Dad's Army the Handbaggers have turned CheatsFC from the AFL Media's flag boosting favourites into Fubar in just a 1/2 of football!

CheatsFC have gone from Cherry Ripe to Rotten to the Core in the blink of an eye! ;D

I'm half tempted to turn it on just to watch a puddle of dreams developing right before my eyes!

March 17th is now officially called "St Patrick Cripps Day"...!!

Going OK at the moment.

92 -16 at half time

GOALS: Motlop 3, Philp 3, Boyd 2, Cripps 2, Carroll, Crocker, Fogarty, Kemp, Newnes.

Another Thursday night game, this one at Marvel at 1920, against last year's runner ups.
We have actually payed reasonably well against the Dogs in recent times.

Please use this thread when the game is done and dusted.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm never happy until the siren sounds, hence the angst. I'll be at the game on Thursday, so have fun with this thread.
Car'n the Blues!

Voting is as usual: you have 15 votes to award pretty much as you will, with the following provisos:
[1] 15 votes in total, no more, no less.
[2] No more than 10 votes for any one player (even Sam Walsh or Patrick Cripps)
[3] Three players at least must get a mention.
[4] A grade for the game, A+ (what I want to see) to F-.

Someone has to play well.

Greetings, ladies, gentlemen and others,
It is that time again. This Thursday the seasons begins and we try to defeat Richard.
However, this Thursday also sees the beginning of voting for the Jim Park Award for 2022. We're pretty good with our selections, going from how they correlate to how are players are rated. Not perfect, but we do a pretty good measure. Anyway, voting will begin again this Thursday. Please reward the players who deserve it.

Last game for the year, not quite the result we wanted, but plenty of girls deserve recognition.

Who is the best 3, 2, 1 this week?

Soon all the pre season hype, optimism, concerns and worries will deliver some insights. Only a first game in a long season of on-going development under a new coaching group, led by Vossy, but a game in which we hopefully get a good look at the 'New Blues' - players, coaches and game plan/attitude. Hopefully we begin the year with a win. Be a nice change.

Optimism.
Loved the team defense approach, bold ball movement and discipline of the pre season games against good opposition. Intensity was there and we just kept coming - persistence. Yummy.
Impressed by the Gov. Rolled into contests to spoil, delivery by foot was important and dangerous and high footy IQ was on display.
Impressed by our small forwards and forward half defensive pressure.
Crippa, Hewitt, Cerra and Kennedy as a midfield group (and soon, Walshy added to that group).
LOB improvement.
Running half backs.

Concerns.
In game lapses... allowing opposition to kick multiple, unanswered goals (though mitigated, particularly in the D's game by 2nd half personnel changes) i.e ability to deliver 4 qtr pressure/handle effectively the opposition when they've got the 'run of play' and apply strong pressure to our game plan (in the past, we had no answer and would wilt/go into our shells).
Injury prone players - we've a few too many of those.

Your excitements, interests, thoughts and concerns?