Elusive Tunbridge

I love this thread. A rumour followed by a manhunt. I reckon it was Keyser Soze.

I'd like to see Aish at MFC. After the last round of trades/drafting I'm confident that if our selectors think he's worth getting, they won't pay overs for him.

Maybe, since it's a healing process rather than a question of fitness, the club doctor should be told to lift his game.

I simply doubt that he would accept it. His only prospect of ever playing senior football at MFC would be a temporary elevation if one of Gawn and Spencer got an LTI and the other subsequently got injured. He could get reasonable money and a more secure position in a minor league.

I do care, as it happens, but I was only suggesting that it would effectively result in his delisting, leaving sour feelings behind. Certainly I'm not suggesting that you should care.

You don't think he'd see a rookie offer as an insult?

A vandenBeg/newton type? Would that be like an apple/orange?

MFC site reports that Garlo played much of Monday with a broken hand. He'll see the surgeon shortly and there's no indications yet how many games he'll miss. Also, Salem injured his good hamstring while training and will miss an extra couple of weeks. Sorry to be such an Old Dee.

Champion player, very good leader, sneaky thug. Don't speak ill of the dead, but he's only retired.

One of our better threads.

Good for you, 316, Jurrah's downfall has only enhanced your standing.

The Business - cute, I like it. And KC, I'd love to hear your thoughts on White.

I was just over the fence from that. The sound was frightening.

I know what you mean - I've watched him quite a lot. Sometimes he carries himself like a beaten dog - but I think in this instance looks are utterly deceiving. To me, Garlo is the quintessential Roos Role Player, phlegmatic in victory and defeat.

I suppose I'm pleased, but actually it wasn't irritating me at all.

My disposal efficiency may not be all that great, but when I rack up my 50th for the week I expect to pee through a banner.

Too late. It's been invaded by "No T$ No B$".

That's one of the most impressive footballer interviews I've ever seen. Straight, sensible answers. Such an old head on such young shoulders.

Knowing personally people who were "removed" from family situations only to be sexually abused in institutional and foster care, I would qualify your argument. Certainly there has been rampant sexual abuse in some Aboriginal communities - the Swan River camp in Perth in the 90s being one of the worst examples - but the lead in exposing this practice was taken by Aboriginal women and some men, at some risk to themselves. The Howard government intervention was an opportunistic grab at control of communities and their resources, especially the land, that did little to control the abuse. Removal to prevent abuse is a frying pan/fire strategy.

I don't mind the handcuff gesture at all. On Dusty and Jake King, bracelets are quite chic.

I support a shift. I just don't think it should be closed down.

The full context: Offensive behaviour because of race, colour or national or ethnic origin (1) It is unlawful for a person to do an act, otherwise than in private, if: (a) the act is reasonably likely, in all the circumstances, to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people; and (b) the act is done because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the other person or of some or all of the people in the group. So I guess the sheepshagger example stands. Offensive speech is OK except in relation to race, colour, national or ethnic origin, though I think "because of" opens a gap a lawyer could drive a truck through. Knowing personally several members of the stolen generations, including a relative of my own, your eagerness to deny their existence is contemptible, but unsurprising.

Actually, offensive speech is not grounds to sue. Bolt lost his case because what he wrote wasn't true, not because it was offensive. If I say you remind me of a sheepshagger, you might be offended, but if I say you are one you can sue.