Whispering_Jack

No rain that I know but I was wondering what happened to these games if they were rain affected.

Does anyone know if the Duckworth-Lewis system operates in T20?

I have actually set my Foxtel IQ to record the NAB Challenge v Richmond courtesy of my iPhone App. The wonders of modern science.

Zaharakis can't be ruled out just because he didn't like a prick. Let me rephrase that. He might still have taken part in the programme, it was just that he didn't have anything ingested intravenously via an injection.

Don't think I'm welcome there but I can reveal that at some time in the future the size of the training squad will diminish.

WARNING The content of this post might cause offence I finally discovered that the Suns had an open training session at Carrara so I hailed the big yellow taxi that passed by just as I stepped onto the sunny pavement outside the place where I was staying. The cab stopped with a jerk. The jerk got out and I got in. Boom ... tish. "Follow that car" was my command but it was a strange ask because the Gold Coast Highway in the middle of Surfers Paradise is now a one -way street and there was no choice but to follow. All roads led to Carrara where my assignation was to spy on a Gold Coast Suns pre-season training session and hopefully sell my secrets to the highest bidder. I was cleverly disguised as a local bodybuilder high on a cocktail of turps and steroids and, satisfied that the dark sunnies fully concealed my true identity, I gate-crashed the pre training press conference. I don't quite understand why they threw me out because I felt my hard hitting questions were good. "Excuse me Mr. McKenna, but what was Stephen Dank's role while employed at the club, who paid him and did his ... er conditioning methods play a part in Junior's Brownlow?" I tried to throw in another one about what it was like having Kim Kardashian's younger brother on the list but the security guards were dragging me down the corridor and it was no use because Bluey was already listening to a Dorothy Dixer from a young blonde reporter with the Courier-Mail. It wasn't fair - if only I had her body they would have been listening to me and not her. As my head hit the pavement outside the stadium, I swore that next time, I would bring the rottweiler for protection. I ditched the sunnies and the gold lamé jacket disguise into a nearby garbage bin and, finding a conveniently open side gate, I entered just as the players were coming onto the arena. You won't believe this but I think I struck gold. Instead of a training session for the Gold Coast Suns, I had stumbled on a full dress rehearsal for the Legends Football League, formerly known as the Lingerie Football League. I tried to avert my gaze from the sight that filled my eyes but the coach and players were all good sports and much more friendly than Bluey and the crowd from the Suns. Even invited me to the team jacuzzi after training. Ah Queensland! Beautiful one day. Perfect the next. I love this place.

Don't tell me all those people live in Moonie Valley?

I'm up here on the Gold Coast inspecting the damage done to the locale by Redleg on his recent visit here. I'm hoping to pay a visit to a Gold Coast Suns open training session so we can draw a comparison between how the Demons do things back home and how they do it up here. The weather's warm and I'm look on forward to the experience although I think I might struggle to identify any player other than Ablett.

This should have been posted alongside your post in the training thread so as to inform your readers of how much credibility they should have given to its content. For god's sake man. Some people over there think you were actually seriously dissecting the training session when it's obvious that you wrote about it in the middle of a drunken stupor! Actually, no ... it's better placed right here.

National day of mourning declared after the Poms beat us in yesterday's ODI in Perth. I was always worried this would happen, especially after Mitch Johnson shaved off the mo. No mo, no mojo.

I think our test aspirations are falling away as a result of the commercial realities of cricket scheduling. The $ dictates when tests, OD games and T20s are played and the rest is left for Sheffield Shield (or whatever it's called these days). In the halcyon days there was an even spread of shield matches and the visiting test sides would play every state during the course of their tours. Not these days. I can't remember the last state four day game and with our test players often resting in these game, how do we expect our younger generation to develop into international test players? And what sort of form are players being selected on?

Thanks for that - I might invest in one of those.Cheers

I also have a lot of VHS tapes (of wins only) from the 80s to the present. Not many recent wins though.

I know how much Redleg loves his racing videos but this has piqued my interest. If I kept videos of all of the shows, sports including footy I tape on iq, I would run out the 100% of space allocated very quickly. Is there a way to save certain material from your iq onto another drive or are you stuck with what Foxtel allocates? [No abuse please - I know nothing about Foxtel. I just press buttons and watch the shows - thank you]

Devastating for the good folk of San Francisco and their supporters. I'm off Yankee imperialist sports for now. Back to the more gentlemanly pursuit of cricket and, once the tennis is done and dusted, the footy.

A great interview from Crash Craddock in the Herald Sun - How Ashes star Mitchell Johnson bounced back to become an Ashes hero Lessons there for every sport including AFL.

I know he did it in the white ball game and that doesn't necessarily translate into test success but last night's effort must strengthen Faulkner's claims for South Africa. I think he should be right there for the next time that Watson's calf or hammy inevitably twinges of strains.

Let's not knock Romsey which was in Melbourne's old country zone and spawned player John Reid who played for us briefly in the early 70s before crossing to his father's old club Footscray. Reid's younger brother, Bruce, was an even better player who Melbourne sought keenly in the mid 70s. Bruce Jr. eventually was cleared to play for the Bulldogs and ended up at Carlton and played over 100 games in total.His sons are Ben Reid (Collingwood) and Sam Reid (Sydney) which goes to show that we should have treated Romsey with a lot more respect and simply refused to let the Reids out of grasp all those years ago as it would have given us a couple of ready made key position players under the father/son rule as well no doubt, as a herd of alpacas.

I understand that a prominent Melbourne supporter is also returning to the jurisdiction at the weekend.

With Lindsay Fox as Prince for life and building a private swimming pool on crown land adjacent to the royal palace. All hail, Prince Lindsay!!! Come to think of it we could do with some hail right now.

Thanks but I managed to escape via the freeway where they haven't set up border controls yet. I'll be back by the weekend for a wedding and to check out how the republic's growth industries (weight loss clinics and dental implant technology) are faring.

How are things in Bonbeach bub? I tried walking there from the Independent Republic of Frankston and Boganville the other day but got stopped at the border and wasn't allowed to cross for lack of a passport. They're taking this succession thing too seriously IMO.

Never in doubt and I knew that one of the clubs I support would be playing in a final against the Hawks in 2014. Now for a win in that one and a double up in September

Davey Warner playing second fiddle in to Aaron Finch in an ODI. I'd like to see that!

What was it like last night sharing a cell at the Southport watch house with the winner of the magic millions, Redleg?Former Gold Coast Suns footballer Campbell Brown arrested after Magic Millions