dee-luded

I'm getting to the point where I want both Clarke & Watson as specialist batsmen, & don't bowl them. especially clarke, his back gives too much trouble that we can't afford. Siddle is a must as all look up to him to grind things along when wickets aren't responding. the teams spine. So to me he's the 2 or 3rd seamer. We need Pattinson,,, & hopefully Cummins, ideally as 2 new ball bowlers. So either Pattinson, Cummins, & Siddle. with Lyon. or Pattinson, Siddle, & Johnson/Stark, with Lyon. could we fit Johnson in as an alrounder?

IMO, he's (Watson) way to big, muscular for his duties. OK for batting, but more than he needs. Being too big is IMO part of the reason he's breaking down. As well as his inner demeanor aggravating it. He's a bit like Botham & Richards in he's a big ball of muscle. Except those 2 both had a laconic side with a layedback part of they're EGO's. This IMO is imperative for these types to deal with the stress of the game & the demands. I've seen it before where players like him keep breaking down as they don't give themselves the inner peace to release they're bodies from stress. First he should shed some Kilo's like Karmichael-Hunt has, & IMO her needs to start doing Hot Yoga or Yoga with Meditation. He appears extremely intense with the weight of the world on his frame. When firing, & he's out of his best touch atmo without many bats in the middle, He's one of our best Batsmen.

I wasn't commenting on his one innings. I've watched him over his career, as I saw him as a huge talent. But could then see he was fragile in his Self Belief. I've come to realise he's not a front man, & should be a 3rd quick or alrounder. We have a wealth of 3rd quicks, including Siddle in an Ideal world. Siddle, Bird Johnson, etc. ATMO Siddle is a great 2nd bowler, but when Cummins & Pattinson workout how to stay on the park, Siddle has to be the Guts & Bravado bowler that holds the attack together. Johnson could be a 1st stringer, but his lack of selfbelief curtails his talent. Johnson can bat as a down the order alrounder, & he can score quickly as well.

Watson has done his calf again! He has to go on an AFL training regime, of endurance training to lose some of his excess bulk. He's too muscle bound IMO, & gets injured at the drop of a baggy green. He should be at his peak, but now he's looking at maybe losing his test spot as unreliable. M Johnson could become the alrounder, & Watson IMO should concentrate as a batsmen, & shed 8 kilos... Get Watson up as opener.

& his swing... 'Starcs', movement thru the air hopefully will do some tricks. & just maybe the hilf, before its too late for him? IMO bounce will help Siddle.

Yes, & Michael Clarke MK11...

totally agree Nasher, there seems to be a lack lustre approach to the game, No fight, vim or vigger, bowling or batting? to me it shows we are thin on the ground for hardened competitors after Punter, Siddle, Mr Cricket, although at least Wade showed some grit & lyon looks reliable.

To me, our balance in the fast bowling dept' has caused us grief. With Pattinson (No 1) and Siddle playing as (No 2) with Hilfenhaus (No 3), its too fragile at the topend. The Ideal would to me be a Pattinson & Pat Cummins as the strike bowlers with Siddle or Hilfenhaus as 3rds. At the moment it looks to me like we have one strike bowler (now injured) + Siddle + Hilfenhaus. Get an injury to a strike bowler & we're exposed, as happened. We can paper over the cracks with alrounders, but we need 2 strike bowlers & one stock bowler.(Siddle) When Watson comes back in, it helps, but we have a lot of partime bowlers with suspect health issues. Clarke included.

dee-luded, on 20 November 2012 - 11:03 PM, said: I still don't like Warner as opener, but 1st drop OK. (3, 4 or 5) Hopefully today knocks will address that bizarre flight of fancy. ---------------------------------------------------- dee-luded, on 20 November 2012 - 11:03 PM, said: Now we have a player with hands, we must try to keep him, catches win matches. Go Quiney. Yes but can he bat at Test level? -------------------------------------------------------- # Warner as opener. No, not changed my mind, but he batted beautifully. He to me has the right attitude - aggression to be a 3rd 4rth bat. As does Watson, but I think Watson has more discipline to this point, with regard to playing in a measured way. # Quiney, disappointing getting a pair. still nothing proven with him yet, but Watson will need to come in for someone, Quiney has time on his hands,,, so I would hold onto Ponting, just to see. Oh & by the way I wanted Siddle in the side as the honest workhorse 3rd quick. He's a beaut. And Clarke: i wanted him to not be captain a couple of seasons ago, & there was a big outcry from the public re his superficial ways. He's changed, grown up a lot, & is meeting his responsibilities. Clarke has improved from all the public criticism & doubt. So the criticism was warranted. Without it Clarke may not have changed one iota.

I still don't like Warner as opener, but 1st drop OK. (3, 4 or 5) Now we have a player with hands, we must try to keep him, catches win matches. Go Quiney.

If we did this deal, inc Caddy (+ Toy), could we facilitate him, ontraded to a Saints or Blues for P12 or P11?

Wow! I think I see, & I think I like what I think I see.

They're on record from what I remember that they want to get some bigger bodies onto they're list as they went too young, & got the balance wrong. As we did with too much kind skilled types. Beamer is a big body & is a handy age bracket for them as many of they're kids mature. You never know, they may be interested. Steak knives are a necessity unless you have too many sets. Time will tell if they go after some more physically mature players to supplement their list. It will be interesting to see how clubs handle the new FA Regulations & what tricks get applied.

Surely, if Beamer wants to go to the Bumbers, & IF the GCSuns were interested in Beamer, & Beamer I reckon wouldn't mind the Sun, Coast & girls, then maybe we could help it happen?

Would GCSuns be interested in Brent Moloney (RFA)? I think they said they'd like some big bodied players? Moloney + P13 for Caddy ???

OK? I'll bite, is this Luke Russell wanting to return to Melbourne then, I'm assuming you've mentioned him because he is?

Martin to the Pies for they're Pick around 18. Pick 18 + Bail to GCSuns for Caddy. Or Pick 13 + Petterd.

This is not scare mongering Ben, & I'm not a nuclear physicist. This is just a database of reported information from the newspapers. It's for people to read when they look back, & to have some references to ponder & make they're own minds up. For me my take on Nuclear power or processing is fairly clear. I've made virtually Nil personal comments re my position on these matters other than make this a storage for information I've seen. Your the one taking a stand & personal things, seeking arguments. Not me. I actually do not like arguments or Arguing, however in person, I'll happily discuss my thoughts of what I think on things life & earth. But not in a forum like this where there are no constraints of respect. So I post the things I've noticed in the press. Even the butterfly one which wasn't the Strongest of arguments but still shows results of the contamination to the Environment. I won't even bother to persuade you one way or the other, because I don't cars what one person thinks. Only what many may think after reading information thats been made public. Anyway, it's time for me to switch off for the night.

Japan nuke plant still fragile: chief AP © Japan's Fukushima power plant remains fragile nearly a year after it suffered multiple meltdowns. Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima power plant remains fragile nearly a year after it suffered multiple meltdowns, its chief says, with makeshift equipment - some mended with tape - keeping crucial systems running. An independent report, meanwhile, revealed that the government downplayed the full danger in the days after the March 11 disaster and secretly considered evacuating Tokyo. Journalists given a tour of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant on Tuesday, including a reporter from The Associated Press, saw crumpled trucks and equipment still lying on the ground. A power pylon that collapsed in the tsunami, cutting electricity to the plant's vital cooling system and setting off the crisis, remained a mangled mess. Officials said the worst is over but the plant remains vulnerable. "I have to admit that it's still rather fragile," said plant chief Takeshi Takahashi, who took the job in December after his predecessor resigned due to health reasons. "Even though the plant has achieved what we call 'cold shutdown conditions,' it still causes problems that must be improved." The government announced in December that three melted reactors at the plant had basically stabilised and that radiation releases had dropped. It still will take decades to fully decommission the plant, and it must be kept stable until then. The operators have installed multiple backup power supplies, a cooling system, and equipment to process massive amounts of contaminated water that leaked from the damaged reactors. But the equipment that serves as the lifeline of the cooling system is shockingly feeble-looking. Plastic hoses cracked by freezing temperatures have been mended with tape. A set of three pumps sits on the back of a pickup truck. Along with the pumps, the plant now has 1,000 tanks to store more than 160,000 tonnes of contaminated water. http://au.news.yahoo...-fragile-chief/

Record radiation in fish off Japan nuclear plant AFP © <p>Fish on sale near Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011. A pair of greenlings have shown the highest level of radioactive caesium detected in fish and shellfish caught in waters off the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, its operator said Tuesday.</p> TOKYO (AFP) - A pair of greenlings have shown the highest level of radioactive caesium detected in fish and shellfish caught in waters off Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, its operator said Tuesday. The fishes, captured 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) off the plant on August 1, registered 25,800 becquerels of caesium per kilo, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said -- 258 times the level the government deems safe for consumption. The previous record in fish and shellfish off Fukushima was 18,700 becquerels per kilo detected in cherry salmons, according to the government's Fisheries Agency. TEPCO said the greenlings might have fed in radioactive hotspots and that it would sample more of the fish, their feed and the seabed soil in the area in the coming weeks to determine the cause of the high radiation. Fishermen have been allowed since June to catch -- on an experimental basis -- several kinds of fish and shellfish, but only in areas more than 50 kilometres off the plant. Those catches have shown only small amounts of radioactivity. Greenlings have not been caught by fishermen off Fukushima since the massive earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 triggered meltdowns in reactors at the plant. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/14624939/record-radiation-in-fish-off-japan-nuclear-plant/

Your still carrying on like a off pork chop. You don't know your facts either. People died inside the reactors, & others are extremely sick, the ones who entered to try to fix the water issues. Time will show just how foolish you have been.

Fukushima radiation causes insect mutations: researchers Mutations ... an adult pale grass blue butterfly found near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is shown with dented eyes and stunted wings at the university laboratory in Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan. Photo: AP/Chiyo Nohara of University of the Ryukyus Radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear plant has caused mutations in some butterflies and damaged the local environment, though humans seem relatively unaffected, researchers say. The mutations - including dented eyes and stunted wings - are the first evidence the radiation following last year's tsunami has caused genetic changes in living organisms. The catastrophic meltdowns in three reactors of Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant after it was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 prompted a public backlash against nuclear power, and forced the government to reassess resource-scarce Japan's entire energy strategy. A normal adult pale grass blue butterfly suckles nectar from a flower. Photo: AP/Masaki Iwata of University of the Ryukyus But the most visible example of the radiation's effect was claimed by a group of Japanese researchers who found radical physical changes in successive generations of a type of butterfly. They said the threat to humans was unclear. "Our findings suggest that the contaminants are causing ecological damage. I do not know its implication to humans," said Joji Otaki of the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, a member of the team that conducted the research. A separate study, released this week, found very low levels of radioactivity in people who were living near the Fukushima plant when it suffered the meltdowns. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, measured caesium levels in 8066 adults and 1432 children and found average doses of less than 1 millisievert, a level considered safe. It was the first such study measuring internal exposures to caesium in a large number of people. The research shows contamination decreased over time, particularly among children, in part because more precautions were taken with their food, water and outdoor activity. "No case of acute health problems has been reported so far. However, assessments of the long-term effect of radiation requires ongoing monitoring of exposure and the health conditions of the affected communities," the report said. So far, the actual radiation doses inflicted just after the accident are not exactly known, though exposure is thought to be very small, said David Brenner, a radiation physicist at Columbia University, who was not part of the research. "We do need improved estimates of the radiation dose that people in and near Fukushima prefecture actually received," he said. "Right now our estimates are based on very, very rough calculations." The research on the butterflies was published in Scientific Reports, an open-access online journal by the Nature publication group, which provides faster publication and peer review by at least one scientist. It says pale grass blue butterflies, a common species in Japan, collected from several areas near the Fukushima plant showed signs of genetic mutations. Other experts said they viewed the research as significant. To study the genetic changes, the scientists raised the new generations of the butterflies in Okinawa, which has not been affected by the radiation releases, mating each abnormal butterfly with one unaffected by such changes. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/environment/fukushima-radiation-causes-insect-mutations-researchers-20120817-24cy2.html#ixzz23o1WhqMT

Boak off the table??? I hope we make a play for both of them! Boak, & Caddy.

Cesium from the Japan Nuclear Disaster, found in Tuna caught off the United States West Coast.

Lamb Nee'ds to search out amongst the farming community, if he's to find players who can kick like a Mule, or has bite, like a Crocodile.