Goldposts - The best of Punt Road End

[Tigers of Old]

Golly on the prospect of Justin Koschitzke being recalled for the Saints this week.

Kosi has the spacial awareness of a moth in an indoor cricket centre.

;D

 

[Dyer'ere]

In great nick, Olds. More from tgw -

... I have NEVER bet against the Tigers though. Ive not backed them plenty times, but never backed against them.

IMO, that is a taboo like incest and putting barbeque sauce on a pie.

 

[tigersnake]

;D 8-

Bit of a high risk-high return poster the 'ol Tigergollywog.

 

[tigergollywog]

;D 8-

Bit of a high risk-high return poster the 'ol Tigergollywog.

refer to thoroughbred thread snake

 

[Rosy]

The preseason is long. For us, the length is unfortunately multiplied by the amount of years without September action, making it a winter of discontent indeed. Ironic it occurs over Summer.

Eat the rich's comment from his Carlton game report. Lovely.

 

[tigergollywog]

Dirty Dog Tigers encapsulates the biggest two week turnaround in PRE history?

"Suddenly we need to negotiate contract for McGuane, hes a free agent next year"

quick!

 

[Dyer'ere]

Eat the rich's comment from his Carlton game report. Lovely.

Eat the Rich's best is genius, Rosy.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Here we go again on another round of hand-wringing and feeling sorry for a club that has fallen on hard times. It happened with Port Adelaide in the second half of last season and it is happening again with Melbourne.

I’ll ask the question again. What is actually wrong with a team being uncompetitive? Let them play their games, lose them, churn over players, find some good ones, recruit some more at the end of the season and work their way out of it. Clubs have been doing that for years.

Why is it wrong that Melbourne have not won a flag since 1964? St Kilda haven’t won one since 1866, Footscray since 1954, Richmond since 1980, Geelong went from 1963 to 2007, Sydney (South Melbourne) went from 1933 to 2005.

What IS wrong with this competition is the sense of entitlement that exists, especially for new clubs, relocated clubs and clubs with small suporter bases. The expansion clubs have to be gifted premierships to survive, Sydney has to play finals every year to survive, Fremantle have to at least draw level with WC, same for Port Adelaide in SA, the Bulldogs have to be looked after or they will fold, same with Melbourne and North Melbourne. Give me a break!

I say bulldust! They can all work their way out of trouble like the rest of us have had to.

Fine posting Tottie. Especially about the sense of entitlement for the new clubs. Makes me sick!

 

[Dyer'ere]

I'm still laughing about this one. Chaplin was concussed last week and yet was listed as out with a calf -

Also a concern how you go off with concussion & end up with a calf

Headbutt a pregnant cow?

 

[tigergollywog]

the calf inducing concussion is a ripper. Can someone more technologically competent than me post the image of the Beanie beanie on here :hihi

 

[Dyer'ere]

Forgot about that one, tgw.

Another wayne masterpiece.

It won't be long before all the kids are wearing their Liam McBeanies to the footy. They'll sell like hotcakes.

 

[Tigers of Old]

On the Bombers scandal. Dr Joe post 1..

My first post here. As a GP (I rang 3AW about this a few days ago and spoke to Justin Smith) I've treated athletes and way back in 2007 an athlete asked me to check that what I was prescribing was ok. I was handed a card with a hotline number for ASADA, within 2 minutes I had an approval number. ASADA was happy, I was happy, and most importantly the athlete was happy and was listening to the whole discussion. It was that SIMPLE to check. If Essendon had done that I reckon they would have produced a list of supplements with the dates that they checked and the reference numbers. The other issue I have is that some of the supplements are not registered for use in Australia. Were the players told that in effect they were given experimental drugs, and were they given a list of potential side effects??? I have no doubt that Essendon have brought the game into disrepute and should be penalised heavily eg start on minus 24 points for this season and the next 3. They can't play for zero points because not everyone plays them twice. However, I suspect the AFL will run the "they were misled, the drugs aren't performance enhancing, they have assisted with enquiries" line, so we will go soft and just fine them and issue a warning.
Joe

 

[Dyer'ere]

From the umpiring thread. LeeToCarn.

We've had Nick Foot for three games & three wins in 2013 - St.Kilda x 2 and Melbourne. Once last year v Melbourne (win). Is there such a thing as a lucky umpire?

Yeah, most of them are lucky that they get to keep their jobs.

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

This is either Goldpost material or unmitigated nonsense. I'm going with the former.

Maybe this should go on the Rumour Board. I dunno. But anyway I was at a Jackson Foundation Charity Ball at Jackson Manor not so long ago when I took to snooping around. In the study, on an American Walnut desk, stood a bronze bust of Jack Dyer.

Mr Jackson appeared behind me in the doorway to the study. He said "Dyer'ere."

I said, "Mr Jackson". And raised my drink. Then I pointed my umbrella and sprayed him with nerve gas. (I was working for Collingwood at the time.)

He fell.

The Batman (looking a little skinnier and a lot frailer than I remembered him) suddenly crashed in through the Queen Anne window and began some kind of kerfuffle. Luckily friends of mine were meditating behind the alcove curtains and we were able to defend ourselves prior to a hasty Queen Anne departure.

So in answer to your question, Daniel Jackson is just another hapless benevolent billionaire. He is not Batman.

 

[Dyer'ere]

:hihi Glad somebody else enjoyed it, L2. Agreed. It's pretty silly. Oh and thank you.

 

[Total Tiger]

Got a giggle out of this one. The thread was discussing a Collingwood VFL player called Ben Richmond being selected

Well, Cricketer Paul Collingwood MBE (17 runs) did play for the Richmond Cricket Club in 2000/01 winning the Jack Ryder medal.

And that is why the cricket club was evicted to Waverley!!

 

[spook]

Simple. Mark Maclure is one of the Carlton hard men of the late 1970s.

Having been a young Blue, finding his feet in the VFL when the Tigers were up and about, he would sleep with the lights on all week before a game against the Tigers. When he finally nodded off, the shadowy figures of Neil Balme, Ricky McLean and Rough Robbie McGhie would prance around in his nightmares, all bony elbows and rock-like fists of fury. He would wake in fright, cold sweat dripping down his furrowed brow. Fear ruled his life.

When the Tigers lost their way, he couldn't believe it for he first ten years. His wife grew tired of having to pinch him all the time. He knew that his fear was irrational (but still real) for the next ten. It was still real to him. Finally, he started to feel comfortable again sometime around the start of the new millenium. Many years of Counselling, combined with powerful drugs allowed him to finally slay his inner demons. Well, not so much slay, as accost them with his acidic but mostly benign verbal barbs.

In the 1970s, the chandelier, in all its glory, was on all night. In the 1980s, a couple of bed-room lamps were all that was needed and by the 1990s, he had graduated to a small, but powerful, night-light. As his confidence grew, he began making innocuous comments about Richmond's incompetence, only in mutters under his breath at first, just in case Sheedy or Malthouse were around and took offence.

When he realised that they didn't care, he was empowered...........a little bit anyway. Mutter turned to sottovoce, which in turn soon became a little voice, a watershed moment for him. For ages, sound came from him but his lips barely moved, just in case his words were heard by Hafey or even Bartlett. After all, who would want Gollum Bartlett running around in his dreams?

Twelve years without a finals appearance emboldened him. The big man with the pea-heart became the media commentator with the potty-mouth. Richo's a sook, Deledio is a girl, what were they thinking, Tambling before Buddy, Jack can't play.

It is now 2013, and the night-light is back on. Balme and McLean were laid to rest long ago but there is now another in his dreams, strong, aggressive, jaw set in granite, arms that are bigger than his own chicken legs, a sleeve tattoo, an anti-hero from the back blocks of West Heidelberg, where they eat night-lights for breakfast.

We dare you, Maclure. Say something nasty about Jakey. Go on, we dares ya!

Brilliant Tot.

 

[KnightersRevenge]

lets be honest, hardwick still hasnt passed frawley in regards to performance yet some praise him as yota

This comment got what it deserved from K3 in golden style, :hihi

There is a house, not far from here, the residents of which have a pet goose. This goose is often to be found walking up, and down, the roadside and if you stop the car, it will usually come up to have a bit of a look-see. The best part about this goose is that if you sound out your best impersonation, it can respond in kind; this can go on for a while if you feel like it.

That goose is a better football coach than Frawley!

 

[Tigers of Old]

I liked this for a 1st post.

The second the siren went on Saturday I went home and unlocked the cupboard where the Lid has been locked for at least ten years.
I took it out to the shed, went at it hammer and tongs fashioned it into a sword with a yellow and black hilt.
Nearly everyone on this forum is far too conservative and cynical about the fortunes of the Richmond Football Club.
This is football, not politics. Let your blood boil and leave logic at the door.
The tiger, he awakens. His roar is back. The once mighty tigers are back up and about and beating teams on top of the ladder a month before the finals.
Glory is knocking at the door. If not this year then next, if not next then the year after.
But you have to believe in the impossible.
The Herald Sun today predicts The Mighty Tiges will win the last four and finish 5th.
Their most likely scenario given the other most likely results is a Richmond home final against Port Adelaide, followed by an away final against Freo in Perth (who we only lost to by a point over there earlier in the year because we were robbedby the umpires, and who we belted at the G a few weeks ago), followed by a preliminary final at the G against the Hawks.
After we belt them by 41 points again and book our ticket to that one day in September, only 120 minutes of football will stand between us and premiership glory and watching Cotch lift the cup.
Anything can happen. EAT 'EM ALIVE!!!

The lid is most certainly off.

 

[spook]

What lid?