I've said more than once McKay would be a great modern Gehrig, I've never understood why more club's don't turn mobile talls into wingmen before they become fulltime KPFs.
An illegal knackery was processing horse meat for dog food and primarily the greyhound industry.
The inference was that butchering horses is illegal, but of course that's not the case.
You need a proper license to operate a knackery, and horse owners call them doggers because that is what is in the can!
Part of the law is designed to stop people keeping unwell animals, if a horse is unwell or too weak doggers can't take them, this actually encourages owners to act before animals suffer. And licensed doggers know what they are doing.
There is going to be some interesting side-effects with many regional voters apparently flocking to One Nation, or to Nationals deserters, whatever it may be. Many of the voters live regional to escape what Hanson represents which is ironic, but if One Nation gets any traction I fully expect Gina and Clive will be digging up their backyard in a blink.
Doull should have left footy with far more industry wide honours, I think his problem was that he was too boring for the media, the footy equivalent of a metronome, 100% reliable perfect timing, terrific ball use, game after game, rarely if ever genuinely beaten, the standard by which you measure everybody else, that's the tell for me.
No fanfare, no histrionics, just go out do the job and then get ready for next week.
The media would rave about Southby, similar mould, so reliable, no waste, played on the glamours and usually beat them, terrific player, but 7 out of 10 times the pill never got that far forward because Doull had already killed it.
We've been lucky over the years, we had a swagger back then but it wasn't hubris, it was a confidence, we copped a lot in the media because the media was dominated by Filth and Feral loud mouths. But we never really boasted, we just got on with the job, for example Walls was the antithesis of Sheedy.
To me a lot of this started when Barassi arrived, he set a culture that lasted decades, admirably extended by Parkin.
I disagree, I think she would have been re-elected. No logic, just my gut feel.
Yes tend to agree, I think the media hype over One Nation is vastly over-stated, pretty much everybody I ask states they won't vote for Hansen to the degree I can't work out who the media are polling! I'm not sure the coalition can gather enough support to be a genuine threat.
Hansen won't drain the swamp, she's a pile of steaming "nemure" as Dougy would say!
It's not lost on me that a lot of Hansen support comes from the dole queue, and if she gets in with her billionaire friend support the unemployed benefits might well be the first thing she cuts because it's a favourite whipping target for her ageing support base.
We outmarked Gold Coast: we had 133 marks compared to 77. We had 11 contested marks to 5! And we barely had a tall on the ground! In perfect conditions.
I thought we hit more targets, the main reason for the differential.
I had to laugh when GC burst off the HBF, and kicked it to Dean standing in the middle of four opponents, it was like watching us!
Interesting to watch the coaches, often you get a better understanding of your team's performance from the opposition coach. Dimma said it was a very high inside pressure contest, so a bit ugly on the outside with Carlton just better for longer.
Acres would have the coaches singing his praises out of one side of their mouths and hissing disparaging abuse out the other. The most frustrating player on our list IMO.
To me he's a player that has performance inverse of the available time and space, the more time he has the more ways he finds to trip over his own foot.
I think he needs the old "Stop thinking, just do something!"
A very good weekend for the club. All three teams won. Great effort by all the gals and guys.
It's sort of the way of modern AFL, the balance between having a crack and execution seems to have gone out the window.
Every game seems like a roll of the dice!
Couple of good things for me, Derksen and Young greatly improved, they now offer genuine KPP support, Byrne starting to look comfortable at AFL level.
Lord, Akers or Cotters might struggle to keep a spot, could be time to give one of the Campo's a run. As great as Akers is at winning a contest, his disposal and some of his decisions are equally bad, he must be a real point of contention for the MC.
