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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.

So if I'm a journalist writing a piece on a player who is regarded in a very divided way by supporters, is it not legitimate to go to a 'quality' supporter site like Demonland to see what those divided opinions are? If not, where else should I go? He didn't quote any 'anonymous blowhards' as far as I can see. Here's the total text from the article that relates to Demonland: "Mark Neeld's spray on Morton'' became the hot-button topic on the Demonland online forum yesterday, after the coach delivered an immediate verbal assessment of the mistake as Morton passed him moments later, having come straight to the bench ... Yesterday, fans in roughly equal measure either backed the 22-year-old to come good, or made it clear that their patience had run out. I don't see how that's a great journalistic travesty.

So it's not reasonable for a paper to look at a supporter site to see what supporters are thinking?

Come on, Bruce is a parody of himself. As far as I'm concerned he can load up and go bang.

I'll have to ruminate on that one.

That's the trouble with Melbourne supporters. Wool pulled over their eyes and no fibre.

Trying to work out wether this thread is a load of old footrot.