Why?

It was a good game which could have been anybodies right up until the last couple of minutes.

Collingwood had the legs at the end and deserved the win.

Car'n the Weagles

don't agree

i smell a docker...

u get the best footy, when eagles play finals..win or loose

go kangas

doh!

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Originally posted by xtreme1

what gave it awayyes you get the best but they did not win one final....

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And...... ur point is???

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Originally posted by elmo

Why?

It was a good game which could have been anybodies right up until the last couple of minutes.

Collingwood had the legs at the end and deserved the win.

Car'n the Weagles

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Magpie supporter here you're right elmo, good game......not good for blood pressure though, I know close games are good for footy....but, I hate 'em!!! If I wasn't so enebriated, I would've turned the TV off!!! (would have been a shame to miss the end though!?!)

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Originally posted by Greenroom

If you reckon the game was close imagine how much of a floggin collingwood would have got if they had cousins judd and the other bloke?

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Yeah....you're right!(BTW - well researched)

We'll take the win though!

go kangadangas -
not a bad effort from this yrs predicted wooden spooners

kerr is the other player greeny,
cousins to retire
judd to carlton
eagles will still finish top 3 nxt yr

EAGLES PREMIERS 08!!!!!!!!!!!!











i hope......

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The best thing to happen on a friday night is to see the Eagles go down in a screeming heap dont you all agree...and of all tings to go down to Collingwood ..I can't stop laughing and there are a lot of sad sad faces at work HA HA ha ha ha.

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Yes I smell a Docker too.

They are happy to finish 15th as long as the Eagles are 16th??? Bad attitude i reckon and never going to win them a premiership until they notice the other 14 teams, and also that the middle of the season counts

Collywobbles deserved it and ran the legs off the valiant Eagles, it was obvious that 2 years of playing to the end of September has been catching up with the eagles (and Sydney) this year.

Sad ending but better to be in it (and lose both games) than on a drunken front page grabbing end of season team trip (Hi to the purple people) I say...

As for Judd, tis better to have had, and lost, than not at all.

Can't begrudge the bloke wanting to go home after a Brownlow, 2 GF gigs and a winning GF as captain... Hasn't won a Nobel yet, but he does drive a hybrid car so has got some grey matter up there...

$10 says he goes to Collywobbles as captain. "Great knowing ya Bucks - don't forget to write" says Eddie. Maybe just one year as captain in waiting. They are the mob that have talent on the rise, and more importantly the $$$ to pay him enough to fit others in the cap but also give him - and the Twigster (that red dress girly) - the extra $$$ by signing up for plum paying media jobs to compensate for less playing $$$. Watch out for the red dress on mind numbing 'you can't possibly afford this' holidays shows soon.


I've been pretty sure Juddy was leaving since the start of the year and Collywobbles have been my pick from the start.

BTW next weeks lotto numbers are XXXXXX and sups XX

You got to be impressed with the crew from North Melbourne after their win over the Hawks and at media interview, that went sort of like...
Reporter :how do you think you will travel going to Adelaide to play Port next week?
Player 1: "No problems, don’t think we will get a private plane,(Ah-La Eddie and the Pies splashing out on private jet too travel home) don’t think the budget will stretch that far.
To player 2, from player 1 "what ya reckon"?
Player 2, "Nar don’t reckon we will, probably get a bus, I reckon we can stretch the budget that far at a pinch"
Don’t follow either team, but would like to see a struggling bunch like the Kanga’s make it to the last day in September.

That would be the obvious combination, but god I hope not. The Kanga's deserve a shot at it. They really have exceeded all expectations. Some so called experts said they would struggle to make the eight.I just have some gut feeling (Now that's a big statement) Collingwood and Kanga's could be there on the day.

Finals footy is a different game, we all know Geelong struggle in September, well with the exception of their last weeks game that is.
Either way if there's wind I won't be sitting around watching it.

boooo to dockers, i recon that clubs a discrace to WA. 12 years and they havent won anythin! used to be a dockers supporter, but after years of expectations....nothing. same with this year, sposed to at least finish top 8! again disapointed! look at Port Power, they been in the AFL 10 years and they got to flags, and look like they have a chance at this years! dockers are a underachieving, dissapointing disaster!

that is all!

LOL Funky you really need to just let it go man, it is a only game after all. The eagles dockers topic seems to get to you.

Also like I responded a while ago when you started a provocative post on this topic. Yes your right Freo haven't had the same starting decade as most the other clubs, due to poor infrastructure as far as the initial board and committees (shall I add Geesham and 22 claremont player)where concerned. The club has only just turned around since Cameron Schwab and Rick hart took over. I agree Connelly needed to go, but he did develope some confidence well needed at the club and has nurtured some good youngsters to the point where he could not take them to the next step. So this year was maybe a setback as far as the dockers expectations from everyone after finishing 4th last year. I think that Harvey's hardness along with his comradeship with his players will be of similar proportions to that of Worsfold and the eagles and that my friend is what will put silverware in the cupboard.

BTW I don't chose who I support through how many trophies they have, it's a loyalty thing. I have supported South Fremantle all my life, so when the Dockers formed I naturally followed them as an extension from my WAFL team. Previous to that I had a soft spot for Carlton, but wasn't passionate just enjoyed watching some of their players.

I heard you bought the Proof 151 off my mate. That is a heavy board and no good for jumping, but hell fun in the waves. I borrowed it a few times off him whilst I was in between boards, great for the light wind cruising days to. Enjoy!

geyfunky has some good points! as well as lacking sprit and passion, the club has majorly been screwed around by the selectors, board etc. rick hart offers nothting to the club, hes better at selling fridges then running a football club. as for sighning harvy, dont know what there thinking, the club needs a coach with expreiece in finals(if they get there) and who can really take the helm in terms of managemnent, not the ex coaches bitch. heres a history lesson!!!!

FREMANTLE DOCKERS
DISAPOINTMENT
After selling the nine network to Fremantle’s Alan Bond for one billion dollars, then buying it back three years later for one quarter of the price, Kerry Packer famously declared: "You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime." While Packer only got one Alan Bond, the conduct of the Fremantle Dockers seems to indicate that the region is a production line of basket cases.
Fremantle entered the AFL in 1994. In order to differentiate itself from its generic neighbour, the club pursued numerous trading policies, and marketing policies that made it somewhat of a laughing stock Australia wide. In regards to its trading, Fremantle decided that it wanted to an underdog image, and felt the best way to achieve it would be to trade away their best players, and draft picks in exchange for the rejects of other clubs. In 1994, Adelaide convinced Fremantle to give them Andrew McLeod in exchange for Chris Groom. Melbourne convinced Fremantle to givem them Jeff Farmer for Phil Gilbert. Essendon also engineered a deal that saw gun players Mathew Lolyd and Scott Lucus go to Bombers in exchange for Todd Ridely and Tony Delaney. Ten years later, Lolyd, Lucus, McLoud, Farmer were considered some of the finest players in AFL history, while Ridely, Gilbert, Delaney, and Groom were asking kids if they wanted fries with their McDonalds happy meal - metaphorically speaking.
In 1995, Fremantle delisted Peter Bell, who was later picked up by Nth Melbourne and became a premiership player. Fremantle then decided they wanted him back so they exchanged their 6 and 8th in the 2000 draft. In the superdraft of 2001, the club traded away the first pick that it could have used to acquire superstar Chris Judd. Instead, Fremantle got Trent Croad; a middle-of-the-road Hawthorn player that it subsequently dropped to the WAFL before trading him back to Hawthorn.
In the Superdraft of 2006, Fremantle again decided that the busted arsed players of other clubs would be superior to gaining some star players. In a deal that a used car salesman would be envious of, Collingwood convinced Fremantle to give its first pick, and Paul Medhurst, in exchange for Chris Tarrant; a wayward Collingwood pretty boy more at home at the pub at 4am in the morning, than kicking goals when the pressure was on. If they hadn't been able to trade him, it is quite probably that Collingwood would have delisted him such was the unhealthy influence that he was having on the club.
In anchor we trust
Just as Fremantle's trading turned heads, so too did its marketing. The club realised that the AFL didn't need another club named after a cat or bird. Since they couldn't find a suitable name, they created their own word and soon 'Dockers' had entered the Australian lexicon.
Initially, people were confused as to what Dockers actually meant. Given Fremantle's criminal history, some could have been forgiven for thinking that it referred to suspects defending themselves in the dock of a court. However it was soon explained that Dockers really meant 'Wharfies' but that Fremantle Wharfies just didn't have the same ring to it.
The Fremantle song is also more on the imaginative side. The Eagle's song just sings about life as a bird. On the other hand, the Docker's song contains lyrics like "We're gonna role them and we'll rock em, We're gonna send them to the bottom" ; lyrics that seem to smack of a Bon Scott fitting concrete shoes as one of his dirty deeds being done dirt cheap.
For the jumper design, Fremantle chose to feature an anchor. Many people wondered what they were trying to say. Did they want to go to the bottom and stay there? Did they like being in the mud? Did they want to go nowhere? Were they concerned about the ship leaving without them? Lacking a wet sail, did they want to storm home with a steel anchor? If Alan Bond had won the America’s Cup with a Winged Keel, would an anchor bring them AFL glory?
Perhaps the choice of anchor may have even been a legacy of Fremantle's criminal history. Convicts frequently had anchors as tattoos to symbolise "hope". Confident that they would be entrenched at the bottom of the ladder, the Dockers may have foreseen that hope would be important for them as well.
Sure enough, Fremantle's drafting ensured that it would be a loser team and the anchor struck a chord with the public. Fans painted anchors on themselves. Banners gave words of encouragement accompanied by an image of an anchor for extra emotive appeal. Children even bought inflatable anchors to hit each other with.
Send in the clowns
Although the foolish trading and marketing decisions made Fremantle a laughing stock in the eastern states, doing the hard time on the bottom of the ladder helped the Dockers attract a different breed of supporter. There is a saying, that "its not whether you win or lose its how you play the game". Of course, this is just another way of saying "we lost". Because of consistent floggings, Fremantle fans came to appreciate there is more to football than onfield success. Watching their team humiliated necessitated creativity to keep their spirit highs thus they created imaginative banners, dressed up in silly attire and of course, hit each other with inflatable anchors.
Although losing helped breed eccentricity, some credit should also be given to Fremantle's colour code of purple and green, which are the worst colours in world sport. Fremantle's marketers should have known that if they made their fans wear them, they can't seriously expect them to be concerned about societal approval. Consequently, masses of purple hair at Fremantle games has concerned citizens in dire fear that Damn Edna Everage has become trendy. World tourists, already coming to terms with Australians wearing moleskins and ugg boots, are horrified to see people wearing purple and green bomber jackets that has them resembling apple and grape lollipops.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Fremantle club is its egalitarian supporter base. The spirit shown in the America's cup when billionaires and wharfies drank side by side is evident in the demographics of the clubs supporter base. Although the Dockers are promoted as working class, they have now attracted a strong following from yuppies. Perhaps the yuppies have embraced Fremantle because it offers something few other clubs in any code can; an egalitarian spirit of larrikinism, eccentricity and solidarity.

ahha

Three footy fans were walking back from the MCG when one noticed a foot sticking out of the bushes by the side of Jolimont Road.

They stopped and discovered a nude female unconscious and near death so one of them phoned the police and also requested an ambulance.

Out of respect and propriety, the Eagles fan took off his cap and placed it over one of the female's breasts.

The Dockers fan took off his cap and placed it over her other breast.

Following their lead, but with great reluctance, the Collingwood fan took off his cap and placed it over her girly part.

The police arrived first and an officer began to conduct his investigation.

First he lifted up the Eagles cap, replaced it and made an entry in his notebook.

Next, he lifted the Dockers cap and replaced it; making more notes in his book.

Then the officer lifted the Collingwood cap, replaced it, lifted it again, replaced it, lifted it a third time and replaced it one last time - shaking his head in disbelief.

The Collingwood fan was extremely annoyed and challenged him, "What are you, a pervert or something mate? Why do you keep lifting and looking, lifting and looking?"

"Well," said the officer, "I'm a little surprised and confused.

"Normally, when you look under a Collingwood cap...
you'll find an asshole."

hook line and sinker