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2003 ROUND 13 - Page 2

Knobel prize for quick recovery
Grant Thomas: "With Knobel and Thompson, they are injuries that will take a fair degree of mental toughness to ensure they're going to be right for that first contest. I think we know enough about Andrew Thompson to know he won't shirk the issue, so Trent really must have a level of confidence to know he's right as well." - (Great Photo of Grant Thomas and Trent Knobel included with this article - Photo: Colleen Petch).
» More - Michael Horan - HeraldSun -26Jun03
» Quick return to action for Knobel - Jordan Chong - saints.com.au - 26Jun03

Knobel return imminent: Thomas
Grant Thomas: "He feels he's ready. He's basically had medical clearance. He's always felt right, it's just the medical side of it has had to be cleared before we have allowed him to do anything. He quite frankly couldn't understand what all the fuss has been about . . . He'll see the specialist and if they say, 'Leave it another week', we'll leave it another week. But it's imminent, put it that way."
» More - Chloe Saltau & Peter Ker - The Age RealFooty - 26Jun03

Footy is booming
In a marketplace in which competition from other sports and forms of entertainment has never been tougher, the key indicators for AFL football remain solid and in some cases buoyant, with increases in crowds, TV and radio audiences, Internet traffic and Auskick registrations. Areas for concern would be reduced figures for AFL membership and crowds for selects clubs, such as Essendon and the Western Bulldogs.
» More - Ashley Browne - afl.com.au - 23Jun03
» Top five TV games - 2003 - afl.com.au - 23Jun03

Not time to pillage Demons
The great David Neitz storm has finally blown over. The Melbourne captain has a poor sense of timing. In the week of the bye the media was looking for any story to fill the void. Enter, perhaps stagger, Neitz. Had it happened in between rounds two and three, the story would have come and gone within 48 hours. Tribunals, wonky knees, financial disasters would have taken its place.
» More - Patrick Smith - afl.com.au - 23Jun03

To the 7th-placed team goes the spoils
"We're just enormously disappointed we haven't been able to get what we regard is a sense of fairness into this consideration given the enormity of the excess games we've played at the MCG in the last 10 years' above the agreed limit," Jackson told a media conference at AFL House.
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» More - Barry Levinson - afl.com.au - 23Jun03

Non-Vic clubs in dismay
The elimination final between sixth and seventh in week one will be played at the MCG, regardless of whether it is between two non-Victorian clubs or whether the sixth-placed club is a non-Victorian club. This raises the possibility that a seventh-placed Victorian club could play every week of the finals at home, each time meeting a non-Victorian club with a nominal right to host the game.
» More - Len Johnson - TheAge RealFooty - 25Jun03

League and MCC joust over finals
The AFL said it poured millions of dollars into the MCG. The MCC said this was not just about money, but values. The AFL said it was the MCC's best partner. It said it had offered the MCC the world. The MCC said it had been offered everything except a solution. And on it went. In truth, this is not a battle about finals, but territory. Between the MCC at the MCG and the AFL at Telstra Dome, there is still no middle ground.
» More - Greg Baum - TheAge RealFooty - 25Jun03

Chase our dreams!
AwayInUSA: I have faith that our leaders will have a real crack at getting R. Clarke and Judd . . . Give me the choice to fight for Judd, Salopek and R. Clarke . . . I would love to see a team with the following young guns in our side: Ball, Baker, Black (on a reduced deal), Brooks, X. Clarke, R. Clarke, Dal Santo, Goddard, Hayes, Judd, Koschitzke, Maguire, Milne, Montagna, Murray, Penny, Riewoldt, Salopek.
» Forum Thread - Saintsational Fan Forum
» Who we should target at the end of the year - Saintsational Fan Forum

Goddard head of the class in return
GT: "He'll never probably get the chance to play with his schoolmates again. Hopefully he will, but he was extremely excited and I was just rapt for him." - Goddard, who was the No. 1 pick in last year's AFL national draft and has played nine games this season for the Saints, kicked three goals and had about 20 first-half possessions as Caulfield Grammar beat Geelong College by 56 points.
» More - Grantley Bernard - HeraldSun - 24un03

Injuries: Fit Saints gain five-star rating
GT: "They should all be available for selection," He was referring to the handy quintet of Aaron Hamill (foot), Justin Koschitzke (ankle), Max Hudghton (hamstring), Andrew Thompson (groin) and Luke Ball (thigh), who missed the Round 12 loss to Port Adelaide in Launceston before the break. He said the Saints were also considering promoting young players Nick Dal Santo and Leigh Montagna after useful VFL form.
» All Team Injuries - Geoff Poulter and Shannon McRae - HeraldSun - 24Jun03

Short-term fix for Dome
Larger areas of turf will be replaced, and meshing at the soil base removed, in a bid to improve Telstra Dome's playing surface. The measures were outlined yesterday at the first meeting of the Telstra Dome working party, made up of stadium management, turf managers, the AFL and more than a dozen AFL players, including Carlton captain Brett Ratten, his Richmond counterpart Wayne Campbell and Hawthorn's Nick Holland. According to AFL Players Association chief executive Rob Kerr, the meeting defused some of the controversy surrounding the state of the stadium's surface that arose most recently after the St Kilda-Brisbane match there in round 11.
» More - Stephen Rielly - The Age RealFooty - 24Jun03

Draft age should be going up, not down
The possibility of raising the AFL draft age has struck a chord with those of us who regularly see in our sport medicine practices the disastrous consequences of pushing young bodies too hard, too early. One has only to look at the top draft picks of the recent seasons to examine the effect of the demands of AFL football on young bodies. Justin Koschitzke, the No. 1 pick in the 2000 draft, missed virtually the whole of last season with a stress fracture of his back. Luke Hodge, the 2001 No. 1, had a delayed start to the 2002 season due to osteitis pubis then struggled with an Achilles tendon problem. Luke Ball, the No. 2 pick, hardly played at all last year because of osteitis pubis while No. 3 pick Chris Judd had two shoulder reconstructions before commencing his AFL career with the Eagles.
» More - Peter Brukner - The Age RealFooty - 24Jun03

Footy is booming
In a marketplace in which competition from other sports and forms of entertainment has never been tougher, the key indicators for AFL football remain solid and in some cases buoyant, with increases in crowds, TV and radio audiences, Internet traffic and Auskick registrations. Areas for concern would be reduced figures for AFL membership and crowds for selects clubs, such as Essendon and the Western Bulldogs.
» More - Ashley Browne - afl.com.au - 23Jun03
» Top five TV games - 2003 - afl.com.au - 23Jun03

Not time to pillage Demons
The great David Neitz storm has finally blown over. The Melbourne captain has a poor sense of timing. In the week of the bye the media was looking for any story to fill the void. Enter, perhaps stagger, Neitz. Had it happened in between rounds two and three, the story would have come and gone within 48 hours. Tribunals, wonky knees, financial disasters would have taken its place.
» More - Patrick Smith - afl.com.au - 23Jun03

To the 7th-placed team goes the spoils
"We're just enormously disappointed we haven't been able to get what we regard is a sense of fairness into this consideration given the enormity of the excess games we've played at the MCG in the last 10 years' above the agreed limit," Jackson told a media conference at AFL House.
»
» More - Barry Levinson - afl.com.au - 23Jun03

Non-Vic clubs in dismay
The elimination final between sixth and seventh in week one will be played at the MCG, regardless of whether it is between two non-Victorian clubs or whether the sixth-placed club is a non-Victorian club. This raises the possibility that a seventh-placed Victorian club could play every week of the finals at home, each time meeting a non-Victorian club with a nominal right to host the game.
» More - Len Johnson - TheAge RealFooty - 25Jun03

League and MCC joust over finals
The AFL said it poured millions of dollars into the MCG. The MCC said this was not just about money, but values. The AFL said it was the MCC's best partner. It said it had offered the MCC the world. The MCC said it had been offered everything except a solution. And on it went. In truth, this is not a battle about finals, but territory. Between the MCC at the MCG and the AFL at Telstra Dome, there is still no middle ground.
» More - Greg Baum - TheAge RealFooty - 25Jun03

Chase our dreams!
AwayInUSA: I have faith that our leaders will have a real crack at getting R. Clarke and Judd . . . Give me the choice to fight for Judd, Salopek and R. Clarke . . . I would love to see a team with the following young guns in our side: Ball, Baker, Black (on a reduced deal), Brooks, X. Clarke, R. Clarke, Dal Santo, Goddard, Hayes, Judd, Koschitzke, Maguire, Milne, Montagna, Murray, Penny, Riewoldt, Salopek.
» Forum Thread - Saintsational Fan Forum
» Who we should target at the end of the year - Saintsational Fan Forum

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