daisycutter

goose....gander

just so long as it is aflpa approved

and even worse, uncle your favourite goon bags are going to rise from $10 to $54. now that is real fmd news the only people who escape are those that drink penfolds grange this is reverse socialism

you'd probably achieve more personally by resisting putting prejudicial, simplistic labels on other people

i think prodee is freely admitting he is prejudicial to islamic culture - so what? it's not a crime. he is not saying all islamic people are bad, just that islam as a culture is an undesirable threat to our culture. it is not an unreasonable point of view. are you claiming you have no prejudices or that all prejudices are unacceptable?

ex-premier baillieu describes plan for apple superstore at fed square as 'bananas' on 3aw hmm apples and bananas....not a good mix not satisfied with banana alley at the other end of flinders street?

hey saty, i'm sure you could/would have said exactly the same thing last pre-season but....don't get me wrong, i do hope the players as a group are fitter now than ever before

and food is not the only resource that might become sub-optimal due to population pressure. there are hundreds of others

i just got that impression based on the relative strength of the various "sources" - ymmv - cheers

like you i'm not privy to all all the details but as i sifted what was said, i got the strong impression that the players went to the aflpa first make what you want from that

are you suggesting the club is fractured?

i suspect no-one on this forum has any real objective evidence that the players are in any better nick at this time than at the same time last year. just typical subjective pre-season optimism of course though wiseblood, i do hope that you are correct

a totally chalk and cheese analogy. ldvc. i'm surprised you can't see that this was not an issue that should have gone to the union at the very outset

crocodile dundee was the last crocodilia sighted in la

of course it wouldn't work. blind freddy could tell you there are no crocodiles in LA.

you really think an 18 year old knows his body, its requirements and it's limitations better than professionals, eh? i'm wondering why we waste all this good money on coaches and conditioning specialists i'm sure the players and the union combined could do a better job

as far as the camp goes you come across as glass half empty guy i personally don't know if the camp would have been good or bad, but i guess that is why we go to a lot of trouble to hire a professional coach to make those decisions

gr8 pst 2, uncle

you seriously think a 2 night/3 day (non) boot camp was going to leave the players "being physically broken"? a camp you know nothing of the specifics. a camp that goody assured them had extra safeguards from last year'camp storm nrl are now on their third real bootcamp in a row. they must have a callous disregard for the h&s of their players

not omen of forthcoming disaster.........potential omen of forthcoming disaster there is a difference afl team success is a matter of small percentage differences. any potential disharmony is a red flag and we have a recent history of too many red flags.

your comments resonate of wishful thinking. anyway my wish is that your wish turns out to be true, nevertheless i will still keep my fingers crossed and avoid ladders and black cats

some people can't recognise a red flag when it's flapping in their face too much kumbaya from some posters let's just hope the issue doesn't suppurate or we are in for another mfc year

you didn't see my emoticon?

Yep. Makes you wonder where all the lithium is going to come from to store all that solar power and run all the electric cars which use as many KWh's per day as an average house..........all of which during massive global people migrations and civil wars.... armageddon scenarios are such fun but globalisation will save us

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