Round 17
Submitted by Jackfrost80 on Thu, 2019-07-11 12:16
Here it is. Friday night footy at Optus for the grand final rematch rematch. We’ll get to really see if NicNat really is back or whether he was playing on a glorified powerpole last week. It’s looking dry tomorrow night so if the Pies midfield deliver it forward like they did last Fri night McShovin might well end up with 43 marks for the evening. Win this one and a top 2 spot is within touching distance but lose and the Pies will get a sniff to get it back from us. I’m fairly confident going in but the Pies will be breathing fire after the last fortnight and I’ll be offering myself up to Skull and Unc on a platter if we go down after I finish walking the dog fo course.... haha.
Freo flying to Tasmania… sort it out AFL it’s a bloody joke that WA teams have to take two flights to a game when there are a number of Victorian clubs that can play Hawks and North down there.
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Skull
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Stats Man
Hey Jack
Considering you are the stats guru,(on this page at least)
How many players from oppiostion clubs have hurt their legs,feet due to the Optus oval conditions?
I can't recall any (but that's not unusual for me)
So perhaps it is just the boys from the west who aren't as tough as the rest.
Skull
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Sydney blamed the oval for
Sydney blamed the oval for Franklin's 8 weeks of with crook ankle last year
Noxious
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Port Left Ollie Wines at home
Port Left Ollie Wines at home - due to the surface at Optus.
Freo have aired their concerns about the playing surface in th past.
From memory there was something applied to Optus prior to Man U playing - due to hardness of the surface?
Sydney Aired concerns with Buddy and the surface.
I don't think the surface has much or anything to do with Nicholas going down. But the surface is undoubtably an issue in one way or another. Big difference with playing and training on it a couple times a year like most interstate clubs and playing and/or training on it weekly.
I went to Guildford and our training 'flats' were down by the river - in summer time they were literally hard as concrete, even as a super fit young lad you'd pull up sore after training on it.
Jackfrost80
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Grammar?
Grammar?
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Noxious
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Yeah mate - finished up in
Yeah mate - finished up in 04.
Jackfrost80
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Hah. One of our best memories
Hah. One of our best memories of high school was us Morley High rabble travelling up to Guildford Grammar in 97 and giving the cocky private school boys a footy lesson. They didn’t realise we had the Ballajura, Noranda and Morley u17s sides to pick from.The next week we went out to Beechboro to face Lockridge High all cocky and got destroyed by a team with Des Headland and Garth Taylor running around.
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carnarvonite
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Recreation Ground In Bunbury
Worst ground I played in under 16s was the Recreation Ground in Bunbury, middle of winter and blowing a gale with froth from the rocks on the foreshore blowing straight on to the oval. The only bits that weren't ankle deep in water was the centre bounce spot and both goal squares. Talk about being stuffed come final siren then into freezing cold showers
Noxious
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That doesn't surprise me
That doesn't surprise me Frosty - GGS have been through times of having a very good and a very bad football team. Was very bad when I finished in 04.
I played Rugby through high school and after. We travelled to the south island of NZ in year 12. One of the most amazing experiences of my life. I scored the only two tries that had been scored in 10 years by a visiting team against Christ Chruch Grammar (granted we were playing their seconds). 10 - 0 at half time turned into a 50 + to 10 drubbing when they put on most of their first team in the second half - just putting some points on the board felt like a win and was enough to hurt their pride.
Played Hokitika (amonsgt other sides) in NZ - they did what you fellas did. Rang around and got the best handful of kids from the surrounding towns. Was an absolute bloodbath - I had never been and still to this day been hit as hard as I did that game, got straight back up... bit of pride, but of stupidity and a bit of instinct made me do it - got the greatest respect for it and got absolutely shitfaced after the game with the fella who leveled me. Usually losses and big hits is when you learn the most about yourself. That single hit has held me in good stead for the rest of my life (no joke). Some bloody great blokes in NZ. Animals on the pitch then the most hospitable caring bunch of people you could ever meet after the game. Great experiences being billetted out with local families in country NZ.
Brock O
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I played league for most of
I played league for most of my active years, I remember being ball ball down my local Willagee bears when they would play the Belmont Steelers...belmont was ran by a kiwi guy called Charlie burkheart from memory, he owned west side welders and he use to bring the best he could from NZ over at the time with promise of work as well. This was mid eighties, the whole club would fill one side of the field, all dressed in black with there afro hair....very tough games! When you thought shit could turn bad after the game it never did, they would all stay..play the guitars and drink the place dry.
I remember a season I played in Karratha while working on train 4...them grounds we're phukin hard...grass on top red rock under...my knees still hurt.
Jackfrost80
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I had a mate that played
I had a mate that played ruggers at North Beach and he's mentioned playing Belmont several times. Reckons he ended up apologising to a big islander one time after being uppercut twice in the scrum and he is one of those blokes that loves getting into scraps haha.
Talking of scrums Brocko, I've seen them done in league and they appars to have zero purpose as they never seem to engage. Is it one of those things that used to be in the game and has been tossed away but remains in the rules?
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Brock O
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Yep pretty well, just
Yep pretty well, just hold...ok roll it in the second row.
Not like the old days, a good Hooker could hang off the props and rake it from the opposition's second row.
North Beach were always tough,use pull good players from over east...always fast!
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Dane Swan, Jordan De Goey,
Dane Swan, Jordan De Goey, Mason Cox, Daniel Wells, Tom Langdon and Alex Fasolo have all recently suffered syndesmosis whilst playing on the lush eastern states turf.......
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Billcollector
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Not too sure how pendles
Not too sure how pendles broke his index finger but bucks has a sore arse...and it seems like a regular occurance for pendles
uncle
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Guess you'd know
Broke the girls apart in the last quarter ha ha. Funny how e girls supporters are always talking about brooms and fingers
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
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After a chat with a couple
After a chat with a couple physio mates seems to be a 8-12 weeks injury as standard without knowing the full extent. May see him back if the Eagles go deep into September at best.
Both had the same prediction - play half a season give or take next year then hang up the boots. Which would be a shame. Too much weight and running load for someone of his athleticism.
$2.5m over 3 years; ~$800k a season for someone who is struggling to stay on the field. Kind of sick of hearing the marketability of the bloke - I love the big fella, but he gives me major anxiety when he plays - cringing everytime he goes near the ball.
Hopefully he can come back and play some footy at some stage.