the help of outside sources.
Yes, was discussed here as such at the time. Not sure if UniSA directly pays him but more that with their imprimatur he gets to develop it as a business within an academic framework. FWIW I have no actual information on how the finances works it's just my impression of how he/the PAFC/UniSA are doing this. However going full circle he no doubt is capable of making a fair bit more than we actually pay him.
 

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Harvey cops 1 week... the afl might as well send all players out in helmets from 2015 onwards.

Really hope the all fans start booing Selwood in the future.
 

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Harvey cops 1 week... the afl might as well send all players out in helmets from 2015 onwards.

Really hope the all fans start booing Selwood in the future.
Seriously? Harvey jumped into him, hitting him in the head drawing blood roughly 15 metres off the ball.

Selwood can be a sooky campaigner but Harvey deserves everything he gets - was it 2012 when he had Wingard pinned down and punched/elbowed him in the jaw and wasn't even cited?
 

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Zack Dawson got off.. No way that was a legitimate spoiling attempt. NO chance of spoiling that and 100% chance of collecting the head. Something that you could of got away with years ago, but I can't believe he got away with it. The commentators at the time was talking it down, but I thought they were being ridiculous. How did he expect to miss the head?
 

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not Harvey's fault Selwood is an easy bleeder... I hate Harvey with passion, but those blocks happen 100x a game. It's only got games cause it drew blood.
 
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