MyFavouriteMartian

Even IF the national game returns to state based competitions, the game has been spread nationally, like never before. So much so that it is entrenched now, north of the Victorian erae. The game will live and grow in the northern states, no matter. Tassie is the state in need, before the round-ball takes over.

More likely Gawn and Tomlinson will push back into D50.

Identity.!!!

I think I might knock one of them out if they tried, JR. and at 130Kgs, JR, I could. And I'm not referring about this current board JR, simply no one can, because they haven't had enough time yet to gauge them, other than to say the time since Roosy's entry has seemed to have been very sound. So far so good, it seems. We as a club have been to the position we are in, before, under Richard Seddon. That also went disappointingly flat, after promising much.

This IS Melbourne footy clubs main WeakNess, for decades. We've been pushed around by the Mcc, and then by all and sundry, since the 70's. The fish goes soft, head first. When we lost Smith and Barassi we were soft. A hard committee/board would have backed them, and kept them. But IMV, the board didn't like the tough ways and tongue, of Smithy's, in their face way. I reckon, that was when the committee was already becoming modern/soft.. politically correct. And we still haven't grown a pair of our own. .

Imagine if we recruited Dusty Martin, or DeGoey. What the natives would find wrong.

He may have coached there.?

Agreed Vt. He should wait now.

Assumptions, BBP.? Were you schooled there.? ?

Maybe those clubs should target young talented Hawks players.

Maybe its time for C7 to do both free to air; and to stream thru clubs, the clubs games, which could be packaged thru club memberships.? Stuff Rupert's long tight pockets.

Nev Jetta cardboard cutouts with bobble heads.

He's more beetroot man, 'gm'.

Brilliant... Fake commentary noise.? ?

He obviously wants out. Bummers I hear.? What chance Danihar to SA.?

try this then, Bo

At a guess, Maher shook Pickett's hand, on being selected.?

What about the Police who didn't even wear face masks at the protest; but still found time to get up close and personal, and pepper spraying those of the protestors, as they were breaking up for their relevant transport home. Shouldn't those Police be isolated at home .?

Capitalism has grown into Big 'C', under the term of credit in western society. Which is now entering its ending. End of the credit section. building on spec which hangs its ha on growth growth and growth. Without credit, this style of Capitalism cannot survive. Those long viewed visionaries of the Big'C', shot themselves in their own foot, whilst their 6 shooter was holstered. And in doing so has slaughtered everything achieved by the real quiet Australians, who went thru Polio, the 2nd WW, and built this country. Only for the late baby boomers & their kids, to wreck it overnight. Everyone (liberal minded) wanted to follow America's model... keep em lean and make em mean and hungry. Keep them slaving away all their life, for little, Or they can live in the gutter. with no health care. 'King of the Castle' stuff. Well the liberals are trying it again to force down the cost of labor. following the American model. with their work visas, attacks on workers rights and conditions. awards etc. They want the burden carried on workers on wages backs. instead of sharing the load. One of their latest new catchphrase of the past 10 years is "taxpayers money". Not calling it as it should be >>> Australia's revenue.

Infiltrated by the Chinese, and Huawei. Hacked ages ago, 'ET'. Hang on, I have to phone home.

Practicing social distancing, and precautions by wearing masks. Why no masks on the Police. Are they immune. They might be infecting everybody, and with their yelling as well. who's pushing who here.? Not the position of the white tiled column in the background. Responsible protestors, wearing protection for one another, whilst they work toward a fairer society. Why is it that Police are doing a "Trump". and not wear breathing masks, in the light of all this pandemic.?????? Yet they condemn others, for being conscientious, and honest to their beliefs.

no wonder you condemn him, and do not understand him.

Yes I know it was a bludge and that there was corruption. I worked my life in construction, and with the ASC&J and BWIU, which turned into the CFMEU. Mega unions to counter Multi National companies power. We used the equivalent of waxed baking paper in the toilets, sometimes you would find news-paper to use, whilst in the offices they had toilet rolls. This is an example of double standards and treatment of working people who were in a seasonal type of employment. That was back when wages were cheaper. It was a disgrace, and asbestos was not treated with the respect it should have been, and was being added into fibro board (james hardie), decades after it was known as a powerful carcinogenic. I witnessed a man coming up on a winch at knock-off time, from hand digging a pile hole, 1.5Mtrs Dia', and about 12 mtrs deep... fall back into the hole from the top, and the jack hammer he was bringing up, fell down behind him. He was to become a quadriplegic. A dangerous industry which had to be brought into line Re safety and conditions. This happened, and the push of the conservative side of world politics started to grow and rebound again in the late 80's, and continued its rebirth, we ended up with outsourcing our telephone inquiries to Asia & India, our manufacturing sector to Sth Korea, then onto China. We closed suburban bank outlets, etc etc, minimising services and maximizing margins... for who? for the shareholders , the few... at the expense of the people, the community. This all led to a more greedy populous, who was more afraid of losing their gains, than they do their fellow Australians. Fences went up from a 1.7Mtr fence to a 2.4Mtr fence, and high front fences with spikes, and outdoor security cameras. Even gated communities... reminds me of the Mcc. This is where our so called advancements have delivered us to, the direction we've all accepted. And its been the wrong way. this is the Capitalists way. I am Social democrat/small c capitalist. This fitted well in our community, in the late 60's and the 70's, thru to the late 80's. We have lost our way, and we area about to pay for this. - - - - - - - - Yes, the Liberals sold out the car industry. it was a subsidised industry, which employed thousands directly, and many more thousands in spinoffs thru small business, which manufactured parts for the industry. It was a going concern until that greed and selfishness that grew into our community, stopped us thinking about who's hands built the cars we were buying. Mostly females and other young families, trying to buy a home and have a family, bought cheap smaller Asian cars. Homes were becoming more expensive. The Asian companies undercut our own car industry, with our hard won higher wages and conditions, and started to take the market share. Thru robotics and higher technology, they grabbed our market and ran away with it, selling more and more imports into our nation. Then the small car concept for females and families, morphed into large vehicle markets and imported 4wheel drives. Abbott called out GM about its future plans, after the Liberal federal government had already announced it would not continue to subsidise our local car manufacturing sector. Abbot sensed with the lack of subsidies, that Holden would follow Fords announcement to leave Australian manufacturing. Abbott was happy with GM's announcement to leave, and basically said to Australia, "I told you so". BUT, more to follow. With Ford and Holden's commitment to leave Australian manufacturing of cars, Toyota no longer had any reason to stay manufacturing in Australia, so they followed with their intent to leave, and to Import their cars into Australia. Great business this, creating more exporting of Australian revenues to Asia. And more expensive imports coming in. At the expence of local jobs. Fantastic balance sheet by the liberals. They sold out Australian workers, who use their hands to build things, Australian things. And... the liberals sold out Australia's World Way 2 veterans, who came home and went on to build family businesses, only to have them undercut and run out of business by cheap subsidised imports. Australian Power Steering to name just one. A fantastic man who built a great Australian business, and who looked after his workforce like they were family. Undercut after he retired and left his sons in-charge. This story is repeated over and over again. The Liberals sold out my Uncle, in all these ideals of theirs. My Uncle risked his life, paddling a kayak across Sth East-Asia, under cover of dark, to help bring the Japanese invaders to their knees. They undercut my WW2 veteran father, who fought in the Jungles of New Guinea, who had a large chunk cut away from his back, by Artillery shrapnel. He who worked in the Construction industry, and got me started there. Real Australians. Who built what was an Egalitarian Australia. It has all been pulled apart, by the greed of the current Big 'C' Capitalism. Homes are too expensive, and should not be an investment, nor a commodity. They should just be a home. Negative gearing is the work of the dark side..

I think its the first time our list has real depth, and now we can play off players who are experienced and tough, against the new breed skilled kids, who have the old players covered for disposal skills.