Whispering_Jack

Thanks for that. I've just set the Foxtel IQ for the 49ers game. I have a soft spot for the Lions because I saw Barry Sanders blitz them in one of those college bowls on New Year's Eve 1988 - 5 TD's. I wanted the Dees to recruit him there and then and turn him into an Aussie footballer. Problem was we couldn't pay him like they do in the NFL!

Am I correct in saying that it was Pythagorus who came up with the theory that the sum of the salaries of the first three place getters for the Kevin Sheedy Medal was not equal to the salary of the fourth place getter? If so, it all sounds like Greek to me.

Glenn Maxwell 56no in the last ODI v Pakistan is another Demon making it in international cricket for Australia.

I googled her biography - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday_Weld and was amazed at the list of actors she appeared with ranging from Elvis to Gregory Peck, Jack Nicholson and Robert de Niro (not to mention Dwayne Hickman). And she was married to Dudley Moore!

I thought the followers of this thread whose hearts and minds are set in that wonderful era of the late 50s and early 60s might appreciate knowing about the passing of another icon. Vale dear friend.

Old Dee, you've just mentioned the unmentionable. Please take this as a first warning!

Don't touch it. I suspect the jockey might be tanking!

Just a note that Freddie's still going around in WA and still harbours hopes of making it into the AFL. I think we did the football world a disservice last year when we didn't select him in the rookie draft. Now that Dunny's mo is gone, here's hoping that Freddie returns without his

For those of us who follow the cricket and the Demons, relief is on the way with an early start to the domestic cricket season - September start for cricket season

... except Redleg was drafted by the Viet Cong!

Michael "Pickles" Evans is a good chance to resume as early as this coming Saturday for the Casey development league team which plays Northern Blues at Cramer Street, Preston at the ungodly hour of 9.30am! Good luck to him!

The world must seriously be in financial ruin if the ACB can't give Ed Cowan a contract.

Old dee, I just think we need to go beyond the banana fritters and the like. This thread started as a distraction at a time when everyone was going bananas at the thought of Voldemort jumping ship. Once we've played GWS and hopefully given them a shellacking, what purpose is it going to serve?

Every club knows full well that, come what may, we will be picking Jack Viney. That's the problem with the system. Whoever finishes below us knows there's no risk in nominating him. If we improve in the second half - which I think we should do - then I have a feeling we could finish 15th which means we will have to use that pick on Jack.

He still has a point - perhaps we could start a poll to decide?

Surely, there has to be some closure from this whole T$ thing at some stage? What better time than after the GW$ game when we get the chance to see him in the flesh in that ghastly orange garb?

No ... the changes are for their game against Richmond at the weekend. No doubt there will be more for the following week. I doubt that Sheedy would hide Voldemort. It would send out a poor message for his club. I'm sure he wants to set his team up for the game and that it will be one that he's absolutely desperate to win.

Five changes to the GWS Giants team this week - all injuries.

When this (the merger) was first mooted, it sounded logical and a good deal for Melbourne. Hawthorn was probably the wrong choice in the end for Melbourne. Perhaps, Fitzroy would have made a better choice and perhaps we might have been up there on the premiership dais from 2000 all the way to 2004 or even 2005 - but of course they knifed Fitzroy before the merger deal was announced. Anyway, the more information that came out, the more distasteful the merger proposal sounded and felt. I didn't go to vote that night but I was against. Gutnik came in and I really do believe that he had been a supporter. He changed the club and gave it his money. Some of his innovations were ahead of their time. In other respects, I suppose he didn't understand what the game was about. His removal from the presidency was as disgraceful as some aspects of the proposed merger. What strikes me as tragic about our club is that since the sacking of Norm Smith we have had no shortage of infighting and faceless men who were always ready to step in and destabilise the club at times when we least need it. Some still lurk out there today. If that's one thing the current regime can rid the club of then we might finally be able to look forward to better times.

The other 49 idiots are the people like us who have kept this thread going for so long

The Gold Coast? You're in the wrong place. We're playing Sydney today. We don't even have a game on the Gold Coast this year!

Meanwhile at Lords the first test of the English summer sees England dominating the Windies thanks to some superb swing bowling from Jimmy Anderson early and later Stuart Broad (7fer) and a ton from Andrew Strauss. The Poms swing it, others don't - a sign of things to come when we tour this time next year. And of course, they couldn't get Chanderpaul out.

Do yourself a favour Redleg and extend ...

Anyone who watched the last hour's cricket today would vouch for the fact that cricket's a funny game. Windies coasting at 4/230 with Chanderpaul nudging towards a ton and the chances were that the home side would end up with a sizable first innings lead ... and then Nathan Lyon strikes, five wickets fall and it's game on ... we should get a result now.

There's also young P J Cummins who is on the comeback trail from a foot injury after making hist test debut in South Africa last year. He's currently taking part in an Under 19 Carnival with Australia making the semi finals which are being played today. He scored 50 not out in Australia's innings against NZ. Could make a handy number 9 one day?