Hurley was a nice kid who has developed into a nice guy with a much better haircut - has always played with more than a little aggression though. I had hoped we would draft him; he only had to last for one more pick.
Just be safe in the knowledge that our mental lightweights wouldn't have picked him anyway.
To be honest i think Williamson really battled through the final quarter which is both good and bad but mainly good.
Showed grit, determination and sheer bloody minded ability to stick to the job even though I saw him reach for the hamstring once or twice. Probably just cramping but he was sucking and blowing a bit.
He's had a taste and looked good and might get a rest for a week.
He sat off the twenty minutes, and then passed the concussion assessment and looked a bit unsettled from then onwards, but that could literally be to do with soreness. Im not sure what else the club can do, but exercise caution and not put him back on, but there was none of the agitation that goes with someone that is concussed and he played like his usual cool calm and collected self from then onwards.
If he misses this week there is not much ire the club should wear for it, as they have followed the accepted protocol and if Weits didnt want to go back out there, I doubt our club would have forced him to do it.
Am I being over generous to suggest that Murphy, Gibbs and Cripps were able to do what they did because the big bodies of Palmer and Kerridge were doing some of the grunt work that is not reflected in stats?? ( Didn't see the game or replay, just asking!)
Absolutely not over generous.
The thing is we have more and more blokes making better decisions such as just keep pushing the ball on to advantage rather than taking posession in the wet and there was lots more hunting the footy and scrapping than usual.
Even Thomas who was fairly useless did a few things that wouldn't register a stat such as flicking the ball on to advantage over his opponent, rather than taking posession and getting tackled resulting in 20 metres gained for the next stoppage.
In a game of inches stuff like that was important.
Simon White as an example showed some wheels to get around Heppell and take posession of the footy at one point and me and my brother in law were gobsmacked.
Its been a long time since we played convincing wet weather footy.
Ask yourself this question. Why would Assad choose now to attack his own people like this when he's been regaining control. What's the strategic advantage of doing so?
The answer is none. This episode reeks of false flag to me.
The only thing I find interesting is that everyone is happy to enforce their ideas of democracy on other nations and then state that our brand of war pain and suffering is better than the home grown version.
Meanwhile the occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish insurgents continues from 1974 to today.
No one seems to worry overly about that one though.
What reports? Only the Russian-backed Assad regime has air power in Syria. How then could the rebels have "dropped" chemical weapons?
Assad's regime claimed instead that they targetted chemical weapons stores or factories in rebel territory and that attack incidentally released chemicals. That's pretty lame.
PS: I'm asking about reports rather than conspiracy theories based on the assumption that Assad wouldn't be stupid enough to do this, so it must have been a false flag operation.
Better question, how do we know they were dropped by Syrians?
Sad for Trump that he won't be able to persuade the Chinese Premier to play a round of golf with him at Maralago in the official visit that's happening now. Le Kiqiang has banned party and government officials playing golf as an anti-corruption measure
There's now been a missile strike on a Syrian airbase and Secretary Tillerson has condemned the Russians for failing to prevent further chemical weapons use by Assad. How will Putin react? If there really was any coordination between the Russians and the Trump campaign, maybe Wikileaks will release documentary evidence of it now.
The problem now is whether the Syrian situation will escalate and whether Trump is smart enough to prevent it doing so.
Here lies the problem.
US backed rebels are reportedly the ones who dropped the chem weapons.
Not Assad.
This is a propaganda war as much as anything as no one really knows.
We can call it Gallipoli or Verdun, a great test for young men!
It's completely naive to think CheatsFC won't take every opportunity to beat up on the list full of young players! CheatsFC are the old roosters fully intending to regain their hutch after having been locked in exile while the blood lines were purified! It'll be a Cock fight, except one team will be a Bantam!
Mitch Brown has already ruined one of Weiterings shoulders. We dont need a repeat performance for the sake of educating and breaking our youngsters to play in fear for the rest of their careers.
Kerridge was terrible during the JLT series, unless he has been a standout in the twos, I say he should be as far away from the MCG as possible on Sunday.