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Give me one flag to watch with my dad and sister who I have gone with every single week since before Jim Stynes ran over the mark. Just one and I will be happy. My daughter now comes with us.

I don't normally post about soccer but thought I'd see if this had been mentioned. It seems to me like sacking Norm Smith except worse. If Goodwin wins us a premiership I want a statue of him at the G and a liscence for him to coach as long as he likes.

Outside of drinking booze, loving my family and supporting the dees... Insurance and gambling are my expertise. The above model is too risky for mine. Public Liability claims are few and far between but have massive payouts. $20m cover is standard. If p2p businesses want to take that risk on good luck to them.

In a thread impossible to derail, can I possibly try and derail this one? I have written a thread on drinking in the General Board. Would appreciate comments. $cully, Trump and Hitler were / are teetotaler's.

It's my understanding Lottoland (Aust) have taken out an Australian bookmakers license. So I assume they are still being taxed heavily.

I'm not going to derail this thread so will only comment on this once and won't respond. i am not privy to the structure of the Essendon football club. But I doubt very much Hird, a coach who had no previous coaching experience was the head of every department and responsible for all their practises within the club. Hird claims he agreed to a cutting edge programme within the rules. All the players signed a waiver that clearly stated the programme must be within WADA rules and not detrimental to any players health. Hird could have handled it better but I truly think he his a pawn that the AFL needed to hang everything on. Particularly, after he wouldn't cop the slap on the wrist they were offering. The Government at the time were calling it "the blackest day in Australian sport" well before there was any evidence. The AFL stood side by side with the Government in the press conference. At that stage it was political. Someone was always going to hang. Essendon could have cheated much more than any of us know. There are no records so how can we tell? The fact they have no records cannot be Hird's fault alone. Every piece of electronically stored and transferred data has a record. The fact this cannot be found suggests to me that it is much bigger than just being hidden on James Hird's laptop. This to me is the key. Again without being privy to the structures within the club I doubt Goodwin is responsible to oversee the integrity of Missions work at Melbourne. The fact Bomber Thompson got these people to the club while director of coaching and yet seems unscathed suggests to me Hird is a scapegoat. There are so still so many questions and yet so little answers I just think Hird is the fall guy.

I still think Hird is a scapegoat (not blame free) in this sorry saga but he has handled it the worst of any involved. Regardless he needs to move on with his life and I wish him and family all the best.

The draft has been like the finals for the dees. I have looked forward to it every year for almost a decade. We normally have a top pick. This year we didn't and all of a sudden we land Jordan Lewis.

The best deals we have had with include recruiting peter jackson Not taking sheedy whelan dealing with Hird

There was a lot to like about Joel Smith yesterday but... He kicks like Cameron Bruce used to. Lots of helicopters and leg breaks. No drop punts.

Currie cemented his spot as number 1 ruckman at gold coast this year until he broke his hand in 3 different incidents and 3 different spots. Two of the breaks required surgery to repair. Before that he was behind Goldstein in the sub era where teams stopped playing a backup ruck.

Hopefully 3 time premiership player Jack Viney does an apprenticeship somewhere else before he continues the chain and leads us to further glory.

Not sure why everyone is so critical of Freo / Ross Lyon. If Sylvia just has a good pre-season they will be alright.

Spot on.

Great call nutbean. At the time I was wondering how the call could possibly be overturned by the 3rd umpire. Which it couldn't be. But you are spot on that it could affect the players decision making as well.

What does everyone think about Slash playing for ACDC? I'm a bit torn. Guns'n roses one of my favourite bands ever. Likewise ACDC. Not sure this is a match made in heaven.

Kate Miller Heidke does the greatest opera version of Psycho Killer by the Talking Heads you could ever see.

Given Brayshaw wasn't given NAB challenge games it's hard to draw a line. Let's hope they are both fighting for the same spot by round 5 because Trengove and Petracca are banging the door down.

Brayshaw was playing pretty good footy up until he got injured. The 2nd quarter against Collingwood on Queens Birthday was something to behold. if Oliver has a better debut year it is exciting times for Demon fans.

I hate Parish because he plays for Essendon. I also hated Ben Kennedy up until last years trade period because he played for Collingwood.

Hopefully nab 3. He could be just building...

Neither did The Ox. 2 of the best players in the last 40 years. Must be a sign...

I know someone who was at that concert booing them off the stage.

The Queen song (Radio Goo Goo) isn't a masterpiece but Freddie's captivation of a packed out Wembley Stadium is as good as I have seen. I love it more for the theatre than the song itself.

I'm going for live music The greatest duet since Sonny and Cher https://youtu.be/qiTVzUz3i40 The greatest live performance https://youtu.be/0omja1ivpx0