1 win from 6 games at that point.
Won 35 of the next 42 games, including the 1979 flag.
Crazy good as a little kid following it back then.
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Won 35 of the next 42 games, including the 1979 flag.
Crazy good as a little kid following it back then.
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Weird times with certain people allegedly getting arrested dragging police down Flinders St by car. Who was to know that by the end of the next season we'd be premiers.
And the mosquito fleet and the premiership quarter were born ...
I thought that was just normal back then.
Mosquito fleets are back in vogue. We just need to build our next great one. Zac, SPS and Dow are 3. Where are the next four or five ?
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Bugger off, we don't want this 2 rucks bullcrap
Percy Jones was mostly playing in the forward pocket by 1978. Interchange bench was rarely used for rotating players. Coaches were still predominantly treating it like the days of 19th & 20th men. If you went to the bench back then, you were either injured or in strife.
Jezza got him fit in ‘78 and once he slimmed down was first ruck.
Rod Galt was played out of the square as a second ruck, and managed to win the goal kicking.
Fitzy came back late ‘78, but was nowhere near it.
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Why are we persisting with 2 rucks. FMD!
For a moment there I had forgotten about the man behind Byrning Spears. Ex-owner of a pretty nice home on Hedges Ave Mermaid Beach.
It's a shame that Kreuzer can't go forward & catch the thing as often as Galt did in 1978, then we could get away with playing 2 ruckmen. Galt also was quite a bit more mobile than Kreuze which made him a pretty handy option up forward.
Christ Stig I always imagined your in your thirties, but clearly you’re much, much, much older.
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Putting McKay to chb was Jezza’s masterstroke.
Took his 12 marks a game, but was made accountable as a defender, and it got Sellers to chf once Walls bailed.
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Might be a bit of insurance for kreuz in case he struggles with a full game rucking.
I'd prefer to keep him forward.
He’s mobile enough as a follower.
No one gets hurt at centre bounces anymore.
Enormous potential, all the same.
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Not so sure about that. Especially if it is a backup type ruckman.
Not doubting his mobility nor am I worried about injury. Just would prefer he build on his development up forward. Though I do also think it is useful for us to be able to call on him to jump in the ruck when needed.
MC seems to have stuffed up again by playing 2 Ruckman. Forecast is a warm day in Perth, got smashed playing 2 Ruckman a couple a weeks ago in Brisbane in similar conditons.
Will be vert frustrating if we run out of legs again.
Will be vert frustrating if we run out of legs again.
Kerridge is a good in (didn’t think I’d say that at the start of the year) runs hard both ways, can’t say that about many of our other mids ATM.
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I'd rather he was not tbh.
Is what it is.
We’ve got half a dozen one paced plodders, Wright, Lamb, Graham....
Kedge is probably a half foot quicker.
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Long was Galt around for Stig ?I do remember him ,was it only a season or 2.
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Didnt he come from the Saints ??
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