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Jeremy Howe doesn't do it.

Andrew Walker's mark last night should have been penalised for the two hands planted firmly in his opponent's back.

Toby Greene should be asking for a million bucks a year.

At least we weren't embarrassed by Simon Buckley. He's a "former Collingwood" footballer now. "A former Collingwood player with a shocking driving record told a magistrate that his licence was essential in his bid to regain a spot at an AFL club. But moments later, it was again suspended. Simon Buckley yesterday pleaded guilty to driving with a suspended licence and at almost 20km/h above the speed limit in July last year. The 25-year-old defender - delisted by the Magpies in October - told the Melbourne Magistrates' Court he was an unemployed professional footballer and needed his licence to travel to games for his new club, Echuca. He was playing there "in order to regain a spot on a football list". Magistrate Duncan Reynolds said Buckley's prior drink-driving and speeding offences, plus this offence, illustrated his "apparent casual attitude" towards the value of having a licence. Buckley, who represented himself in court, said his licence was suspended last year after he had exceeded the permitted total of demerit points by accepting some of his brother's driving offences. Mr Reynolds warned him that falsely taking the demerit points of others was a serious offence. Prosecutor Senior Constable David Lee said Buckley was detected travelling at 99km/h in an 80km/h zone on the Monash Freeway at Burnley on July 31. Buckley, who played 13 games for the Magpies last season, told police he thought his licence suspension "had been sorted out". He had no reason for exceeding the limit. He was convicted and fined $1800, his licence was suspended for one month, effective immediately, and he was ordered to pay $107 in legal costs. A Collingwood Football Club spokesman said Buckley's delisting was "entirely football-related". Herald-Sun

Please keep reporting on bananas. We can't let this thread be overtaken for total pages by the "Tanking" one.

This thread doesn't have a topic. It only has one prohibited topic.

I see the Hun thinks it's newsworthy for Swan and Thomas to dodge a hold-up by walking past 45 minutes after it happened. What's the next headline ... "Swan and Thomas dodge collision by driving past road accident one hour later" "Swan and Thomas dodge drowning by swimming at beach on same day man dies" ??

Bananas are ripening very quickly at present. Must be the warmer weather.

I've got diesel.

You can play with Kim Jong-il. 18 holes-in-one.

It's worse if you've got a few thousand hectares of crop to harvest. But it will be over in a week. Bananas take about 9 months.

Is diesel fuel the new bananas? Can't get any D$.

Hopefully Watson is fit to bowl, and even more hopefully, he lasts the whole match.

Which thread will have more pages by Christmas ... this one or the Caroline Wilson tanking one? Odds?

Just make sure his girlfriend stays with him. (Ouch.)

He was found in a tent with a schoolgirl.

Hasn't Dale got a younger brother, Robert, who's better than him?

Bananas are only one good cyclone away from being $15 a kilo.

This is like swapping footy cards with your friends.

I think you're imagining far too much with Gysberts. He's been back two weeks after a broken jaw, after being injured last year, and is a first-round draft pick who's played 18 games.

I'm waiting for the first thread suggesting we could look at Connors.

I think there's a difficulty in trying to ascribe serious journalism to what was basically a fluff piece about a footballer, even if it was in the Age.

It's still a form of media that is publicly consumed ... by anyone. Get real!

Then we'll have to agree to disagree then. It's not the forum that's news, it's the views posted on it, even if they are anonymous or hidden behind user names. They're still valid and diverse views of Demon supporters, or are you denying that too? A major theme of Hanlon's Morton article was the divided opinion on Morton after five years, and Hanlon was quoting a valid source i.e. Demons supporters here. We can get insulated and forget there's a forumless world beyond. The fact that you identified the quoted post as #75 is neither here nor there if you are a reader of the Age who doesn't ever visit Demonland.

It's further down the article and there's no actual reference that it did in fact come from Demonland. To a reader of The Age, it could have come from any supporter anywhere. It's just an illustration of supporter's divided loyalties to Morton. I'm still not sure why quoting Demonland is bad journalism. Are we that disapproving of our own site? It's probably the best and most intelligent supporter site going.