On the contrary, those who knew, basically CFC supporters said the only centre line in the then VFL that could beat Clay, Barrot, Bourke was Crane, Robertson, and Quirk.

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"Get ready, Teddy - you're on": Ron Barassi half time 1970 Grand Final

He’s not wrong though. Cottrell suffers from the same affliction as O’Brien - great at running, shite at footy.

That said, you can go a long way with desire.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

Thats it Crus i reckon Cottrel has far more thirst for the physical stuff than O"Brien .

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All my dangerous friends

Found out that over half the side had gastro on Sunday.

Nah, I read that it was just that they are lazy, soft, shit football players.....

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

It must have been highly contagious as it gave me the shits just from watching.

I heard they all had breakfast at the Suns in-house buffet with the “all-you-can-eat hash brown special” but surely it couldn’t be that…

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

I suppose for all our faults Sunday we still had pretty good run out of the backline....

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#DonTheStash

Gold...
Might explain at least why Cerra Kennedy and Walsh seemed to be running 'flat footer'
Walsh especially didn't look right (I was thinking of the syndesmosis and Cerra... the dreaded covid)

Go Blues

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“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

Makes sense, half the side looked to have no run.

Yeah, it would explain why so many had bad games.

That’s why we had so much run but no carry….

Pros:

Saad was fantastic.
Williams, Hewett and Docherty very good.
SOJ competed around the ball, when De Koning didn't/couldn't.
Boyd was encouraging.
LOB had another decent game.

Cons:

Smashed in midfield.
Scored against far too easily by a team that usually struggles to score.
Inaccuracy and butchered opportunities when we had good opportunities to score. Harry and Charlie need to be more selective about when to kick around the corner.
Umpires gave them an armchair ride after the first 5 minutes. Free kick and 50 metre penalty goals were particularly galling.
Key defenders were poor.
Newman was very poor.
Kennedy had an absolute shocker.

Newman wasn't very poor
Umps didn't give them an armchair ride. You play in front, you put your head over the footy and you want the ball more, you get rewarded.
You play from behind, you're second to the footy, you expect the easy option, you're undisciplined and you get nothing.

I’m tempted to say this team has had gastro for 20 years but as I said before 3-1 I would take after 4 games -particularly bad game last week need to really take it to a wounded Port
Get on top early
Get scoreboard pressure and grind them into the dust

hear hear !

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All my dangerous friends

Sauce?

Yeah, I knew that.
So did most non Carlton and Richmond football supporters.
One @#$%&! GF in '69, the Tigers trio played well ... but our boys were not disgraced on both occasions we played them that year (and lost)

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