Great courage by Carlos and Fev had a responsibility to protect him. It's not like there was a pack of 15 players. Carlos could have backed into the mark easily if Fevola was willing to play the team role for a change.
Just because someone is labelled the "full forward" doesn't give them some God given right to own the forward line and take team mates out.
Fev is the first one to expect others to create space for him and block to enable him to take a grab.
Unfortunately for Fev, he has responsibilities too. The biggest problem is Fev was never big on taking responsibility.

We're too quick to criticise players for ducking their heads or pulling out of contests. I'm not his biggest fan but Carlos did something that requires a fair bit of ticker and he should be commended for it.

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I agree with Sydney, and for the record, Sydney is not a bias Setanta fan, and for Sydney to back Setanta...it must have been obvious what he saw.

IMO Setanta was in the zone to take the mark. He didn't run back with the flight, he took a few steps to sit under it and mark. He would have marked it (in the box seat) till Fev came along with the 2 backmen who were wearing him like a glove, which he didn't have to. Setanta had position and height advantage over Lovett Murray.

Whether Setanta was supposed to be there or not, the fact is that he was. Sometimes its your turn to go despite the team rules. What was Setanta suppose to do? Run out of the forwardline with the ball coming to him...and leave 3 defenders with Fev...with Fev having no one to jump onto? Yeah right. You see that's the problem with a one man forwardline.

What was the result of the Fev attack on the ball? No one got it and we had an injured player as a result. Fev should have worked out the probability of that result. Careless and negligent imo. Fev could have protected Setanta with a shepherd; he's done that many a time when he wasn't selfish. Setanta was just showing glimpses of consistency with his marking at the time too.

Oh, that's right, it was a one man forwardline. Glad to see the end of that era.

Good decision to trade Fev for many reasons both on and off field. I'd hate to have all this Fev attention on the CFC throughout the preseason and the beginning of the 2010 season. What would be the good of that?

Fev is not our problem anymore. Chapter closed. Well done Swanny.

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If you get in the way of the full forward, you either take the mark or accept responsibility when you @#$%&! up. It's simple. O'hAilpin wasn't crying about it like clueless supporters have been.

One man forwardline......And who's fault was that ???????

No need to play the blame game. Many coaches have tried but all have failed to get our forward line to function as a unit with fev in it. He is just that type of player. Someone who commands the ball everytime. Its not his fault. I just dont think we would win a flag with that type of player. So I feel the trade is good.

Wish you all the best Fev !

A man called Denis Pagan

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Too right. He was crazy trading McKernan back to North.

Nah but he was hurting like hell and right when he was starting to show some promise

Whitnal - Fisher - Ohalpin and I believe he took out Wiggins as well - all in the wrong we must clear the space for Bozo to put on his show - Lets See if Johhno Brown clears a path for him -

Fev missed the mark by the way so Its simple if your gunner take out one of your own take the mark it's that !@#$%& simple

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And Ratten !!!!!

You re writing history now are you Verbs - I think you will find Mckernan requested to be traded once Pagan arrived

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Ratten is to blame for trading Kennedy for Judd and axing Whitnall.

A forward line of Fevola, McKernan, Kennedy and Whitnall would've been unstoppable.

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your starting to talk like Michael Voss now

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That's enough now thanks verbs, sydney, Mad, etc etc....


If you have all finished making comment about Swann's letter to the members (remember?....the subject of this thread?) then please move elsewhere.

Ididn'tgettaletter.........!


kindest regards tommi

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that'siti'mnotchangingthistagain......!

I'm not sure the Saints will be able to replicate their "10 goal benchmark", just as the Hawks were unable to maintain their zone from the previous year.

Every time a new tactic is introduced by a club the other clubs take a little while to figure out how to counter that tactic.

My $ would be on more teams finding a way to increase their scoring against the Aints next year.

At the end of '79 we parted ways with another 25.

One crap year followed by two flags.

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A crap year then was finishing 4th. Different times, but we are in good shape.