daisycutter

thought you'd be on one of the free kid's rides

where is the incentive for T$ to try? He's guaranteed top dollars for 6 years whether he tries or not most people would still be motivated by pride, gratefulness and loyalty, but in his case we all know about that

she would just blame the poisonous bad culture he was exposed to at a certain previous club

or OriginThe derivation may be the association that wood and trees have with good spirits in mythology, or with the Christian cross. It used to be considered good luck to tap trees to let the wood spirits within know you were there. Traditions of this sort still persist in Ireland. See also - the darling buds of May. The British version of the phrase - 'touch wood', predates the American 'knock on wood' and was itself preceded by a Latin version - 'absit omen', meaning 'far be that omen from us'. This dates from at least the early 17th century, when it is quoted by John Heywood in his collections of proverbs. It isn't clear when 'touch wood' began to be used as a token of good fortune but it must have been by 1850, when the academic correspondence magazine Notes and Queries published this: There probably is some old English expression for averting evil, but it does not come to mind; "I touch wood," "Bar omen," "Bar ill-luck," seem clumsy. 'Knock on wood' is known from the early 20th century; for example, The Syracuse Herald, February 1905: Neglecting to knock on wood may have been responsible for the weather's unseemly behaviour today.

being a green's senator he probably wants the lights turned off for night games too, or just ban them

not on mine either (PC with Chrome)......have seen it in the past though

yeah i understand the reasoning......but there is something conflicting about it the two objectives 1) eliminate tanking/play to potential and 2) use the draft as an equalising tool just seem to conflict achieve the first and you deprecate the second achieve the second without the first and you deprecate the first objective it is a conundrum, because if you do achieve the first then you have truly arrived at genuinely ranking the worst teams whereupon you penalise them it just seems to me to be a type of oxymoron

OK, lets assume 13-18, as desired, all play to their best abilities So the team that ends 18th is the worst team in the comp etc thru to the 13th which is the 13th best team You now give picks 1,2,3,4,5,6 to teams 13,14,15,16,17,18 So the worst team gets pick 6. That's hardly equalisation are you going to be consistent for the other 2 groups? e.g. picks 7,8,9,10,11,12 go to teams 7,8,9,10,11,12 and picks 13.14.15.16.17.18 go to teams 1,2,3,4,5,6 this system does give a good chance to get teams to not tank, but it doesn't reward the genuine worst teams equitably how about a lottery for say, the bottom 6 teams. where each team is loaded based on final ladder posn e.g 18th gets 6 marbles, 17th gets 5 marbles..........13th gets 1 marble marbles then drawn for each draft position as well as this the afl better defines tanking and what is acceptable re "list mgmt"

well its going to be 33 degs on an open windswept ground don't expect to see good football

hahaha...............i can't think of one commentator or journalist who could understand this let alone describe or comment about it you really need to get out of canberra

how one of the dumbest fluff pieces you'll ever read in the sports pages gets a thread of its own is just staggering

....until they find at least one scapegoat? ........probably just as the election date is drawing close

I don't think it will stop players running hard. They will run as hard as they can. It will limit the number of times they can run hard or to try and continually run the whole field. I expect it may influence the coaches to rethink their zones and more specifically how much territory a player is asked to cover, effectively reducing it this in turn could limit the continuous maul tactics and open up a bit more space for offensive play and the more skilled players the coaches will [censored] and resist it but eventually they will adapt and move on

i wouldn't be resting sylvia jack. he needs work, work and more work

Funny how we have had (have) a lot of indiginous players over the years and i can't recall any of them getting into trouble over alcohol now we have liam ex collingwood ex melbourne ex yuendumu ex alice springs ex port melbourne and his drinking problem is melbourne's fault that reporter must have done a lot of investigation add one more journalist reporter hack scibbler to the club's banned list

a lot of it is like watching an ant farm

who's the port player called Carl Hoon?

don't forget they only played about 90 min vs about 120 min in a normal game

who's #15?

well at least we will get half a commentary LOL

its a good question and i don't know the answer

and that's the problem with a lot of our players....they just haven't come on

if kero wasn't wearing a wig she should have a good chat with the first bloke FC took a step backwards in quality

he's obviously there for his leadership qualities

for the sake of the game, all young players and their parents these meddling and corrupt ceo's must be expunged