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I survived the animal enclosure at Moorabbin OD and lived to tell the tale.

Will you being going to the game. If so, let me know where you will be and I'll make sure I am on the opposite end/side of the ground

Having a bad day are we?

Will they place a tariff on products which are bought online? In today's global economy, tariffs just never work. But here's an idea. How about trying some innovation and having the guts to look at the long term future? Nah, that would never work, would it. They can spend billions to increase their arsenal, but are unable to fund innovation and infrastructure? Go figure.

MFC tweet. Hibberd will also miss due to achilles soreness. Achilles soreness always worries me. Hope it is just precautionary.

FBI director James B. Comey asked the Justice Department to publicly reject President Donald Trump's assertion that the president Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Trump's phones, senior US officials said. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected, they said, but the department has not released any such statement. http://www.theage.com.au/world/fbi-director-james-comey-asks-justice-department-to-reject-donald-trumps-wiretapping-claim-20170305-gurb08.html

Common decency is all one asks for from Frump; fake news or not. A U.S. Army veteran injured while serving 2 tours of duty in Afghanistan is fighting not to be deported to Mexico. http://abc7chicago.com/news/veteran-fighting-deportation-after-2-tours-in-afghanistan/1739129/ Sorry Biff, I forgot this is only a contrived story perpetrated by the leftie fourth estate.

He denies any links to the Ruskies.

Notwithstanding that the man is a recidivist bankrupt; American banks won't lend him any money and from the date of his inauguration, his national security adviser falls on his sword, his Deputy Attorney-General Sessions has been recused and his media adviser, Kellyanne Conway speaks of 'alternative facts' - maybe channeling Donny Rumsfeld. Yep, the good ole boys just love him. Good luck to them ........... they're gonna need it.

As I said, 'fake news'

It's all just "fake news"

Given our recent history, the fact that we are even being considered in finals calculations by any of these scribes is a quantum leap from where we obviously were.

Agreed OD. My post was directed to the negativity that still prevails. I have cautious optimism, but optimism nonetheless

OK, given the pain of the last decade, I am certainly not intending to lift the 'lid' anytime soon. But, I am more confident than I have been in a long time, that we have the right plan, players and culture in place to be successful. We all tend to be overly critical of our own team, but I think we will enjoy the footy a lot more this year than in the recent past.. While I can accept the negatives, I am buoyant about our future. Go Dees!!!!!!!

In a lot of ways that was so hard to watch, but love it just the same. "I'd hate to go back to Ireland without winning a premiership" So, let's do it for him as soon as we can.

Well done Mark. A great thing to do for your kids. Thoughts are with you mate.

Some of my fondest footy memories of the MFC occurred under your stewardship. Cheers Mate.

Is the sky falling? I don't detect any resentment from NJ in his presser.

The dark days of a very different administration. Thankfully now just dim memory of serial stuff ups

I see a number of contingencies in this decision. 1 Rewards Viney for previous leadership initiatives he's undertaken and incentive to strive for higher goals 2. Shares the burden and allows both to still focus on their respective games. 3. Should one of them go down with injury - heaven forbid - the other will - hopefully - still be on the park. 4. An ability to cover media, sponsor and member commitments more broadly. I don't mind this at all.

I would be interested in your reasoning Pro

Jones and Viney it is

Thanks DC. One person's diatribe is another's dissertation. Just see Biff's numerous posts on this topic

Good for you Biff.

None of the above. But your epithets betray you. The reference to Bernardi is in no way a distraction. Your views clearly align with his jaundiced view of the world. As with many deniers of empirical fact, you selectively draw on certain texts and articles and then proffer them as truths which apply in general. I only deal in cold hard facts. You might like to try that yourself sometime. Presented with such facts, you do what most deniers of your kind do. You lampoon them as suspect, politically driven or designed to suit a particular leftist cause, but as always people such as yourself never drill down into those facts, choosing rather to keep your blinkered view of the world, supported by the tabloid media, shock jocks and the the likes of the Hansonites. Just what is Astraya's culture? Please, give me ultimate definition Biff, because, for all of my 60 years on this planet, I still have no idea what it is supposed to be, given it was made up misfits in the first place. I am outta here now and going back to the footy pages, where I should have stayed in the first place. I'll leave you to wallow in the shallows of your clear prejudice.