dieter

I have a sneaky Carlton will win feeling in my bones.

I'm with you about the Gus and Gawny show: its underlying theme is a kind of 'matey' male aggro based on put downs which I don't relate to.

And, on top of all that, I've been following the Training Reports and all the news and gossip and live within 300 metres of the Box Hill Ground. Had I known I would have dragged my three week old new right knee along and found a comfy chair and watched it.

The players Melbourne fielded today was not its top team, let alone a top 8 team. I have learned that you don't want to be March to June heroes, you might just wanna become a Business end of the Season Team. Melbourne in the past have regularly looked good in Practice matches. I remember watching them play with the E Coli Wobblers at the Training facility Oval before 2019. WE looked a cool million dollars...

I bin hanging out all day on this sleepy Sunday. You'd think I had nothing else in my life.Where's The Team????

His marriage was breaking up...tough times for all concerned.

You must be disappointed: you usually win First Prize in this category.

Jimma Frawley has hit the injury wall as well. And remember what happened to Jack Watts and Mitch after they left ?

And in my wild erratic fancy vision came to me of Hannan Running towards the goal Oh what a run, oh what a run. PS. I thought he was great. I wish he was still a Demon.

The 'MC"? I've heard of WC????

What are the gory details? was it a coach whose name begins with N?

I've just noticed that of all the recent Demon Defectors, none but Oscar is getting a game at the moment. Injuries have laid low the mighty Jesse, the Front Runner Hannan, poor Preussy Boy, and Dean Kent can't get a game with the Saints. Domus Tyson can't crack it either. And fat lot of good it did Jimmy the Toump jumping ship... There's a part of me that wishes Stf Martin had come home instead of queuing at the Kennel.

Ah, Whippet, Schnippet. Fans will always love and hate, they love to hate, hate to love. I remember when all of Hawthorn hated James Sicily - for good reason. Hawthorn fans will have amnesia about that now. I've found it difficult to 'whip' players: there but for my wonky knees would I like to have gone. Let us praise would be Caesars on this site, they'll be buried when they're ready.

I would change Ingerson for Rivers, Steve Febey for Bizzel. The rest would be the same, maybe Johnstone in the centre, Oliver on the ball,

Yes, and if I didn't have double kneemonia I'd be genuflecting as well.

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea maxima Culpa.

THat bloody Shakespeare,no concept of the English language - where means 'where are you'? ???

Pickett in his excellent training report mentioned Kozzie was not to be seen, then the Dazzler pointed out he's been in SA for a fortnight. What is the story here?

About bloody time.

Toodle Pip. Have a good life.

THey've had to do it in Queensland, NSW, WA and SA in the last month as well. Or haven't you noticed?

So, a white washer!. Him Sung started it: of course he did. Same in Vietnam. So you destroy North Korea so that there is not one brick on brick in the whole country, you rape Vietnam using all kinds of proscribed chemical weapons but the US didn't start it so what's the problem??? So when Hilary said, We came, we saw, he died as she watched Gaddafi being butchered is not evidence? And what the hell do you know about Lebanon in the early '80's? And, no doubt, the US Turkey shoot during the first so-called Gulf War was justified. Of course it was, by the Western Press. And to attempt to install an unelected politician in Venezuela is okay by you? really???????

Most? I'd humbly dispute that. What were the good intentions of the European Colonialist Powers? Their good intentions didn't exist, they invaded country after country to exploit and drain them of their assets. And what do you make of the good intentions of Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Clive of India, Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini, George Bush, Blair, Clinton, Howard and Stalin? I really don't know what you mean.

I have a great book called Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker. It is comprised of newspaper cuttings from around 1900 until 1942 and it allows the bit players and protagonists of the trail that led to the Nazi camps in Poland, to the mass murders further East, to speak for themselves. Churchill is quoted quite often, mostly for his ghastly and contemptuous prejudices against Kurds, Iraqis, Arabs in general, all Indians/Pakistanis/Bangladeshis ,Jews, in fact any people you'd care to nominate.

They are not as different as you think, Db. Hence the relevance of this debate. You are aware, no doubt, of the wars the US has perpetrated since WW2? Allow me to list some of them: Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Cambodia, Cuba, Lebanon, Bay of Pigs, Laos 1953, their part in the IRanian Coup 1953, Dominican Republic, Lebanon 1981, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, First Gulf War, arming IRaq and Iran pre first Gulf war, arming Saudi Arabia to rape Yemen, Sudan...We won't even mention the coups by stealth in Chile, Columbia, Puerto Rica, Venezuela, Honduras, Bolivia etc In other words, this notion which is a direct descendant of the notion of White Supremacy, a notion inherited from the British, that it has the right to wage war and interfere in any country it chooses to. I believe it is the reason the US is such a basket case - simply because from day one of its history it has lied to itself and to the world about what it stands for.