Whispering_Jack

Anyone watch the joke that passed for a game of AFL at Launceston yesterday?

How did Briefed go the other day, Redleg?

Clive Palmer, Is this drop kick doing a good job fcuking up the sport (if not the English language) in Australia?

I was being a bit liberal about the policies in that video so there's no need to labour the point or get green with envy or you might find yourself left in the lurch or even thrown right out of the country. Just keep the politics out of it.

I appreciate that some around here frown on political discussion on this thread but with the Gillard/Rudd battle coming up on Monday I think this becomes appropriate in the circumstances:-

I'm not sure which competition is more meaningless - the one day series or the NAB Cup? Could someone please tell me how the one dayers finish? Is there a grand final?

Call me paranoid if you like but I thought they showed bias against us throughout the entire intraclub game on Friday. Demetriou has to do something about this or the game'll go to the dogs!!!

I'm surprised that nobody here has seen fit to comment about the fact that yesterday will become known as the day the music died again - the day they released the GWS club song. Actually, they didn't release it - it just escaped. I heard it while driving to Casey Fields for yesterday's practice match and I nearly ran the car off the South Gippy Highway. For some reason, I was expecting the GWS song to resonate with the sounds normally associated with belly dancers and cheap felafel joints but a disco version of a Cossack dance from the steppes of Russia? Far out!!!! What's more is that it got even better when I saw vision of players lip synching their new song on video, Milli Vanilli style. How appropriate for a fake football club to evoke images of that group of frauds with the release of their club song? For all that, while this catastrophic piece has undoubtedly set the song writing for new franchises industry back some decades, I still reckon that, as bad as the song is, it's the best thing to ever emanate from the black hole we know as Greater Western Sydney. Those bastards deserve it - and more!!!

How long to the national draft?

This subject has probably had a run here in the past but I really can't abide some of the calisthenics that pass for allowable bowling actions these days, especially among the Sri Lankans. My old cricket coach would be rolling in his grave.

GWS intraclub game tonight at Moore Park in Sydney @ 6.30pm. I hope the condition of the ground's improved since I last was there. In the late 80s I would not have played the under 16s there!

Kudos to the Victorian selectors who didn't hesitate to bring this kid into the Shield team despite him making a duck at premier district cricket last weekend. Fitting that he scored the ton against SA which tried to poach him and young leggie Muirhead away from Victoria - Vics fume as rivals target young guns.

Apologies for doubting you or was it another of those two horse races? Was the jockey George Santana?

Based on this tipster's past record it might be a good idea to avoid both like the plague.

Quite, but I doubt whether Virender's people are into the driving back infidels thing.

Yeah, I loved the bit where the Indian apparatchik (didn't catch his name but he must surely be a distant relative of Baghdad Bob) said there would be no further comments on the matter of impending player retirements and Sehwag followed that up by adding a comment. It demonstrated how that the spin doctoring among the Indian team was about as well organised as many of its field placements.

I think he's the 18 year old that SA tried to poach for their Shield team at the start of the season along with a batsman named Handscomb who is very promising with some tipping him as a future test batsman.

No - its just a figment of your imagination.

Very little known about him since the drafts. His NTFL team Waratah has only won one game since winning the first six on the trot and that was against chopping block Darwin. This has occurred after Manson, Fevola and Pettifer stopped playing. I suppose it's what happens when you have mercenaries who aren't totally dedicated to the cause at a club.

Only asking? I reckon India must know how 186 feels now. Of course, I'm watching a delightful performance from Zimbabwe v NZ. After scoring 51 in their first dig and following on they're currently 5/12 in the second inninings and making the Indian batsmen look Bradmanesque. Zimbabwe sent the Kiwis into bat on the first day too!

It's Adelaide and it's India that we're playing. Despite the indifference of the captaincy, ineptitude of most of the bowling attack, the very ordinary fielding and the psychological edge we hold over them after yesterday, their batting on reputation is still very strong and it's a flat track. I'd be asking first if we can get them out twice in this test match.

Not a bad idea. Please remind us closer to the time of the game Ravi. You can be table captain.

I know less about soccer than you do but their defence looked pretty shoddy. Kevin Muscat was a big loss at the end of last season but he was a bit of a loose screw in the latter stages of his career.

I watched a bit of their game yesterday and I reckon they're tanking. As long as they don't recruit a kid with wonky knees and a fat father next year, they'll come good very quickly.

I'm thinking of going to at least one of the interstate games this year. Anyone know how far the La Grande apartments on the corner of Mitchell and Knuckey Streets, Darwin is from the Marara Oval?