Time to focus on OUR training base, and to let other clubs do their "thing". Absolutely pointless exercise to waste precious energy (needed to build up our OWN clubs organisation) Whinging on about the activities of others. (In my humble opinion of course!) SO you allow other clubs to wal...

I very much doubt you'll see him on the field soon. Good stuff cheers Tony. There is no rush with this guy. He's got to get into full training, show he can cope with that then you start thinking about giving him a quarter or two in the ressies and make sure he copes alright with that. Its about sta...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/mick-malthouse-wants-to-coach-the-banned-34-players-in-preparation-for-return-to-2017-afl-season/news-story/c42d4bb9898f00550f49aa46ac2cea72 UPDATE: MICK Malthouse has met with banned Essendon stars after revealing he wants to help train some of the 34 Dons in ...

Not excited. Modern football is a drain to watch, and if you're not in the hunt it's hard to keep the interest up. In the past you'd go along and hope for a Lockett bag, or Loewe to drag down 15 monster pack marks, watch a blew, see winmar take mark of the year, listen to crowd banter. That's all g...

Strikes me as another Freeman story, he JOM thinks they Suns.buggered up his knee repair/rehab and he wants out. Gees if we go after him with big cash we would want to be certain he has a long playing future ahead...? The difference is we see him either play or don't play this season. I don't see i...

Not excited. Modern football is a drain to watch, and if you're not in the hunt it's hard to keep the interest up. In the past you'd go along and hope for a Lockett bag, or Loewe to drag down 15 monster pack marks, watch a blew, see winmar take mark of the year, listen to crowd banter. That's all g...

Strikes me as another Freeman story, he JOM thinks they Suns.buggered up his knee repair/rehab and he wants out. Gees if we go after him with big cash we would want to be certain he has a long playing future ahead...? The difference is we see him either play or don't play this season. I don't see i...

Gershwin wrote:I might just get back to the original question I asked.

Has any one who goes to training noticed whether Bruce does any hit-out training. Did he ruck at all in the practice match?

No in the practice match but we had 3 ruckmen on the ground.

A few saints players lived in Dingley during the eighties, so did a few Hawks players Liegh Matthews lived next door to Trevor Barker ( in Jacks avenue), there were quite a few Hawks supporters around the area, but this was due to their success... In the seventies .However I believe all types of zo...

borderbarry wrote:Do we have any eligible sons for this year? And in general, who have we got an eye on for the future?

James Sziller but a little to small

BigMart wrote:Acres and Dunstan are not good kicks - at all compared to AFL standard

Fisher, Montagna, Dempster are not elite by foot... Just solid

Carlisle is not great

Webster turns it over

Webster is a good kick.

Membrey a "tall forward" Must be missing something. Membrey to me is, at best, an ordinary medium sized footballer who can be very easily negated in terms of being an impact player in the forward line and a scoring player in the forward line. In terms of forward pressure, I see that comin...

BigMart wrote:Only in the f50
Around the ground - no
On the ground - yes
Footy vernacular is not always literal in meaning

Semantics yes, but that's what you resort to... Plugger

And you resort to posts that clearly make no sense. I have no idea what any of that means.

Saturday night at 6pm may work It may if you don't play local footy. It wont for ratings and as a club that relies on TV rights I would say it wont happen. If parents wont take there children to the footy then surely 10pm on a Saturday night isn't to late for them to stay up and watch TV. My daught...

To the media he would He was clearly unimpressed at 3qtr time... He told several players they weren't delivering to a standard required ... But you know though... Of course I know people on here can be positive but still see the negatives. Doesn't mean they have to write them all down on here for e...

Congrats on being a supporter in the 80s plugger Put it on your resume... Btw I finished high school in the 80's And I'm not doogie houser... It just goes to show what you think and what you know are very different things. I'll stand up for actual young supporters too They have probably gone throug...

Did anyone else catch AR giving a massive spray It seems we are more easily pleased than the coach In his words "I'm not copping this sh**" Yep the game went for 60 minutes and he gave a massive spray. I'm sure over 60 minutes even the most positive supporter either laughed or yelled at p...

Explore a little bit Powerful words Hickey used his height to take two grabs. Wasn't paid one because he triple grabbed it and it wasn't paid... The other touched of the boot. He missed two simple set shots. His ruck work was better than pierce (expected) but he never won a possession around the gr...

I don't care about the 80s ... Irrelevent to now, and an embarrassing period! And believe any supporter proud of themselves for 'surviving' the 80s as its some sort of badge of honour are full of themselves... Not an achievement to be a supporter. What a weird comment. Full of themselves? Hardly. J...

Never felt flat about a season. And I've been going weekly since 1973 so I've been through some pretty dark periods. As usual at this time of the year I'm buzzing, cos in a matter of weeks I'll be doing what I love most. Having a few beers and going to watch the Saints with me mates. We'll win some...

Saturday night at 6pm may work It may if you don't play local footy. It wont for ratings and as a club that relies on TV rights I would say it wont happen. If parents wont take there children to the footy then surely 10pm on a Saturday night isn't to late for them to stay up and watch TV. My daught...

Not even slightly. To many people want instant success. I wonder how some supporters would have survived the mid 80's. We are getting softer by the day. As for Essendon well its over IMO. I don't even think of them. I leave that for the real negative types SP. I never said I wanted or expected inst...

Plugger, when the Stars played the Renegades at the G and they got 81K crowd it was an early 6pm start. Many pundits attribute that massive crowd to the earlier than normal start and the huge family turnout. My kids have Saturday morning sport - if they went to a Friday night footy match by the tim...

Not even slightly. To many people want instant success. I wonder how some supporters would have survived the mid 80's. We are getting softer by the day. As for Essendon well its over IMO. I don't even think of them. I leave that for the real negative types SP.

And how many children under the age of ten do you see at Friday night games? Not many by recent head counts, mainky because a lot of them have sport on Saturday morning and their parents don't want their kids out late. I know there aren't many but we have bugger all Friday night games. I know footy...