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Grassy: Correct. You can be in the five in two years if you can get improvement from the young players and recruit well, preferring a ruckman and key forward.

Just to keep the board honest on the recruitment front, here is a list of the players the Lions recruitted in 1984 to make them a competitive side.

Clint Roberts
Niel Fotheringham
Tommy Floyd
John Townsend
Peter Ashworth
Barrie Quick
Rod Willet
Paul Ross
Kevan Sparks
Alex Rattray
Stephan Sells
Glen Ol., came back from the goldfields

oh and the great Peter Featerby came back

most did not play regularly, but all played some league football and helped stabalise the club. In other words, the board gave Haydn Bunton a lot of help in his first season back. Let us hope the PFC can do the same for Earl next season.

John Townsend. Is that the same person that rights for The West or are they two different people that just share the same name?

Mr AFL wrote: John Townsend. Is that the same person that rights for The West or are they two different people that just share the same name?

2 Different John Townsend's I believe Mr AFL...the footballer played at SF, SU & from memory Armadale in the old Sunday Football League in the 80s...not sure the reporter at the West had much of a sporting career!