We must be close to the youngest team going around this week with an average age of 23.1 years old. It's going to be a very big ask to get a good performance out such a young team heading out West against the top of the ladder team. Lets just hope most of them are too young to have learnt how to los...

still only 24yrs old, Problem is while yes ruckman certainly seem to improve their rucking as they get towards 28, I cannot recall a ruckman not being handy around the ground at 24 becoming so at 28. You are right, you don't often see players who can't get a kick (or in Billy's case a backwards han...

My theory for this bombing it forward epidemic we seem to be going through is that early last season when it became apparent that our scoring efficiency was well down compared to the league average we made a change. Richo was routinely talking about our need to take shots from better positions in or...

This is an interesting concept being trialled in the US. It is basically a collar that tries to replicate the conditions inside the head of a woodpecker. I know of one high profile player in the NFL trialling it by the name of Luke Kuechly. He has sustained about 4 concussions in the past few years ...

The thing that stood out most for me re-watching that game was that almost all the players could kick accurately on both feet without hesitation. There wasn't that panic we see today when someone gets caught on there wrong side.

It doesn't have to be one or the other… Defend, clog, flood, zone, do whatever it takes to stop the opposition from kicking goals, that is fine. Defence isn't about butchering the ball backwards and sideways from the backline, that gives your opponent every chance to set-up and stop our attack. A...

Hi guys I don’t post too often but I am a heavy reader of this forum and find it an invaluable resource for someone like me that lives interstate. I think that a lot of our problems seem to stem from how slowly we move the ball forward. We still try to possess the ball at all costs rather than mo...

Hi guys I don’t post too often but I am a heavy reader of this forum and find it an invaluable resource for someone like me that lives interstate. I think that a lot of our problems seem to stem from how slowly we move the ball forward. We still try to possess the ball at all costs rather than mov...

I think I would prefer to play Geelong for the following reasons. 1) Revenge 2) We seem to match up pretty well against them 3) I think that the hurt from last year will be magnified if we played Geelong. I believe the team is more likely to turn up to really play and they won't let anything stop th...

Laidley is a very good coach, before he joined the AFL coaching ranks he was coaching my local footy club in Canberra. I'm not sure if he has changed since then but he was a good coach and a very, very angry man. I would not want to be on the end of one of his sprays. I remember vividly one day when...

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Just someone to add given last weeks form would be Jay Schulz who seemed to mark everything that came his way. He had 6 contested marks for 4.2...

bigred wrote:Basing it on his own Ham off the bone injury.

Which is a completely different thing....

Completely different thing.

And given the guy spent 7 weeks out of the game with a sore finger he probably isn't the best person to be basing recovery times on.

St_Cave In the UK - Setanta Sports shows all the Finals games LIVE. During the first week of the finals I was in Spain - Malaga and was able to watch the night finals at Linekar's Sports Bar. I think most decent Sports Bars in continental Europe can get the UK Satellite linkup. Look for a bar that ...

Does anyone know how or where I can watch Saturdays game in Amsterdam? I have had a look around but can't seem to find any info.

As we only have 30 odd thouasand members I thought it was a reasonable turnout against the crows. I think a lot of the non-member Saints supporters will come out in the finals as they have to pay the full price anyway. So i suppose what i'm saying is non-members might prefer to send Harves off in hi...

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A review should probably have started at the beginning of the year. Minimally asking questions such as- - Where do we think our list is at? - Where do we think we should be finishing? Etc. Then we should be setting how far an acceptable deviation from here is? Eg. We think we're top 4 and we finish ...

got to agree with you....can you imagine the ribbing razor ray must have got in life away from the footy field........it's payback time ...big time now for ray......

Yeah his whole family is in the gig of umpiring up in Canberra. They have a reputation as cheaters too.

Sorry to get your hopes up. In my haste I read not only the wrong round but the wrong day. It looks like they don't do it on Sunday. Only Friday and Saturday. Where back to square one. I might have to look into booking myself some plane tickets.

I have been doing some research… If you have the sports package on Foxtel you can view the game on the "Main Event" channel at 7 PM. I know it's not live but at least a slightly less delayed telecast. http://www.mainevent.com.au/afl.asp I am quietly hoping that the schedule on the websit...

Just thought anyone who may consider Aussie Jones a future coach of our club might enjoy this article.

http://www.thecourier.com.au/news/local ... 10886.aspx

yeah you are probably right on second thought.

send it through to me at cavekid01@hotmail.com and i will sort it out for you.

Yeah i definately think at least a stay at home forward and then the small forwards staying outside the 50 until the fall of the ball where they should then be running past for the crum. Our small forwards just sitting inside that 50 ark only succeed in allowing the opposition to double team our tal...