Whispering_Jack

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.

The reports on Cale Morton's last two games for Casey suggest that he has been successfully played in the middle where he has picked up 30+ possessions in each game and been close to, if not, BOG. Dean Bailey experimented with him all over the shop and, while I don't disagree with this as a general approach for developing players. I have a feeling that in some cases, our boys became unsettled by this and lost confidence. Morton has appeared to play more freely in the VFL and Brad Gotch's approach seems to have worked. Hopefully, this can continue in his transition to the AFL, benefit the club and the player and in the end Cale can get a better contract. I think there might be a few others freed up by this approach and by the statements made by the selectors in regard to the axing of Colin Sylvia and Liam Jurrah. As to whether we can win tomorrow, I can't discount it. After our appalling "bruise-free" display the first time v Carlton, I really didn't give us much of a chance the following week against the Bombers. I suppose I feel the same this week after the loss to the Blues but we've had such a topsy turvy season that anything could happen tomorrow.

Add a few crumbs, everybody's leftovers, the best young players in a weak draft pool and coaches who peaked before or around the turn of the century in a heartland where nobody really cares about the game and you have the makings of the next three wooden spoons right there. The GWS Giants loom as the AFL's next failed club after University, South Melbourne and Fitzroy.

Any moderator who moves this thread today is a bum. I tweeted:

And thanks for forgetting to pass on the tip.

Sounds very much like Mark Jackson (except for the bit about being short). I'm 98% certain that GWS won't offer him a contract.

There is no way on earth that Davey should be played on Saturday night. He's been out since round 9 and it's not as if he was setting the world on fire before that. For his and the team's own good, he needs a couple of weeks at Casey to find his feet. The problem is that Casey has a game next week against Frankston and then follows that up with another bye which is really not suitable for any players due to come back from injury in the next couple of weeks.

My understanding is that the only business they ever do is horsetrading so I reckon there's a good chance they'll deal with your case. And if you ask nicely and contribute some hard currency, they might get you that horse back that you didn't want to sell and is now winning major races interstate. [see the Kabul Convention to Preserve the Health and Safety of Bovine and Equine Species currently supervised jointly by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 조선민주주의인민공화국 and the Republic of Zimbabwe].

Take your case to the United Nations. I'm sure they'll give you a good hearing.

Yeah, I'll come but only if, on the way in to the ground (after swinging past you know who's place to pay appropriate homage), we have a nice legal discussion on this subject matter. Humberto Leal Garcia is a cause celebre in Mexico today. In 1994, he kidnapped 16-year-old Adria Sauceda, raped her with a large stick, and bludgeoned her to death with a piece of asphalt. Leal's brother has stated that Leal came home with blood on him saying he had killed a girl. Two of the trial witnesses were present when Leal's brother made these statements. The police searched Leal's house. They seized a blouse which contained several blood stains, hair and fibres. This blouse was later identified as belonging to Adria. Other DNA evidence was found on the underwear Leal was wearing that night. That evidence consisted of blood as well as bodily fluid. The DNA test did not preclude Adria's blood type from the evidence tested. Leal was found guilty of the murder and executed overnight after President Obama sought to intervene and prevent the execution. Read about it here - Texas executes death row Mexican national despite US government call for reprieve Even the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has entered the fray by saying the US breached international law by executing Leal. UN human rights, get it? In the past decade, human rights violators have murdered millions of people on the face of this earth and the worst of them have been represented by nations like Sudan, North Korea, Cuba and Libya. Recently, Syria came within a bee's diaphragm of getting on the United Nations Human Rights Commission. If you commit murder and rape in the US you have a better chance of getting help from the UN than if you're a starving Darfurian. And we worry about whether a 20 year old kid is going to leave his home in Berwick and move to Rooty Hill? Fair dinkum! (Hopefully, I'll be in a better mood tomorrow)

Damn ... I was really hoping for a big win to Canada. A result like that would have had the UN Human Rights Council working overtime to condemn the Pakistanis and get the heat off Ghaddafi.

Based on what I saw in Canada v Zimbabwe the other night, they'll struggle to win but 0/16 after 3.5 is a fair enough start. A win to Canada should get all of the cricket world's conspiracy theorists well and truly out of the woodwork.

Zimbabwe v Canada. Now there's a case for a clash strip in cricket!

How many hours have Strauss and Trott spent together at the crease this summer? You would think they've been together long enough not to stuff up a run like they did today.