Engorged Onion

Without google 1.Black Sabbath oh... the smiths 4. AcDC 6. Pink Floyd

I was missing out Dave in Ray and Dave Davies...

google search on the player - his nickname - "Crazy Horse" Bazing

Oh! Dave...

James/Jim Morrison was in the doors Keefy Richard - Rolling Stones Gram Parson - The Byrds Ray Davies (a fine fine song writer observer of English Life (Village Green Preservation Society)- mentor of my beloved Paul Weller) - The Kinks Neil Young - Cowtown - dunno - Toronto was where he was born - Calgary has the Stampede (cowtown??) Don't know Bryan Connolly... Bryan Ferry?? Billy Connolly - I could google the Sweet 0 but that feels like cheating.

Ya! Me too @JTR - but some folk on here give it some really good analysis - which isn't my bag to design, but love reading it. Mind you - 3 weeks in a row (and after beating The Bulldogs and Brisbane) THIS still happens!!

Sorry, getting in early here. Some tasty and meaningful matches for neutral Melbourne supporter this weekend. Im actually quite worried about the Cats, as we obviously played them without Cameron, so my preference is for a Port win. I’d also rather West Coast to miraculously win against Richmond whilst being injury depleted. Im not sure which permeate room suits us better in throes matches?

My following post could be interpreted two ways - I only mean the best. I know I've recently posted about my fathers own death via MND on here - and his own relationship with Neale. Dad's diagnosis to death time frame was 16 months as he had the most aggresive form. It started in his head, whereby he started slurred his words (ie: sounded drunk) - loss of motor coordination in the mouth and tounge. I am so so so pleased for Neale and his family that 6 years on from a diagnosis, he is still functioning where he is - the 'knowing' smiles/tears my wife and I gave to one another last week where we saw Neale on AFL360 talking with immense difficulty - and going 'oh...[censored] he is close to losing the complete capacity to speak' - was exactly like my fathers. His work has being immense and I am so glad the disease (or his bodies resistance to the disease) has been a long drawn out process. For Neale, the observation (and living) of his own degradation of his motor co-ordination, whilst being full congniscent of what is occurring and having no control would be the most unbearable thing. Yet on the flip side - here he is - crusading...he's [censored] amazing! I mullled over putting this part in... but what you wont see of Neale (or perhaps they will show it as this is what occurs) and I put it in to give the full reality of the experience whilst being fully conversent in your own head, but your body doesn't allow you to speak You may move to using a computer, whereby your own fingers allow you to type words, press a button (much like a computer) and it speaks the sentences for you Your motor coordination of your hands decrease incrementally bit by bit that essentially your hands rest on that computer, and your fingers barely reach the keys to type your perfectly formed conversations in your head. You will experience immense frustration...conversation after conversation after conversation for many months... Finally your fingers don't move - but you can't talk - so somehow you must communicate to family members or others in a caring capacity what your perfectly formed conversations are... how the [censored] do you do that? So you grunt, or make growling noises because your throat cannot work, at your loved ones, whilst they move your fingers hovering over the key board, doing their best to predict what it is you are trying to add to the conversation... they will get frustrated at you, you will get frustrated at them...all of you, exhausted. In parallel to this, you can't swallow food as your motor coordination of your throat fails, - so you will have a tube inserted into your stomach, and all your food gets pureeed, and syringed into your stomach. Your family/carers will do this for you. You will have no control over your toileting functions, your family and carers will hold your penis and wipe your bottom. You will look at your family member who is holding your penis and question why it has come to this... You are still the same bloke/person you were cognitively prior to the onset...but you now bare witness to your own slow death. 'The frustrated, saddened compassionate silent observer' of your own body's destruction whilst your cognitive capacity has not diminished at all. The loss of 'dignity' and suffering (my words) is immense in the final stages. My father weighed 41kg when he died... And again, this isn't me musing/reflecting on my Dad, this is about Neale. What a magnificent beast he is.

Nah, I wouldn't sweat it. They wont be. The emotion of playing for someone might be at the start of the game for around 30-45 seconds... the adrenal response. And then...normal. service. resumes. You see it all the time in the first few minutes of Grand Finals... the stress response, scrappy football etc etc... Player's cannot keep telling themselves throughout a match 'I've got to do it for Buckley, I've got to do it for Buckley', its exhausting and useless as you're not on task. If we lose, its ostensibly because we lost it due to a lack of pressure or adherence to structure. If we lose, we lose on our terms, not because Collingwood have won.

ooze? or oo-zay when you say it in your head @daisycutter

Step One: Hover over someone's name and click Ignore User Step Two: Follow prompts Step Three: Exhale gleefully.

The beauty of the block button @kev martin is that you can still engage in a thread whilst not having to engage with others. Anyway, I like talking about the process of talking to one another.... and this youtube clip is the strongest evidence yet for the 'block button... use it as whimsically as you like :)

I'm pretty slow mate @Lord Nev, what do you mean by that?

And Jake Niall's version (Perhaps the thread could be renamed to ' The Media's All Australian Teams'

It's a forum - and as forum - people can vent as much as they want, whether it is accurate or ill-informed. Just block them. Also, the frustration is all about the anxiety the person is feeling about the potential to lose and the impact on their mood. I've blocked circa 20 people - many who now have been removed from the site - seems to be a correlation between heightened responses that are posted, and the persons propensity to goad others...

Perhaps genetics and natural evolution - was 18 when he joined, is now 21 (boy to man) ?

Have you not been checking the Sam Weideman thread?

Why do they need a new forward and kicking coach? What metrics are they not hitting effectively enough from your perspective?

@Ham My take on Sam, is that his development hasn't stalled, he has had numerous injuries over the course of numerous years and this has impacted on his continuity. Also, neither am I expecting him to be a big dog so to speak (Hawkins Kennedy, Lynch) in his role in the forward line. Just on Stafford as coach, why would a professional club employ someone in a role if they're not fit for the purpose, and then continue on the knowledge that that person is not fit for purpose? What's your take on Stafford and what he brings to the table?

@Skuit, we've had the kill mentality in 11 of our games... the pressure is not as overt as scoreboard pressure (but 4 goals up with 8min to go is pretty good).... I believe McCartney called some of the midfielders 'glass munchers' - this now seems to apply to to the rest of the team and how they absorb pressure and re-distribute it.

I was searching for your stats on an earlier post re: scores against us top 8 vs bottom 8 - could you re submit with this please :) An underrated post...

No effort? WTF?

This is so fantastic, I was not aware that it had been commented on publicly previously? A little tear in my eye...

Hello Brisbane midfield, just a little reminder that 'tasty tasty Chomper' is coming for ya....

Mmmm, a vulnerable post. My father died of MND 5 years ago last Thursday, just as I became a father (and he had his first grandchild), and had a relationship with Neale, through Daniher's Drive . Previously because of my unwillingess to attend to the G for The Big Freeze, I've headed to Alice to honour the old bloke and watch a match live around the date of his death. In a somewhat hilarious course of fate, it's taken me around 5 years to have the courage to head to the 'G' to celebrate the life of my father, and honour the work that Neale and the entire community that facilitates Fight MND have committed to do. I've often envisaged myself sitting at the ground, sobbing, overwhelmed with the occasion, and most likely heading to the Bullring to have copious amounts of pints throughout a game. This year, I felt as though I've worked through a lot of my unresolved grief, to a space of being joyous about turning up to the G, and marking his absence, by taking my 5 year old up to the ground to watch the Wiz go down the slide and have yet another generation support the red and blue and mark it with a solid [censored] win against the Pies. Anyway, best laid plans and all of that... I'll be putting my days outing cost (train ticket, plus beer, plus food, plus gate, plus more beer) into a MND donation tin/online somewhere instead.