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You may well be right Mono ;-)

Great film, but not as good as the first two in the trilogy, "If" and "O Lucky Man".

No reason, I just didn't... I quoted the tweet so what does it matter?

Did the MFC get a job lot on surgery? Just saw a tweet from Jesse Hogan: "Going into surgery for the first time and look who I get put up with. Grampa terlich #justafinger"

Yep, nothing but respect; John Howard’s former chief of staff, Grahame Morris on Julia Gillard... And my favourite 3 word slogan courtesy of Malcolm: "advocacy not slogans".

As opposed to an avalanche if Tony had remained as leader and gone to an early election?

I wouldn't be so sure about that... there are posters on here who still manage to exhume the corpses of Morton and Gysberts with monotonous regularity.

Why on earth is it suddenly political correctness when the best & fairest winner who happens to play for the MFC women's team is afforded a thread to celebrate her achievement? Bizarre.

I get the feeling that the club may put him up as trade bait, but I also get the feeling that if they can't get a good return for him, they won't be unhappy to still have him on the list.

Or, to be precise, more of the same.

I would have thought he would potentially be capable of 70 - 80 in a very good season, but with Garlett running around adding 40 - 50, does it really matter?

I want a West Coast v Bulldogs GF... two most exciting teams in the comp.

Yep, a result of accumulating too many liquid assets as opposed to being paid cash at the end of the night.

It was the first couple of vertebrae so I think it was classified as a neck injury; but I could be wrong... my memory isn't what it used to be.

I wonder if it is in some way related to the neck injury he suffered at the end of the 2010 season.

A rather interesting exchange on Twitter; not sure how to take it... hopefully a bit of friendly banter: Sam Blease ‏@Sam_Blease 2h2 hours ago Congrats to @jesseBhogan on winning the rising star, great footballer and even better bloke! #hulkhogan Max Gawn ‏@gawndog37 1h1 hour ago @Sam_Blease @jesseBhogan when did u two become best mates jamesmagner ‏@jamesmag23 1h1 hour ago @gawndog37 @Sam_Blease @jesseBhogan max pls

Hang on, that's a complete and coherent sentence... what have you done with ENYAW?

Robin Williams and Kurt Cobain were pocketing the sort of money that Buddy and Mitch could only dream of having... your arguments hold about as much water as the pasta strainer in my kitchen.

Seriously????? This has only just come to light, yet apparently Buddy has been suffering for quite a long period of time (years)... it only came to light as people began questioning his demeanour etc. An explanation was required. Do you think he went out bragging about having a mental illness? As I said, just because you may or may not have suffered some kind of mental illness, that DOES NOT qualify you to judge others as you of all people, should be aware that the black dog bites different people in different ways.

But you have absolutely no idea about their personal circumstances as you are not involved in their personal lives and are not privee to what is going on in their heads. How do you know they are spolit brats? On what do you base that? Provide some facts if you are going to make such assertions. Maybe you have experienced mental health issues... if that is really the case, then surely you would be aware that it affects everyone differently. Do you think the likes of Kurt Cobain, Robin Williams etc were all spoilt attention seeking brats as well? Just because, as you claim, you were a victim of mental health issues, that does not qualify you to judge everyone else who is aledgedly suffering mental health issues. And if you are bringing Buddy's attitude into question, then you would be as wrong is you could possibly be... he has put in maximum effort for most of last season and this season... he is in a team that has just made the finals again and unlike Clark, is in a position where he could once again reach the pinacle that all players aspire to... why would he turn his back on that if he wasn't in a bad place?

So you are saying that the black dog is based on income? You are saying that the likes of Clark and Franklin are faking because they are on large incomes? If that is what you are saying and if you believe it to be true, you have some serious issues of your own.

I understand that Biff... it was his little rant re Buddy towards the end that I was having trouble understanding.

Is this a serious post? Following you earlier post re the black dog (http://demonland.com/forums/index.php?/topic/39087-buddys-mental-health-issue/?p=1154493) I'm seriously having trouble understanding where you are coming from.

He does suffer mild epilepsy it was reported... but it was also reported that there is no link between the epilepsy and the mentalk illness that Buddy is suffering. http://www.sydneyswans.com.au/news/2015-09-08/swans-confirm-franklins-seizure

I posted pics from my trip to Melbourne on Facebook and included are a few from training and a few from the game (although I'm not so happy with the quality of those): https://www.facebook.com/tim.fleming.75/media_set?set=a.883458691689415.1073741860.100000758763064&type=3&pnref=story