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Thanks BH and Steamin... makes my day to get the reports and pics of training.

Ok Whispering... we're on the rise! Most of the blokes we have added are strong bodies who are aggressive at the ball... A number of the players who have moved on only possessed one of these attributes... a couple didn't have either! I'm reminded of the Northey era... It will take the best part of a season for all the bits to gel but the bits are there. We need luck with injury, but that goes for all. The list has been improved remarkably in the shortest imaginable time frame. We will have some glorious wins against old foes in 2013!

Good idea Jack and great scouting Jose! How any organisation can sell the "astute and respected" line after reading the cadswallop served up by The Age's chief football writer is beyond me.

Curry & Beer is a lot closer to the mark than many on Brock The Queen. It was embarrassing watching him beaten to the ball by opposition who started 10 metres behind him. He was obviously hindered by injury in his final year, but I believe the club had already lost faith in him, probably encouraged him to look elsewhere. I certainly didn't get the impression that he jumped ship and that we were devestated to lose him!

Great article... needs to be given wider distribution!

Excellent Jack... an intelligent and witty piece that is obviously beyond CW!

Here's an interesting article by Martin Flanagan http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/his-heart-beats-true-20091124-j61s.html

Melbourne » Reviews » A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Tank Written by Cow-whine Wilful Monday, 29 October 2012 20:25 As a low-brow farce, Tank contains all the necessary elements: disguised characters, puns, mistaken identity, interwoven sub plots and men in drag. While these classic elements can be like old friends to fans of the genre, they require deft direction and excellent physical and comic timing to remain fresh for an audience. Director Brock The Queen understands how and why the genre works and never allows the show to sink into a leery Benny-Hill style [censored] and bums sketch. Pace is all important and the one liners come thick and fast, zinging around the stage with such rapidity that you barely have time to think about them, which is sometimes a good thing. Fallguy Gardener's score is pleasant and hummable (and deceptively tricky) but the songs tend to slow the action down and it requires hard work from the cast to crank it back into top gear. But they always do. And the bawdy romp continues unabated. This vaudeville style genre requires skilful acting to pull off and the main cast tackle it with varying degrees of success.

A: "Knock knock" B: "Who's There?" A: "Interrupting Cow-whine" B: "Interru/ A: "MOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

That is, journalist Cow-whine Wilful

Just looking for the part of CS's relationship with Richmond that might be motivating Cow-whine...

Found this from Footystats Diary 1994. The final entry should prove interesting! Swans second win in 38 games Hawks to the bottom Surprise packet Demons ROUND FOUR – Fri-Sat-Sun, April 15-16-17: The Friday SCG encounter was a close scrappy contest between fellow-cellar-dwellers. A game riddled with basic skill errors the saving grace was a 14pt win for Barassi’s SYDNEY 11.20-86 (Minton-Connell 6) to RICHMOND 10.12-72. The 9727 fans at last saw the Swans heading in the right direction ... lacking leadership with the critical absence of both Dunstall and Langford, the Hawks were but a shadow of their former selves at the Park on Saturday as the Bluebaggers with 11.3 in the third (including five goals by MIL HANNA) in front of 30,944 were 87pt victors, CARLTON 24.16-160, HAWTHORN 11.7-73 ... 61,193 were at the MCG to watch the AFL’s early surprise packet Melbourne put the chocker on the creative talents of an injury-sapped Bomber outfit who were starved of forward opportunities, MELBOURNE 12.12-84, ESSEN-DON 9.12-66 ... at the Western Oval the Kangas retained their unbeaten record holding off a spirited last term effort from the Scraggers, NORTH 17.10-112, FOOTSCRAY 14.15-99 – 21,630 saw a 22-year -old WAYNE CAREY (NM) play an outstanding forward’s game with 6.2 and his report by the emergency umpire ... on Saturday night 32,000 packed the WACA where the Eagles scored their first win in the Perth night since 1992 as they barnstormed to a 12-goal victory over the Lions who were beyond the pace after the first break, WEST COAST 18.21-129, FITZROY 8.5-53 ... on Sunday, the expensive ALASTAIR LYNCH kicked 8.3 in his debut game (first match for nine weeks) for the Bears as they stormed home after an even first half to demolish the Saints by 53pts who were still without both Loewe and Lockett, BRISBANE 22.19-151, ST KILDA 15.8-98 to 11.640 fans ... the Crows left the Cats standing in a gung-ho final dash to 45,639 at Football Park when ADELAIDE 15.14-104 downed GEELONG 11.11-77 ... <||> ROUND FOUR FOCUS—Three unbeaten sides reign, the Kangas, Demons and Magpies ... it was an AFL first, all four interstate-based played at home in the same round and all sides won ... 209,733 supporters provided a new record for the round, topping the 201,790 of 1992 ... Hawthorn on the bottom of the ladder for the first time since 1979s second round; before that, it was 1970 when the Hawks held the bottom (12th) rung for seven weeks from round three to nine ... Carlton’s 11.3-69 third quarter against the Hawks was equal to the Blues best in 115 outings at Waverley Park ... Adelaide ruckman BRETT CHALMERS fined $30,000 for prejudicing the 1992 draft played his debut game for the Crows ... the charge against WAYNE CAREY (NM) was withdrawn by the umpire before a hearing ... <||> the round was a three-day television feast with 15-hours from five capitals for southern states viewers ... <||> Carlton president JOHN ELLIOTT revealed, in company with the Melbourne City Council and the University of Melbourne, plans to build another oval in nearby Royal Park to provide another venue for cricket and thus free Princes Park earlier each year for football ... <||> high-profile business manager MAL BROWN launched a scathing attack calling the RICHMOND board (which he works for) “negative”, “cliquey” and “tired” ... __________ Collingwood president ALLAN McALISTER named seven AFL clubs he thinks should merge–Hawthorn to join St Kilda, Fitzroy with Footscray and North with Richmond and Melbourne. It recalled events of 100 years ago when the Magpies proposed mergers and inclusion of Ballarat and Bendigo to the then governing VFA body, a move rejected which led to the breakaway and formation of the VFL in 1896 ... __________ <||> a new statewide comp involving country centres and some VFA clubs is mooted for 1996, possibly called the Victorian Football League ... <||> Collingwood’s MICK McGUANE at Vic Park training collided with team-mate Glenn Sandford straining the lateral ligament in his right knee to sideline the star for at least a month ... <||> the $6m giant colour video screen to sit on top of the Northern Stand will be ready in time for the MCG finals ... <||> ABC Radio adds former Essendon great SIMON MADDEN to their expert commentary team ... <||> TRIBUNAL—DEAN WALLIS (Ess) was suspended for three games on the misconduct of kneeing David Schwarz (Mel) in the stomach; a rugged Bomber defender, it was the third time in three years Wallis had been suspended for three matches ... ANDREW JARMAN (Ade) from video was outed two games for striking Adrian Hickmott (Gee) ... <||> ALLAN JEANS, former St Kilda, Hawthorn and Richmond coach who has long held concern for the future of junior and grassroots football calls for the expansion of existing VSFL comp to the whole of eastern Australia embracing Tasmania and Canberra, rather than create a new statewide football league ... <||> former captain LAURIE SANDILANDS joins the Footscray board as football development director ... <||> In the days following the Sunday comments of MAL BROWN on Channel 9’s “Footy Show”– on Thursday, Tiger gm CAMERON SCHWAB resigned for personal reasons; that night the Richmond board sat for 4¾ hours; on Friday, four board members resigned—CLAUDE ULLIN, ERIC LEECH, MICHAEL HUMPRIS and TREVOR McGINLEY; Richmond president LEON DAPHNE while chiding Brown “for using a public forum to express his criticisms of the Board, I wanted him to stay as business manager of the club and as a consultant to the Board”...

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I don't think CW's links to Richmond are relevent to the current issue. She obviously thinks she is justified in shooting the MFC down on the basis of information that has come her way. She is so confident that MFC will be found guilty that she is willing to risk litigation on the basis that the crime commited by MFC warrants her attack. So gleeful is her assassination of all things MFC that she has failed to see that she may have tarred the innocent along with the (perceived) guilty. I look forward, with glee, to the day when the innocent defend themselves with the full weight of the law!

Love your work!

This may have already been mentioned, but I reckon Free Agency will save us in the coming few years!

Well spoken stuie!

That makes 9 from Round 19 2011 (186) GONE! May reach double-figures before the star of 2013.

Yes, well there are some fabulous high-brow stations available to the listener... but they tend not to talk about MFC draft strategy!!!!!!!!

I often use that Kennedy-ism... You got me!

Comparing Pedersen to Newton is off the mark. For a start, Pederson has already shown that he belongs (refer to 2011 season). I had him in my Supercoach team and he was a consistent solid scorer playing primarily in the backline. The fact that he has been very effective as a forward at VFL level underlines his versatility. Newton never looked like he belonged at AFL level, not once... well apart from that mark!

I said Powelly was the best recruit we had signed for a decade when he [censored]-slapped Hodge in the Punt Rd end goalsquare!

At times he was an excitement machine, backing himself and taking them on. I like his self belief. He can take a contested mark, something we haven't seen a lot of, and he seems to be courageous (I don't recall seeing him shirk). Has developed nicely since drafted. I'm seeing plenty of upside in this rough diamond.

Thus my slightly adjusted avatar!

Don't be too hard on me Moonshadow, I was really just unveiling a subtle change to my Avatar, but you would need a looking glass to notice!