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How on earth was that not HTB?

Selwood out

Smashed that quarter. Our ball use is still very panicked when real pressure is applied. Clisby a highlight.

We are coming up against the widely tipped wooden spooners, not a team that won the premiership two seasons ago. It is a very different scenario.

Still felt a kick to the guts reading that Jurrah story I will admit. I won't say never, but certainly the chances now are so remote, it doesn't bare thinking about. He has unfortunately become the boy who cried wolf.

Try harder.

I like you jumbo, but your position on Roos' comments was bizarre and rightly raised suspicion about some persisting agenda, given your previous criticisms of PJ when he too was not 5 minutes through the door. Neeld was a dud. It's fine to let it go, but let's not pretend that wasn't the case.

Yes, barking instructions and dishing out praise isn't revolutionary, but it's still nice to see how he interacts with the players. Feedback is instant, with authority, and without talking to them like they're his Year 9 PE class. We're very lucky to have Roosy on board.

What I can't fathom is why he would churn out his one liners and shallow thinking to an international and esteemed audience such as this. Here was an opportunity to show off his intellectual chops and he produces, "profit is a good thing" whilst prattling on with his idiot slogans that he's been running for 12 months. I take your point re his "efficiency" as an Opposition Leader, but at this point that is the absolute best thing you could say about Abbott. He's good at being negative. He also can't break out of the mould, as evident in calling for a royal commission into the handling of the home insulation program and providing it with Labor's cabinet documents, breaking long standing convention against such practice. If the commission is about anything other than political point scoring and vindictiveness, I'll eat my hat. Abbott is creating a political environment that can only be described as toxic. He is setting precedents that can only be undone if his successors can show a little more class and decide not to return the favour. Let's hope that they can.

If Pauline was asked to give a speech on global economics, it would almost be on par with Tony's for insight. Just a bunch of embarrassingly simplistic faff mixed with inappropriate domestic politics and sprinkled with ignorance. How he is a Rhodes scholar with a degree in economics is nothing short of amazing. I would encourage people to watch it and draw your own conclusions. It's a pity the mainstream media didn't reveal his speech for what it was. This review hits the nail on the head - http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/abbotts-davos-moment/820/

Was music to my ears.

I just watched Tony's Davos speech for the first time.... Wow. If ever there was a perfect illustration of this thread's title, that would be it. I wonder which pearl of wisdom left the deepest impression on some of the world's greatest economical thinkers. “You can’t spend what you haven’t got.” “Markets are the proven answer to the problem of scarcity.” “People trade with each other because it’s in their interest to do so.” “Progress usually comes one step at a time.” Mmmm. Perhaps they were more captured by his spruiking of the paid parental leave scheme, or his dreams of being the infrastructure PM, “...because time spent in traffic jams is time lost from work and family.” Bill Gates, let's get your thoughts on traffic jams. Let's not forget the massive faux pas of him attacking domestic opponents, with this little gem: "..a subsequent government decided that the Crisis had changed the rules and that we should spend our way to prosperity. The reason for spending soon passed but the spending didn’t stop because, when it comes to spending, governments can be like addicts in search of a fix. But after the recent election, Australia is under new management and open for business.” Parking the fact that Tony still seems to think he's on the campaign trail and simply cannot get over his obsession with bashing his predecessors, even at the most inappropriate of times, fancy telling a room full of people who would be acutely aware that rapid spending was the reason Australia emerged from the GFC relatively unscathed, indeed the package was praised worldwide, that it was all a regrettable "changing of the rules". It boggles the mind how utterly stupid and clumsy this man is. I don't know what else to say. A great precursor to the G20. Let's hope he doesn't put them all to sleep with his welcoming address.

In my deranged state, I have placed a pineapple on us to beat the Aints. Hopefully a decision I won't be regretting by quarter time.

All New Zealand tours of the Big Marino have been cancelled. Too risky.

Great stuff fellas. Must not get excited. Must not get excited. Must not get excited... Ah hell. Move aside Big Kev cause I'm freakin excited!!

Welcome MD. You're 100% correct. However my best advice is to get used to it. Unfortunately.

I think we can all agree that anyone associated with the Labor Party or the Trade Unions is a perverted, corrupt, kiddy fiddler.

On the surface it does appear ludicrous that this qualifies as news, but it will generate chatter. Two of the game's highest profile bogans being buddies will come as entertaining news to some.

It's a fair call, but the Goldilocks analogy is still bang on, especially with Wattsy in the title role.

Always good for a laugh is Jeffrey.

That's great, Jack. Now play some decent footy this year. Please.

Haha exactly,

Freo getting a bath in the early stages against Wet Toast. 31-zip in the first. Sylvia just had his first touch in a purple jumper. A kick to no-one.

If he can back up his performance with something similar against Geelong, I'm on board the Trenners train.

I think we should pause to congratulate Tim Wilson, policy director of the IPA and advocate for the abolition of the Human Rights Commission, on his new appointment as Human Rights Commissioner. I have no doubt he will do an outstanding job of defending the freedoms of Andrew Bolt. *cue Benny Hill music*