Deeman

It's all been sorted out. I just sent an email to Tennis Australia and they're cancelling the final of the Australian Open to avoid the clash and the inconvenience to commuters. Very gentlemanly of them too!

Something wrong with this quote. Healey's a kpp from Bendigo.

Which one applies to Nathan Carroll? I wonder!

Sidebottom?

Yep. He does seem to have been packaged into a Warnock deal. The two of them are off to Caaarlton!

I have a conspracy theory about all this. After we lost out on Chris Judd at the end of last year, we decided to get even with Carlton by planting Mark Riley there as an assistant coach. He managed to convince them to go after Matthew Warnock and offer him a massive contract - $400k a year for 4 years for a bloke whose played 21 games in the last 3 is massive. Then they went after CJ - 2 years for a 5 year 31 gamer is just about unheard of isn't it? Even the HUN joined in the conspiracy by writing up today's article giving Johnson the same prominence it would normally reserve for one of the game's stars instead of a bloke who managed only half of the maximum games possible in a season with the bottom side. Among the 400 wasted words in the article was this absolute pearler of a line that just about sums up CJ's value as a footbaler - "The Blues made a play for the son of former Demons star Alan in the trade period, offering a late pick above 100 in a bargain-basement bid." And have we all noticed that Carlton now has an obsession with players who have the initials CJ? Courtney Johns and Corey Jones are the next targets. Mark my words!

Do you reckon Carroll hasn't breached the contract? Of course he has. The question is not whether he breached the contract but whether the breaches he has committed are sufficiently serious as to enable the aggrieved party (i.e. the MFC) to terminate the agreement. There is an arguable case that they are and that the club would win a court battle but the AFLPA is supporting Carroll. The argy bargy taking place at the moment is happening so that the parties can arrive at an agreement that would avoid them having to pay for expensive lawyers to prove their respective cases.

Good one, it'll be a case of the G or the Jihad. Also, couldn't help raise a chuckle about the fact that the AFL and Ian Collins are having a bit of a stoush about fees on beverage sales at the Jihad. I wonder if the sponsors approve of the consumption of all that alcohol on the premises?

Right. That's it then. He can go back to being a dud now!

What's this cash-strapped business? Haven't we recently raised in excess of $3m to unstrap ourselves?

All of the above ... puhlease!!!

Aah, a site set up by people dedicated to scuppering the CF deal & politically damaging their opponents on council. Mr. Tyler BTW has been with Berwick/Casey councils for at least 20 years, has a good track record & is well respected in town planning circles.

The McKernan brothers are very much alike but remember, they're playing in entirely different eras. The younger version is unlike his older brother in that he's unlikely to play in the ruck. I do like the prospect of him as a marking tall but would he be a available at 17?

Brad Green at Collingwood! Now that would be a brand new world. But what would we get for him?

Precisely why we're hanging on till tomorrow when you're due to go back!

How on earth could it possibly be in poor taste? I'm informed by a mate who works at the CSIRO that methane gas is tasteless.

There's lots of accommodation out there for our Footy Department to move into but there's only one problem - most of the rooms are full of methane gas.

Rubbish. Farren Ray is the perfect player for us as he would fit in nicely with our game plan which, as far as I can work it out, involves hoping and praying that we get the centre clearance, promptly spraying it laterally in the direction of the wing where the players have fanned out to pick up the easy ball and then miskick it so that it ends up inside the scrimmage of players in the middle.

Problem with Vanderlay is that he's gone prematurely bald which makes him look a lot slower than he really is - a bit like Ablett. He is a touch taller than Valenti according to the AFL Prospectus (if you can trust that source).

Well, he's not exactly a Rolls Royce!

... or us pick 1.

Nicknat had an ordinary one yesetrday in the WAFL prelim final but his team is in the grannie against Subiaco - Daniel Rich's team. Does anyone know if they telecast the game here on Foxtel?

I would like the club to consider the reintroduction of the Members Information Night which used to pack them in at the Camberwell Town Hall. The reason these were discontinued was the cost but I reckon if they charged $15:00 per person towards the debt demolition (plus additional donation - voluntary), you won't hear too many complaints. The club could also sell membership and merchandise on the night, introduce new players, farewell the old and generally deal with a lot of the football business that needn't be gone over at the subsequent AGM.

What in [censored] hell is going on with the selection of the colours? Red, blue, white and yellow sets up a potential clash of colours with a number of other clubs. Why not insist on different colours so as to avoid the colour clashes?

Does anyone still think we should take a youngster who is 4-5 years away from making it ahead of a Daniel Rich who is ready made and has been playing senior football at the highest level in his state bar AFL for 2 seasons?