Agree with the Rams, GTC - they didn't want to know about. Bit odd considering Australia is part of their assigned international territory.
49ers embraced it - be good to have them here again. One of their media pack has you tube of trying Australian foods - he didn't like tomato sauce, but liked Vegemite.
Apparently, there are quite a few international games - my son was saying London (3), Germany amongst other places.
The idiots chose to come a day or so before and stuffed up. Now they are looking about it.
I was scrolling through and happened across this thread. It was only a bit over a month ago...but it all went pear shaped for Lewis.
What happened? Was it the pressure of finals? Was it how he was used in recent times...not really settling or having a fixed role.
Or was what we were seeing back then 'just a flash' in the pan and not sustainable.
The common denominator seemed to have been "confidence". He had periods where he didn't seem to believe in himself or his own ability....and that led to the hesitation.
At the end of the day his delisting wasn't as surprising as it would have been a month ago... and there's probably not a lot of argument over the decision to cut him loose.
It will be interesting to see who we replace him with, and whether he gets another opportunity elsewhere.
To me Young's demise commenced in his second year with us. I thought in his first year he was a ripper and was a significant upgrade on Jones. Then the wheels fell off, dunno what happened. Was he struggling with personal issues off field? There were rumours of a rift between he and Weiters? I dont know what happened by his confidence fell off a cliff and that was the beginning of the end for him. Shame, nice fella with all the physical attributes needed to play the game where he did.
Come drive some roads in the Northern suburbs where you play pot hole roulette and tell me how the end navigate that. There will be a long line of cars pulled over on the side of the road with flats and no drivers to change them.
Just heard on the news a man just died after his motorbike hit a pothole on the western hwy.
I could say more but you have all heard it before.....
Influencer. There is not modern day term I despise more, its utterly cringeworthy. If someone is enough of a pea brain to actually be "influenced" by these parasitic imbeciles? I feel sorry for them as they can't possibly have too much upstairs.
i wasnt going to mention it but Mark had a heart issue in 2022 which came out of the blue. Cant help but think this is a similar issue as any other situation he would have replied to our messages.
Im must say im quite affected by his absence and what it means. I never met the man in person but i really liked him nevertheless - was never personal regardless what came his way smart thinker and empathetic whenever there was a personal issue.
A massive loss to the site.
I have conversed a lot with EB (Mark) via PM about many topics, footy, family, food, cars, trips etc. I am very concerned and I am missing his contributions to this site and the PM's.
As good of a player that he is, I don't think we could sell it courtesy of our Carlton Respects campaign.
It would hurt the club and everything its trying to do. Unless we could somehow manage to get him to be a poster boy of righting wrongs etc etc Propaganda machine would need to be in orverdrive for that to happen.
I think there's talk that Blakey was hard done by. If that's the case, go for him, but we'll have to wait to see what comes out to see if that's correct. Blakey isn't at all happy with the club and wants out.
Heard Chris Davies interviewed on SEN. Says the club wanted a key forward, and running mid, and another running defender come the trade/draft. Blakey, Walker and Amartey would be a decent set of gains.
The problem with the trying to bring these guys is that a brief of evidence could take longer than the trader period date (ie it wont be ready until after the trade period). Who in their right mind would take a risk on a Heeney or a Blakey or a Warner during the trade period with the potential of charges laid hanging over their head. They may have no other option but to sit tight at the Swans (assuming they are wanted and their contracts arent torn up).
Just a quick update. I have had no reply to the e-mail that I sent to EB1 Several members have tried to contact him through PM's with no response. Unless he returns to posting, it's a situation where we may never know the reason for his absence.
I have actually been trying to do some searches based on what I know of EB (Mark) and his background to see if I can make contact with him via another way like LinkedIn or something like that. No luck as yet.