Mongrel!

[magpie24]

Me thinks Rupe has also got a bit of Kellyness in him!

[Proud Pies]

do we really want 'mongrels'? All the names you've mentioned from other teams as 'mongrels' i see as filthy players, those with dirty tricks, who prefer to go the man rather than the ball...i certainly wouldn't want our boys tarnished with the same brush. I honestly never hear anyone say of our players .....oh he's a dirty b**stard, what a mongrel....and i'm happy that they don't. And if that's seen as them being professional, then i prefer that to having them called 'dirty b*rstards' anyday

[Cam]

we don't need mongrels, we need players who are brutal on the guy with the ball. we have those already. i think brisbane expected us to come out like the grand final, when burnsy laid 11 tackles and the team laid 73, the first quarter or so they wussed it expecting us to be charging them down. when they realised we weren't in that kind of mood + our misses in front of goal, they relaxed and played their normal ball. Last night Bucks, Tazz, Rhyce, Williams & Woey did not lay one tackle between them. Freeborn, Stunner, BennyJ & Cloke only laid one each. Thats 4 tackles between 9 of our players - that's why we lost, ball pressure (i know bucks got lots of possies, but last year Bucks laid 99 tackles for the year about 4 a game - our best, stunner got a few hitouts and tazz had a fantastic game other than that) Burnsy & Licka laid 9 between the two of them. For the Lions Voss, Lappin & Black had 17 between the three, Mcrae, Johnson, & Brad Scott also had 4 each. The way you stifle the lions is through tackles, if you don't lay them, they get going. To beat them yes we need to kick straight, but we also need to belt them up like we did in the grand final. (at gabba 40 tackles, compared to 73 in the gf) (against the cats we laid 50, against the blues 50, against the tigers 45).

As we tackle, as we win.

[JLC]

Id rather have players who go hard at the ball than mongrels. It takes way more courage to hit the ball hard like Voss, Licuria, Burns, Archer and players of that ilk than wannabe thugs like Dean Wallis or Lynch who are only good at taking cheap shots.

jlc