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I’m not on the wrong thread at all. This is a thread about the World Cup which is watched by both dedicated and merely interested football watchers, all of who are entitled to an opinion and have the right to express that opinion. Sure, I’m not exactly a fanatic when it comes to the round ball game, but I have watched and followed it for over 50 years, so I’m not exactly totally lacking knowledge of the game. If VAR is so successful in eliminating diving and human error (ref’s decisions) from the game, then how on earth did Ronaldo earn a penalty kick in the game against Ghana? Even Rooney and Figo believed that wasn’t a penalty and that Ronaldo had milked it, so why didn’t it go to a full review? Why isn’t a full VAR review made for any penalty awarded (it’s not as if it will use up too much match time)?

I didn’t see either of those games, but of the games I’ve see, yep, uninspiring. I’m afraid that for me, soccer ceased to be the ‘beautiful game’ years ago when diving became a blight on the game and totally ruined it for me; so maybe my view of these games is tainted.

With my family having one foot in the Australian camp and the other in the Japanese camp, we still have hope of at least one of the two getting beyond the group stage. Japan were absolutely magnificent against Germany and so should be in the box seat to progress. My oldest son even bought himself a Japan guernsey for the occasion 😁 Apart from that game and the Korea v Uruguay game, I’ve found most games to be pretty uninspiring.

The ‘castle defence’ 😉

The team sheets would have to be produced in landscape format!

I would have thought that a basket case like Essendon should have been given Qatar.

Of the warriors on D’land, there are some, Who take issue with young Jacko’s mum, Family loyalty it seems, is seen as a weakness, Their gnashing of teeth, and the onset of bleakness, Say this transgression will haunt them for years to come.

Surely having opinions and insights from someone like Healy, who has not aligned himself with the club for some time, is going to be more valuable than having insights from someone who still identifies themself as connected to the club?

Or, perhaps, Frank Spencer?

Must have been one hell of a horse to win carrying both Childs and yourself!!

Ok, mine came from an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies.

Fritsch to kick 60+ and lock down an AA spot.

I never got into their albums, but my “awful band” comment was referring to their live performance that I saw at London’s Roundhouse. Maybe my opinion was a result of all of the mandied out ‘husks’ that I had to keep dodging as they were falling over themselves throughout the show, but I just couldn’t get into them at all.

Me too… it’s on their early album Gorilla. ”Hearing from you later Casanova, on horn... yeah! Digging General de Gaulle on accordion... really wild, General! Thank you, sir Roy Rogers on Trigger”

Viv Stanshall was a genius!! I was fortunate enough to see him a few times when he had a residency at a pub in London’s Fulham in 1975. 50p entry and he had musicians like Steve Winwood and the sax player from the Dark Side of the Moon album (can’t recall his name), playing with him. He would begin his show by opening a French horn case full of bottles of cider, that he would consume over the course of the evening at which point he’d be on the verge of collapse. Sadly, a few years later in 1995, he died in a fire aged just 51. There is a movie in which he appears, that is based on one of his writings that had been serialised on radio, called Sir Henry At Rawlinson End… it’s a brilliant piece of absurdist humour. The Bonzos also appeared briefly in the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour movie, performing their song Death Cab For Cutie.

The Hard Ons are still going around, now with Tim Rodgers on vocals. One of the guitarists in my band, Ged Corben, was originally with the Lime Spiders and later, with his brother, formed the Cruel Sea. I’ve never been much into metal, but have a lot of time for Ministry. Over the years I’d got to see Lemmy with Hawkwind (awful band), the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, the 101ers (Joe Strummers first band before The Clash), Kilburn and the High Roads (Ian Drury’s first band) and numerous others, but the show that stands out most for me, was getting to see Tim Buckley live at Knebworth in the UK… on a bill with The Allman Brothers and others.

All we need now is someone with three buttocks.

If he’s quick, we could give him the lengthy nickname of Smoke Stack Lightening.

Nice tautology!

Wouldn’t you have been better off checking in the pinned post here in this very forum?

I’d be going the Love Schache route.

Obviously not Schache then, as we’ve known about that possibility for a while now… who do you consider to be the surprise?

Yes, but he didn’t select himself to play in those games, and he had been showing reasonable form at Casey. Now that he’s getting an opportunity somewhere else, we should be wishing him the best; even by playing at Casey he still contributed to our club’s success last year.

Classy… not!

No, you give the ball to Spargo, and when all of the opposition players have move to a position about 30 metres out , he lays it off to May who slams it up the middle.