The cup that runneth over.

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The farcical situation of two AFL sides playing for 'a cup' will get another addition as Essendon and Carlton will battle for the "Madden Cup" when the two sides take to the MCG this Saturday afternoon.

The "Madden Cup" is obviously named after Justin and Simon, two great players, but does anybody really care about yet another pointless cup?

― chrisso (chrisso), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Gives the commentators something to talk about if the game is boring!!

― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Chrisso according to NIRS last week the Collingwood v Richmond games was for the "Who Cares Cup!"

― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps Carlton and Essendon could play for the 'JPY Cup'.

LOL

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

REB would that be because they think they "are the real thing"?
:D

― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

...er...no try...

'Take a look at me I'm yesterday's hero'.....

too 'old school' for you I'm guessing, Chimp Chick.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahhh! I'd gone far too far back and had started to spin out at the Russell Morris Cup!!!

― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dunno if Hawthorn and St Kilda have a cup, but if they did surely they'd name it after Gordon Fode or Tony King rather than Morris.

(King was the bloke St Kilda got in return for Russell Greene in 1980. He added half a dozen games with the Saints to his half a dozen for Hawthorn, retired before age 25 and later became a top-ranking official with Basketball Australia.)

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe so Fred but Russell Morris sang "I Am The Real Thing... Umm mamma umm mamma" So surely that must take precedence!!!:D

― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Or the Balls Up Trophy - celebrating Luke and brother Matthew, and their team mates off field indiscretions...

― Bennö (Bennö), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Fode's main claim to fame was being one of two new St Kilda players, him 16, the other bloke 17, to play their first games together in or near the last round of the 1988 season.

Gordon scored the classic school bag over one shoulder, boots over the other, in uniform, shot in the Herald that every schoolboy AFL player has had to cop from before Tim Watson to after Dustin Fletcher. The St Kilda club insider interviewed for the story nearly wet himself over Fode's potential, and right at the end mentioned that the other new kid they'd picked would probably turn out OK too.

Fode played maybe 30 games in about five years for St Kilda, then Hawthorn picked him up and he stayed one season.

But the Sainters were at least right about one thing back in 88: that other bloke did 'turn out OK'. His name was Robert Harvey.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 5 August 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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