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  • ugg
    Can you feel it?
    Site Admin
    • Jan 2003
    • 15976

    #31
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    • stellation
      scott names the planets
      • Sep 2003
      • 9723

      #32
      Re: Re: Reserves

      Originally posted by Sanecow
      Bandwagon jumper!
      I bought myself a conductor's hat AND a french maid's uniform for Mrs Lobster. I take David Spriggs more seriously than you
      I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
      We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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      • Sanecow
        Suspended by the MRP
        • Mar 2003
        • 6917

        #33
        Re: Re: Re: Reserves

        Oh, I'm serious. Deadly serious.

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        • stellation
          scott names the planets
          • Sep 2003
          • 9723

          #34
          Did you buy Mrs Lobster anything?
          I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
          We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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          • Sanecow
            Suspended by the MRP
            • Mar 2003
            • 6917

            #35
            No, but I gave her something.

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            • stellation
              scott names the planets
              • Sep 2003
              • 9723

              #36
              That is serious.
              I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
              We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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              • ROK Lobster
                RWO Life Member
                • Aug 2004
                • 8658

                #37
                Oi!

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                • Foreign Legion
                  Senior Player
                  • Feb 2003
                  • 3379

                  #38
                  "The Swans have a bye next week"....

                  thats helpful.


                  Can I ask my fellow RWO forumers - can anyone name one player that has played regularly in the Seniors that DIDN'T play at Port Melbourne?

                  I know its only 2 years but jeez the standard is about a good country league in Victoria.

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                  • ROK Lobster
                    RWO Life Member
                    • Aug 2004
                    • 8658

                    #39
                    Originally posted by Foreign Legion
                    "The Swans have a bye next week"....

                    thats helpful.


                    Can I ask my fellow RWO forumers - can anyone name one player that has played regularly in the Seniors that DIDN'T play at Port Melbourne?

                    I know its only 2 years but jeez the standard is about a good country league in Victoria.
                    This is the 4th year. Sydney did not make the finals in the first 2. The competition does not start for another fortnight. This game was brought forward so as there could be a curtain raiser. The QBN boys were at least 2 weeks underdone, not that any of them are full time footballers.

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                    • stellation
                      scott names the planets
                      • Sep 2003
                      • 9723

                      #40
                      Originally posted by ROK Lobster
                      This is the 4th year. Sydney did not make the finals in the first 2. The competition does not start for another fortnight. This game was brought forward so as there could be a curtain raiser. The QBN boys were at least 2 weeks underdone, not that any of them are full time footballers.
                      It was warm and the score was blown out in the final quarter when it looked like the whole pro athletes versus butchers thing kicked in. It was a much better contest before that.
                      I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
                      We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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                      • Foreign Legion
                        Senior Player
                        • Feb 2003
                        • 3379

                        #41
                        Originally posted by ROK Lobster
                        This is the 4th year. Sydney did not make the finals in the first 2. The competition does not start for another fortnight. This game was brought forward so as there could be a curtain raiser. The QBN boys were at least 2 weeks underdone, not that any of them are full time footballers.
                        Well, I thought it was round 1 according to the Footy Record.

                        Yep, good on the QBN lads - they tried bloody hard and no.1 the FF was pretty good - would be handy at most sides but they are nowhere near VFL standard. I dont expect 'em to be, as you say they are part timers. I am not saying this to disparage the ACTAFL but more about the need for our young blokes to be really tested.

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                        • Foreign Legion
                          Senior Player
                          • Feb 2003
                          • 3379

                          #42
                          Originally posted by stellation
                          It was warm and the score was blown out in the final quarter when it looked like the whole pro athletes versus butchers thing kicked in. It was a much better contest before that.
                          You think so?

                          They kicked 2 goals in the first qtr so doesnt give em much after that.

                          I wouldnt have called it a contest after the first 15-20 minutes.

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                          • stellation
                            scott names the planets
                            • Sep 2003
                            • 9723

                            #43
                            I do think it made it look worse than it was, we scored around 70 points in the final quarter. The porn lads had a go early on.
                            I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
                            We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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                            • liz
                              Veteran
                              Site Admin
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 16787

                              #44
                              Originally posted by Foreign Legion

                              Can I ask my fellow RWO forumers - can anyone name one player that has played regularly in the Seniors that DIDN'T play at Port Melbourne?
                              Paul Bevan - I know he seemed to go backwards last year, but that isn't uncommon and it's too soon to tell whether he will really "make it". He did finish 4th in the RS in his debut season.

                              Dempster - not totally established but maybe on his way.

                              McVeigh and Malceski are two others who wouldn't have seen Port Melbourne action, though neither has yet established himself at senior level.

                              Not sure we can draw any definite conclusions yet because since we started participating in the ACT competition, the depth of the squad hasn't really been tested. The fact that we don't have a raft of players coming through from tthe reserves can be attributed as much to the form and health of the premiership side as to a lack of development of the youngsters.

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                              • Foreign Legion
                                Senior Player
                                • Feb 2003
                                • 3379

                                #45
                                Originally posted by liz
                                Paul Bevan - I know he seemed to go backwards last year, but that isn't uncommon and it's too soon to tell whether he will really "make it". He did finish 4th in the RS in his debut season.

                                Dempster - not totally established but maybe on his way.

                                McVeigh and Malceski are two others who wouldn't have seen Port Melbourne action, though neither has yet established himself at senior level.

                                Not sure we can draw any definite conclusions yet because since we started participating in the ACT competition, the depth of the squad hasn't really been tested. The fact that we don't have a raft of players coming through from tthe reserves can be attributed as much to the form and health of the premiership side as to a lack of development of the youngsters.
                                Well, Bevan is probably one but McVeigh and Malceski are two that have stagnated due to the ACTAFL - McVeigh was no.5 pick for heavens sake! He has been unlucky - if we still had the Port link he'd be close to a ready made player now. Dempster luckily played in the TAC cup - the best junior standard but the guys from W.A. and S.A. havent played in that comp.

                                Look at Willoughby and Schmidt and to a lesser extent, Davis - they will struggle to adapt to AFL seniors. The difference is pressure and fitness cant really get around it.

                                Earl Shaw is a guy who would benefit greatly from playing in the VFL against good ruckmen - sadly he plays against fellas who are 2 inches shorter and nowhere near as fit.

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