pitmaster

Nice work, Andy. The Kolt sounds like a great kid. Good to hear how the other WA boys embraced him too.

Perhaps a double of what Steve Silvagni copped many years ago (ruptured [censored]) would serve your purpose.

He's no dog. Dogs are great. Friendly, funny and good company. Smart too. Maynard is none of those things. Maynard is a maggot. Can we agree?

Or that drops from winning a flag to no finals appearance the following year.

Millane stood on him while Ted was sprawled on the boundary line with the ball out of play. I recall a Collingwood type claiming a king hit, as they were known at the time, which ii sort of was although supposed to have been provoked. We'll never know if it caused any long term damage to Millane. Very sorry to learn about Fidge's troubles. He and his brother were an entertaining pair although we bundled them off to the Brisbane Bears when the opportunity was forced on us as it was all clubs.

Interesting. I figured Pert's comment about 3000 was intended to buy a laugh - it didn't - but 50 is pretty poor. Could not make it myself due to other commitments.

How's the turn out?

That would do it for me.

Perhaps I sold myself short in my earlier post, dpositive, since I did attempt a reasoned argument in my email to that fellow. It's just that earlier I offered the punch line. In the email to the biomechanic, and in response to his evidence that having jumped in the air Maynard was "essentially a projectile", I remarked: "What you are saying is that an athlete who jumps in the air is a missile with no ability to shape what happens next. Good luck with that line talking to a room of gymnasts." I pointed out: "as a professional athlete of many years' standing Maynard has spent half his lifetime in gymnasiums and has a strong core formed by weight training and pilates sessions. He was able to guide himself in mid-air. Your projectile comment would be laughable had it not helped create a precedent for future concussion events." See? It wasn't all slagging off. Just some of it, and I would say, deservedly so. I stopped short of calling him bogus, so there was some restraint.

Word from a journo who observed the hearing was that the AFL ran a very weak prosecution...going through the motions.

I challenged it. Tracked the clown down on google (not difficult) and wrote to him the morning after the hearing at his Catholic University email. Told him I was no bio-mechanic but I could recognise tripe when I see it. Still waiting for a reply.

You've just identified the fundamental problem with the game at all levels at the moment. The AFL's push to keep the ball moving means free kicks that would have been obvious in earlier eras are now just ignored. The could start by banning the "overhead backwards handpass" which is almost invariably a half throw. But if the rules were played as written the game would eventually become cleaner and better to watch as played adapted to the new interpretations. sorry that should read "rulings". "Interpretations" is the AFL's word and it's messing up the game.

Exactly. North bring heaps of pressure but bugger-all skill. It was true against us and again today. The women's game is almost unwatchable atm and will remain so until that skill so evident in other years can survive the pressure of battlers like North.

You do realise all those red brick primary schools built in the 19th and 20th centuries we all attended were built with (gulp) debt? The point being all the generations that benefit from such assets bear a share of the cost. There's probably, somewhere deep in the government's books, a smidgeon of the cost of the school I attended back in the 1960s. That's how public debt works. No need to freak out.

...an exercise in self-delusion.

Carlton surely is the most Liberal (in politics terms) of clubs with big money going back all the way to Sir Robert Menzies via Sir Maurice Nathan, John (Liberal Party bagman) Elliott and numerous others. But Hawthorn is one of the most strongly Liberal voting areas in classically loyal Liberal localities until the Teals came along. Geelong is a different matter. Lots of votes and multiple electorates. Labor and Liberal governments (think Bracks-Baillieu- Andrews) have thrown money down there.

So was Fritter, from memory.

Unfortunately this headline writes itself. Going to be some unfortunate comparisons to the men's exits last two years.

Opportunities to attack have been squandered repeatedly by weak, half bandpasses failing to find targets or not carrying to the targeted player. looking reactive and lost.

Interview in The Age today identifies North, Hawks, GWS and Gold Coast as the clubs that have interviewed him. Interesting that we apparently have not shown interest, at least so far.

The advantage was a shocker but also bad were the penalties for high tackles awarded to N Daicos who dropped his knees every bloody time. He should be called on it.

OK. Bright side. And I know it's not blindingly bright but Carlton supporters will be seriously snaky about the Pies joining them on 16 flags. (I knew I'd find some schadenfreud somewhere.)

Keep reminding yourselves that we were good enough to beat this mob even playing one man short for all but five minutes, until we kicked ourselves out of it. We are still right in the window.

Exactly. That's why the Brownlow is over-rated, on account of the fools that decide it.

This is a question to be put to the board at the next AGM.