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The way I heard him explain it, he had just bought the property in Hawaii when he first negotiated with Melbourne last year, and it was a factor to be considered in taking the initial coaching role. It may or may not be a factor now.

Agreed, but the idea that the deal could be a win-win (Melbourne and GWS both get what they want) seems beyond some people's comprehension.

I didn't say North were not capable of beating anyone. Obviously history this year has shown that, although they did get some good teams (Port, Sydney, Collingwood, Freo) much earlier in the season whom they may not beat now. But when you get behind a team like Carlton, 22 honest workhorses won't drag you in front. You need some outstanding leaders and elite footballers and I just don't think North enough of these players. (We certainly don't either.)

Can someone please point me to an actual statement from Frawley ... direct from the horse's mouth ... that says 1. He wants $700-800,000 and 2. He wants 7 years? All I've seen on these figures is 'reported'. They come from the likes of journalists like Barrett, who we are prepared to dismiss one moment as comically inept, yet apparently accept in the next moment as telling the truth. Frawley is quite within his rights to take the free agency position that he wants to maximise his value, his future and his income. He may stay or he may go, but the vindictive utterings here, based solely on supporter impatience and feelings of 'required loyalty', are really becoming annoying and disrespectful.

That Jones incident wasn't even reviewed. The incident that was reviewed (involving Jones) was actually on Stewart of PA.

Baghdad Bob is right though. There's a huge discord here on Demonland between this year's reality and this year's expectations. In reality we are a 4-6 win team that sits 16th @ 73%. What matters to me is not the umpires, or Grimes, or Dawes, or Bail, or Jones, or a thousand other errors that Demonlanders can pick on and slash their wrists over every week throughout the season. What matters to me is where we have come from and where we are going. I can only see positives this year, and personally I get sick and tired of the carping at specific players, and the disillusionment generally, over what has been a much more competitive outcome. I didn't expect any transition under Roos to be quick, but for the building blocks to start to come into place in his first year. BTW, get 22 Daniel Crosses and you'd have a team like North Melbourne ... a bottom-of-the-8 team with a great, honest work ethic, but no one star who can break a game apart when it's really needed.

I think rpfc would want to analyse and classify the sky on a number of criteria (for example hue, saturation, contrast, depth, air quality) to determine how our sky compares with the sky in 17 other selected regions of Australia. He could tell whether the sky at sunrise was brighter compared to the elite sky overhead, or the sky at sunset, and how much C-grade or D-grade cloud cover could be sustained before the sky stopped looking like sky we expected to have. Then we'd all have to move somewhere else because the sky was never going to look good again.

Appendicectomy these days is laparascopic. Sets you back badly if the appendix is very gangrenous ... severe nausea apart from the abdominal pain. I wasn't even allowed to drive for 2 weeks after mine.

We have 20 young players on our list who have played under 40 games. Half the list. While some will realistically be delisted as NQR as early as this year, some of your requirements will develop from within e.g. Salem, Toumpas, Hogan, JKH, Kent, maybe Barry, Riley, Hunt and Michie. The 'dump and recruit' or 'swap card' method of list development, where supporters just look for a 'total clean out' each year, will only go so far.

Learning the difference between correlation and causation might be a start.

For crying out loud ... Carl Lewis won 9 Olympic gold Medals and 8 world championships in the 100m, 200m and long jump. He attributes a vegan diet to his highest levels of performance at the peak of his career in 1991. That huge actor in The Green Mile, Michael Clarke Duncan, was nearly 200cm and 145 kg and a vegetarian. So much for 'frailty'. Staying lean can actually be a problem for some vegans if they eat too many carbohydrate-rich food sources such as legumes, soy and grains in an effort to get enough protein, because they can cause weight gain. I'm not a vegan, but at least those rabbiting on about 'weakness' could do some dietary research rather than speaking from a position of total ignorance.

Reports that the Australian banana crop reached a record 29 million cases for the 2013-2014 financial year, making the banana industry the single largest horticulture industry in Australia. ABC Rural: Record year for bananas no celebration for growers

You've really got no idea, have you? Just spout rubbisn off the top of your head as if it's true.

Of course, don't worry about his 'enormous workrate, professionalism, super athletic ability, smart ball use, clean hands and bringing teammates into the game'. Let's worry more about the size of his thighs.

I have a 'Stay or Go Meter', which measures the time Frawley spends forward or behind the centre line in every match. My meter says after the Fremantle game he's staying.

Locked in.

Why stop there? We could keep going to 700 pages to honour Mick Malthouse. Or 1360 to honour the number of goals kicked by Lockett. Or 4137 to honour Lindrum's highest-ever billiards break.

Complaining about Denham is like whingeing about stuff in New Idea or New Weekly.

You can reduce any passage of play down to just a sequence of executed fundamentals and dismiss it. I could argue that Adam Scott winning the 2013 Masters was just a sequence of 286 fundamental golf swings, none of which were particularly special. There are also only so many 'lucky spots' you can be in before it becomes more than 'lucky', or you are purely a 'beneficiary'. And I think a purely 'unbiased' supporter would be holding off making judgement. I've seen it many times before, and it's usually premature. Especially now with Roos as the coach. As long as a player pulls on the red and blue I will support them.

It's his birthday tomorrow. Hope he has a good day.

So Essendon is arguing to the Supreme Court (re: dismissal of Robinson) that the supplements program was a mess, while at the same time arguing to ASADA that it wasn't?

Watch Chapman. He was about four metres behind McDonald when he received the handpass from McKenzie. By the time Salem marked the ball, he was 50 metres behind, stopped and stuffed.

There are really two transgressions and imho you're mixing them up. The first transgression arose from the fact that they didn't seem to know what drugs were administered, didn't keep records, employed Dank, had the program sanctioned by Hird, Thompson etc., and is the reason they got the penalties handed down by the AFL last year ($2m fine, Hird suspended, Thompson fine, team missed finals). That was a failure of governance, integrity, management and administration. That has been dealt with conclusively, although it still points to and complicates the alleged second transgression, which is the actual drug breaches of the WADA code by players (and coaches). They need to be separated in the current debate.

'Objectionable Essendon Supporters' is an oxymoron.

No Essendon player followed Salem down the ground. Goddard could have, but he went to Viney and Cross. When Cross had the kick, Hibberd was left in no-man's land between Salem and Dawes. Perfect running into space by everybody.