It's been another year of Cat stars putting their best foot forward, and then jamming it straight into their mouths. From the drama of Korey Fulton aging so quickly to the B&F results.
"I feel today like a young boy that has a toy in his hand and just enjoys himself."
Korey Fulton on his second retirement.
"As you saw today, he took me to the umpteenth level. He clearly hasn't lost a step at all since he's been gone. So I feel like I played a girl who's been on steroids for the past five years without a break."
Squizz after defeating Darin Stewart in the beep final.
"It just happened, he probably thought he was eating an apple, you know."
Cats coach, Adrian Smith gives his take on why Ben Walters bit into the ball during a one-day game against the Broadbeach-Robina CC.
"There is no team in the world that doesn't tamper with the ball, but my approach was wrong."
Ben Walters
"I feel that he has not carried the same stature as the other great players . . . I think he needs to clean up his act there and show the respect for the game that the people before him have shown."
Former great Ash Palmer voices his opinion on Warwick Fenner's on-field demeanour.
"It's absolutely unbelievable. This is the reason why I've always wanted to come to the Cats. It's no secret over the years I've been a Cat fan."
Cat signing Ryan Pantic, less than two years after moving to Redlands and claiming he'd always been a Bombers fan.
"When I last saw her she asked me to explain the “holding the balls” rule. I said that the first thing she needed to know was that it was called ‘holding the ball."
Nathan Quick on interest shown by Laraine Sheers.
"You've got the coach, most senior players and CEOs coming out saying, ‘Yeah, we want him at our club', but it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen making decisions on your career."
Cat signing Jarran Pantic reflects on his long search for a new QAFL club.
"They send one of their best sheriffs to put law into town — and he does whatever he needs to do and it is quiet."
Magoos coach Jason Chandler on umpire McKenzie awarding a free against his team.
"The best player in Australia, male or female, at the moment."
Club Development Manager Bob Walters on Nathan Ablett.
"I could have been buried somewhere. I love scoring goals, but whenever I do now, I say, ‘Yes, you are scoring goals, [but] you could be in a coffin now, you could be in paradise' — I don't know, it's very hard."
Cookie who survived a dog attack prior to the under 21 rep game.
"Where the bloody hell are you, Skrinna?"
Banner held by Southport fans at Fankhauser Reserve after Dan returned to Broadbeach to deal with his crumbling relationship with Laura Bingle.
"I don't really want to be playing second division. You have to have a boxing license down there, so it's not the best sort of footy."
Bart Webster on the possibility playing in the Magoos
"Life is much bigger than just sport. It's about sharing my story of second chances and how that might help some other people in their lives."
Victoria Bitter addict Matt Fife on signing to take on the Coast Ironman
"God forbid, may it never happen because of what we're doing here. But if you had a case of any systematic drinking, you would think about sacking players, absolutely.”
Club football operations manager Geoff Bower on the plan to freeze breathalyser-testing samples for eight years.
"In my opinion, Rhino has no moral code for what he did to Azza. In my neighbourhood, if you do that, you lose your legs, or more. You don't survive."
Simon Russell on Ryan Dienjes who had an affair with the ex-partner of teammate Aaron Rolfe, with whom she had a child.
"It's coming off my bald patch and that's helping me score."
Cat striker Hamish Dick on the key to his streak of head-assisted goals.
"I'll have the tight shorts on. I've only put on seven kilograms so I'm looking all right. I'm 78, but everyone says I look 33."
Boccy on pulling on the white boots again to play for Southport
"[It got me] right in the nuts."
Lachlan Treacher after crashing into a gate watching the visually impaired men's downhill at the Vancouver Paralympics.
"‘I'm not going to name them, but I think we'll have at least six captains."
Assistant coach Bulldog confident of securing a fair line-up for the Magoos.
"Ask Norm Dare to come back and play."
Cat’s Josh Searl advice for Southport after his team completed a practice series whitewash.
"We don't go to the MCG on the weekend and pull down the Jim Stynes room and call it the Paul Rolfe room."
El presidente Rolfey on Essendon's plan to temporarily rename the Coventry end of Etihad Stadium the Lloyd end.
"I see a different face and the eyes of Taylor (Haley) have changed."
Board member Derek Clough predicts good things for Taylor Haley in this year's season after spelling issues in 2009.
"What I did was silly and I want to apologise for it."
Ruckman Adam Oehlman after he was caught by police doing a burnout leaving the clubrooms.
"It pisses me off coming back here. It's a great country but we've got to be responsible for our actions and it's certainly a bloody nanny state when it comes to what we can do."
Fenner after Oehlman's run-in with the law.
"He got held at knife point in court and gave a fake hand to the left and a short jab with the right and he [the witness] was down on the deck, so I know he can handle himself."
Board member Mark Frawley admires more about forward Fitzy than his football, after observing a Moot Court at Bond Uni.
"You're living a life where you are lying all the time. I wasn't having any fun. Now I have stopped all that and it's fun again."
Ryan Clough after overcoming his personal problems and marking his return to Merrimac.
"He is the best player in the world, by a distance . . . he's like a PlayStation player."
Marty King on Tinka, after the skipper scored twelve goals against the Maggies.
"You can't please these players, they are a bunch of lazy people who won't do anything to help the sport, except for two or three. A lot of players are prima donnas. They are never happy."
BB Cats board member Simon McKormick on players complaining about the light at Merrimac.
"We don't want to crucify him because he's been doing such a good job for us for a long time. As you can imagine, he's not feeling really flash at the moment."
Ken Skrinis defends Club Director of Facilities, Dale Perkins, after the square for the goals was found to be one metre short
"If someone had the balls to stand up and say, ‘Jacko, enough's enough, go to bed', none of that would have happened."
Scorpions captain Joel Wilkinson on the suspension of Jackson Emblem and three other players for a late-night incident.
"Anyone who has any doubt about the importance of the common good should study one of history's greatest figures, Winston Churchill. There were times when his public pronouncements bore little resemblance to what was actually taking place, but he did it for the greater good."
David Glossip explaining his way out of why he denied abusing Labrador players at quarter time.
"I have a gambling issue and I want to knock it on the head."
QAFL bad boy Liam Frawley.
"Nate Lyons, you suck. God damn it."
Nathan Lyons yelling at himself after a poor shot at goal.
"This is not cheating around the edges; this club has had a couple of rats in its ranks and it's my intention to root them out so they can try and rebuild the club."
Richard Griffith, criticizing Southport, after the salary cap bombshell.
"They had a long-term system of effectively a gazillion sets of rotations and the elaborate lengths they have gone through to cover this up has been extraordinary."
Supporters.
"To know that I've tested positive as a result of a product that I used for personal reasons is extremely difficult to wrap my hands around."
Glenn Ryan, who was suspended after testing positive to an anabolic steroid contained in a penis-enlargement product.
"I thought I saw movement."
Tom Clough on his decision to call a two-shot penalty on Derek Clough in a play-off for the Club Howard Open Classic.
"I'm absolutely stunned to have done this. I hit the ball 10 times better last week. My putting was absolutely amazing. Last week I putted like Stevie Wonder, and this week I putted like Brad Faxon."
Tom Clough after his out-of-the-blue success at the Club Howard Open Classic
"I am prepared to give the entire background to Brendan Howard so that he has a full understanding of how the club has managed a $66,666 loss in 2009.”
Former club treasurer Trevor Sheppard takes his first shot at Brian Rowe.
"Don't start me on them. I think they're a bunch of misfits . . . I think they are a blight on the game."
Umpire Adviser John McKenzie
"I just shat in my pants a little bit, sorry for the language but that's how I felt."
Darin Stewart, on how far up he got to take that grab in Darwin.
"It's a bit like in Happy Days when the Fonz isn't around, you know, and Ralph Malph and Potsie Webber can sort of keep it going for so long."
Coach Smithy on coping without injured key players.
"Given we're a high-dollar industry now . . . and half the games could potentially be impacted, it might well be a large number."
Club marketing chief David Fitzgerald on how much compensation the club might receive if Karmichael Hunt doesn’t play a game at Merrimac in 2011
"He takes catches very easily, it's like he's taking the piss."
Andrea Rolfe on Jackson Rolfe.
"Well, that was dumb . . . I was celebrating the goal and jumping around and lost my bearings and went over the fence."
Supporter Dave Moran after falling five metres over a barrier from the Southport club and copping a concussion and broken nose
"I have told Dave Moran that he needs to wear a neck brace and a parachute."
Dale Perkin’s instructions to Dave.
"I was someone who didn't like a wet day and didn't know how to move, and was very impatient."
Nick O’Hare on competing at Northcliffe.
"Jackson [Emblem] will be ready, Jacko will be at training on Thursday — everybody happy now? What is it about Jacko? Who cares about Jacko? It's the only thing you bar flies are talking about for the last 10 days."
Coach Smithy gets a little tense about the interest in his injury-prone utility player.
"If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first 10 years."
Coach Smith responds to criticism of the loss to Southport
"Norm dare is 10 years out of the game. Two years is a long time in footy, 10 years is a lifetime."
Prior to interview with Labrador, ex coach Dennis Knight isn't sold on former Sharks coaching great Norm Dare appointed as coach of Southport.
"Now I can say my morale is reasonably high because I've discovered I have a great rapport with morphine!"
Congo after surgery on a broken ankle suffered in a practice match.
"Everyone that's seen it is saying, ‘OK, fair enough, it's a penalty 50m'. But was it deliberate? Of course not, I've never been that way inclined."
Tinka after the Vultures game away.
"Both of those games are now grand finals for us. After a game like the one against Gravatt you just want to get out there and try to put things right as soon as possible."
SUNs draftee Lewis Moss on Broady’s next two games following the disastrous home loss to Gravatt.
"We are very, very proud. You would have to say this is our best ever result. We have never picked up a soccer World Cup before and hope it never eventuates."
Adrian Demetriou
"I can cry like Tinka , it's just a shame I can't play like Tinka."
Jesse Derrick after losing to Tinka in the B&F
"It was a f---ing disaster"
Jesse Derrick and Dan Skrinnis in unison commenting on the Ones and Magoos B&F counts.
"This isn't communist China, these aren't government secrets. If they're saying I'm leaking stuff, I'm happy for them to say that, but tell me where the proof is."
Sacked Magoos player Trent Arthur who was accused of leaking club secrets to the website.
"The stakes are high in QAFL football and any player who is injured, who might miss games, has got a right to look at the basis for that injury."
Players' representative on the Board Taylor Haley suggesting legal action could be an option over the poor surface of Fankhauser Reserve.
"My mum used to threaten me with the wooden spoon, it didn't change my behaviour."
Cats coach Smith is not worried about the Pussy’s poor form.
"I carried him. I won all the games and he lost all the others for the Sharks"
Jason Cotter takes credit for all the wins Crowely racked up while they were together at the Sharks.
"It's not going straight, it's shanking. It's not missing by a metre or just not scraping in, it's missing by a huge margin, so it is a bit of a worry."
Paercy Baker on his goalkicking problems.
"He is incredibly metro and probably more the girl in the family than I am. I think if he can game-up and play against 100-kilogram ruckmen then I can have a crack."
Squiz has a cheap shot at little brother, Jackson, before the QAFL Women's Cup.
"Sadly, even the most beautiful love stories come to an end, but they leave marvellous memories."
Tauri Zimmer announcing he was leaving the Cats at the end of the season to join rivals Labrador.
"It never crossed my mind I was in a water hazard. That was one situation where I should have looked at the rule sheet a little harder."
Jackson Emblem after running his golf cart into a course lake, costing him a prize in the club golf tournament.
"I'm a coach - I'm not Harry Potter."
Magoos coach Jason Chandler warns supporters that they shouldn't expect any miracles.
"I didn't hurt anybody. I just made a dick of myself."
Hamish after receiving a 10-year ban for exposing himself to his team in the locker room to indicate they were playing like "dickheads".
"It's just unfortunate that I had to end like this."
Korey Fulton.
"For me, I think, even after I'm long gone, the memory will still carry on some way, hopefully in the future of my unborn children and their children and so on, God willing."
Korey Fulton.
"I'm not homophobic at all and I have a lot of gay friends."
Simon Russell apologises for tweeting an offensive comment about the Sharks.
"It has been an incredible season - one of my best ever, if not the best."
Tinka on picking up yet another B&F
"Having been told that my body would no longer stand up to the rigours of cricket, I had no alternative but to retire."
Korey Fulton.
"I've struggled to sleep, felt ill, haven't been able to train properly . . . so I've decided it's not worth the risk . . . I just can't bring myself to go."
Adam McKenzie pulls out of the year 12 formal.
"It's probably going to take this for the QAFL to change the rules. It's an absolute joke."
Magoos stand-in skipper, Mitch Kavich in the aftermath of the only win for the season.
"If you treat this as a loss, it will be. If we treat this as an opportunity, it will be. If we treat this the way we have rebounded all year, then we will go in with utmost confidence."
Dozer after THE draw
"Southport are going to win [a game against Broadbeach] at some stage, aren't they? That's the way it is, that's the game, it's just a matter of when."
Jason Cotter.
"He is a freak. When I saw him at the bar before the AGM started, I knew then we were in trouble. He is a perfect machine that happens to be eligible for election."
Cricket faction member on Bryan Wilkinson
"It's fair to say there is a significant sense of relief."
Coach Chants on his side breaking its 16 game losing streak.
"It was totally my fault, totally my mistake I caught my elbow on the ear of the emergency umpire as we broke up from the huddle and it was a very slow-motion moment."
Jesse Derrick on the moment in the Redlands game that ultimately cost him the B&F.
"Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar. Maybe he hasn't been at Broady too long."
Former coach Shaun Hart attacks successor Adrian Smith for commenting on events that happened before he arrived at the Meriimacattery.
"He's too good of a player not to win a big one. It's only a matter of time."
Mitch Kavic on Dan Skrinis at the B&F count
"It was a moment of abject stupidity brought about by too much drink and a complete lack of any thought process."
In a statement written by his manager, Rian Denne expresses remorse and disgust after a photograph of him simulating a sex act with a football was posted on Twitter.
"This is torture."
Flanked by his father and teammates, Bulldog reads his resignation speech.
"I always point out the obvious, which is going to be the front cover tomorrow. He is a girl with three breasts - that is how unique he is."
Casey Dienjes heaps praise on Darcy
"We are disappointed we could not get a bit more transparency from Broadbeach. We would have liked to have known about the Eagle's decision a little bit earlier."
Shepparton United take on the decision by Jason to walk out on Shep for the Cats.
"I have never seen such a referee in the world before, I think something is wrong with him and he needs to have a medical check."
John McKenzie blasts another umpire for penalising Tinka, again.
"I have to say this is the worst Seniors team I have ever seen."
Korey Fulton on the week after his retirement.
"Retirement is for young people. I'm too old to retire. I would have nothing to do."
Korey Fulton
"What a load of rubbish."
Chanted by about 300 devastated fans at the Gabba after the QAFL announcement that the GF would not be played at Merrimac.
"What should a groundsmen make sure he does 2days out from a Cats hosted final. Cover the centre pitch when it rains maybe??? "PATHETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Dale Perkins on the GCCC.
"[I played better] when I was a drunk."
A frank Nathan Quick claiming playing footy with a few under his belt tended to relax him.
"What do I say, I'm the best-kept secret, but you are all aware of me now."
Ben Walters on polling 1 vote in the Magoos B&F
Last Modified on 03/01/2011 18:44