There's a little something that is well-known amongst a lot of footy fans about Gardiner and Polak....

Dean Solomon to FREMANTLE?? NOOOO!!!

Dean Solomon to FREMANTLE?? NOOOO!!!

Anyone got thoughts on whose going number 1 draft pick?

Bryce Gibbs, they've been talking him up since last year

Yeah, Bryce Gibbs definitely.

Is anyone else fed up with the the fuckin easy draw that Collingwood get every. single. year. It fucking enfuriates me. Richond apparently got a rough draw but I don't think it's so bad. The draw seems fair to me, apart from fucking Collingwood.

Gibbs will go number one unfortunately. Carlton would be moronic not to take him - he's just that good. I really wanted him at Essendon though, he'd be absolutely perfect for our midfield as he is being touted as a ready-made player.

Essendon have a got a fairly rough draw for next season. Then again, we had the easiest in the competition last season IMO and we still did jack all. Collingwood get the easy draw because they have a certain Mr E McGuire pulling strings for them at the AFL.

Hoping for the best from us next season though, not expecting much except to give Hird a good send-off. Champion.

You guys all staying up for the International Rules matches? Cant wait. Hope theres some fights, would love to see some more big hits on the scrawny little irishmen

I couldn't help but feel sorry for them last year haha they literally were getting owned, course ill be watching
I want to see somone score a soccer goal, 9 pointer. "An Andrew Raines stike from 30 yards" lol

Richmond got a shocker
some clubs are interstate 2 wweeks in a row, they would stay there for the time wouldn't they?
what is the point in playing Adelaide one week, coming home n going back to play the Power a week later/

i know its fucked


lets hope we have a better season this time

Haha, too bad. I hate Essendon!!
They are so gay. Essondon are always winning but when they don't... they make excuses.

"I'm not playing that basketball crap" Kevin Sheedy.

Demons on the other hand are never exceleent but never terrible. But at least they don't
make excuses.

DEMONS ALL THE WAY!!!

brendan fevola = massive tool

Whens the next International Rules game on?

Watched a bit of the first one on Fox Sports during the week, we looked awful. Should play down the wings and cross it into the box, header it past the keeper, would be a dream to see lol.

does a header past the keeper count or do you have to kick it in the net?

Think it counts.

Guys when and what time in aussie time is the match against Ireland in Dublin?

http://afl.com.au/cp2/c2/webi/article/305742aj.doc tv details for second international game

Ah fuck i cant watch it. Its at 1am Melbourne time and it finishes at 3am my guess and at 3 i have to watch Spurs match and that goes onto till 5 and than i have 2 hours of sleep before school

Jesus, we destroyed them.

Who the fuck cares about International Rules? It's an absolute joke.

Yeah season is over, the game itself is just something the afl is doing to say its an international sport. Bring on cricket season now.

Agreedm this is what happens when you put fully professional athletes against amateurs without proper adjustment of the rules. In a straight fight we all know who will win, the Pros, this was meant to be a compromise to create a friendly tournament between the 2 nations, instead it has become a fucking joke where the only compromise i can see given is the shape of the ball.

I am not having a go at the Aussies for this, its the Organisations fault for allowing the brutality go on. I refuse to watch this as its a fucking disgrace of a game where its nothing but intimidation and bullyng, again, i am not having a go at the Aussie players, they are just using the rules to their advantage. They dont get punished and they are allowed to do what they want to who they want and no rules are their to stop them.

An absolute joke and i hope to fuck they cancel the thing or give proper consideration to the rules they invoke. Good bye and good luck to this retarded event which is only used for money spinning purposes.

Nothing but bad blood has come of this event

Did you watch the games Dream? Because it was always the Irish that tried to start the biff and then we beat the shit out of them and they started to whinge that we were being overly aggressive. It's ridiculous. No offense or anything but they were dirty bastards and got what was coming to them.

I didnt see it. and i can hardly blame them for trying to stand up to the Aussies after the shit that went down last year where lets face it, the Aussies were the instigators of everything that i saw happen.

Now if the Irish lads started shit, fair enough, but shouldnt there be like frees given and stuff. I know aussie Rules and GAA allow a fair bit of shit go, but as far as im concerned, unless the sport is Boxing, or Martial Arts or Mixed Martial Arts, than fighting should be punished. It has no place on a field sport regardless of what anyone says. especially when you are talking about any sport that is meant to be a friendly tournament and its meant to be a compromise between Pros and amateurs. And anyway, as i said earlier, my problem isnt with the Ozzie rules players, its with the actual so called "Compromised Rules."

Frankly i think the best thing that could be done is the trophy melted down and turned into studs on some gimps mask and the rule book recycled and used as toilet paper!!!

Im with Dreamlander here, this event is just pure crap. Plain and simple.

haha the Irish are lucky Gilbee didnt play

Oh yeah, no disagreement here, but it just annoys me that the Irish complain about the physicallity when they're the ones that start it.

Exactly.

And not only did we literally beat them, we also beat them at the game.

Anyway, doesn't matter, the game of "International Rules" is now basically over, there's surely no hope it'll continue.

yes i think last year we were partly to blame but this year they can't blame us like you said. Good riddance to the series if it gets axed but i actually like the game and enjoy watching it a lot more than AFL actually

Hope it doesnt get axed cause i enjoy watching it. Only reason i enjoy it is cause how mnay times the Irish got fucked up by our boys

Good to see O'Keefe not backing off even though he is irish too

I go for Freo Dockers and Sydney

yesterday a mate of mine from the boarding house just had a page to himself in the sports section of the age about the upcoming draft, crazy stuff

What's his name?

His name is Nathan Djekkura, damn good skillful and fast midfielder. only problem is that he is short, predicted to go top 30 in the draft, i was also in the boarding house with junior rioli who will go top 10 next year

vyacheslav is ur boarding house full of AFL juniors lol?

theres been a few, the two i have just mentioned are on scholarships from the afl and a guy last year is at sydney so there has been a few going through

I saw a doco on him yesterday on the ABC's offsiders. He looks promising.
It's good to see when young indigenous achieve, like that dude who's captaining the young wallabies.

Heard of him.

Will go top 20

Any Hawks fans here?

Mal Michael to join Bombers

Essendon Football Club today confirmed it had reached agreement on a two-year deal with former Brisbane player Mal Michael and that it would be taking him with its first selection (second overall) in the pre-season draft.

The 29-year-old, three-time Premiership player will commence training with Essendon in mid-December. Michael has played 201 games for Collingwood and Brisbane.

"We believe he has a lot of football still left in him and his move back to Melbourne has caused him to re-think his retirement. We think he can be a very important player for us for at least the next couple of years," Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy said.

"He will provide us with some real strength and experience in defence while we continue to develop some of our younger players for key defensive roles. Physically he is in very good condition and the time away has freshened him up mentally."

http://essendonfc.com.au/news/news.asp?nid=4945

Hurray! Just what we needed, another top key defender to help us out down back. With the drafting of Gumbleton tomorrow , we should be fucking set for next season and perhaps a tilt at the top 8

lost respect for Michael. either stay at the lions or retire don't just do a u-turn and sign for the bombers not long later. that being said good signing for the bombers.

Mal Michael and Dustin Fletcher at the back is scary

Mal Michael is a dick face. Why would you do that?

He didn't do anything. Where's the rule that says he couldn't reverse his decision?

I am suprised by the amount of optimism Essendon supporters find each year. 6 weeks ago Michael didnt even want to play any more and now he is your saviour, like Camporeale was last year. What a flop he was. Why does Sheedy always go for people over the hill and all the supporters hype it up like its the best thing ever. Brisbane are pissed because Michael was contracted until the end of 2007 but then he retired and now suddenly decides to change his mind. Brisbane should get some compensation. However Essendon did do well in the draft this year and picked up a few good picks, but it wont be enough for a push next year.

I was quite happy with the Cats draftees, Hawkins at No 41 was awesome so we basically had 2 top 10, even top 5 picks with Selwood. Someone high up at Geelong even said before the draft if Selwood came to Geelong he could be captain in 3 years! Im not too sure about that but he does look like a very good player and looking forward to seeing what he can do. Also pleasing to see 4 Tassie players go in the draft, 3 in the top 20.

Well its just like Brisbane got robbed. They could have made a swap and got a draft pick in return but he went for free, so Brsibane got shit all

Scotch boy I see
You play footy?

Nope your'e the only one.
But seriously wouldn't suprise me. Hawks are crap.



Yeah, what a shock that was. Mal Michael to Essendon.
He's an Essendon player though.

*Brisbane starts losing so he "loses his passion for the game" what crap that is.
*Goes to probably the biggest AFL club evr.

GLORY HUNTER!
And it's just like Essendon to pick up done players and rip off the team they got the player from.

I hate Essendon with a passion!!

Yeah another Hawks fan here



nah i play the real football, watched a lot of the first this season though, although now im an old scotch collegian rather than a student

haha yeh apparently we have 3 in the draft this year from my skool. And yeh, I think they're all boarding lol...
But i only heard about one...Tom Hawkins going to geelong
and also Xavier Ellis going to Hawks, this was last year, but he was still at skool this year.
all of them are boarding and i think are from gippsland, where a lot of afl talent comes from.

oh and vyacheslav, have I told you how we beat scotch again this year (in real football) i think i have but i like stirring ppl up

How were the Xavs (in real football) this year?
haha im an AFL boy and I know we beat grammar

yeah only hailebury beat us thisyear, was devastating. we were killing them until the last quater and they destroyed us, bought 17 of the starting 18 though, bunch of cheats and emos at hailebury