Tony Tea

If we got him for rock all - draft picks & money - or he fell into our laps, I'd have him.

Interesting article from Jake in the Age which suggests we might not be after Big Nic Nat. 'Basketballer' moves into top draft contention Even if we don't "win" the spoon, we might end up with the pick we want. First of all: Thompsonitis*. It's a stone certainty the Melb recruiters would look at the risk of drafting one of two West Aussies (Natanui or Rich); especially if there's a comparable Victorian (Watts). Second: both the Tankers and the Wanchors would jump at the chance to draft highly rated West Aussies, leaving Watts to fall into our laps. Both Natanui and Rich would have to be clearly better for us to pick either, and that's currently at issue in the National U18s. As Jake goes on to say, Big Nic might be a great athlete, but he's not exactly a great footballer. Dunno about Rich, but Watts is burning. What's more, he's tall and quick. A whisper from WA says that the Toast aren't sold on Natanui, and prefer Rich. It might be one of those years where missing out on Pick No.1 works out fine, as well as taking the pressure off our pick, although it weakens our hand in the PSD. However, neither the Tankers nor the Wanchors would pick Warnock so we might be fine there, too. Getting Warnock in the PSD would also mean we wouldn't need to draft a ruckman, while Freo would need to draft a ruckman; and guess who's a ruckman - Natanui. Recite after me: Juddy went 3. Buddy went 5. * Also known as Folau-itis.

Just for the record: That last line shouldn't be in quotation marks; Bailey didn't say it, it was written by Mark Stevens. Edited for accuracy by Demonland

It was, if not almost identical, then certainly very similar to Buddy's bump against Adelaide: a glancing elbow to the ball player's head. Buddy's activation points tallied 120, but with an early guilty plea he received a 25% discount to reduce the points to 90 and a reprimand instead of the week's suspension he would have received if he'd scored over 100. If this is what Goodes gets - and it will be an ABSOLUTE disgrace if he doesn't - then the carry-over points for his hit on Selwood will see him out for a week. (Does he still have carry-over points from his hit on Godfrey?) Still, I have no confidence in the Match Review Panel. There is every chance in the world they will want to pass on the incident. The Fox commentators - Lynch, Pickering and Campbell - were working hard to talk the incident down, too. I have this diligently researched conspiracy theory that the AFL have instructed the MRP to get Goodes off so that Goodes can take the Consecutive Games record off Stynes. This is because they want to remove as many Melbourne mentions as possible from the VFL/AFL record books before they dump, merge or move Melbourne. A bonus up-side is that it's an AFL Puppet... I mean, AFL Love Child... I mean, Sydney player who gets the record. After all, they gave them a flag in 2005 when they got Hall off.

Idea!! We should on-trade him to Sydney for Darren Jolly.

We didn't go there because we were deep in debt and couldn't afford to develop anything there. Couple that with the fact that at the same time the State govt were shafting us over our licence application for a pokeys club at Fawkner, which consumed time, effort and money. And I repeat:

The Carlton Crew.

Jeff doesn't want Melbourne to develop a presence in Casey. He wants to hog that area for Hawthorn.

Turf's brother Mark was on the board that organised the merger.

51 points down. It's looking good.

Spot on, Jack. A superb piece of commentary from John "get's the job done" Casey.

Nice mozzing.

I frame-advanced the camera shot from behind the goals. When I stopped it on the relevant frame the ball was definitely obscured by the post before the next frame showed it going through the goals. It didn't go through the points to the left. (The right hand side for Kennedy.) Whether it skimmed the post is another issue, but from the footage available in the Flashbacks show you couldn't tell for sure.

1) The Ox might want to avoid today's article by Trevor Grant. I suspect, though, that he'll use it as fodder for this arvo's show. For what it's worth, Ox is good value as a drive-time sports host, but he gives me nothing as a special comments side-kick. 2) Robinson does some good work, but he's a pearl-clutcher. He's unlistenable when he gets that high pitch squeal going as he's trying to panic home a point.

Crows? AAMI? Nope.

Christ on a stick, that was painful. Don't think I'll ever repress that gruesome memory.

COMPLETE GIBBERISH, but the [Edited] cracked me up.

Don't you mean Noeline Donaher?

We need to snag as many good picks as we can over the next few years because the inclusion of the two new teams will dilute the draft pool even further. Does anyone think the AFL will do us any favours when it come time to start drafting players for West Sydney and the Gold Coast? Our needs are a good chance to get shunted behind theirs. It could be our rebuilding takes significantly longer than Carlton, Richmond, Hawthorn and the Bullies. [Update! Just read the thread down below.]

The picture appeared in the West Australian in May 2003.

Or Moonface. Or, getting technical, Isaac. For his gravity defying feats.

I've heard Angel of the Morning and Queen of Hearts, but 15 top ten singles? 10 million records? People will buy any old rubbish. If you want a better quality of rubbish, why not go for Wayne Newton instead? He's sung many, many more songs, been on Here's Lucy, filed for bankruptcy and to top it off, he has a road named after him in Vegas. Juice? Been there, done that. Bollox to Juice.

First saw that sign at the Superbowl about 15 years ago. It has also put in an appearance at college football & basketball as well as at WWF (where another sign read "the guy behind me can't see"). In fact, 668-NOTB is so famous it was recently spotted signing autographs at an Angus & Robertson book launch.

Well, I was born in December 1961 so I was 2 when we won in 1964. Naturally, I was there at the MCG, booing Gabbo, cheering Froggy, ecstatic at the final siren and generally having a great old time brawling with toothless Collingwood toddlers. Just like I was there with those other three billion people who said they were at Woodstock, ten million people who said they were at Sunbury and one hundred thousand people who said they saw the Stones play an unadvertised gig at the Corner sometime in the early nineties. Or was it the late eighties? Definition of inflation: attendances at famous rock concerts.

My Real Player is playing something, but there is no sound.