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The Italians are pagans, ungovernable, beautiful people, true anarchists. Make the greatest wine in the world- Barolo. Amarone isn't bad either.... Penny Wong would be great: I'd love nothing more. Imagine the bile that would solicit from the Murdoch Press and Ray Hadley, Andrew Bolt and Jones. It now seems that Australian Politicians feel they have to answer to these shock jocks. I guess that's democracy for ya...

Dogs hit the post 3 times in the last quarter. If that ain't someone above looking after them I don't know what is. Surely their luck is finite....

No, I just think they should stop behaving like their ancestors, I.E. the robber barons.

Saw an article today about that exact same problem: the liberal party has no funds. I suppose it expects bug business to fund its elections.

Prediction: Morrison will last till the next election, the LNP will get wiped and they'll resort to Dutton just to prove yet again what out of touch troglodytes they are.

No sir, I am cautiously optimistic. A realist in relation to where melbourne is at at the moment. I think it's poised to become a strong, powerful side. They certainly play some very exciting footy. And they are getting better, more composed, more confident. The glass is what it is...

Ah, Wreck, you and your leftis/rightist axis. Really, the world is a bit more complicated than that. I'd like to think I'm neither left nor right. I've always regarded these orientations were more to do with which arm you write, brush your teeth and wipe your bum with. Not to mention which side you hold a violin or a cricket bat.Not to mention the noble art of Nose Picking: Right handed or left??????

Australia is trying hard to emulate Italy this way. The trouble is Australian can't really emulate the Italians: Italian food, wine and culture is way way superior and Australia still hasn't produced a Sophia Loren .Still, those Italians, Lou Reed said, need a lesson to be taught..

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.

Ah, Wreck, I vote Green, just for the record, voted labor before Beazley squibbed it when Howard and Reith poisoned Australia with the lies about children overboard, and will never, have never voted for the Liberal party in my life. That does not mean I subscribe to some pretty stupid Green policies - they are the ones responsible for Rudd's back down on making climate change a real issue for Australians with their hard line rhetoric - but it means I don't have to vote for the troglodyte policies of the right. I guess I have just understood where you come from if you regard Turnbull as left wing. Wow!!! That's about all I can say within the realms of decency and respect.

Had a look at the injury columns of all the sides yesterday and noted that the top sides had fewer season ending injuries than the bottom 8. You look at the Dockers, Carlton and Gold Coast lists and they have been decimated. Any thoughts on why that might be the case because it certainly intrigues me.

Well trade away, is all I can say.

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.

At least, for a little while at least, we have been saved from the ex copper. In the meantime, we have a born again christian whose speech manner has become more strident and faster over the years, the originator of the extreme ruthlessness on so-called boat people, an opponent of same sex marriage, and someone who is able to reduce all of his crusades into meaningless mantras, his latest, about unemployment and how business is booming because of his pro Banks, pro Big business policies. In the meantime, the two biggest snipers in the LIberal Party arsenal - Abbot and the Pit Bull Potato - will be lurking round his boat like great white sharks. In the meantime, I note with pleasure that the party which had such a rollicking ball pointing to the disunity of the labor Party, has imploded and killed off two mid term prime ministers. Mind you, I'm so glad the Abbot fell on his own perfidious sword. At least now Malcolm can return to what he's good at, namely making a lot of money, and he can revert to his real name again, Turnbull instead of Turnbulls.itter.

How long since Hawthorn or Geelong have had a high draft pick???

Is that Wagner's Ring, or what? Ah, I know now, the friggin Circus Ring, alias parliament House, Canberra...

Mark Neeld for Prime Minister. Well, he'd be no worse than Damian Drum.

This is precisely how Malcolm Turnbull should have addressed his party on Wednesday.

I would prefer Mussolini. I want my trains to run on time.

This thread is proof that Demonland is a lunatic asylum. I hope Dutton becomes prime minister and sends you all to Nauru...I hear you won't be short of bananas and coconuts..

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...

God help us. Still, Dutton is what this country deserves after its vote for Abbot and Turnbulldust. Can't see them winning with Dutton anyhow, which typifies, I guess, the mindset of the political far right of this country, in that they'd et to Brute the only vague hope they had of winning another election. Like I say, God help this country, it is following the USA, I.E. a country of lunatics run by the chief resident lunatic.

Back in February I posted a tale I was told by a motel owner in Mudgee who is the brother of the West Coast full back in Whoosher's day. He said that Worsfold was referred to by the name of his profession. Then he said substance abuse was rife among West Coast players. He said what had happened at Essendon was the tip of the iceberg in the AFL, Essendon's crime being they got sprung. There are now too many tragic pointers that the culture at West Coast was rotten to the core. ( He also mentioned the name of a surfer type who played a few games for the Demons in the late 80's who had a habit of simply going AWOL.) Then there was the West Coast player who flatlined in the USA postseason, the tragic after footy life of Kerr, and there are most probably other we haven't heard about yet. There was also the remark from Akermanis about the freakish running ability of Braun who had tagged him in a Brisbane West Coast encounter. I am reporting what a motel owner in Mudgee told me. He may well have been off with the fairies. He was an ex WA boy though, and his surname is the same as the bloke who played as full back for West Coast. What I'm getting at, in my usual long-winded way, is there was culture of drug abuse at West Coast, a culture which - according to the motel owner in Mudgee - was there from the beginning. The AFL must have known about it, how could it not??? Sad cases, like that of Ben Cousins don't arise from nowhere. Just recently the almost surreal facts of Bomber Thompson's hidden life have surfaced. I wonder why a journalist with Caroline Wilson's aspirations doesn't investigate the background to these very murky AFL backwaters rather than devoting vitriol towards a dead man who presided over a football club which did what every other side had done in similar circumstances.

OKay. But why the constant inconsistency???

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