It’s just one of those days!
I’m well and truly old enough to remember Geoff Blethyn and I don’t see McMahon as being anything like as good. I hope I’m wrong though.
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Geoff was a great player. He was amazing the way he could leap over packs for his screamers - quite often arrived before or after the ball but that didn’t matter. He also played in a pretty brutal age and really wasn’t built for that kind of combat but managed to negotiate hard as nails defenders week after week. I was a boarder at a Melbourne school at the time and hated the incarceration. To escape to Windy Hill on a Saturday and to stand among the crowd (on piled beer cans to be able to see) and watch over time the likes of Geoff, Ronnie Andrews, Neville Fields and Graeme Moss kept me sane for another week behind the walls.
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I couldn’t even remember that guy played for us at the time, let alone in 2025.
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I thought he was talking about a Lord Of The Rings character.
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The worse the player is, the more likely it is that I remember them.
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Maybe we can finally get danny chartres a game
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I’m holding you responsible for this when it eventually pops into Brad’s head (mind you he’d be better at it than Jones)
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Is he though?
Its an amazing achievement despite Essendon’s woes. Hats off to the kid, he has worked his backside off and is getting rewarded. To think otherwise is just petty.
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Are you wanting to stain the AfL debut he’s making with Essendon Football Club?
He was simply my favourite player at that time, and along with Simon Madden and James Hird were the players I’ve enjoyed watching the most over my lifetime.
@SnappyTom we were lucky to have grown up to see some great Essendon sides, but also some long, ordinary seasons. I was there somewhere near you no doubt, standing on empty beer cans at Windy Hill I feel for the young supporters today who have endured our latest lean era. I hope they hang in there and are rewarded like we were.
Go well on Thursday Liam. Give us all something to cheer about.
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He might be, if he could hold his marks as well as Jones does.
Sounds like Danny is too busy filling our pipeline over in the west of potential Rosa specials
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Young fella might end up starting in the midfield the way things are going.
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Hasn’t he talked about Caddy doing BBM minutes previously?
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Welcome to the party pal
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I was sure his name was Sam Gimli and thinking who is this this Sam Grimley guy everybody keeps mentioning.
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With that form line, surely he has earned a debut on merit alone, without requiring half the team to be injured to enable it.
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