Chook

It's what's called a "truism." Something that is so obvious that it really need not be said. "Talls take time" is not necesseraly so universal as to be a truism, but it is generally well-known enought that it doesn't need mentioning.

WHAT? TOM SCULLY'S GONE? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?!?!

Zing.

He's one of those players that innately realizes that a football oval is a 360 degree space. While many fast players operate as if they were tied by a line running from goal to goal, the really nimble players know that the best way forward is whichever way will get you furthest from your opponents - whether that be in an arc or a circle or even a diagonal line down the field.

This is my football. There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My football is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my football is useless. Without my football, I am useless. I must kick my football true. I must kick straighter than my enemy who is trying to beat me. I must defeat him before he defeats me. I will. Before Stynes, I swear this creed: My football and myself are defenders of my Club. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my team. So be it, until there is no Enemy, but Victory. Go Dees.

I just finished watching it.

Who's to say it does, considering anyone who might have such knowledge is totally unwilling to divulge it, but not unwilling enough to avoid bringing it up in the first place?

I'm 150-200% happy with the comment you just made. A thousand points to anyone who gets that reference.

Now that it's our second date, could I get a kiss?

Posters who pretend to be Scottish when they're probably not.

"From all reports, Tom Scully is as fine a young man as you could wish to meet and a picture of honesty to boot." Whatever. A picture of honesty painted by a blind dog with no legs, perhaps.

That's one way of looking at it. I'm fine with suspending players because of poor off-field behaviour. I just wonder if the length of time until he has to serve his one-match ban might make the penalty less effective. I would prefer some sort of modified training schedule (away from the rest of his team-mates) or something which has a more immediate effect. If he had done the same thing on the Monday morning after Round 1, for example, banning him for Round 2 (and perhaps longer) would be the obvious punishment. But the fact that we can't do that now means that I think a different penalty would have been more effective. But you raise a good point. Maybe he will think about it every day until then, making the punishment more effective. However, I doubt Sylvia will think of it that way. He strikes me as a more "immediate" kind of guy. Jordie-Tackles' point about the fact that it affects the team making it a more severe punishment is also quite true, and something I didn't think about until he brought it up.

Somebody probably said that the day that Norm Smith got the sack. It's almost 50 years later and that trust must be starting to run out.

"Blah blah blah bananas. Blah blah blah antique rock band / pop heart-throb."

I'm all for some more immediate and severe social punishment like Johnson had to endure. Something that isn't four months away and affects Sylvia's social interaction now would do nicely for me. The standard "ban him for X number of games" solution is so played out and frankly just stinks of a lack of creativity or understanding of what makes a person tick. Punishing someone by taking away something they won't even have experienced in the next 120 days anyway is pointless. Colin won't learn anything because the negative punishment is too delayed to achieve any meaningful subconscious association of Colin's wrong-doing with his punishment. Not to mention it hurts the team at the same time.

I don't think such a belated punishment is actually very effective at all. Imagine he had stuffed up in round 1 instead. Would it make sense to suspend him for the round 16 game? It's the same sort of thing. Punishment only works if it can be immediately associated with the wrongdoing. Not to mention the fact that all the pre-season work he has to do until round 1 has just a little less meaning. You work and you work and you work up until round one, but you can't play because of something you did four months ago? Doesn't seem very motivating to me.

He can get as many haircuts as he wants as long as he stays off the C2H6O and engages in a lot of high-velocity bipedal locomotion.

Do you watch Breaking Bad?

Brilliant!

What is up with this desk joke? I don't get it.

Highly overrated. One tackle and one goalsquare mark is all I've seen from him. Is not "destined" to be a star, as many posters on this site seem to believe. This is not to say he sucks, by any stretch.

Jaded, although this year has often pushed her level of "jadedness" too far over the edge for my taste.

For me, it's a match between two clubs who are more than happy to work together towards a common goal. Hardly a grudge match at all. The AFL is so dum (yes, that's right - D U M) sometimes.

Forgotten how to tackle, lost a yard of pace, can't kick a goal, kicks when he should handpass, demands the footy when he shouldn't, doesn't take a mark, shouldn't play an AFL game until he demonstrates some of the qualities he showed before he caught the soft Melbourne bug.

"No-Lips" Tapscott goes all right. But like a lot of Melbourne players, I have no idea which position he'll end up playing.