Swandog wrote:
Beasley Hutton wrote: One thing we have always had through the decades is very good local key defenders from the early days of Tim Barker, Jack Murray, Duggan Anderson, Joe Lawson, Fred Castledine, Ken Bagley, Tom Mullooly, Steve Gillespie, Murray Rance, Rod O'Neill, Paul Gow, Stephen O'Reilly, Clint Hampson, Tony Notte, Justin Simpson, Alex Howard and of course Tallan Ames and not forgetting the current All-Australian Captain Alex Rance.
Maybe that could be attributed to the ball spending far too much time in our defence than we would otherwise like.
Johnny Laurito had a bit of work to do at times as well
Cheers mate I knew I had forgotten one or 2 and JL was certainly a reliable old style custodian.