Barking Dockers 2004

The West Coast Eagle "Goose" of the Week

 

Goose of the week...

The West Coast Eagle "Goose" of the week goes to the biggest dork in the football world of the previous week. In typical Wet Toast fashion, each winner needs to display characteristics of utter foolishness, rank stupidity or spineless cowardice to win this hotly contested award.

The Winner this week is: Byron Schammer! In what must be one of the worst games in living memory by a Freo player (and that is saying something) Schammer, who has been a pretty good player so far this year, had an absolute shocker. It wasn't that he couldn't get the ball, or that he kept missing targets, its just that his targets were either playing for the other team or were Dockers with Kangaroos right on their hammer. The Kangaroos couldn't have got better value out of Schammer if they had paid him on the sly. Lets hope Lord Byron can put the shocker out of his mind and cut the Lions up like he so famously has done in the past.

The Winner last week was: Byron Pickett! This man is officially a gutless wonder. He only enjoys lining people up when they cant see him coming. I hope he feels good about Crowley's fractured cheekbone and ribs. It's one thing to be tough at the contest, its another to go out to injure and main unnecessarily. The fact he escaped sanction by the AFL is a disgrace.

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Round 8: Byron Schammer! In what must be one of the worst games in living memory by a Freo player (and that is saying something) Schammer, who has been a pretty good player so far this year, had an absolute shocker. It wasn't that he couldn't get the ball, or that he kept missing targets, its just that his targets were either playing for the other team or were Dockers with Kangaroos right on their hammer. The Kangaroos couldn't have got better value out of Schammer if they had paid him on the sly. Lets hope Lord Byron can put the shocker out of his mind and cut the Lions up like he so famously has done in the past.

Round 7: Byron Pickett! This man is officially a gutless wonder. He only enjoys lining people up when they cant see him coming. I hope he feels good about Crowley's fractured cheekbone and ribs. It's one thing to be tough at the contest, its another to go out to injure and main unnecessarily. The fact he escaped sanction by the AFL is a disgrace.

Round 6: Booing and Spitting Freo Fans! Enough has been said of this already but giving Eagles fans the ammunition required to take the attention away from a stirring victory over the old enemy is an unforgiving offence, and all merely minutes after the game was over! We didn't even have a day to bask in the glory! Instead of the media giving us a week of good news treatment, all that is talked about is the booing of the decision to award Judd with a meaningless medallion. I'm sorry but a medal judged by 3 dickheads who claim to know something about football and only one genuine champion ex player isn't worth a pinch of shit and needn't have spawned the wrath of the lowest common denominator of Freo's faithful. Lift your game or people will turn away from both the club and the game as a whole.

Round 5: Max the Timekeeper! We could blame the AFL and Demtriou, but we already know they are useless, we could blame the umpires, but we take for granted they are blind, deaf and dumb. The reason the timekeeper is the goose of the week, is because we have higher expectations of him and is therefore held to a higher standard. The fact the pitifully inadequate siren wasn't sounded constantly until heard by an officiating umpire is an error which contributed to the craziness which ensued all week.

Round 4: Alistair Clarkson! Although his coaching is seeing less harsh scrutiny than what he is used to. Walking away from the line up before the last post and minute silence was finished just higlights how dumb this bloke is. I blame stupidity because he doesn't strike me as a guy who would be deliberately disrespectful. Better luck next time Alistair.

Round 3: Chad Cornes! He didn't do anything to annoy me or other Dockers fans in the last game against Freo but he is such a goose that I couldn't help but nominate him. He and Port as a whole have a history against this team and it was good to see us expose them for what they are, a team in definite decline.

Round 2: Whoever gave the Freo team the revv up speech at half time! It may have been CC, it may have been Mark Harvey, it may even have been Stan the Janitor; but whoever it was is an absolute goose because the team that came out breathing fire in the first half magically turned into football dunces, fumbling and sputtering their way to a 15 point win over cellar dwellers Carlton.

Round 1: AFL Schedulers! Whoever keeps scheduling Freo to play in Launceston needs to stop it right now! While it is no excuse for the shocking display against Hawthorn, 2 plane trips and a bus ride to Hicksville Tasmania is not something any team should have to do every year. To make matters worse, the Schedulers have made us return there in round 5 against the Saints. What an absolute joke!

2004 Results