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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
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| thompsoc wrote: | | Bruce Gonsalves wrote: | | I was pretty quiet throughout the game watching from home, but when Liam took that mark, I spontaneously yelled out 'Billy', geeze it was a carbon copy mark. |
I did exactly the same. |
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Mountains Magpie
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| stui magpie wrote: | | thompsoc wrote: | | Bruce Gonsalves wrote: | | I was pretty quiet throughout the game watching from home, but when Liam took that mark, I spontaneously yelled out 'Billy', geeze it was a carbon copy mark. |
I did exactly the same. |
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So happy for Liam. Did not see Billy singled out in the crowd today. Superstition? As happy also for Bevo. What a wonderful story all round😀
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Piesnchess
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He should be with us, that's the hard part to accept. sigh.
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Dave The Man 
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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| Presti35 wrote: | | Well I mentioned it on FB and had to delete the comment because of the attack, but yeah, Im really happy for Billy. His son did him proud. |
There are too many Dickheads on Facebook 
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Presti35 
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| Dave The Man wrote: | | Presti35 wrote: | | Well I mentioned it on FB and had to delete the comment because of the attack, but yeah, Im really happy for Billy. His son did him proud. |
There are too many Dickheads on Facebook |
On my own wall too. I swear Im not an arsehole supporter. You just mention the C word I guess and people lose their minds.
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Doc63
Joined: 06 May 2004
Location: Newport
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| Presti35 wrote: | | Dave The Man wrote: | | Presti35 wrote: | | Well I mentioned it on FB and had to delete the comment because of the attack, but yeah, Im really happy for Billy. His son did him proud. |
There are too many Dickheads on Facebook |
On my own wall too. I swear Im not an arsehole supporter. You just mention the C word I guess and people lose their minds. |
You mentioned Carlton?
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Presti35
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| Piesnchess wrote: | | He should be with us, that's the hard part to accept. sigh. |
This is true. When he took that mark, I just thought what we all thought. That was Billy. He should be in B&W.
Why did he end up elsewhere? I've heard different variations.
*His parents didnt want him to play under the burden of the B&W jumper. So the F-S nomination was not taken.
*We simply didnt take him and another club did a season later.
What happened, did we F it up or did he or his folks want him to play somewhere else?
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Coxie29
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| stui magpie wrote: | Geez guys, he only got rookie listed by the Dogs because Williamstown VFL club offered to pay half his salary if they picked him up. He's pushing 30 and has been a journeyman grunt tagger for most of his career, he's only really come good this last year.
As much as I've loved watching him this season (and I really really have), if we had picked him up father son, he would have been delisted 8 years ago .
Lets not reinvent history, just give credit to a bloke who never gave up, got the absolute best out of himself and played a bloody good game in a premiership team. |
Cracking post, spot on
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| Magpie Jack wrote: | | Great game by Picken Jnr. That's one that got away. Wonder why he doesn't wear 25? |
He wears 42 because Millane was his favourite player.
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Dr Pie
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We didn't pick Liam because at 18 (or even 21) he wasn't the brilliant footballer that his Dad was at the same age. Also he was quite a bit smaller than his Dad. What our recruiter (who was probably Judson at that time) didn't take into account was that he had the same attitude and work ethic as Billy. I have never forgotten that in all those Grand Finals we lost between 1977 and 1981 Billy was always amongst our best players. In the debacle of 1980 he was possibly the only player to contribute in all four quarters. Liam showed the same sort of endeavour yesterday afternoon. We should have drafted him when he first came up as F/S choice
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Tezza23
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I'm surprised that we didn't draft him because he embodies the three attributes most common in our current playing list
a) can't kick
b) lacks pace
c) has a great work ethic |
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BazBoy
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Son of a Collingwood great and Grandson of The Machine
All good things but not for us
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RudeBoy
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| I'm sure I heard "look out, here comes Billy" when Liam Picken launched himself and took that Billyesque screamer in the last quarter. It was a great moment. |
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SHADOWS
Joined: 02 Oct 2016
Location: Caulfield
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[quote="Coxie29"] | stui magpie wrote: | Geez guys, he only got rookie listed by the Dogs because Williamstown VFL club offered to pay half his salary if they picked him up. He's pushing 30 and has been a journeyman grunt tagger for most of his career, he's only really come good this last year.
As much as I've loved watching him this season (and I really really have), if we had picked him up father son, he would have been delisted 8 years ago .
Lets not reinvent history, just give credit to a bloke who never gave up, got the absolute best out of himself and played a bloody good game in a premiership team. |
Cracking post, spot on[/quote
X2, The blokes 31 next year |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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| RudeBoy wrote: | | I'm sure I heard "look out, here comes Billy" when Liam Picken launched himself and took that Billyesque screamer in the last quarter. It was a great moment. |
You heard me yell that at the TV? 
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