Whispering_Jack

Are you sure about all 14 being friends?

OK back to bananas everybody!

13 off 14 balls with one 6. Happy to use the remote control after that. Bring on Boxing Day.

Vlad would have to go too because he endorsed everything we did during that period of time. Anderson's gone. Hamish is too vanilla. It looks like you and me Redleg. I know we can run the AFL and not only that I have a fantastic plan that will ensure that nobody tanks ever again. Wherever Melbourne finishes, it will automatically get first pick in the draft no matter how many games it wins. Problem solved.

You think that's strange? Let's not forget Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs admitted to tanking way back in the 1960s but were never investigated either. I was thinking about this very thing last night while dining out on mashed potatoes and quite frankly, I'm sick and tired of the whole thing. Billy used to say the AFL never believed him because, "Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy", but I'm waiting for the time when they sit up and decide to make it a blue day for Carlton supporters and investigate their club because Fev also admitted that Carlton tried not to win. For their selective dealing with this issue, I can only wish on the AFL an itchy case of poison ivy. Meanwhile, poor Billy is nowhere around and can probably be found somewhere over the rainbow. I still remember Sunbury and the good old days of the Aztecs and find it so ironical that last time I saw Billy, he was singing his favourite song, "I told the Brock".

My Christmas message to the slimy little punk after who this thread was named:- Seasons greetings and a Happy New Year to everyone else.

But only because someone found out that CS once read a book about them.

Just checking out on what other Demonlanders are reading.

The latest word on young Dale is that he commences his 9 month stint at the maximum security Port Phillip Prison on Tuesday. Despite the unlikelihood of him getting time off for good behaviour, this means he should still be able to participate in next year's draft combine but he has promised to fudge the results so that other clubs don't get wind of his natural athletic ability. Source: his sister's blog on the Prostitute Collective website.

Not good at that stuff and with my work commitments right up to and including Xmas Day I'm not going to be terribly reliable.

Siddle's 5fer in the circumstances of this test match demonstrate the folly of leaving him out of the 3rd Test v SA. The question now is whether we have enough ammunition to bowl SL out on the final day?

Trivialise this thread? You're kidding aren't you Redders?

Take 5 ... RIP Dave

What you folk don't realise is that the bloke hates Melbourne because he's T$'s illegitimate father. Think about that one.

On a completely different note and in view of the Ponting retirement, the failure of any fresh batting talent to emerge in recent years, the abundance of injuries to our pace bowlers and the lack of class spinners available, my question is this: Who would you rather be today: Mickey Arthur or Mark Neeld?

Ryan Ferguson is the antithesis of T$ in that he remained at the red and the blue when it would have been to our advantage for him to go to Hawthorn several years ago in exchange for a Brad Sewell. He's been playing for West Adelaide where he's now the skipper and he's just re-signed for another stint - http://m.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/fergusson-re-signs/story-e6freckc-1226525991193'>Ferguson re-signs with Bloods. Meanwhile, Brad Sewell continues to thrive at the Hawks.

Not worried about Finkelstein QC. I had Caro's people at Fairfax Media legal everything I wrote before I posted.

Now that the thread has been found, I've merged the reincarnated thread with the original and we can call off the lynch mob. Thanks Nasher for your intrepid detective work in finding it even though, with its resurrection, the quality of this site is irrevocably damaged.

I hope the mods have banned him for that!!!

It was more than just a "service" of the office computer. More of a replacement of the system and one of the tech guys was working on it by remote overnight on the fateful evening when the thread up and disappeared. It's only a working theory of mine that this is what happened but no one knows for sure. In the meantime, please lay off Nasher. If the old thread is capable of being restored, he's the one who can do it.

Just to get this thread back on a serious note, here's the Monty Python dead parrot scene which I dedicate to our recently departed thread:-

No she's coming of her own accord. Boom boom.

The thread seems to have vanished. We're looking for it and if it can be restored, it will be but in the meantime, this is it!

Not for a while. Phil Hughes is closing in on another ton for South Australia against the Vic's and has his hand up high for a place if Watson FAs another fitness test.

Lunch on day 4 and Chanderpaul still not out. He's on 143 of the Windies 8/639. Soon after they resume from lunch Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh will be on a hat trick having taken wickets with his last two balls before the break.