Re: AFL 2008 thread

[Paul Keating]

Some are saying four weeks for the Baffoon.

He should get at least double that!

[Ross]

40-man squads for the Vix vs the rest game have been named.

The Dream Team squad (including games and goals stats to the end of round four):
Andrew McLeod (captain), Adelaide - 31 years old, 287 games, 249 goals
Chance Bateman, Hawthorn - 26 years old, 100 games, 32 goals
Simon Black, Brisbane Lions - 29 years old, 216 games, 135 goals
Nathan Bock, Adelaide - 25 years old, 67 games, 51 goals
Craig Bolton, Sydney - 27 years old, 154 games, 23 goals
Peter Burgoyne, Port Adelaide - 30 years old, 212 games, 185 goals
Shaun Burgoyne, Port Adelaide - 25 years old, 133 games, 154 goals
Brett Burton, Adelaide - 29 years old, 155 games, 219 goals
Jamie Charman, Brisbane Lions - 25 years old, 108 games, 47 goals
Adam Cooney, Western Bulldogs - 22 years old, 91 games, 93 goals
Joel Corey, Geelong - 26 years old, 155 games, 51 goals
Chad Cornes, Port Adelaide - 28 years old, 189 games, 154 goals
Kane Cornes, Port Adelaide - 25 years old, 144 games, 66 goals
Dean Cox, West Coast - 26 years old, 149 games, 75 goals
Alwyn Davey, Essendon - 24 years old, 18 games, 20 goals
Leon Davis, Collingwood - 26 years old, 143 games, 175 goals
Alan Didak, Collingwood - 25 years old, 124 games, 177 goals
Tyson Edwards, Adelaide - 31 years old , 270 games, 168 goals
Corey Enright, Geelong - 26 years old, 129 games, 40 goals
Lance Franklin, Hawthorn - 21 years old, 60 games, 146 goals
Darren Glass, West Coast - 27 years old, 149 games, eight goals
Simon Goodwin, Adelaide - 31 years old, 219 games, 136 goals
Ryan Griffen, Western Bulldogs - 21 years old, 55 games, 22 goals
Tom Harley, Geelong - 29 years old, 163 games, 10 goals
Lenny Hayes, St Kilda - 28 years old, 172 games, 62 goals
Adam Hunter, West Coast - 26 years old, 136 games, 71 goals
Graham Johncock, Adelaide - 25 years old, 130 games, 82 goals
Tadhg Kennelly, Sydney - 26 years old, 140 games, 29 goals
Daniel Kerr, West Coast - 24 years old, 148 games, 85 goals
Brett Kirk, Sydney - 31 years old, 175 games, 71 goals
Justin Koschitzke, St Kilda - 25 years old, 101 games, 101 goals
Matthew Leuenberger, Brisbane Lions - 19 years old, 13 games, one goal
Tarkyn Lockyer, Collingwood - 28 years old, 171 games, 91 goals
Luke McPharlin, Fremantle - 26 years old, 116 games, 78 goals
Cameron Mooney, Geelong - 28 years old, 148 games, 163 goals
Matthew Pavlich, Fremantle - 26 years old, 179 games, 324 goals
Matthew Richardson, Richmond - 33 years old, 260 games, 755 goals
Nick Riewoldt, St Kilda - 25 years old, 138 games, 264 goals
Ben Rutten, Adelaide - 24 years old, 84 games, five goals
Matthew Stokes, Geelong - 23 years old, 34 games, 49 goals

The Victorian squad (including games and goals to the end of round four):
Jonathan Brown (captain), Brisbane Lions - 26 years old. 143 games, 281 goals
Gary Ablett, Geelong - 23 years old. 129 games, 169 goals
Jimmy Bartel, Geelong - 24 years old. 112 games, 64 goals
Daniel Bradshaw, Brisbane Lions - 29 years old. 185 games, 379 goals
Campbell Brown, Hawthorn - 24 years old. 100 games, 38 goals
Paul Chapman, Geelong - 26 years old. 140 games, 176 goals
Travis Cloke, Collingwood - 21 years old. 59 games, 61 goals
Nick Dal Santo, St Kilda - 24 years old. 124 games, 60 goals
Brendan Fevola, Carlton - 27 years old. 146 games, 406 goals
Dustin Fletcher, Essendon - 32 years old. 280 games, 64 goals
Nathan Foley, Richmond -- 22 years old. 53 games, 12 goals
Josh Fraser, Collingwood - 26 years old. 160 games, 133 goals
Adam Goodes, Sydney - 28 years old. 213 games, 203 goals
Jason Gram, St Kilda - 24 years old. 56 games, 21 goals
Brent Harvey, North Melbourne - 30 years old. 245 games, 283 goals
David Hille, Essendon - 26 years old. 126 games, 92 goals
Luke Hodge, Hawthorn - 23 years old. 115 games, 73 goals
Brad Johnson, Western Bulldogs - 31 years old. 303 games, 471 goals
Kane Johnson, Richmond - 30 years old. 205 games, 71 goals
Steve Johnson, Geelong - 24 years old. 91 games, 165 goals
Chris Judd, Carlton - 24 years old. 138 games, 140 goals
James Kelly, Geelong - 24 years old. 112 games, 56 goals
Nigel Lappin, Brisbane Lions - 31 years old. 279 games, 174 goals
Cameron Ling, Geelong - 27 years old. 163 games, 96 goals
Matthew Lloyd, Essendon - 30 years old. 234 games, 839 goals
Darren Milburn, Geelong - 31 years old. 217 games, 81 goals
Sam Mitchell, Hawthorn - 25 years old. 112 games, 18 goals
Leigh Montagna, St Kilda - 24 years old. 77 games, 50 goals
Ryan O'Keefe, Sydney - 27 years old. 145 games, 158 goals
Luke Power, Brisbane Lions - 28 years old. 199 games, 186 goals
Matthew Scarlett, Geelong - 28 years old. 188 games, 16 goals
Heath Shaw, Collingwood -- 22 years old. 57 games, 12 goals
Adam Simpson, North Melbourne - 32 years old. 271 games, 75 goals
Brent Stanton, Essendon - 21 years old. 80 games, 46 goals
Dane Swan, Collingwood - 24 years old. 80 games, 39 goals
Dale Thomas, Collingwood - 20 years old. 45 games, 37 goals
Jeff White, Melbourne - 31 years old. 257 games, 110 goals
Dale Morris, Western Bulldogs - 25 years old. 66 games, one goal
Robert Murphy, Western Bulldogs - 25 years old. 131 games, 101 goals
David Wirrpanda, West Coast - 28 years old. 195 games, 100 goals

[Paul Keating]

Amazing that Jonathon Brown only averages 2 goals a game.

[embee]

Ucker wont play with his broken foot ...and Leuenberger ???? Is that a joke?...211 should be in the squad ...

Isn't McIntosh a non Vomit ? ....FFS the selectors must be on drugs ...

[horace]

Ucker wont play with his broken foot ...and Leuenberger ???? Is that a joke?...211 should be in the squad ...

Isn't McIntosh a non Vomit ? ....FFS the selectors must be on drugs ...

must have cuzz on the panel...agree sandilands should have got a go

[embee]

Brendan Lade????

[horace]

Brendan Lade????

gun ruckman...should have been picked...equal to Cox in my book

[embee]

I think Choco is saving the Port players from injury ...bit of a wasted effort given their start to the season

[horace]

power are playing poorly...they ran out of steam against the Brions...maybe as a result of the hodown

[ten years after]

40-man squads for the Vix vs the rest game have been named.

I suppose they need 40 man squads because of all the niggling injuries that will require urgent attention that week.

I must admit the concept of 'The Rest' doesn't work for me. 'The Allies' was barely acceptable in order to make up four teams but State of Origin only really works when state rivalries are involved.

I suppose this was happened this year because taking advantage of Easter meant an earlier start to the year than normal and the split round is popular with the clubs. To me it means that there will be 3 weeks with a deficiency of football this year.

I would rather they played 24 rounds.

[skully]

Any word on BBBB's sentence?

[Nath]

Any word on BBBB's sentence?

7 weeks

[Fred Nerk]

7 weeks is about reasonable.

Judged against the Greg Williams-Andrew Coates case from 1997, he'd have got 25 years without possibility of parole and be forced to listen to Bronwyn Bishop, Celine Dion and VoR for the rest of his days.

Judged against Jim O'Dea-John Greening incident, he'd be sent to bed without any supper and sternly told not to do it again.

[skully]

Yeah, sounds a fair cop. Many will be calling for more, on the grounds that he'll probably be out for about that long with his busted wrist. [shrugs]

[Fred Nerk]

"Many will be calling for more, on the grounds that he'll probably be out for about that long with his busted wrist. "

Only talkback morons.

[skully]

I dunno Nerky. I reckon I can hear the howls from the West from here.

[Fred Nerk]

Which cuts across my last statement how exactly?

Actually I dunno if I'm learning how to avoid it but the hysteria has been reasonably muted this time. Everybody agrees Baz done gone done a bad bad thing and he needs his arse kicking and he'll get it and who do we play next week?

One thing noticeably missing is the usual pathetic whinging disguised as chest-thumping from Dermie and Crackers and Don Scott and Mal Brown and the rest of the 'It's A Man's Game!!!!!' dial-a-mouth crowd, such as sounded up after the Riewoldt fiasco a couple of years back.

[Ross]

Saints are trying to spin the G-Train's axing as him 'resting'.

Saints, Cats, Crows, Lions, North, 'Filth', Bulldogs and Eagles.

[Mick Sawyer]

Big Barry huh! All other issues aside, what a technically brilliant punch. Little wonder a second career is so often mentioned.

[horace]

goooo swanees we smashed those weazels good (Invader zim - in memorium post)
saints
handbags
cows
brions
roos
filth
puppies
bogans (Sa variety)

[embee]

Snigger at whoever it was I beat at Supercoach this week ....


Saints
Cats
Crows
Hawks
Kangas
Bluesers
Bulldogs
Druggies

[Ross]

Wallace complaining about a short break just a few weeks after blaming a loss on having a long break is hella funny.

[Fred Nerk]

Wallace was, is and forever will remain a clown but there's no doubt Richmond have improved (at last).

There's a seven-letter word, starting with R and closely associated with Aretha Franklin, which nobody at Tigerland dare utter, because they know no good will ever come of it. Things were steaming ahead in 2005 until some idiot put this word on the cheer-squad banner about 10 rounds in. That night Nathan Brown busted his leg, and then it all went titsup again for the next two years.

[horace]

both wallace and eade have been sooking across the radio today...harris/lake pulling a hammy after taking the mark and minson having to take the kich was another hella funny outcome from the draw...

the two teams in the most parlous state are the demons and the weazels...in addition to the loss of benny and judd it seems clear that the side having to go straight has affected their form

[Fred Nerk]

Gerard Whateley on his usual rant about draws this morning - I await with interest his proposals for 'resolving' the Tied Tests, or the triple dead-heat Hotham Handicap in the 50s.

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