They are not giving him 3 years..... Please say it isnt true...

Acland had a season high of 18 hitouts for an average of 10.7.

Can we sponsor him?

What the f*ck is going on?

wow....

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Ackland to Ackland


what do we compare everyone to Big Nick's height and assume they are tall?


Sandilands v Ackland - yep got that game in the bag!

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Archie Fraser confirmed on SEN.....cant believe it....Stkilda are looking for a ruckman becuase the ones they have are no good so they get Gardiner..in turn we pick one of their ones who are no good....
Another retred to delist in three years......what is going on...is there anyone with any brains in any area of the club.?...
195cm ruckman...smaller than Mclaren.....how is Ackland any better than Mclaren..? Saints had to use Rix because Ackland couldnt cut it....

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"When you have the attitude of a champion, you see adversity as your
training partner."
- Conor Gillen

Welcome to Carlton Cain!

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"We used to sit around and talk about how bad the game plan was." Anthony Koutoufides

What a let down...

We can't have 4 ordinary rucks on the list. Bryan would be unlikely to get another contract now. We want Aisake to be third in line next year, play as first ruck for the Ants. How is that going to work? Who knows what they're thinking.

Best upside I can find is you'd think we're zero chance to pick up Cameron Cloke now... gotta be happy about that?

errr - it's true

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Is Ackland captain material?

i wonder why he walked out on the saints to come to us....maybe coz of the 3 year thing.....if he stayed with the saints maybe he was thinking he wouldnt last that long.....well he knows he has to prove himself....i dont mind him...still not #1 in the psd though.

flowers sake! St Kilda is in need of good ruckmen so we take theirs?

Akland couldn't get a game at St Kilda - so we pick him up???

Come to think of it, most of our current players couldn't get a game at St Kilda either...he'll fit in fine!!

(ducks...)

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"...that's the thing about opinion - you don't have to know anything to have one..." Andre Agassi commenting on Pat Cash 2004
"...the less you know - the more you believe..." - Bono 2006

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Why commit to him so early?
He's a spud.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

So he can train with us I presume.....and i thought it couldnt get worse...

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"When you have the attitude of a champion, you see adversity as your
training partner."
- Conor Gillen

3 god damned years as well? If thats true?

I think this is about it for me as far as the people running the club are concerned. Just re-hashing the same stupid idea shows they dont have the answers.

Who made the decision..Hughes or Pagan?....I'm tipping Denis...whats next one of the Clokes?

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"When you have the attitude of a champion, you see adversity as your
training partner."
- Conor Gillen

He'll be our number 1 ruck at this point in time but we better draft one for the future too.
As Dannyboy pointed out not long ago it's no coincidence that the dominating interstate sides all have strong rucks.

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"We used to sit around and talk about how bad the game plan was." Anthony Koutoufides

Pick up a short dud ruckman every year in the PSD - what a plan. I'd rather pick up Krusty the Clown in the PSD, it would at least be less frustrating.

3 years. That's a looooooooooooooong time.

De luca
Bryan
McLaren
Ackland

4 shit ruckmen - now that's list management boys. Watch the experts and learn. If one of those aren;t delisted in the next few days now, there should be a revolt.

Just on all these purported board challenges and white knights. STOP BEING WIMPS AND CHALLENGE NOW. EVERY DAY THIS GOES ON THE PIT WE'RE IN GETS DEEPER. WHAT THE RUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

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They will know that they've been playing against the famous old dark blues

Err... Okay...

Someone obviously heard about our famous Mosquito Fleet, and decided it extended to ruckmen, too...

But the most important question is... Will he wear the traditional "I'm-a-ruckman-but-not-an-especially-good-one" number 11?