Stand by for the human interest stories that accompany the return of Mark Coughlan to the AFL. You know the ones about the 'different' afl footballers who read, write poetry, listen to alternative music (jet...) and fight for human rights.
"Premierships are worth their weight in gold" says Coughlan.
Hmmmm.... Firstly, a premiership is not tangible item, so it cannot be weighed, as far as I know (though a premiership cup is...). And even if he meant the cup, it would have to be a very heavy cup. Otherwise I think a premiership would
raise much more money for the club than the weight of the premiership
cup in gold. After 17 years out of the game (that shower slip was costly), I thought Coggs would have studied up on some semi-logical answers to media questions.
Oh... Actually he has.
"I know it's only January, but we were the second or third best-performed side in the second half of last year and if we can take that into the first half of this year, we'll have every chance of playing finals"
It's January...nothing means anything.....
Richmond were indeed the second best performed side during the second half of last season, behind only Geelong. But after numerous 9th place finishes Coggs must know that finishing well one season means absolutely ....... come round 1 the year after.
"I haven't played finals in 8 years."
May as well go down to Ballarat and mine for it...
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