2015: what have we learned?

Hi all, best to you all for the festive season and for a safe and healthy 2016…

 

What Have We Learned?

 

  • Alastair Clarkson was worth the punt by Jason Dunstall. What a choice! Half the time taken by Leigh Matthews to get to 4 premierships! A truly amazing effort.

 

  • The AFL is way too image conscious #1: Jake Carlisle – a foolish moment but not worth delisting – a recruit too important to the young Saints team.

 

  • Plenty of AFL players can consider themselves unlucky to be delisted. Some desperately so..

 

  • Coles radio is a pisser…Richard Marx? Foreigner? Lou Bega Triple Play…Mambo No 5,6 & 7?

 

  • The AFL really needs independent umpires at all finals wherever they are played.

 

  • The sleeping giant of soccer “the world game” has truly risen. Cricket second fiddle in summer?

 

  • Plenty of players can consider themselves lucky to get a fresh start or a second chance

 

  • The AFL is way too image conscious #2: Dean Bailey – dead men tell no tales, nor get a second chance to restore their reputation.

 

  • Adam Goodes bowing out at the Sydney Swans’ B&F is a sad end to an illustrious career.

 

  • The AFL must allow the law to run its course #1: Majak Daw, #2 Dustin Martin – neither a good look for the AFL and its respect and responsibility programs but the law comes first!

 

  • The AFL will never be able to replicate the Superbowl pregame and mid-game entertainment. It’s a question of moolah and scale!

 

  • Billy Birmingham, aka the 12th Man, will be missed as much as Richie Benaud.

 

  • Essendon players, regardless of the CAS outcome, have been thru a 3 year living hell.

 

  • Nathan Fyfe might be lucky if he only misses two months. Back injuries are shockers.

 

  • John Worsfold has come to the Bombers at the right time. The Healer with the cultural reconstruction of the Eagles on his CV…yeah yeah jokes aside about him being a pharmacist.

 

  • Jason Holder has the toughest job in world cricket as captain of the young Windies. But the team’s treatment of respected Windies cricket journo Fazeer Mohammed is very poor.

 

  • James Hird’s biggest issue was and is and will always be his naivete. It’s a big shame but…

 

  • Delta Goodrem might have been born to try but she was also born to meow!

 

  • Carlton faces a massive rebuild but Brendan Bolton is the right man to lead the charge and young Jacob Weitering is ready willing and able as #1 Draft pick.

 

  • Time will tell whether the Cats’ impressive recruiting campaign bears immediate success.

 

  • Bucks has got a good list to work with but it won’t happen overnight. Patience Magpie fans!

 

  • If Richmond wins a final in 2016, then watch out! The team is good, the IP just needs bolstering.

 

  • Social media has some great aspects but the trolls have to out themselves. Just a disgrace to humanity. Cowardice might be defined in the year 2015 as such, along with sucker punches.

 

  • Hawk-turned-Dog Matt Suckling might prove himself to be the AFL recruit of 2016

 

  • Kim Kardashian always wanted to give birth to a Saint and now she has. Between St.Kilda and North, the KK-Kanye kids are #1 ticket holders and benefactors forever.

 

  • Brisbane will be the smokey of 2016, despite Lewis Taylor’s burgeoning spare parts business.

 

  • Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors have done well thus far but back-2-back not there yet.

 

Enjoy the break!

Cheers, Fearless

 

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