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Almost had it...lol

Almost had it...lol

Almost had it...lol

By my count one offensive play in Graham territory all night. In last 3 years tazewell has scored 3 tds vs Graham. One on a pick 6, one on a 95 yard fumble recovery, and a late td when game was decided in 2022. Not good enough to be able to compete.

I just watched Union and Abingdon flipping back and forth between Graham and Tazewell also.
I never bet. Ever. If I did, I put big money on Union over Graham back down at Bullitt Park. Graham's Good, very good. Union will not only beat Graham in my opinion, but the game not within 10 pts in my opinion, and Union will go to Radford and have a very good chance to beat them to. All the respect in the world for Graham, but when you have center/QB bad snaps regularly in game 9, you are done. You aren't winning a state title or a Region Title. Those little things will be the difference with Graham and Union back down there. Only my opinions.

Therein lies the problem with this younger  generation! The wussification of boys-🤦

The fact that no one has tried the "Speed Trappers" yet disturbs me. 

Nothing to do with the game itself, but thought this pic was pretty cool.
 

Question for Graham fans… Why hasn’t someone broken into the locker room, stolen those yellow uniforms, and taken them to the landfill? Other than Narrows, those have to be worse looking uniforms…(yes I’m still salty towards Narrows)

Got to play the odds in Class 1 and Class 2 as most teams either can't throw it well enough for 4 quarters, or they aren't prepared to throw it well enough for 4 quarters.  Palmer is sharp.  Graham knows the box will be snapped, and you;ll see the QB (who can throw it) come along and Graham will hurt people in the passing game.  They have the QB that can throw it.  They have the WR's that can get open and catch it.  And they have the Coach that is sharp enough and prepared to do.  Most teams don't have 1 of those 3 above.  Some have 2.  Graham has all 3.

Buddy that's a great idea there's only one problem. Anything more than the pressure from your water hose you have at your house would more than likely cave the walls in at any of the 3 of our high schools. 

I’ve been around for 20+ years. I started swva sports.com back when I started swvaol.com which was a dial up internet device. Roughly in 2001 or so. At that time gman had the old swvafootball message board going.  My idea was to bring it all under one roof at swvasports so we could have one place to visit and talk about everything year round and not 15 different pages that were dedicated to each sport. Gman liked the idea and this place was born. At some point years later I got busy with kids, life, family etc etc. and kinda faded in to the background. Gman has kept it rolling along but he’s ready for a break. Instead of closing doors here I told him I’d just come out of semi retirement and keep it rolling. So here we are. Getting ready to move it to a new server, clean up a few things, and on down the road we go. Together. 
 
gman will still be around I’m sure. 
 
not much should really change. I’ll try to do a few things to make it better. 
 
anyway … it’s all good. Enjoy. 

IMHO, Tazewell had it right in 1986 and should've never changed. 

So it's fair to assume your son wasn't playing enough to satisfy you and you're going to the school board. Or are you someone else......🤔

From the film it looks like Graham by 10 or more.  If G-men can cut down the penalties, and play position defense, they should be bringing back the trophy.  Hope all who travel to the game are safe and all players escape injury.  From a True Blue Richlands fan, I'm saying, "Come on G-men, go get that championship!!!"

Harrisonburg 
It looks like Graham should win. Graham looks to be at least as strong up front and more athletic. The measurables favor Graham. History and being their and doing that favors Graham.  The eye test favors Graham. The only concern is what we can't know until they play, and that is..."good football players." Grahams got em, but Central might have a lot of em too. The Graham of 89 was like this. Not blazing fast, but quick, physical, not super athletic, but just 22 solid football players at starting positions with leaders all over the field. That Graham of 89 beat a Southampton team with 2 future NFL players.  This is the only part that is hard to know for Central until the game is played. Central has tons of seniors and may have just 22 solid football players at the starting positions.
Fans can't be over confident because I remember a heavily favored Graham team against Harrisburg just over 20 years ago (2001), and Harrisonburg had seniors everywhere, was loaded with just good football players, and played as a team, always in position, and seemed to get every bounce and every break. They did have Akeem Jordan who played at JMU, but Graham smashed Liberty the week before and was explosively athletic, and Harrisonburg fans in the parking lot talked about "just trying to keep it close." Few thought Harrisonburg would win.
Did you know that This poster set and watched that game at Liberty with Tony Palmer and a few other Graham guys back on the Saturday 21 years ago?  Ahmad was a sophomore on that team. I betcha a gazillion Tony will not and has not forgotten Graham being favored and losing that game to a 7-3 Harrisonburg (regular season) and I'm sure Ahmad (who still helps out with Graham) hasn't forgotten. Graham is going to be very well dialed in, prepared, and laser focused. Graham's going to win the 2022 state Class 2 title on Saturday in my opinion, but I'm certain the older Graham fans of my age are going into this without cockiness or overconfidence. The experience Ahmad went through on that day and Tony Palmer watching in the stands will serve Graham well 20 plus years later because Tony will be sure they don't come in and just go through the motions. They'll be dialed in, and Tony won't let a somewhat similar Shenandoah Valley team pull that off again.

True…it’s going to be a loooong week waiting, lol. 
Don’t know if you saw post by one the assistants on FB but apparently when Graham played EC Glass at Salem in that scrimmage back in August, Tony Palmer hid a dollar & told the assistant, he’d be back to get it in December and here we are! I hope they bring the heat & win the hardware! 

Not going to argue who has the better coach or staff whom has to assist a head coach, they all have to work with what they have and make something work. The GMEN had the better team on the field saturday they made mistakes and overcame them. Appo made mistakes and failed to shake them off and capitalize on grahams mistakes plain and simple. Graham played a good game and came away as the winner and they deserved it. Appo started this season with a very young and inexperience team and thru hard work and determination made a very very unlikely playoff run. I honestly gave us no chance in the first round. Graham on the other hand started the season like a beast and i inked them in as state champs this year from day one. Congratulations to the GMEN and i'm pulling for you next week not to let me down and win that state championship. 

Doing some research on fourseasonsfootball and found it crazy that Palmer is like 85-16 in his time at Graham with 6(?) of those losses coming in his first season. Outside of Bluefield, Graham has only lost twice @ mitchell since 2017. Both to Union. That is dominance that deserves recognition for Palmer. 

Too bad, we're not playing on that old grass field at Mitchell.  Graham has been historically good in mud bowls.

4 years ago on this date, Graham defeated Radford 57-13 to advance to the state championship game that they subsequently won. The defense made Prioleau a non factor. A lot of people thought Radford would win. Graham’s defense is nasty tough right now & I hope Rex & Snake figure out a way to contain Pennix & the QB. I’m not saying Graham can whip up another 57-13 win but I’m hoping for a victory no matter how narrow the margin. After being handicapped last year in the title game due to injuries, I’d like to see them get another shot at the title with a healthy team. 🤞

Eddie Hall...Graham

It's not a lack of class if its true.

Ridgeview should have tried it. Nothing more disheartening than lining up and showing run right and the whole world knows it including the defense , yet can't do shit about it.  

They are hit and miss on whether they are open or not...