They said Hayward, Florent and Ainsworth was a bust. They said Florent was a turnover merchant. They said Austin was a spud. They said Cripps was cooked. They said we play nothing like Brisbane. They said we can't afford to play two rucks. They said McKay should be traded. They said Kemp should never play F50 again.
Be careful with what they say, the internet never forgets.
Not in my wildest dreams could I have seen a game like this.
Nobody could have, but when you think about how well we played against them to lose the first time, I thought that loss was our best game of the season.
We play so much like Brisbane, and it looks like they don't like it when they get some of their own medicine.
No mention of The Hyphen here, and yet over my life supporting Carlton The Hyphen was as good of a performer in clutch games as any, and had many great momentum turning games. But he wasn't with us that long and arrived "a foreigner".
Many fans show a bit of team colour history bigotry, but Judd, Diesel and The Hyphen deserve to be part of the discussions even if their blood isn't pure!
I've never understood why Ratts isn't in more of these discussions, career consistency, a 24x7 performer, he'd be up near the pinnacle in just about any other club's history.
But having said that, can you imagine the impact Cripps would have had if he was in a team surrounded by the likes of Diesel, Ratts, The Hyphen, Kouta, etc., etc., I doubt he would have faded into the background?
Some are influenced by peak performance, a great season or spectacular games, others think first of sustained performance over a career.
Cripps has both!
I think he has Kouta and some others covered in this regard, and to me Kouta along with Diesel might well be responsible for the two best individual seasons of footy I have ever seen.
If their list stays fit the Lions could well win another flag this year, and do it with a two ruck policy, what say you critics?
Of course if they fail, the critics will claim they failed because of two rucks.
It looks to me like a fit and in form Draper in combination with Fort is helping them plaster over many form issues, and to me this will potentially be the biggest weak spot for the Swans that both Freo and the Lions will leverage against them.
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.
