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Don't know of any high pools in Kakadu. Water usually falls. Never seen a waterrise in my life.

As I said they have been forgotten.

No way would I swim anywhere in the NT except Mataranka hot spring and then they found a croc there one day. After that there were no exceptions.

Memories like a sieve. Two forgotten guys that will be given the opportunity to show their wares are Rory Taggert and Josh Tynan. They have shown a little bit in their injury ridden careers but what they have shown has me excited. Injury free will make forward progress.

Yeah and they made me bus prefect at school for the same reason.

What appears to be forgotten is that this is now a National competition. MFC has supporters all over the country and indeed the world. They want more members. You can do this in one of two ways. 1. Attract the young kids from where we are based. 2. Churn people from areas which have no franchise. The move to Casey satisfies the first and becoming entrenched in Darwin the second. The club is being very pro active in looking after supporters and attracting new ones, as well as improving on ground performance and I applaud the push ino Darwin and surrounds. Any one wanting to whinge about playing two home games away should look at how lucky they are. Interstate team supporters only get to see their teams playing 1/2 a season whereas the MFC play the majority of away games in Melbourne. So you still get to see 16-17 games a year. The push into Darwin will bring about more members=more money= more spending= better performance. It is a win win situation for every one. Some people should stop being so selfish and give the rest of Oz a go.

Mr Gates Thanks again for your input. Doing this forum proud. A suggestion, as you seem to have the ear of the right people why not suggest that they charter a plane to the Darwin games and charge members 1/2 price to go up. When in Port Moresby I wanted to visit Raboul which was expensive the so I chartered a DC3 and put an ad in the paper. I was swamped out with people wanting to go. Nett result My mate, myself and our girlfriends flew up there for a weekend for free, the rest of the passengers flew up for 1/2 price and I finished up with some thing like $300 in my pocket. And that was in 1972. Surely the MFC could do some thing similar.

What did you want for them? There only value was a box of, odds and sods, at a garage sale. $5 the lot and throwout what you don't want. You ever bought one?

You are a good girl and the 8 legs of your friends will have some thing to bark about next year.

Funny how things change change from generation to generation, the sudden short fierce storms in March were always called knock em downs in the seventies and eighties.I don't know where the boys are going to do their trek; it is very hot and harsh and hilly in most areas I have been. If you get to talk to any of them let them know about the air conditioned rock (Nourlangie Rock) near the aboriginal rock art. this has to be seen to be believed. A huge overhanging rock and because of natures siting of the terrain the breezes just channel through resulting in a 20 deg drop in temperature. Was a very popular spot for the locals on their walkabouts. Maybe a good cooling down spot because they will need it. There is no let up from the heat, a 34-40 km trek is a fair ask at the best of times but up there with 45 deg hills, rough surface, little shade, snakes and goannas, dodging boomerangs (joke the aborigines have more sense to be about at that time of day) as well as carrying a couple of gallons of water, will see them looking for bedtime. My mind boggles.

Now you have me wondering if my mind has become feeble so I did some research and found this Darwin World Pacific Australia Darwin In association with Lonely Planet Weather Indigenous Australians from this area divide the year into six seasons, but in Darwin people generally prefer to think in terms of the 'wet' and the 'dry'. The wet season begins in October, when humidity levels begin to climb, until by January and February the combination of heat and humidity is quite stifling. The end of the wet is characterised by the fierce storms Aborigines call 'knock 'em down storms'. By contrast, the dry is a delicious time of year - sunny and warm. Month Average high temp Average low temp Average rainfall Average a.m. humidity Average p.m. humidity Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/world/destination/weather#ixzz2EQTG33iN Plus the fact that the speargrass grows in the wet season which is burnt off in the dry.

Do you run with the bangkok HHH?

I don't think the AFL were prepared for the public backlash. When have the AFL ever really thought things thru? I can see AD now saying 'well it sounded like a good idea at the time'.

It's called rehydrating except in Darwin it is done with beer because the bubbles replace the oxygen in your blood cells.

HG look forward to more reports. Apparently climate change has hit Darwin too. When I was up there the knock'em downs always came after the wet, usually in March.

Every nuance regarding the alleged tanking has been discussed here except one; if we were really trying to lose we would have Bartram in as 1st ruck. The AFL want publicity throughout the off season and that is why the investigation started. It would not surprise me if CW was put up to it by the AFL. they have struck their publicity gold medal this year what with the Adelaide/Tippett case as well as Collywobble drugs etc. Their will be no announcement until just before the NAB cup and it will be a non issue that will get swallowed up by the euphoria of the footie starting up again. This thread and others of the same ilk are exactly what the AFL wanted. ie to keep AFL brand in the public domain 24/365.

If you want to make some guaranteed money then take a life policy out on each of the players. Was up there for 20 years and from the sounds of things some one is going to die.

The AFL can't have an open hearing because that is where all the dealings are done. Like Ok you cop this punishment and I'll lean on GWS re Kurt and then he goes to Sydney. That way no one goes to court. Agreed?

Just a suggestion but maybe Don McLardy should rate a mention alongside the two Jacks. To keep up the then v now theme.

What one has to do is ask the question why? AFL football is addictive!!! If any one on this site has ever played the game you will know the adrenaline rush you feel after training and after a match. Many a person has withdrawal symptoms after a season has finished including yours truly. They now diagnose it as depression which is another term for I don't know or really care. Few drugs were available in my day so most went on the booze during the off season. As these guys train almost every day they get a daily fix and I can appreciate they can get hooked on it. They have a day off and no rush; so easy to replace it. That's how it all starts, well at least in some cases and the pushers do the rest. I don't know the answer but I sure know the cause. PS A doctor when presented with a baffling case asked the patient 'have you ever had this before?' patient replied 'yes' after much thought the doctor proudly told him 'well you've got it again'

I think that the AFL has guaranteed him a clear path to the Swans in return for him not taking any further legal action into this matter. He could sue both Adelaide and the AFL for loss of wages etc and probably win. The AFL are scared of going to court on any wages issue because they will lose. But it will happen one day, maybe.

I CHOKED laughing at that. Merry xmas Suffering.

This is indeed thinking outside the box. Well done. I wonder if this is behind Moloney's leaving the club? Hard to imagine Brett being Dux of the class year after year.

Do they get two lots of annual leave as well?

The real question is what is in his right hand that he doesn't want any one to see. There is a very tight grip there.