Tony Tea

So it was Wayne Jackson. Couldn't they find Ross Oakley for a quote? Is Sir Kenneth Luke still dead? Maybe they could have gone to him for the latest news.

A clown on the radio? Knock me down with a feather.

If confirmed, PJ, Frank Spencer and Kareem Abdul Jamar (who is due back soon) should just about be able to cover for The Great Meesen.

Just heard a whisper that John Meesen has stress fractures. Anyone know any more?

There was a touch of arse in the goal, but it was still pretty handy. Andrew Lamprill kicked a better goal with his first kick for Melbourne.

I volunteer to stop Ling. At halftime I will buy a pie and push it into his face.

The best thing about today will be tomorrow's papers. Eat yourselves alive, Tiges.

It was from AFL Teams on Thursday night, repeated on Friday afternoon. BT was rabbiting on about the No.1 picks and how Melbourne must be "spinning a line" with their reasons why Watts hadn't yet been picked. Then, after ranting that Melbourne had to play Watts, he punched a hole in his own argument when he stupidly claimed "My information is that he's simply not ready to play." Liam Pickering and Leigh Colbert slapped him down. It was Colby who said Watts would be playing for Sandy. That wasn't the only mistake. Their research was both dodgy, and rubbish: See here.

Sunday, I thought Dwayne was less aggravating than usual, although he did slip in a narky mention about Melbourne winning last quarters being "fool's gold" and doubled that up on The Winners. Danny Frawley was worse. No wonder he was a dud spud as a coach, he is a terrible communicator. He was dreadful on Sunday. Other Frawleyisms here and here.

Freo will sack Harvey after round 19, and then beat us in round 20 courtesy of "new coach syndrome".

Nice one, Eins... Thundercloud. There's no need for an apostrophe in your Einsteins. Everything else you right... write is now flawed. For what it's worth: The Jace Bode error is the sort of typo journos often mistakenly include in their articles, but which should be picked up by a subbie. I stress "should" because the remaining subbies at the Age wouldn't know footy from a double-choc florentine. Doubtless Bode's name came up in despatches on Sunday and Flanagan got his wires crossed. The mistake, although a howler, is more a reflection on the paper than the pressed-for-deadline journalist. That said, there's nothing wrong with people ribbing Flanagan/The Age over the mistake - I mean, that's what we do. But rather than drifting into outrageous indignation, we should count our blessings Flanagan has been given such a large brief to cover the Dees. And in turn given us a large chance to take the [censored] out of him. And her: this is a worse mistake.

Yep, rift/raft, paltry/poultry... and Rivers won the Rising Star in 2004, not 2005.

I live near Punt Road oval and I can see the pooh truck pulling in the drive. It's the "Tigers of old" alright.

Nothing to do with that silly cliché about Melbourne and skiing: First Chelski. Now Melski. Ba-doom. Tish... ski.

No doubt Dwayne Russell will start asking "If Port went out of the competition, would anybody care?"

Adrian Ando: "Ken Wood ticked it off."

The AFL mantra: "Ken Wood ticked it off."

The theory that used to be known as the Reverse Mozz.

Clearly the most talented Demon since Flower. Clearly. That game against Hawthorn he came off in the third quarter.

nkvd. 100% hearsay. 100% true. Give or take a preposition, comma and/or a dangling modifier.

Last week. A conversation. A couple of the West Coast heavy-hitters were in Melbourne and were asked how they thought the draft would unfold. Without hesitation one of them replied "Melbourne will take Watts, because if they take Naitanui, we [WC] will have him back within three years."

We've got Green and Wheatley to get the cheap kicks at half-back... I mean, do the sweeping. CJ: Short Soft Slow Nice kick

More like: Why is 20 to 1 on?

I'd suggest trade week serves another, highly satisfactory, purpose: getting footy punters to fanatically focus on footy for at least a week in the middle of the Dead Zone some people call October. The AFL secretly love trade week.

Sorry, I don't know any more than what I wrote above. And sorry, I didn't see your comment in the other thread. That article would have been written before last night's council meeting.