dieter
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Don't you worry, Albo is lurking in the corridors, Et Te brute in hand. More to come, no doubt. In the meantime, we have a fundamental as anything christian as our so-called prime minister. He was the one who acted so christian-like when he was minister for immigration. How sad is this country, really, how sad that it's come to this where we only have a choice of a fundamentalist racist fascist and a born again fast talking bank and big business backing mental midget who has such a dubious history - sacked from Tourism Australia - an opponent of same sex marriage, to choose from. Bring on Albo, an ancient Oz wog, once as abhorrent to this anglo country as the Chinese are today, as the Vietnamese were yesterday, and long may he prosper.
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Well trade away, is all I can say.
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My point is that at a certain stage of a side's development first round picks aren't that important. In other words, a team gets to a stage where it will attract out of contract players - like Lever, for example.
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How long since Hawthorn or Geelong have had a high draft pick???
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I fail to understand why there are people who want to trade a player who has already played some great football for the Melbourne Football Club, who, barring injury, will most likely become the number one forward in the game. How many first picks do we really need? Why not settle on making what we have now really competitive and eventually great? We don't need another dose of waiting for Jimmy Toumpas, Jack Watts or Scully or Trengrove etc to come good. Make the best of what we have now...
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Pavlich was an Adelaide boy....
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From the vision shown on television Lewis connected with Walters' arm: the rest was Hollywood. I don't see how this equals May's hit from behind on Higgins on the monetary scale of things. Then again, what hasn't been mentioned is before May hit Higgins they were involved in a contest and landed on top of each other. You just see there's 'involvement' between the two as the camera follows the ball further into North's forward line. I would guess Higgins delivered a snipe or two at this point and when May got up he retaliated. It amazes me that the sniper who starts a conflict, if his victim strikes back, is treated as the innocent victim and the retaliator as the aggressor and the fall guy who pays the fine or who gets rubbed out: witness Hogan against Lamb last year...
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This is not about streaking....
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The sooner this game is dumped the better. What the hell is the purpose of it? To unsettle and exhaust players and make them play in conditions which would exhaust any athlete.
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The bottom line is that in 2010 the moral compass on Pokies was just gaining momentum. Woolworths etc were just beginning their immoral buying spree and the drastic effects on the impoverished were beginning to surface loud and screaming strong..
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Meat raffles, Egg and Bacon sandwiches at the MCG, not just Casey. Rob from the rich, not from the poor.
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Better to have lost your fortune rather than your soul...
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Ok. I take your point. Yes, I am outraged, have been for years about Australian bogan behaviour on the cricket field. And, yes, I feel outrage when people try to defend their behaviour. As for quoting other people - since when is quoting another writer when it is blogged or in the public domain a breach of copyright? - I do it because I assume readers would be more interested in the opinions of other cricketers or cricket writers than my opinions. In the meantime, let's do peace. Go Dees.
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Ethan, yes, I've condescendly called you 'Young man'. Whether you've been involved in the illegal invasions of countries like Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan isn't the issue here - though it should make you look in the mirror about why you simply obeyed orders - and is totally irrelevant. We were making observations about the atrocities committed over a very long time by a head butting Australian cricket team, nominally led by Smith - its proxy leader Warner - which has been sprung big time - after a nigh twenty year record of massive intimidatory - not to mention sheer sanctimonious - behavior and you want to talk about your record as a so-called defender of our - just what? For example, what were you defending me from in Afghanistan and Iraq and Kuwait? It's a question I've always wanted to ask people like you who wear as a badge of honour the invasion of a country on totally specious grounds.
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Dear Moonshadow I have not called posters names. Secondly, just for the record, I played this game at a relatively high level - Sub District in the late 60's as a 14 year old, and early 70's, both as a bowler and a batsman, I opened the batting and the bowling - and have great respect for this British game. I come from that perspective, as a former player who has seen the values I played under totally destroyed by an Australian Culture which is both bogan and disrespectful. The media has nothing to do with this. All of the cricket world hates Australian cricketers not because they're better than them, but because they have, since the days of Lillee and Pascoe, played like absolutely foul-mouthed aggressive bogans. Unless, of course, they were being beaten by cricketers who were better than them, who spoke with their bats or their fielding or their superior bowling. Just read some of the posts I've placed above for the edification of people like you who seem to believe 'My country right or wrong'. People like you don't seem to get it... In other words, the rest of the cricket world is crying out, 'Isn't it about freaking time you reigned these morons in?'
