No, not sarcasm.
If he had the injury a couple of weeks earlier, he would have to go through the entire rehab including costs himself, and may also have not ever found himself on a AFL list commanding hundreds of thousands as income. Fortunate indeed.
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Except he’s not commanding hundreds of thousands, this isnt the NBA.
AFL rookies get $85,000 annually
Fair enough - but if we smudge it a little, and say that the rookie contract leads to a full contract - I can kinda get away with it.
I’d say they will extend him. I think you have seen enough from his two games to say he will do well with a solid preseason. Shown much more than any other small forward at VFL level.
Seriously, when was the last time a small forward kicked 4 in the Magoo’s?
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Tex Wanganeen did it last year.
Jye Menzie the year before.
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He is not out for the year , he will back for the last few rounds (probably 3-4) , builds up for the Finals 
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Debut in a grand final? 
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Needs to go to prison first.
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I’d be happy with this. The biggest problem is that we always seem to play Essington hopscotch in a minefield.
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Smartt did it in one of the first few games this year.
Not sure that Saad was even playing small forward, he seemed to be up the ground a fair bit
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Seeing as how Saad will be out of the side for yonks, it’s time to build the myth, the legend.
I’ll go first.
What about that El-Hawli, snapping a goal from the wing over his left shoulder and rising so high to mark the ball, they needed a satellite just to film it.
Kicked four in only a few quarters while burning off four different opponents trying any means, fair or foul, to negate him.
It was only a phone call by the opposing team to the same organisation that shot at Pharlap to finally take Saad down on the day. Thus disabling what could have been, and still might be, Essendon’s greatest ever player.
Edit:
John Coleman only stood 185cm, 80kg.
Just saying.
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But John Coleman could fly…….believe me !
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I believe you Bessie.
It’s one of my life regrets,
- Not having seen Don Bradman bat.
- Not having seen Pharlap run.
- Not having seen John Coleman play footy.
My old man was a huge rap for Billy Hutchison, so I’d better include him too, but the old-time stories of Coleman are innumerable, and spellbinding.
One of Coleman’s teammates, ruckman Geoff Leek recalled one of his 1949 marks:
One day at Essendon I went for a mark but ended up a launching pad for Coleman. His feet just touched my shoulders and he took a mark with his boots above my head. Coleman did not climb up packs. He got to those amazing heights with a spring. I am nearly 6ft 5in [viz., 195 cm] and Coleman jumped over my head, not once, but often. He did not leap sideways like an Olympic jumper, but straight up. And don’t forget he had to grab the ball when he got there and land safely.
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We should have insured his knees
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Well i saw Beach Boys with John Stamos on drums, so i can live with not seeing your list.
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Yes, I’ve heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he’d consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.
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He’d be handy in Ukraine right about now.
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Geoff Leek lived behind our next door neighbour, so l chatted with him a little when l was just a real little kid. At one stage he got me a swag of autographs, but being so little l didn’t value them enough and promptly lost them. He also had a black and tan Dachshund named Otto.
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You are a living legend and a national treasure @Captain_Jack
Pity about the autograph book though.
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AFL listed