Mazer Rackham

WTF brought this topic back from the dead? It's been gone over again and again and again and again and ............ It's more productive to argue about whether we should have drafted Ollie Wines. It's more productive to propose that with a good pre-season, Sylvia might finally fulfill his potential. We have a gun list who are on the cusp of kicking major backside. We should concentrate on that. Look forward, not back.

Sorry, not. It was foretold. 23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the messiah, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false messiahs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very members. 25 Behold, I have told you before. 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the Long Room; go not forth: behold, he is sitting in the cheer squad; believe it not. 27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the blow-in presidents of the MFC be. (Matthew 24)

Woah. Just got back from a "long trip". No. I am very disciplined. Never before 9AM.

Computer says no. 'diamond jim tilbrook' anagrams to 'mild knöb, major idiot.' 'jake lever' anagrams to 'leave jerk' Not as bad but hardly encouraging. The cosmos disapproves of both of these recruitments and we have only ourselves to blame.

No problem. 4 premiership points beats 4 talking points.

Ablett will get sunstroke and forget which way he's kicking. Selwood will suffer whiplash from ducking one time too many. Danger up forward won't touch it as the pill will spend its day sailing through our goals 30 times.

I think it was KB talking about this the other day. In reference to the AFLW matches on the weekend. On one station (Fox? Seven? can't remember) their "special comments" seemed to centre around the stats sheets in front of them. "This girl has taken 6 marks and last year she averaged 11 marks" etc On the other station they talked about what this mark meant in the context of the game and why it was a big deal. One can be a slave to stats.

I'll settle for a long sequence of comfortable, routine, unremarkable victories.

How is this a surprise? The AFL will not let GCS or GWS fail. As for a Tassie team, it's been gone over again and again. But it looks like NMFC will eventually become "the" Tassie team, by stealth.

Take heart, Doc. This is THE YEAR when when we either make the 8, or completely f*** it up somehow.

They're doing it! Patience. Step 1. make the game un-umpireable. Step 2. Wait. Soon no-one will want to be an umpire. (On the basis of no evidence whatsoever, I have the funny feeling that Hocking will address this too.)

Solution: get a Hodge on your team. (We did. Ours is called "Lewis".) The disadvantage we suffered was self inflicted by killing off guys like Jr MacDonald. It's bad list management. It looks like this IS the crackdown.

Not to mention ... Tracc elite (ok, I'll wear that) but then Oliver not??? Maybe they go by looks in which case Clarry will never make it.

I believe this has been tried before. Not exactly a stock exchange but similar ... more like an auction block. A prominent nation fought a war over it and ever since, the practice has been frowned upon. (Even though it still persists in pockets around the globe.)

No, Jayden .... I am your father!

Hutchy doesn't do PC. He does vendettas. Also collecting trophies. He got Whately and Daisy as trophies to put on his media mantelpiece for everyone to admire. Entirely possible as for some weird reason, Dwayne seems to be highly regarded within the industry.

WTF? Was Jack Watts even alive then?

Graham and the Colonel. "I call him Mr Easter."

Unfortunately Radio School as a prerequisite for radio announcing went out just as DVD players, Blackberry phones, disposable cameras and other primitive devices once used by ancient civilisations were coming in. Now any numbnut can spout off any way they like. Adam Cooney the latest egregious example of someone who can barely be understood, but ... he's talking about AFL, can that be wrong??? PS surely you remember Hillier from 3XY days?

Standard prices are $200 - $500 for the tickets and $150 to $300 for the psychiatrist afterwards

I went to an ice hockey game. Fair dinkum, the yanks would watch tiddlywinks if it was in a huge stadium with flashing lights, ear splitting music, popcorn, kiss cam, remote control blimps, G-rated strippers cheerleaders, and various other mind numbing distractions for tiny minds. I'm surprised they were able to concentrate for 11 entire minutes. No wonder they hate cricket.

so far it's hard to tell if these sackings are all part of a master plan or just dear leader going through a stalinist purge of everyone he doesn't like it could be that he has pretensions to up market acceptability (in the sports arena????), and any presenter with a whiff of bogan, meathead or numbskull about them, or someone who might not pass muster in camberwell village, is being shown the door. why then would hillier go? why would maher stay? why would those two knuckleheads in the morning stay? they're sacrificing a lot of SPORTS knowledge for .... what exactly? the mellifluous tones of mr "i have unshakeable principles unless slobbo is around to shout me down" whately? ultimately it's all about ratings and ad revenue, so time will tell. but so far this brave new SEN seems to be all over the shop.

They've adjusted their metrics and parameters since then. They'll have a new erroneous and eyebrow-lifting list this year. (Inject "wtf?" emoji here.)

You're on the right track, Ron. If you keep up the good work, you'll be loathing 17 clubs like the rest of us.