MadAsHell

http://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/emma-mckeon-and-josh-palmer-banned-from-closing-ceremony-after-big-night-out/news-story/5b07f12f6a5b3d56188b1b41923a4570 I'm sorry Kitty, but you treat grown adults like your 15 year old school children, then it's no wonder you have athletes breaking the ridiculous rules. These are young athletes, who have spent the best part of 4 years working towards this fortnight. And then once their events are done and they head out to blow off some steam, instead of doing it in the village disturbing athletes who are still competing. And as a result of this you ban them from attending the closing ceremony. Pretty sure Palmer would have learnt his lesson, and think there would be some sort of other punishment that could have been dished out to McKeon. Kitty 'Margaret Thatcher' Chiller has gone a bit to far here for mine.

Disappointing to see Patterson knocked out in the high jump qualifying. Still she's very young, already won a Comm Games Gold Medal and has at least two more Olympics ahead of her you'd think. Not wanting to be a smart ar$e, but she might want to think about moving from Leongatha to get some better training under her belt.

Think the general view will come down to these last few days and if we can snag a few more medals where you've listed. In the article i pasted earlier, i note the AOC's projection was 37 medals (only 2 more then London), but with 13 gold (compared to the 8 we won in London). I think if we can snag two more gold medals (big ask i know), even if we only end with a grand total of 30-32 medals, i think people would see it as a win as we've improved the gold number. A big one for the public i think will be the Boomers in the basketball. If they could pull off a miracle and win gold like they keep saying is their goal (don't think they will). Then that will put a whole different spin on people's perspective. Certainly helps with it being on the last day of competition also.

In GNF's defence, he said if Dion chooses us & my understanding is. There's no full commitment there.

Watch the Tigers offer Gold Coast a future 2nd round pick and someone like Anthony Miles.

Bronze for Australia in the K2 1000 to Wallace/Tame. Close to within 2 bronze medals of our Barcelona haul. Well done guys on coming through for bronze. Were challenged and held on tough.

They may not pass the no d!ck head policy.

Because they know exactly what they were getting and were in on it. That's why they never disclosed to ASADA, yet before the regime came in they'd declare as much as changing the type of paracetamol that they'd use.

Think what the OP means is that given this is over a 9 year period, surely on average they should of only had approx 4 or 5 home games in the final round over this period. Not 8.

Well after this disaster, one of the things that needs to happen, is they need to make a call on the Mitch Marsh at 6 & Nevill at 7 combo. Both have now played between 15 - 20 tests and have a combined batting average of under 45. Our batting is too brittle as it is, we can't afford to carry both. They either need to back Marsh in and sacrifice the keeping quality a bit by recalling Wade to improve our batting, or they keep Nevill due to his clean keeping and they give an all rounder like Stoinis a go or recall Jo Burns and send Shaun Marsh back to the middle order. This would require both Smith & Warner bowling extra overs to make up for no all rounder. Ontop of this, it may be time to call time on Adam Voges career and rebuild a bit. Bring in a younger batsman like Handscomb or Head and see if we can properly develop a young batsman.

You can always rely on Richmond to top up with spuds.

The Boomers. Ultimate team performance! 90-64 victory. Justlike the Dees, dare to dream! Next up in a semi final, Croatia or France. Two teams we've beaten before and are capable of beating again.

Your right Macca, not too many medal chances left that i can think of. The Boomers are playing very well, but have never won a medal and are playing an elimination match tonight against a team I've never seen us beat. In fact have very strong memories of them beating us for Bronze at both Atlanta 96' & Sydney 00'. Jarred Talent is up for the 50km walk on friday night I believe. Both Caroline Buchanan & Ken Wallace kick off their campaigns tonight in the BMX & Canoe respectively. And Alana Boyd the two time Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist would give herself a chance at medaling in the womens Pole Vault final saturday morning. Otherwise lets hope our sailors can keep saving our bacon with some more medals or we may come through with something in the women's golf which also starts tonight.

Pressure mounting. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/olympics-2016/australian-team-on-track-for-worst--medal-haul-since-1988-seoul-olympics/news-story/c9570d55eb75fadf22a5ea2e61a11d14

The more I look into him, the more Darcy Cameron appeals to me. 204cm, 104kg and turns 22 halfway through next year. Has spent time playing forward with Claremont this year. Averaging nearly 2 goals a game, over 12 hitouts, 11 possessions, 2 tackles & 5 marks. http://www.wafl.com.au/players/view/4672 Would allow us to let Spencer go at the end of 2017 with Cameron our number 2 ruck & Mitch King with his first full season under his belt to develop properly.

Spud of the highest order. I'd rather Holmes or Daw and I don't want either of them.

Ella Nelson, future star of Australian athletics! Ran a PB off limited preparation and has only just missed out on making the final. Watch out for her at the Comm Games in 2018 to really announce herself on a bigstage!

Kim Mickle, that's one of the toughest things I've seen on a sporting arena. Poor girl has dislocated her shoulder when throwing the Javelin, and has still thrown it over 55 meters. Olympics over, but she's certainly given that everything she has.

I reckon it will work in our favour actually. Would give them a week to recharge/refocus after having to get themselves up for such a huge match in Round 23. 2006 St Kilda finished 6th & Melbourne 7th. Elimination Final played at the MCG.

Gold to Australia's Tom Burton in the sailing. Well done son! Gold medal number 7 for Australia. One more to equal our output in London. Meanwhile our terrible run with the team sports continues, with the Opals shock 2 point losers to Serbia. Some poor umpiring, however we turned the ball over constantly and missed to many easy shots. First time our women have failed to medal since Barcelona 92'. So well done tlo Penny Taylor on a brilliant career. We'll be much worse without you.

Jenneke ran 6th in her heat which was a bit disappointing. She made the final at Comm games, so was hoping she may at least make semi's.

Looks like the dutch swimmer touched out the Greek at the end who actually got to the wall first, but was slow to touch. A great swim by Poort. Just didn't have anything left for the last 1.5km.

Lets hope so Macca. It's a pretty handy lead. I'd actually wondered what had happened to Poort? Remember he was our only entrant in the 1500 back in London and then never heard of again. Wasn't at trials earlier this year. Well that questions now been answered. He's made the switch to open water, and it may bear some serious fruit! We should know within about another 25min.

That wasn't you running out onto the ground after the Hassa Mann goal was it Deevout????

He is a FA, so not the worst idea. He' s certainly athletic and I'd rather him then Vickery. Would he come to a club though where he'd be ruck depth only?