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Pure waffle.

OK. It stays longer.

These backpack beds go to the right people. But if it's any consolation I knew you wouldn't fork out.

Under the circumstances, i.e. a bereavement in his family, there is NO way the club would have selected Garlett if he wasn't playing.

Yeah, that's great, but they weren't being rested in round 23. If they were merely being rested I wouldn't have bothered posting. Get it ? So my 'point' remains intact. FINALS contenders Hawthorn, West Coast and the Western Bulldogs have been hit by injuries to key players on the eve of finals. The Dogs lost acting captain and star half-back Easton Wood to an ankle injury but the damage isn’t as bad as first thought. We review every club’s playing stocks after Round 22. WESTERN BULLDOGS INJURIES Easton Wood (ankle) Test Marcus Adams (foot) 2 weeks Tom Campbell (foot) TBC Kieran Collins (shoulder) season Tom Liberatore (ankle) 2 weeks Jack Macrae (hamstring) 2 weeks Roughead was out with a calf 22 Ess Kicked a goal, but other than that was mostly unsighted. 23 Calf. EF WCE Held his own when in the ruck and bobbed up with a big goal to break Eagles’ back. And Stringer came back in after two games in the VFL due to poor form.

It will not only be Watts' 150th game, but it will also be Oliver's 20th birthday.

For their first final v West Coast on the back of a loss to lowly Freo in round 23 in Perth as well as a week's break the Dogs brought back 5 players from injury, including Liberatore, Roughead, Macrae, Stringer, and Wood. They won by 8 goals. It obviously doesn't mean it will always work, but it also doesn't mean your side won't reap immediate benefits.

Perhaps I should have said, there's an unnecessary divide. But thanks for your insightful contribution.

Btw, I'm glad you raised this particular point. I recently donated a "Backpack bed" for the homeless. The first week of August is "homelessness week". Here's the link, chap. They could do with your and everyone else's support. https://swags.org.au/shop/donation-homeless-backpack-bed/

What's your point, chap ?

The first call of the Left is to bring race into everything, as is your first inclination. And it's clear, despite your protestations, that reconciliation hasn't advanced our disadvantaged Aboriginal communities. This should concern you, but seemingly your more interested in defending a side than being concerned about policy failure. Low rates of children attending schools, high rates of incarceration, high rates of mortality, high unemployment, poverty, and Aboriginal women being 31 times more likely to be hospitalised by their men. Yet all you can do is link a government page that highlights a few watershed moments over the last 50 years. Perhaps go to an indigenous forum and link the same page. While you're at it tell them how wonderfully things are progressing and what a success 'Reconciliation' has been. They'd love to hear from you.

Let me elaborate. There is huge Aboriginal disadvantage, but 'reconciliation' hasn't had positive outcomes within Aboriginal communities. Reconciliation week started in the 1990's yet today Aboriginal women are 31 times more likely to be hospitalised by their partner. High jail rates continue, as does low life expectancy and school attendance. The sooner reconciliation is abandoned for more progressive measures and the sooner Aboriginal leaders start embracing the future and not the past then we might start seeing a difference to the quality of life in Aboriginal communities. For me, there shouldn't be a divide between our indigenous communities and broader Australia and the "blame games" linked to 'reconciliation' don't enhance our Aboriginal communities.

Seemingly, you are.

Reconciliation assumes there's a divide. I don't see that. Cheers.

But I am contributing. I don't like the "plan". I don't like the division. I don't like the view that the MFC is supposedly not reconciled. Clearly. I have a different view to you. I'm not into race politics.

Rubbish tokenism. I'll let others gush.

What is funny and what's ironic ?

Disagree. As a club you just look like whingers. Never complain never explain. I hate your type of weak mentality.

You're missing stuff here. I love the unsociable Demons and couldn't give a toss if we get the odd suspension. Bernie lifting his elbow and hitting someone with the point of it isn't being unsociable, it's being stupid and undisciplined. I didn't care about his bump and was surprised he was even fined, but I have no issue with him being suspended for stupidity with the elbow. But all the "woe is me" commentary and talk that the MRP are singling Melbourne out make me laugh. The MRP are borderline incompetent, and yes, they quiver when they have to adjudicate on a Brownlow favourite and will always take the soft option, but conspiracy theories re individual clubs are pathetic. Seemingly, normally intelligent people become adel-pates when footy becomes involved.

Happy Sweden. https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/sweden-on-the-brink-of-civil-war.3505809/#.WW29cYiGPIU

This answer doesn't help me much, but thanks for replying. What "vicious" or hurtful comments are you talking about ? Is it simply posters saying he should be dropped ? Was some other critique about his footballing prowess, like not being able to keep his feet or turning it over with poor decisions or footskills ? Are these the types of vicious comments you're referring to ? Or do you have other examples ? EDIT: I'm not privy to any "piece" on Jones.

Great, now you can answer my question in the "Critiquing the content not the person" thread.

Dope

It's nothing like the critiquing of Jack Watts. Hogan is 2 games back from a cancer battle on the back of losing his Father from cancer. To think his own supporters can't cut him some slack on the back of that is astonishing to me.

The disrespect shown to a young developing player, such as the cretinous post above, who has had tremendous recent personal loss, plus his own not inconsiderate health scares, absolutely sickens me.