AFL 2011

[trishan]

Beat me to posting it Bacon lol Good video.

[maccatak11]

Hehe that's funking hilarious hehe

[trishan]

Football's founding fathers had high hopes for a game that would not only build fitness for cricketers during the winter months but would also be run by gentleman. To that end they decided that the captains of competing sides would be charged with the responsibility of awarding free kicks. It soon became apparent that a player, no matter how pure his intentions, may have a bias, and after 14 years of allowing captains to pay frees, independent umpires were introduced. It was the right move and without wishing to suggest that our current crop of skippers wouldn't be scrupulously fair, it's hard to imagine the Eagles' Darren Glass calling frees from full-back or Chris Judd giving himself as many Brownlow votes as he gets under the current system!

[trishan]

[AceLosesKing]

With GWS signing up ex Demons captain James McDonald, get ready for their next big signing... Ron Barassi.

[bennymacca]

With GWS signing up ex Demons captain James McDonald, get ready for their next big signing... Ron Barassi.

thats a good signing though, there is no way he should have been dumped from melb


it is interesting the different approaches between gold coast and gws. gold coast went for players in their prime, around 25-28 years of age, that can play for 5 years, whereas gws has gone for players that are 21-22, and then some older blokes that can only play for maybe 1-2 seasons.

i kinda like the way that gws have gone about it, because there will be more experience in the early times of the club. it is prolly slightly riskier because although he has the potential, its not guaranteed that scully and davis will be as good as ablett and bock but if they get anywhere close, they will have a much longer period in which to challenge for finals etc.

[AceLosesKing]

Yeah I'm really liking them too, love how they've gone about things. Chasing players hard, which is what they should be doing. They can't be blamed for having that money to throw around, that's the AFLs fault. I've always like Sheedy and Williams too, love their brutal honesty and no bullshit approach.

[666HARPS666]

"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is." Kevin Sheedy on James Hird

no martians mentioned there.

[bennymacca]

"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is." Kevin Sheedy on James Hird

no martians mentioned there.

$100 that sheedy never said that

[Bacon]

"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is." Kevin Sheedy on James Hird

no martians mentioned there.

$100 that sheedy never said that

I'll take that, on the proviso you accept a Geoff McClure opinion article in The Age from 2007 as a reputable source for this?