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Redleg
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In honour of your beanie, I'll be wearing my 70s royal blue Dees beanie, 2014 members scarf, black jacket and of course the beard.

But what is the secret handshake? :blink::blink:

Just do a bushmans handkerchief and we will know who we are.

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    Hey why don't you guys wait until Maple Demon comes online and invite her. Might give you some respectability.

    I suppose Biff could bring a couple of scrubbers, in case Dc's blue rinsers start to nod off before half time.

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    No gummies{im not that backward}staying in the big smoke saturday night.BTW OD will be the one getting pushed by his carer and should have an oxygen bottle strapped to his side{will be easy to spot],RaB is the one im worried about,got a strange feeling hes really under 55 and is a cappaccino sipper{just a guess}And DC ive got no idea what to think,maybe a cravat and sailors pipe with gaucho type jeans.?

    "Cappuccino's are us" is my middle name .. gotta have one at half time! 21st century way to blow the froth off a couple ... :) Sounds like I'll have to turn up carrying one, then...

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    No gummies{im not that backward}staying in the big smoke saturday night.BTW OD will be the one getting pushed by his carer and should have an oxygen bottle strapped to his side{will be easy to spot],RaB is the one im worried about,got a strange feeling hes really under 55 and is a cappaccino sipper{just a guess}And DC ive got no idea what to think,maybe a cravat and sailors pipe with gaucho type jeans.?

    i'll be the one with his members scarf wrapped anti-clockwise

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    DC is easy to pick Jazz. He'll have a group of wrinkly, blue haired old sheilas hanging off his ... ( er) .... . Well I'm sure you get the picture.

    hey bbo. i'll just be playing my role, taking one for the team and all that

    anyway it's too high of the ground to eat grass so it's gotta be fed

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    Hey why don't you guys wait until Maple Demon comes online and invite her. Might give you some respectability.

    I suppose Biff could bring a couple of scrubbers, in case Dc's blue rinsers start to nod off before half time.

    nah, biffo will be the one with the two corrections minders

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    You mean Mark Taylor surely, who declared when he was on 334 ... I say lets worry about it only when we are approaching 1107 pages, the world record first class score by Victoria, and even then only to find a better excuse to keep going :blink:

    You're right. It was Mark Taylor - still no respect here for the great Don Bradman.

    Perhaps, we should stop retrospectively at 37 pages which represents the combined IQ of all current residents of the Gat?

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    You're right. It was Mark Taylor - still no respect here for the great Don Bradman.

    Perhaps, we should stop retrospectively at 37 pages which represents the combined IQ of all current residents of the Gat?

    You do know the reason why the ABC has a certain PO box number in each state, don't you? How about we limit this thread only at that number of pages ...

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    You're right. It was Mark Taylor - still no respect here for the great Don Bradman.

    Perhaps, we should stop retrospectively at 37 pages which represents the combined IQ of all current residents of the Gat?

    Tubby was doing a Barnes. The talented and tragic Sid Barnes more precisely. Wikipedia....

    "It was during the Second Test at Sydney in December 1946, that Barnes made a lasting impression on the world game. Having opened the innings, he made his top Test score of 234 and helped to set a world-record 405 run fifth wicket partnership with Don Bradman, a record that still stands today.[40][41] On a rain-affected pitch Arthur Morris was out at 1/24 and Ian Johnson came out as a nightwatchman He and Barnes angered the crowd by launching into a series of bad light appeals - up to 12 were counted - before the umpires gave way and play was ended with an hour to spare.[42] This ensured that Australia would not have to play on a sticky wicket and allowed Bradman to rest his leg until play resumed on the Monday. After the series Barnes said on radio;

    We could have played on, but it was a Test match and we just had to win. I realised something drastic had to be done or three wickets might be lost. So I appealed after every second ball. I complained of the people moving about, the light, and, in fact, anything, in an effort to get the appeal upheld. Hammond and Yardley were inspecting the wet pitch. I knew there was a chance of losing valuable wickets so I just kept on appealing until the umpires answered me.[43]

    Barnes played carefully on the still suspect pitch the following day and late in the afternoon Bradman, lower in the order than usual due to a leg injury, joined Barnes with the score at 4/159.[44] Over six and a half hours later, Bradman was out for 234. Barnes was dismissed just four balls later, also for 234, having batted for over ten hours.[45] In his autobiography, Barnes stated that the coincidence of scores was intended. "Lots of people have asked me whether I deliberately threw my wicket away at 234. The answer is yes."[46] He confirmed to an interviewer many years later that "it wouldn't be right for someone to make more runs than Sir Donald Bradman".[47] E.W. Swanton wrote that this "could well have been so for he was a man of quixotic mood and temperament".[48] However the England bowler, Alec Bedser wrote "It was when I was bowling to Sid at Sydney that I first discovered that I could move the ball to leg by use of my wrist and fingers...I held the ball in the same manner as a leg-break bowler with the fingers across the seam...and on pitching I was surprised to see the ball go away like a leg-break. It also surprised Sid Barnes".[49] This would make Barnes the first batsman to be dismissed by Bedser's "Special Ball" which would claim Bradman for a duck in the Fourth Test at Adelaide.

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    Is cricket a sport?

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    Yep. It is a sport if its not invented by Americans.

    Then I rather play this game instead

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    Jazza, I got this one from the MFC this week.

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    Thought it may be of interest to you.

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    Jazza, I got this one from the MFC this week.

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    Thought it may be of interest to you.

    I suspect you are trying to break Jazza's will to not smoke.

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    About 800 and who cares about money at this stage of the game.{sorry to sound elitist}its the 20 days im counting and nothing else matters.

    But yes,sunday quite happy to shout a round after the game.

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    Just so you know we are supporting you

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    You're right. It was Mark Taylor - still no respect here for the great Don Bradman.

    Perhaps, we should stop retrospectively at 37 pages which represents the combined IQ of all current residents of the Gat?

    Given your constant attempts to shut down this thread, you are hereby banned from it for the next 2 weeks.

    You can go to the Gat and check into a room and look within yourself, to find out the reason why you dislike the most popular thread ever on this forum.

    I am sure your son who owns the site would be aghast at your regular sniping.

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    Given your constant attempts to shut down this thread, you are hereby banned from it for the next 2 weeks.

    You can go to the Gat and check into a room and look within yourself, to find out the reason why you dislike the most popular thread ever on this forum.

    I am sure your son who owns the site would be aghast at your regular sniping.

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    Given your constant attempts to shut down this thread, you are hereby banned from it for the next 2 weeks.

    You can go to the Gat and check into a room and look within yourself, to find out the reason why you dislike the most popular thread ever on this forum.

    I am sure your son who owns the site would be aghast at your regular sniping.

    RL ,you are assuming that WJ would meet the very strict criteria for entry to the GAT!

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    RL ,you are assuming that WJ would meet the very strict criteria for entry to the GAT!

    You are right, book him some time in the dunny at the back.

    A nice dark room for him to meditate and contemplate his sins.

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    Would love to know the Casey scores for the last quarters this season. They must be diabolical.

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    Would love to know the Casey scores for the last quarters this season. They must be diabolical.

    you must enjoy pain Red :huh:

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