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30plusyeardrought wrote: Mr AFL below is the site its been around for years.

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Cheers 30 plus. Didn't even know about this site.

Mr AFL, sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings but I think that Zucconi is pretty much a non-starter and that there remains a big question mark over Billings playing on. Neither are officially confirmed as losses as yet, but I'd be surprised to see both this year. I hope I'm wrong on both counts but I have not spotted either at training. If I get to training one day this week and spot either of them I'll certainly let people know. Also as far as I'm aware Salmon has moved on and at training last week Houghton had his fore-arm bandaged. I don't know the extent of this set back, but it could be related to the fore-arm injury he suffered when at the Dockers?? The bandaging didn't look overly serious.
I still can't recall the name of the Peel guy and I don't know if the ruckman they are still looking for is Andrew Ruck. My last information on him was identical to another poster on here - he was in ours (and other clubs) sights before Xmas but then heard he was going bush. Later heard that he may have had a change of heart about bush footy, but have heard nothing since.

1961Demon wrote: Mr AFL, sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings but I think that Zucconi is pretty much a non-starter and that there remains a big question mark over Billings playing on. Neither are officially confirmed as losses as yet, but I'd be surprised to see both this year. I hope I'm wrong on both counts but I have not spotted either at training. If I get to training one day this week and spot either of them I'll certainly let people know. Also as far as I'm aware Salmon has moved on and at training last week Houghton had his fore-arm bandaged. I don't know the extent of this set back, but it could be related to the fore-arm injury he suffered when at the Dockers?? The bandaging didn't look overly serious.
I still can't recall the name of the Peel guy and I don't know if the ruckman they are still looking for is Andrew Ruck. My last information on him was identical to another poster on here - he was in ours (and other clubs) sights before Xmas but then heard he was going bush. Later heard that he may have had a change of heart about bush footy, but have heard nothing since.

Gee i mentined this(i was quoting what another poster had said the same as you) on another footy site a while back and got shot down very quickly accused of getting info i think if memory serves me right "off the dunny door".

Our backline looks shaky with those 2 in it take them out and its pretty bloody ordinary to say the least.
If this is true they would be massive outs.
As far as i am concerned a tall Kpp has been required down back for years and we end up making do with what we have and get thumped when playing the teams with the good tall Kpp's in there forward line.

Like others have stated our backline is a major problem and at this stage along with a couple of other glaring deficiencies we need to bring in outside recruits.

Players may look a million bucks out on the training track and against teammates but its how good they look against the real thing for premiership points that matter.

Agree 30Plus, we need a top class KP backman and without one we will always struggle against the Josh Smiths, Ash Hansen's (retired), Chad Jones etc, etc. I think some of our other deficiencies can be 'covered' to a certain extent, but the backline is a glaring weakness. If it was me in charge I would throw the kitchen sink at securing a top class WAFL or ex-AFL backman (i.e. use the Centurions fund, the RWF or someone's knickers if it helped the cause). I got a bit excited when Paul Bower's name was on the radar a while back, but that didn't come to pass.
I don't really know much about what's happening inside the club and I certainly don't quote anything from the back of dunny doors; I just try to pop into training once in a while, see who's out there and try and get a bit of player info out of other observers and the occaisional club official.

1961, that's more than some people.

all this talk of rissoles is making me hungry...reckon i might knock some up tonight with mashed potatoes, vegies and gravy....

At the end of Novemeber I heard Zucconi was going back to Ammos and Billings was going Bush. They were still training up until mid December when I last went into watch training. I guess where there is smoke there's fire but if they haven't turned upto training after the Christmas break it's a worrying sign.

Hopefully though at least one if not both stick around. Was hoping that we may have been able to use Zucconi up forward this season, providing we had Billings, Houghton, Holland and potentially Rissol and this big bloke from Peel.

Just quickly stopped in at training and I'm 99% sure that Billings was out there. The boys were training up at the John's Building Supplies end of the ground and it was pretty hard to see them clearly (all in white singlets), but I'm fairly certain it was Chris. So I'm very happy to be proved wrong on that account.
Mr AFL I also spotted Zucca on the track early December and thought the rumours surrounding his departure false; unfortunately I have not seen him since.
The number of new faces on the track is quite incredible and from a distance you don't really get a perspective of their height until you realise some of them are standing next to young Sandilands. The squad definitely looks taller to me, I hope they can surprise a few sides and opposition supporters this year (perhaps even a few of us!!)

Thanks 1961, good news.

I didn't think Chris was going anywhere unless the umpires had finally got to him.