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I tried to imply that there was nothing sinister about his habits: we also sometimes forget we're talking about seventeen year old boys with no experience of the real world. We know nothing about their home lives as well. We rate them the way cattle and sheep are evaluated at Elders auctions, or the performances of horses, in the main. I recall watching a practice match at Casey in his first year: the lad could play. That was when I asked my Wang friend about him. I asked him again two years later and he said, That lad has come a very long way. All credit to him.

I know an ex AFL listed player - he was coached by one R. Barassi - who lives up Wang way who said at the time Clarrie was drafted he carried a lot of 'baggage'. I've asked him to elaborate since, and he said it was down to habits and personality traits, his talent was never in question. The lad has certainly come a very long way and I take all of my hats off to him.

Hey, Nick, it WAS A GREAT GAME!

My understanding is his form dip was brought on by pre-season injury, the same situation that blighted his 2019. I was so pleased when he turned it around this year, felt sorry for him when injury struck again. He's been such a great trooper for the Demons.

It's way too early to speculate about a game two months or so away. The only thing I know for sure is that I won't be getting a game.

You win. Bingo!

Hope all is well.

A few facts first: I was the opening bowler, and opening batsman. I was not only the greatest living German cricketer, I was also one of the fastest bowlers on the planet. One batsman I bowled a bouncer to turned to the wicket keeper and said, Shivers, I heard that whistle...At the House of Ill Fame named after a prominent pastoralist whose first name was Rupert, I won the bowling Average one year, the All Rounder trophy the next and would have won the batting average the last year had not the captain run me out for 52 in my last innings. As for afternoon teas and scones and jellies, what I know for sure is that during the tea break in a Sub District match against Balwyn - I was playing for Sunshine - I helped myself to a scone from the visitor's table and only discovered a bee had attached itself after it stung my cheek. I have had no time for afternoon tea breaks since. As for the capacity of women to to play cricket, I admit I wouldn't know because I never ever watch it. I'm way too busy writing great litracha.

It was a misprint - truly: I meant to write 'Good Stuff', blame my trypist. I agree with you. The Ms Bovary was just my smart - a.se way of showing how 'literate' I am...

Good stiff, Ms Bovary.

Sounds like an orgy...

Great stuff. I respect the thought and wisdom and experience and love you've put into this. Congratulations.

Didn't know they served 'an al' fresco coffee in Lancefield. Enemas??? Lancefield people are true warriors. They look up to the highlands to their immediate west and walk and shuffle and say there but for the graces of the many gods who live here go I: at least it's flat. I know about Lancefield and Romsey people because I attended a Salesian College not far away. I am proud to say I remained a virgin until I was sixteen and it involved a member of the opposite sex in her father's flat in East Brunswick.

I would have thought that the MFC would have Mozart and Bach playing in the background, maybe some Wagner and Beethoven when grunt is required. I reckon we'd be even better if that were to happen...

If you watch Hogan and Watts play under Roos you'll understand why Roos was so important. He found a way to get the best from those two troubled gents - one of them 17 when he came here, injured his back and missed his next year and then suffered with cancer and the death of his father. I haven't picked up any antipathy towards Roos from current players. Can you give examples?

Good stuff. With regard to D. Hughes, I recall he was sent into the ruck in the '88 GF because Steve O'Dwyer had been rubbed out, and we needed some grunt at Centre Bounces. And I recall Jackovich's game against him in Adelaide - I believe it was Jackovich's return after being banished to the Reserves after the West Coast thrashing in Round 1 - Danny was now playing for Adelaide and he did what he did best, I.E. clipped Jacko over the ears. Jackovich just ran at him and launched one straight back. Though we lost that day, I felt we had gained one in Jackovich.

Dan's bought out the best Liquor outlet in Adelaide, Bailly and Bailyy's, then used their House Brand and marketed it throughout Australia and , yes, it's Riverland material, the stuff once used in casks. By the way, I watched the second half of the 2015 Anzac Day Richmond game: was that you exposing your half naked torso during the last quarter? If it is/was, I'd go on a diet - eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we diet - and no, my name is not a version of someone who diets, nor is my name or torso skinny.

Swoop was the coach that day: Anzac day, I was driving a taxi, listening to the debacle on the Park Street Rank in North Carlton.

D you know the origin of the famous drop 'Bailleys and Bailleys'?

So you've graduated to Bailley and Bailley?

DD, you are another one who hides beneath the 'political post' shield. Face up to it, it is and is more and more every day, a political hot potato.

You are either obsessed about the division between everyday life and politics, especially when it comes to f o o t b a l l, that you simply don't have the mental faculties to come to grips with the simple fact that the topic 'Covid and AFL' is totally dependent on decisions made by politicians, whether to do with their neglect and incompetence - but we can't, according to the likes of you, actually NAME the offenders if they come from the right wing of the so-called Liberal party - or the decisions they make about lockdowns and border closures. What is your problem? Why do you keep wanting us to hide from the bleeding obvious, namely, that everything about Covid is and alway has been Political because of the simple facts that lockdowns and closures and policy regarding them have been politically motivated?

Good stuff.

Al Nicholson is on the right: who are the other 3?

Thanks, I love your site, I always have. Do you need assistance?