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There are few better goals than this:
Close to one of my favorite plays.
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There are few better goals than this:
Gotta give the man credit for that!!! (and the fact he was one of the best contested ball winners in the competition ....and possession winners generally... and never dropped his head... and was a smart thinker... but none of those facts will earn him a whip)
It's the likes of you that were too slow to notice O'Brees outstanding credentials that robbed him of his 200 whipping boy games.I rated Ben Johnson throughout the vast majority of his games and for me he was never a whipping boy. Shane O'Bree was a different story. I whipped him from about 50 games into his career and didn't let up. I am actually surprised I took so long to realise he couldn't kick further than about 30 meters, but once I did, my cat of nine tails ensured he played his last games with a torso consisting of only blood and bones.
I noticed them after the first 50 games!It's the likes of you that were too slow to notice O'Brees outstanding credentials that robbed him of his 200 whipping boy games.
It wasn't soon enough for him to get his 200. He played 246 games all up - 227 for us. What really hurt was that he was an early draft choice for the Lions so slipped under the whips for them and then we slyly got him to nominate for the Preseason Draft, so we were chuffed to get him and that give him some whipping protection for us - for a while. We got him in the end though and really gave him some bloody good welts.I noticed them after the first 50 games!
But admittedly sometimes the popular whipping boy is not that good. Not long after I joined BF, Tony Armstrong was whipped from pillar to post. He was crucified, excoriated, an angry mob planned to storm the Holden Centre to demand his delisting (or whatever it was called then). Even playing two games in one day didn’t save him, although some posters were a little kinder to him after that. For a day or two.
This is the nub of it. The best whipping boys - or those preferred by BF - are generally good footballers. But we steadfastly refuse to believe it and ignore what is staring us in the face. Inconvenient facts.
But admittedly sometimes the popular whipping boy is not that good. Not long after I joined BF, Tony Armstrong was whipped from pillar to post. He was crucified, excoriated, an angry mob planned to storm the Holden Centre to demand his delisting (or whatever it was called then). Even playing two games in one day didn’t save him, although some posters were a little kinder to him after that. For a day or two.
I note that Tony now has something of a media career. Good on him. His regular bagging on BF must have been character building.
evidently we're keeping 2 spots vacant on our list for
That story brings a tear to my eye. I dont think any of us need to hear any thanks from Tony. We do it because we love the club.
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Fond memories Mark?
I just remembered a name ....Mark McGough... what was he? 18? Anzac Day medal. Complete and utter failure. Finished up over here only a couple of years ago as captain of east fremantle.
It reminds me of the old Fitzy in the tennis. That tennis player we love to bag, bernie tomic, got a few hard pieces of advice from Fitzy and he responded in kind....and so they interviewed Fitzy about it during the tennis and he said "as long as the boy gets the best out of himself"...
and doesnt that just sum us up? We are saints bagging these blokes and dont get a red cent out of it.... if Tony was still in charge, we'd get knighthoods
Very disappointing end to a very promising whipping boy career. Slow and couldn't kick - so he had the tools, and could win the footy, so there was potential for him to get games and be an ideal whipping boy. If only he was a little bit better, he would have hung around for more years and games and we would have had the opportunity to absolutely savage him.
I don’t know much about tennis, but I am fond of bagging Tomic. Just because.
I used to bag Nick Kyrgios too, but then he called Djokovic a ‘tool’ and since then I’ve loved Nick. I won’t hear a word against him.
some sportspeople say "please ....whip me".... and that's bernie for ya. Nick was delivering food to BFs in canberra to extract himself ...and then he lands on a goldmine - whipping someone who is more whippable than what you are... It's the ultimate get out of whipping card for free tactic.
i'd love to see Josh thomas and jack madgen organise a press conference so that they can bag callum brown.... an obvious way to improve team culture
I liked the hospital pass that Thomas gave to Kelly. It was really nicely done. It could have exposed Thomas to more whipping for a sh*t kick and some tried to take it that way, but more importantly it diverted us to canning Kelly for being made of glass - that's the whipping that will endure.
We are shown up at times. I remember when Ryan Lonie was named bravest footballer by his peers...something like that. It was one of those end of year questionaires for players. I didnt a 30 second search by couldnt find the details. But I do remember it being a savage roast.
I had the same feeling when tex walker was named best captain.... I always wondered about that one..
I just remembered a name ....Mark McGough... what was he? 18? Anzac Day medal. Complete and utter failure. Finished up over here only a couple of years ago as captain of east fremantle.
Lonie was very soft but gee he could kick the footy better than pretty much everyone on our current list. I remember several long bomb running drop punt goals from the edge of the centre square. Plus we had Rocca, Buckley and Clement all capable of goals from well outside the 50m arc.
We currently lack forwards capable of regularly scoring from long range, which forces our mids to deliver the ball deeper and predictably into a more crowded F50. We need some long-bombers!
Classic ‘horses for courses’.Very disappointing end to a very promising whipping boy career. Slow and couldn't kick - so he had the tools, and could win the footy, so there was potential for him to get games and be an ideal whipping boy. If only he was a little bit better, he would have hung around for more years and games and we would have had the opportunity to absolutely savage him.
Imagine if the players had their own list of BF posters they considered have no idea!
Lonie was very soft but gee he could kick the footy better than pretty much everyone on our current list. I remember several long bomb running drop punt goals from the edge of the centre square. Plus we had Rocca, Buckley and Clement all capable of goals from well outside the 50m arc.
We currently lack forwards capable of regularly scoring from long range, which forces our mids to deliver the ball deeper and predictably into a more crowded F50. We need some long-bombers!
You missed the point. Our current blokes are a bunch of spuds who can't kick over a jam tin.i'm not sure where you'd go with this. He's pretty well trashed and I just dont see fellow BFer's being motivated into going again.
Such a shame he went on to be the best player in the comp otherwise we could have whipped him mercilesslyOne bloke who I think really wasted his talent to be whipped was Dane Swan. That gait, the double handed ball drop from the chin, the body shape that made him look a bit overweight. He had it all. He could have been the greatest whipping boy ever if he had have just stuck to 20 possessions a game.
well i thought lonie was old news. I suppose as a leading whipping boy from the past, we can use him to humiliate the current crop. it just dawned on me that talking about his silky skills does make you wonder where they dug up the current lot. Maybe we should glorify frankie raso and say how he'd be a star in today's team.You missed the point. Our current blokes are a bunch of spuds who can't kick over a jam tin.