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    Re: Forward Planning - The Age 1995

    I can still vividly remember being at training as a 13 year old - and the players finished skills training and returned to the rooms to do extra work (ie. some were doing sit ups, push ups, chin ups, medicine ball stuff) and we were able to just walk into the rooms and watch.

    I remember seeing Jako sit down on the floor, as if he was about to do sit ups with others, and all he ended up doing was laying down on his side and speaking to someone who wasn't a player. Gee he was fat for a footballer. Meanwhile, Libba started doing chin ups, and seemed to just keep going for ages and ages. He was incredible - but just needed a boost to get up to the bar!

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    Didn't Jako end up out on a fishing trawler off WA somewhere because he was a wanted man ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by FrediKanoute View Post
    I kind of agree. Wacko Jacko was a waste, but we got good service out of Campbell, Curley and West (he nearly won a PF off his own boot). Would taking 3 kids have done anything? we may not have dropped away after 1999/2000, but the reality is, not unlike 2010 we had run our course in those years. What was impressive is that we took a punt.....

    If we taken 3 kids, and the only name on that list that inspires any confidence in A. Thompson, there may not have been a '97.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Quote Originally Posted by KT31 View Post
    Didn't Jako end up out on a fishing trawler off WA somewhere because he was a wanted man ?
    Remember Jako pulling out of a game against us in the early 90's straining his back getting out of his car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    If we taken 3 kids, and the only name on that list that inspires any confidence in A. Thompson, there may not have been a '97.
    Groom did not much at Adelaide and had a short career before going back to W.A.
    But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1eyedog View Post
    Groom did not much at Adelaide and had a short career before going back to W.A.
    He enabled Adelaide to get Andrew McLeod.
    More of an In Bruges guy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by azabob View Post
    He enabled Adelaide to get Andrew McLeod.
    He did too.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Quote Originally Posted by Remi Moses View Post
    Remember Jako pulling out of a game against us in the early 90's straining his back getting out of his car.
    That was when he was still a gun (at Melbourne). He slipped a disc in the Western Oval car park.

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    Re: Forward Planning - The Age 1995

    With no footy to watch anyone who loves the draft might find this an interesting article.
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    Re: Forward Planning - The Age 1995

    Imagine blowing a pick 6 on like Jake Stringer in a live draft now.

    (I know we sorta did but at least he was 18 and good and not 25 and fat at the time)
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    Re: Forward Planning - The Age 1995

    Quote Originally Posted by mjp View Post
    I played football with both Jakovich's at South.

    One night, I gave Alan a ride home from training, and he was very excited to tell me that he had found some new runners, and pulled them out of his bag to show me.

    You know what is coming next - they were the runners I had bought that day (the club only gave us one pair / year!) and had put in my locker...

    Needless to say, he walked home to South Coogee.

    That's *!*!*!*!ing priceless.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    That's *!*!*!*!ing priceless.
    I'm not sure what is worse. The fact that he stole them in the first place, or that he was dumb enough to brag to the bloke he unknowlingly ripped off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    That's *!*!*!*!ing priceless.
    Its a story I'll never get sick of hearing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by comrade View Post
    I'm not sure what is worse. The fact that he stole them in the first place, or that he was dumb enough to brag to the bloke he unknowlingly ripped off.
    The stupid bragging I think. That really put the cherry on top.
    Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?


    I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite

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    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    Dunno about a train wreck. Todd Curley and Mark West were pretty good players in pretty good teams.
    Brad Wira also was a very handy trade that year.
    More of an In Bruges guy?

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