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A few months after the 2018 one ends.

Must be wrong, itsounds so logical and simple.

He can go to us or Dockers.

It was posted 23 hours ago, so it was actually yesterday. Does that give you a hint?

Disgusting performance today, simply disgusting

I note VDB and McKenna are now listed as indefinite. To me that just about spells their time is up with us. If they both miss two full seasons, I couldn't see them being retained.

We had him and let him go, he is staying at Port and it is time to move on.

Did anyone notice at the Eagles/Cats game, when Hawkins was having a shot after the siren, all the flashing lights on the fence and on the stands started and the Eagles song blurted out. I would have thought that rules require the umpires to signal the end before all that crap starts. Remember we missed out on finals last year by one goal.

It is obviously in part tied to the new facility they are looking at.

The article also says that we will continue to operate the Bentleigh Club without pokies after 2022. You can back it in that we won't do that for any extended period, if at all.

Won't be putting $11m in the bank long term, it has obviously been earmarked for better use.

Go Aussies in the Games, help us forget the last test series.

No doubt about Bentleigh site being a valuable piece of land.

I think it would be safe to assume that there is a bigger game happening. I am confident that PJ and our CFO and the Board are not all idiots.

Interesting that Saints with about 15% more gaming revenue make 100% more profit than us. We must have a far higher expense ratio for every gambling dollar taken.

I think Gus is a see ball get ball player and not a tagger, not that he couldn't do the job if asked.

It was a tiring game last night and North have had longer to get over their last game. We will bring in fresh legs and probably Brayshaw will get his chance again and be among the ins. A real positive for us is that we now have depth and can bring in fresh players without destroying the basic makeup of the team.

Well apparently a zipper just appeared on Du Plessis' cricket pants. He tried to remove the zipper with the ball.

Not fired up, just bemused by the hypocrisy of so many.

Even that is interesting, as the ICC handed out their penalty of one match as others have got over the years. The time should fit the crime, that is my point. It was all the hysteria in Oz that landed these guys the heavy penalties, not to mention the shame and money lost. I am not excusing cheating as that is what it was, but penalties should be the same for everyone. Remind me again what the South African Captain the mint sucker, got for putting a zipper on his cricket pants and rubbing the ball on the steel zipper, which would have impacted far more than the sandpaper. Don't recall him showing remorse and crying and being shamed in front of the world. "Current South African captain Faf du Plessis has been found guilty of ball tampering multiple times. The first time was in 2013, when cameras caught him scuffing the ball with his trouser zip during a Test against Pakistan in Dubai. Three years later against Australia, he used mint saliva on the ball and was fined his match fee." Read the full article: Bizarre ways of ball tampering: Mint, zipper, teeth and now sandpaper Ball tampering has been around for decades in cricket and is back in the limelight after Australia’s Cameron Bancroft used a yellow strip of sandpaper to alter the shape of the red cherry during the Australia vs South Africa Test Last Published: Mon, Mar 26 2018. 05 57 PM IST Bharat Sharma New Delhi: Teeth, zipper, mint and add sandpaper to it now, the desperation to extract reverse swing in unfavourable conditions has driven international teams to find bizarre ways to tamper the ball. Cameron Bancroft hiding a yellow strip of sandpaper in his pants easily fits into one of the many bizarre ball tampering tactics but perhaps more sillier in execution when hawks like ‘Oscar-The Cameraman’ are in operation. The phenomenon of ball tampering has been around for decades in the gentleman’s game and the infamous incident in the third Test between Australia and South Africa has only put spotlight back into the ‘illegal yet almost unavoidable’ tactic. In the mid-70’s, one of the earliest allegations of ball tampering was levelled against England seamer John Lever, whom the Indian captain Bishan Singh Bedi had accused of using vaseline to aid pronounced swing during MCC’s tour of India in 1976. Bedi was then targeted by the British media for trying to malign an England player. The rule allows the use of sweat and saliva to shine the ball but it becomes an offence the moment you do that with an “artificial substance”, leaving a grey area in between. The fielding sides has been found working on the ball for decades but it was not until 2000 when Waqar Younis became the first cricketer to be suspended for ball tampering. However during Pakistan’s tour of 1992, the two W’s Wasim and Waqar were accused of getting excessive reverse swing with allegation that they used bottle opener to scruff up the seam of the Dukes ball. Repeatedly bouncing one side on the ground and scratching the seam are common ways of getting the seam scruffed up on abrasive surfaces but some players suddenly become more “creative” than required. Bottle openers, zippers of trousers, lip balm, hair gel, or in Bancroft’s case, a sandpaper then come into use. Back in 1994, England captain Michael Atherton was accused of ball-tampering after cameras caught him rubbing the ball with the hidden dirt in his trousers’ pocket. Atherton later claimed that he had dirt in his pocket to dry his hands but was still fined £2,000 for not disclosing the substance. The then England skipper’s case will never be proved but sometimes confession by players make the job much easier for the match referee, like it happened with under-fire Australian Steve Smith and Bancroft in the recently concluded third Test. Some choose to confess after they retire, like what former England opener Marcus Trescothick did. The stylish batsman has revealed in his book that he used mint-induced saliva to shine the ball during the 2005 Ashes. “Murray Mints worked really well,” wrote Trescothick. In 2010, former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi found a new way to prepare the ball as he was caught on television biting the seam during a T20 International against Australia. It resulted in a two-match ban though Afridi claimed that he was only trying to smell the ball. Current South African captain Faf du Plessis has been found guilty of ball tampering multiple times. The first time was in 2013, when cameras caught him scuffing the ball with his trouser zip during a Test against Pakistan in Dubai. Three years later against Australia, he used mint saliva on the ball and was fined his match fee. Commenting on the controversial subject, former India pacer Ashish Nehra said that there is nothing new about ball tampering. “Yes, it’s an art but then stealing is also an art. Would you put a thief in jail or praise him. Reverse swing is an art but ball tampering is dishonesty. And there are ways to prepare a ball for reverse swing without tampering,” said Nehra, who is one of India’s finest exponents of swing bowling. “Also this is a phenomena, you will find mainly in Test cricket as in T20 and ODIs, it’s difficult to reverse the white ball. In ODIs, two new white balls are used, so chances are really less. It’s only in Test cricket which is played for a considerable amount of time that teams want their bowlers to try reverse swing,” he added. PTI First Published: Mon, Mar 26 2018. 05 56 PM IST

Not condoning what Smith and co did, but they aren't the first, in a game full of cheating. Just look at the doctored pitches, you need go no further.

Don't forget Jimmy T.

Pity the Crows were decimated with injuries.

I always loved CCR.

Not worried about him, he will be ok for us. To me his area of improvement needs to be in reading the play.