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Do you need all this bulldust? They'll get you in the end anyway you know. At least if you jump you get to control how you land.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would ANYONE want to coach the Tigers? At least other struggling clubs look like they are going in the right direction.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

In their shoes I'd be sorely tempted to write the season off, pay Spud out and throw the clipboard at Meddlin' Mal Brown and say, do a better job.

The side would then finish last with barely a win (two draft picks) and Mal will have made such a turd of himself coaching the wooden spooners that he'll never be heard of again (immeasurable benefits for the human race in general and Richmond FC in particular).

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

REB, you're forgetting that Richmond aren't a struggling club.

Your attitude is typical of the lack of Respect the rest of the AFL has for the Mighty Tigers. It has been Noted.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"The side would then finish last with barely a win" jeez Fred, you'd do anything to save Carlton the embarrassment of another spoon :)

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Spud may be the first AFL coach to top himself rather than being sacked...

― Bennö (Bennö), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Fred, be careful of your prediction about the effect that Mal might have.

I know of his capabilities from his time in the West. He came from East Perth(whom I have followed for more than 50 years) and is a very good motivator and an astute coach. His fostering of young players for various clubs and districts in WA is well documented and his ability to inspire is top shelf.

It was unfortunate that you guys never got to see him at his very best in the one season he played in Vic. On song, he was one of the best I have seen. Angry, he was one of the toughest. Richmond could do worse( I mean, they could stick with Frawley for God's sake) IMO, I think Jewell just may have hit the nail on the head when he said that Frawley's background was suspect.

Brown might just surprise a few people if he was to have a dip.

― Westener (Westener), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The only dip Mal is up to these days is, his hand into the Brown stuff to throw around in his role as multi-media megastar.

And yeah, Frawley's background sure is suspect. Look at the first clown to coach him at St Kilda.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

You do have to ask yourself why anybody would want to coach the Tigers, and Tony Jewell's comments could only be concerned with harming people at the club.

Is Wayne Brittian still on the coaching staff at Richmond? His record at Carlton looks pretty good now after one season with Pagan. He certainly had a poorer run with injuries and while Carlton did finish last under him they were not the worse side in the League. Whereas under Pagan they did not get the spoon but at the end of last year Carlton were the worse side in the AFL by a street.

― Big Bird (Big Bird), Thursday, 4 March 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

When you are 16th and you lose to the 15th side (indoors to boot) by 50 odd points then I'd say you'd qualify as the worst side in the league. (2002)

Carlton were the worst by the end of 03 but let's not forget that a mediocre list was suddenly without Ratten, Whitnall, Hickmott and others and that game they somehow lost to Melbourne on home turf knocked all the stuffing out of them. Let's not forget how pi55 poor the Dawgs were (except against the Cats DOH) in the first half of the season and they had their chances to get off the bottom but failed to take them.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Thursday, 4 March 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Fred, you're not biased against Big Bad Mal because of a game in Adelaide about 1972, are you?

From my hazy recollection, didn't BBM take on Carlton in the Biff Stakes and finish up on top.

Legend has it that John Nicholls ran from the forward pocket to CHB and into a right hook. John Gould was also indisposed for some time and Carlton were subsequently beaten by(I think) Port Adelaide for the title of Premier Club in Aussie.

Story goes that PA sent a crate of beer to the East Perth Hotel after that game.

Other than that, I'm at a loss to think why you might be dark on Mal, you not even being a Tiger fan and all.

― Westener (Westener), Thursday, 4 March 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

No. I'm 'biased' against Brown because whatever large expanses of water he may have walked on in WA, in Melbourne he's a human haemorroid. A trouble maker. A self-proclaimed legend in his own mind, not just in WA where he may have done something to earn the title, but also at Richmond. After 14 unmemorable games.

His head's on the news whenever there's trouble at Richmond. Why does his opinion matter? God knows. He's one of those blokes who is forever spouting Harvard Business School tough-guy bullshit about how you have to break eggs to make omelettes, but his omelettes always end up tasting like crap. Richmond need something built, so they should call Balderstone Hornibrook, and tell Whelan the Wrecker to piss off home.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 4 March 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Such vitriol, Fred. I can see I won't change your mind, so I might as well give up on the subject.

― Westener (Westener), Friday, 5 March 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair dinkum Westy, if Hitler was from Perth you'd wrap him.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Friday, 5 March 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite Westies:

VoR (capt)
Alan Bond
'You're Useless!'Wilson Tuckey
Kim Beazley
Bob Hawke
Laurie Connell
Rose Hancock
Supernaut
George Girljesich or Gorillasich or whatever it is
Noel Cretin-Clown
Brian Burke
12th: Dennis Confetti

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Friday, 5 March 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Shame on you Frederick for leaving Polly off that list. Big Nick would not be amused.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Saturday, 6 March 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Fred, I will not enter into internecine intercourse on the net. Suffice to say, I am as enamoured with the self appointed superior Victorian attitude as you are with our superiority.

― Westener (Westener), Saturday, 6 March 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

No Erik, I rate Farmer very high. Not quite as high as I rate John Schultz or (at the other end of his career) Len Thompson, both of whom had a better record v Nick than your boy, but high nonetheless. It was most likely the Polster as much as anybody that gave Barassi his smart-arse ideas about handball.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Saturday, 6 March 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven years pass...

Fair dinkum Westy, if Hitler was from Perth you'd wrap him.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Friday, 5 March 2004 13:07 (11 years ago)

― This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn't abide by (nakhchivan), Monday, 18 May 2015 01:16 (ten years ago)

internecine intercourse

― drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:41 (ten years ago)

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