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Re: Jong calls time
Originally Posted by
macca
Doing the long drive back from Sydney the morning after the prelim, to make it to Docklands just as the VFL GF started and then see Jongy play out of his skin with the wrong shoulder strapped was one of my all time favourite Dogs moments.
Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.
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Thanks Jongy. All the best for the future.
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What a great guy. Loved watching him in our colours. Too courageous for his own good.
"It's over. It's all over."
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Re: Jong calls time
Originally Posted by
Axe Man
Clay Smith and Lin Jong are remarkably similar. Both hard nuts and part of our 2016 squad that had their careers cut significantly short by injury. Plenty of love for both.
Who was the last one in to the 2016 team i.e. who replaced Lin? Was it Roberts? McLean?
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Re: Jong calls time
Originally Posted by
jazzadogs
Who was the last one in to the 2016 team i.e. who replaced Lin? Was it Roberts? McLean?
Not sure but Suckling was an omission later in the finals series with a leg injury.
Still think a fit Jong is in our best 22. Great mark for his size, especially down the line in a contest. Invaluable come Finals time, aside from his toughness.
More importantly, seems like a great person too. Hope Lin has left the Club as a better person then when he arrived, because he sure as hell made the Club better overall.
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Re: Jong calls time
Originally Posted by
WBFC4FFC
Not sure but Suckling was an omission later in the finals series with a leg injury.
Still think a fit Jong is in our best 22. Great mark for his size, especially down the line in a contest. Invaluable come Finals time, aside from his toughness.
More importantly, seems like a great person too. Hope Lin has left the Club as a better person then when he arrived, because he sure as hell made the Club better overall.
When he arrived he was an 18 year old kid, just finished year 12 and we rookied him. He was on our table at the season launch and he was a shy bloke, but I could tell he was a nice bloke as well.
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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Re: Jong calls time
Originally Posted by
jazzadogs
Who was the last one in to the 2016 team i.e. who replaced Lin? Was it Roberts? McLean?
I think it went Jong to McLean for the hawks and then Suckling to Roberts for GWS. No change for the grand final.
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I haven’t forgotten some of you wanted Biggs dropped for Suckling just saying.
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Re: Jong calls time
Originally Posted by
Happy Days
I haven’t forgotten some of you wanted Biggs dropped for Suckling just saying.
Wasn't Suckling injured? Achilles from memory.
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Re: Jong calls time
Originally Posted by
Axe Man
Wasn't Suckling injured? Achilles from memory.
He put his hand up for the Grand final, but he missed the prelim with injury.
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All the best Jongo.
Still my favourite East Timorise/Taiwanese player ever.
R.I.P.
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Originally Posted by
Happy Days
I haven’t forgotten some of you wanted Biggs dropped for Suckling just saying.
Now you're making things up. Nobody in their right mind would want this.
"It's over. It's all over."
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Never quite got the continuity he needed.
All the best for the future Jongy and well done on persisting for so long.
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Originally Posted by
EasternWest
Now you're making things up. Nobody in their right mind would want this.
Wasn't that you?
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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Re: Jong calls time
Originally Posted by
bornadog
Wasn't that you?
I'd pick you ahead of Suckling.
"It's over. It's all over."
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