Mazer Rackham

A good servant of the club who deserved better. Hounded by the AFL. All the more disgraceful when compared to individuals who most definitely brought the game into disrepute but ended up being rewarded. RIP Dean!

Just coming back to this point. It annoys the hell out of me. If the HS believe that the AFL were running their story through Caro, as a front, then surely the new story is exactly that. Why do the AFL need to go through a journo -- they have their own media people -- and why need to "tell a story". What do the AFL have to hide? is the journo's obvious angle. But the HS decide that the angle is to counter their rival by being a front for another player in the saga. Yes, I know ... what do I expect ... of course all publications have overarching agendas. But this ethos of cheerleading, vendettas, and casual disregard for the truth is the damage done to journalism worldwide by Murdoch. And Damon Johnson and his ilk can't see a problem with that.

Newman is exactly the kind of fool who finds people like Trump impressive.

Be great if we could have found out for sure. In a practice match or something? Trengove should have seen the writing on the wall when Goodwin told him he had to pay for his own ticket.

We saw a team that was down on skill still in the game with 10 minutes to go. We saw a team playing slick footy that was threatening to blow us off the park, but didn't due to our refusal to lie down. We did this with a number of our better players off their best game, and saw where there is plenty of room for improvement.

Good news .Trengove has made it on to the ground.

Well, that's great. That's just [censored]' great, man! Now what the [censored] are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty [censored] now, man! That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over! What the [censored] are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?

Couriers got the shipment wrong. It was supposed to go to the WCE rooms!

Spencer is our small forward!

I see this is not just a practice match for the MFC. It's also a practice match for the MFCSS.

The mind of Sam Newman ,,, the first Grand Prix in Albert Park was beset by controversy, from people wanting justification of the benefits, to the save Albert Park people, to local traders [censored] off that the punters were bussed right past them to the Crown casino doors, etc. But the race itself was judged to be a success. In the immediate aftermath, Sam went on radio saying this: "It just shows .... never, ever, listen to the minority." Good one Sam. The thinking man's fool. This interview will be full of leading questions, Barnum statements and thinly disguised swipes at the AFL and "the authorities" (you may substitute whichever authorities get on your goat).

That all sounds quite reasonable, crowls. Can't you fly off the handle a bit so we can all feel more at home?

Murdoch's World. An ethics-free zone.

Young men will never learn not to drink-drive ... but the TAC should know that. They are the slow learners.

For Satyr and all others who take the time to post training reports, please keep up the good work.

Oh, why stop there? Disqualified and dropped to the VFL.

Use more yeast and more sugar.

Wow, you should coach the Oz cricket team. Mark Waugh would have loved you. But Mitch Johnson and Shane Watson would have gotten into trouble for not doing their homework.

It's a damn shame, isn't it?

I hear what you're saying but (1) we're winning and the boys are confident, that counts for a hell of a lot, and (2) would you rather be in the position we're in, or in Brisbane's, or Carlton's?

And ..... BANG! There you have it. BANG! again. These are all ultimately based on someone's opinion, they then put numbers to their opinion, and then they put absolute trust in the numbers because ... they're numbers, man, and the computer doesn't lie! Simple example: some one decides a kick is worth 5 Champion Points and a handball is 3. Someone else says, no, a handball should be worth 4. Someone else: no, 2. And a mark is worth 4. But a contested mark is 8, and a contested mark against a top defender is 12. It's all subjectivity dressed up as science and they don't notice when it generates garbage results, like for our list, because they basically don't know our list. They end up really believing C'wood must have the best midfield, even in the face of Danger and Selwood being a better midfield all by themselves.

Match committee at oppo club X: Coach: "So they want Watts to actually put in all the time?" Chairman of selectors: "They don't want him to slack off?" Director of football: "Those sly buggers!" Asst coach: "Ha ha! Now they've let the cat out of the bag! Now we know how to handle him!" Coach: (thoughtfully) "You've got to hand it to them. They nearly slid that one right under our noses."

Nonsense. It shows the club is fair dinkum and not a bunch of hand-wringers wondering how to handle the golden child.

The sanctimony of Team Sky combined with their propensity to create huge amounts of smoke while at the same time claiming there is no fire, makes the whole thing as suspect as it was when Armstrong was running the show.

What I would like to know is how do a couple of fruitloops and ne'er-do-wells like Alan "Mr Objectivity" Hird and Bruce "Not at all unhinged" Francis have the clout to get up a Senate Estimates Committee?