Mazer Rackham

This is true for anyone trying to sell anything online. Even they're not trying to literally sell online but just advertise. They have to account for these things ... and do. Ticketek do not have a unique problem on their hands. The debacle is all down to Ticketek being too cheap to spring for extra processing grunt.

Yeah, I had different dramas. Signed on at 12:58 ready to spring ..... at 12:59:55 got an urgent phone call. No!!! 15 mins later ... MCG map wouldn't refresh. Then timed out after ticket selection and had to start from scratch ... my beautiful first choice tickets were then not available! But, have tix so all is well.

Collingwood supporters maybe? Tell them it's Ticketek!

Tex: come on boys. Let's scare the hell out of them other teams with our own ....... what's that thing the Kiwis do? Players: the haka? Tex: is that what it's called? So yeah, let's do our own Adelaide hokey thingy. Players: haka Tex: that's what I said! First stand like this. Players: got it. Then what? Tex: I dunno. Ummmmmmmmmm ..... (they stand there for three minutes while Tex wracks his brains for a second move) Tex: Ummm ... and that's it! Gotta be worth 3 goals a game! Players: (*thinks*) Our leader. Sh*t. I wonder if Carlton/Gold Coast/St Kilda need a half forward/back pocket/on baller/etc

The Dick-Head-tek web site is with Amazon, where you can order more grunt when you need it and hand it back when you don't need it. They were probably trying to log on to the Amazon retail site and got confused by all the books, shoes and fancy can openers.

That web site is run by Telstra, no further explanation necessary

Thank you for your concern. Yes. I'm talking about MCC tix.

Nothing in his contract to tie his bonus to ticketek performance, so where's the problem?

Looks like I've got prime seats in front of the TV. Tickets sold out from under my nose while I was waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting ... log in ...wait wait wait wait.... enter bar code, choose tix ... wait wait wait wait ... refresh .... more bays have disappeared ... have to log in again ... wait wait wait ... have to enter bar code for 100th time ... get message: "Please go back and try again. This was unexpected." Have to go back to start. Finally get this: "There aren't enough tickets to meet your request right now. Please try a different ticket category or type, with a reduced quantity of tickets. If you receive this message even when selecting only one ticket, all remaining tickets are being transacted by other customers." These guys need to apply for the world cup rights. They've got their f***kup game down pat.

Admit it, they do a balls out job of "servicing" their customers.

Spargo, Fritsch and Hannan are examples of the footballers versus athletes syndrome. They are all footballers who know how to play football. They don't have to taught the game in the middle of a match (eg Mason Cox). They just know where to go, how to get the ball, and what to do with it when they have it. Going to be fantastic watching Spargo and in particular Fritsch (whom I hereby curse with the tag of the New Robbie Flower) when they've got a couple of preseasons into them.

I don't think anyone wanted us to go on a fake macho camp run by would-be Rambos who've watched too many Schwarzenegger and Steven Seagal movies, and end up injured physically or psychologically. The issue was always the way the players went behind the club's back. Indicated a rift in the club which had the potential to Adelaide our season. Adelaide lived out precisely the season we feared we might wear because of the rift. Fortunately we appear to have overcome that and amazingly enough, our recent on-field success is the mental breakthrough we needed, not midnight hazings while naked in blackface. No more camps and no more rifts. Go Demons!

Son: which ones are us, Pa? Father: the ones winning, son. Doncha know nuffing? Son: which one's that? Father: I heard that bloke over there say it's the blue and red team Son: why are we wearing blue and red today, Pa? Father: I fink it's our away jumper, son. Son: who's the other team? Father: I dunno. I reckon it must be Essadun. We hate Essadun. Son: we hate all the uvver clubs! Father & Son together: Go Pies!!!!!

It's a real thing

35000 Demons supporters 1000 non-Demon footy tragics who showed up for their hit 500 drunk MCC members who were still there from Saturday unable to find the exits 400 Pies members who showed up because they don't understand that Collingwood don't play there every day 90 people there who have signed up as GWS members to get better access to finals tickets to watch their real club 9 people who signed up as GWS members because they think they're shoving it up someone somewhere somehow 1 actual GWS supporter

Background: A 'cult-like’ pre-season camp debacle left senior Adelaide Crows players distressed Entitled the ‘Mankind Project’ and run by Collective Minds, players were asked to complete emotionally upsetting questionnaires, as well as a variety of tasks that sources say also had at least one assistant coach questioning the merits of the mental elements of the camp. Now read on ... My (very) weird weekend with the naked woodland warriors who travel to remote England to 'reclaim their masculinity' I have signed up to the ManKind Project, an all-male group boasting 1,700 UK members that aims to release men's 'inner warrior' and reclaim their masculinity.

Then rest Gawn and Oliver for the remaining 3 quarters.

Then we must give you some credit! I wondered why he was tearing it up so much. Good job. Next week, can you scream "Kick straight, Tracc!" a dozen times? Or even 6 would do.

Was thinking before today that Kent in particular has an exquisite sense of timing. Getting back into the team at the perfect time of the season. Now perhaps it's better to say he has an acute sense of timing. Whatever happens, we're going to have a few boys absolutely champing at the bit going into next season.

It was Richmond-like, the way we stifled them. GWS would get possession and then hold it up because there was nothing on, time and again. Maybe that article by Gleeson in The Age that spelled out our defensive deficiencies in embarrassing detail, woke up our coaches? Hope not but the timing is some coincidence. Two weeks in a row where our frailty is nowhere in sight. So two very good scalps on our belt, running into the pointy end of the season on high octane fuel and with a few teams between us and the cup that we owe some payback to. "Survivor AFL: September edition" is shaping up as a blockbuster. GO DEMONS!

How's the serenity? This winning business is something I could get used to.

You are our good luck charm, The Chazz. It's quite the responsibility. Don't f**k it up.

No, RG. It turns out it can be crucial. It is possible (theoretically) to miss finals, based solely on percentage! I don't know if it's ever happened. I have wiped all memory of anything to do with football before 28 August 2017.

The reason WADA (&ASADA) have such harsh penalties is so that excuses such as "he is young, therefore an innocent baby", "it's only a little bit performance enhancing", "I didn't know, the doctor gave it to me", "I didn't take it, I must have stood next to someone on the train who did" ... would not wash. Otherwise every athlete would be out there taking stuff, knowing they had a free get out jail card. "Doc gave it to me. Thanks for the gold medal and the sponsorships." WADA took away the get out of jail card. It's the only way it can work. Kid gets 2 years, so sorry.

Agree with much of what you say, tiers, but some of Trav 's shortcomings were a little closer to home. Basically he didn't put in as hard as he could have. For all his talent, of which he was chock full, he only had (from memory) 2 games of 30+ possessions. And one of those was when he was left unattended all game by CFC when they were "not tanking". ("Tanking" doesn't exist in the AFL. "Not tanking" is the thing that is real and can get you into strife.)