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young whippersnappers like you aught to be taken out and flogged until you learn some respect by the way I don't remember a Ben Hur, what was his number?

"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies." Sarah Palin "And so the fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it means there's jobs at the machine-making place." "So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success." "Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech." "Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy." George W. Bush (How on earth did he get voted in...... twice!)

Finishing with an insult, at it again E45/Artie/Jack Donaghy. These forums are much better without you.

Thanks for that DA. Whipping yourself sounds fine but I draw the line at any and all misuse of sandpaper!

2011 Moneyball 2011 The Tree of Life 2009 Inglourious Basterds 2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 Burn After Reading 2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2001 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Spy Game 2000 Snatch. 1999 Fight Club 1997 The Devil's Own 1996 Sleepers 1995 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Se7en 1994 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles surely you jest

Knowing the A-League, could well have been sky-writer.

I'm interested in a hard nosed coach that starts the journey of shaping this football club into one of the competition's benchmarks. I already know that Mark Neeld is passionate. He can save the platitudes for the supporters that require them.

Our game-plan has been far too skewed towards attack rather than accountability and a strong defence. Combating the press was also a weakness due to a lack of preseason focus and substandard fitness. The inability to win contested footy stemmed from a lack of A grade midfielders and physically under-developed players. Last year our list was the second youngest in the competition and the third least experienced from a games played point of view. The club embarked on a policy of securing the best picks it could at the draft table so that when the inevitable rise up the ladder came we'd have a core group of 13-15 highly talented players. This policy ensured a lean 5 years, but also gives us the best chance of securing the only success that matters. The side will only be strengthened with Viney and at least two first round draft picks in this year's Super draft. Clearly our fitness base has been considerably below par to match it with the more mature teams. To an extent this has been understandable. In part it's due to the youthful age of our list and the associated highly regulated training loads and partly due to a club that was behind the better teams with regards to elite training programs. Your reference to Craig Mottram is a little eyebrow raising. As I'm a kind individual I'll resist further comment.

You learn something new every day. A mephitis is actually a striped skunk. From Wikipedia - The genus Mephitis is one of several genera of skunks, which has two species and a North American distribution. WJ, you might be onto something. That 17 y.o schoolgirl caused something of a stink with the Saints last year. The players don't like their new training ground and Ross Lyon couldn't get out of there quick enough. Watch out for any striped furry creatures when you head out to Seaford.

Good thing you're a schoolteacher and you at least know what mephitis means. I just hope that it's not contagious and none of our blokes get it badly enough to affect their season! Anyway, I might head off to St. Kilda's training which is just down the road at Seaford to see if their players are recovering from the bout of mephitis they got last year after the 17 year-old schoolgirl incident.

I'd expect this comment from an elderly MCC member with a blanket covering their knees. One with an affinity for players numbers as opposed to surnames; not a long-time contributor to a football forum.

Yes. While he's no doubt secretly impressed by our inability to beat Victorian sides, save Richmond and Essendon, since 2006 he's intent on seemingly displaying a stoic demeanor. I much prefer the gushing approach.

Hey RR, Yeah I saw it at cinema Nova in Carlton completely uncut, right before they banned it here. What was it like? Well, ummm, it's hard to say. If you 'got' the first one, then you should definitely check it out. I have a sick sense of humor and love gore / horror, and I loved it. I'm a big fan of the first one, and thought this may be a let down, but it's as good or better than the First Sequence. If you're friends with Family Voice or some other lunatic Christian group on Facebook, probably give it a miss, it's not for you. It's very disturbing, it was weird watching it with a cinema full of people, usually I watch my sicko stuff alone whilst whipping myself.

You are seeing what you want to see from the comment. It's a non-issue. It's less than a non-issue. It's the issue that non-issues ignore due to a lack of substance. In fact Dravid's grandmother's pet gerbil's strangely coloured turd has laid greater claim to importance than that comment.

So you can't have training that establishes both a solid fitness base and good skills?

"They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors" - Elvis Costello (God's Comic) and a few from Tom Waits - who seems to have a bottomless well of one liners: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." "I knew him when he was nothing and he hasn't changed a bit" "I'm so goddamn horny the crack of dawn better watch itself around me." "Coleen's belly was shakin' like jelly And I'm gettin' harder than Chinese algebra." "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" "There ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk" Go here for a more complete list: http://www.intercom.net/local/shore_journal/yas11015.html

Bill Murray as Hunter S Thompson in "Where the buffalo roam" is pure genius.

ORANGE AND CHARCOAL - Recollections and tales of a tragic football club Preface The Second Global Financial Crisis which began in 2013 wiped out six European countries, Venezuela, the Ivory Coast, a handful of Arab oil sheikdoms and most of Russia's oligarchs. It brought an end to the Internet, lifestyle television programming and Zumba. Among its victims in Australia was the national icon Vegemite which went out of production after 91 years, the Big Bash League and nine AFL clubs including two recently formed franchises which were placed into liquidation when the much vaunted television rights deal collapsed. Several members of the AFL hierarchy resigned and went into hiding amid rumoured sightings in various parts of the world of the former league CEO who had been on the run since the infamous "Pendlebury" incident. The surviving AFL clubs - those fortunate enough to be debt free when GFC2 hit - completed the season and thrived in the boom years that were to follow but the Greater Western Sydney Giants sank into oblivion. At the Rooty Hill RSL where a wake was held for the now defunct Giants, ten of the club's staunchest supporters attended to mourn the passing of the competition's least successful team which survived to make only 39 appearances for no wins in a brief history wracked with scandal and controversy. Only one former player was in attendance but this was merely a coincidence on account of the fact that he now found employment as a food waiter at the RSL club. The function's organisers had catered for 200 guests so they were grateful for the attendance of the Giants' former interstate recruiting scout who single-handedly managed to polish off the lavish spread of finger foods, prawns, cold meats and several banana fritters for dessert before attacking the other more substantial foodstuff on offer in the club's lounge area. At one stage during proceedings, Snowy O'Toole, a diehard fan stood up. It was said that Snowy, a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, was an addict who got high from sniffing avgas but he was much loved by the Giant faithful and he hardly missed a single game, home or away. Now he rose to exclaim at the top of his voice, "Let's sing the club song once more for old time's sake!" The remaining faithful looked at him, heads swaying in a downcast manner. None of them knew the words or the tune, not even Snowy, so they drank a toast to the bloke whose name nobody could recall but who coached the team through seven rounds of the first season before the sackings took place. Then they sat around tearfully exchanging stories of the past including that glorious day in 2012 when their boys outscored Port Adelaide in the third quarter of their round 19 fixture at Skoda Stadium. They were the real supporters of the GWS Giants and the fact that at least four of these loyal and true men and women reside today at the pleasure of the NSW prisons and corrective services department has not deterred me from dedicating this volume to them. Now proceed to Chapter 1 on post # 1512 above.