Whispering_Jack

Like a few others I'm a huge 49ers fan. I visited the place in the late 80s when they were going through their golden era and it cost huge $'s to go to Candlestick Park. I believe they're traveling well for the first time in ages with a new coach who has problems with his opposition counterparts shaking hands after games.

I wish you a speedy recovery.

Funny that, I went to school on the same school bus with Izzy Dye and my son went to school with his daughter.

I remember going with a few mates to a dance called Penthouse in North Road, Ormond when the great Laurie Allen and Bobby Bright were on the bill. It was 1964 and the pair were popular artists on the The Go!! Show as well as a couple of popular music programmes emanating from the Channel 2 studios at Ripponlea. To use the modern vernacular, the night of the dance was "massive". Hundreds of screaming young girls turned up and they outnumbered us males by 5:1. We thought, "how good is this?" Problem was that when Bobby & Laurie were done, so were the chicks. For the rest of the night the males outnumbered the females 5:1 and alas, the three shillings spent on entry went down the toilet. On reflection, it was a pretty good time. The Demons were on a roll, virtually invincible and on our way to a premiership flag, we could safely hitchhike wherever we wanted to go and we were young and free. What a time it was!

Er ... anyone for another name change to this thread?

Bananas is already a tag for this thread and you're right - anyone who maintains their loyalty for the red & blue for a long time in the circumstances has to be bananas and a bit of a fruit loop. The fact that Redleg and I post here just confirms this as a fact.

Now changing to "Not a TS, JO'M, BC or MC Thread" to cater for that bloke from the Lions who prefers Yo ho Freo to It's a Grand Old Flag. He's got to be a cretin, surely?

What are we doing playing that stuff in South Africa and who are the people who come to watch it?

I thought he had a funny action (I know it's no longer pc to call someone a chucker) but his best effort apart from partnering Botham in that remarkable 500/1 recovery was surely this - .

I forgot to mention that he's the pick of the bunch.

Redleg, You'll be delighted to know that I've put you down for a coaching position with the Demonland/Demonology team purely on the basis that one of our players is called "Bananas".

If you keep this up we might have to exert some discipline and change the name again to "Not a BS Thread"!

Rumour that Kevin Sheedy is going to throw a lifeline to Andy Lovell. Like Junior Mac he'll have dual role as a player and mentor for the young guns who will learn all of the social graces from him.

It's on tomorrow morning and will be streamed through the TAC Cup website. I'm going to witness it first hand.

... and did you notice that the poor bloke who wears # 31 missed out on selection in the senior team?

Glue factory, I think.

The big buzz in the recruiting world of late has been the emergence of the mature age recruit. We've seen the JPod working wonders at the Cats and what about Paul Puopolo who came to Hawthorn this year after starring for SANFL team Norwood in last year's finals? Podsiadly and Puopolo are weird names so I decided to look for a mature age recruit with an unusual name and I've come up with Freddie Clutterbuck. Fabulous Freddie turns 22 years of age in a few days' time. Last year he was skipper of the East Perths reserves side which made the Grand Final. He is a midfielder who according to reports has come on well this year. DOB: 22nd September 1990 Debut: 2010 From: Noranda JFC Height: 182 Weight: 80

I can't believe it. Redleg's horse has it's own website - Man of Magic I'll bet the $6m man doesn't have his own website yet!

I think it's my duty to expose Redleg for what he is. A double agent working undercover for the other side. Proof? He arrived home yesterday from the Gold Coast and invited me to view his horse running in today's Race 4 from Bendigo. Then I saw the horse and the jockey was wearing these dark colours and an orange cap. Anyone who lets his horse run around in the GWS orange colours could not be anything other than a traitor and a spy. Arrest him!

Anyone else enjoying the second test v Sri Lanka? Have we uncovered a new offie?

In future I recommend that you holiday in Rooty Hill. I can fix you up on a $5:00 per night plan in a room that gets fumigated twice a day for cockroaches and other vermin. I hear that the natives up there are really into AFL and all eight games are replayed on rotation on the local free to air station.

Trouble with blokes like you is the glass is always half empty. Hope it doesn't rain too much for you in Queensland.

Extraordinary. The only thing that's remotely accurate about the above is the part about showing some guts. Those formidable guts of yours form a substantial roof over the toolshed that is truly a sight to behold. Thanks for the nice words about Alexis Poppy though.

Won at Geelong? Wasn't wearing the red and blue colours was it?

You could easily have come to the Railway Hotel in Port Melbourne for an 800g steak topped off with sticky date pudding and a hot chocolate, watched the footy on the big screen and been involved in some scintillating conversation during which the name Tom S..., er Tom ... Tom Swift from West Coast Eagles was not mentioned on a single occasion.