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I could understand your angst if this were in the middle of the footy season, but it's not... there's nothing wrong with a bit of light relief in the off season... except for the obviously nasty stuff which shouldn't happen at any time.

You may well be right... it's just that I tend to adhere to the old saying that two wrongs don't make a right. Actually, the burning of a flag with a union jack in the corner raises absolutely no emotional response from me at all, as does the burning of effigies of Abbott; if it gets it out of their system, all well and good (it won't achieve much else).

From the vision, I think Tippett looks pretty good. Safe pair of hands in a contest, but also seems to know when to attempt a mark and when to spoil (usually to the advantage of his own team mates)... also liked his second efforts in what was pretty limited vision.

Why wouldn't he be... not sure what the relevance of the Groucho quote might be, but there are plenty of us interstate MFC members.

Maybe Howie would like Pablo's adoration....

Picasso gave away Cubism in 1973 in favour of Deconstructionism which he has successfully been doing ever since. Not to mention that Picasso paid his dues as a superb draftsman prior to his dabbling and then immersing himself in Cubism; that is, in Howe's case. he might need to go back to perfecting his basic skill set in order to give more substance to his more creative approach to the game.

You would expect that he has,,, but then again, it could be a trick of the lens... the old chiaroscuro effect.

Not unless he has given his beard a massive trim and lost a bit off the top.

Classic narcissistic response.

We are talking about the 3rd (or 4th?) most populous country on the planet and we see a handful of their people burning flags and effigies, so it's hardly a cause for tarring them all with the same brush. I would say that it is more a case of the press (or even govt) getting hold of a few stooges for a staged demonstration while the vast majority of their people are going about their normal daily routines and not giving a thought to Australia at all.

Don't worry, you're funny... in a sad kind of a way. ;-)

Seems we have now passed 20,000 members which is 2700 ahead of where we were at this time last year. From the MFC site.

Salem was also a brand of cigarettes... should we call him "Menthols"?...or, god forbid, "F ag"? Or maybe he'll get the name "Slalem" in honor of our supposed love of skiing.

Maybe I'm living in the past, but I could never understand what was so wrong with the old black shorts/white shorts thing where the jumper was always the same - maybe someone just wanted to make more money out of us suckers.

Not to mention the fact that he seems to have forgotten that he had not been averse to using the "like" button himself (particularly when someone took his side in an argument).

Like!

Thanks mate.

Thanks for the report McQueen... great for us interstaters as you well know ;-) Were there any notable absentees? And, if he was there and training, how was Dawes looking?

One reason may be that it is a simple matter of uploading an image to Twitter. To show photos here requires a Tumblr (for example) or similar account to which you upload images and then link to them from here. So, it may just be he posts to twitter for convenience sake. Twitter is far from ego stroking as the only people who see your posts are those who follow you. Personally, I like twitter as a great source of information as many journos, people with links to the arts etc have accounts and post links to breaking news, events etc.

Salem would have been the club's first realistic choice and any of those who went earlier that they may have been interested in, would have been speculative (if he gets this far, forget Salem and grab him).

Yeah, I do get it right occasionally.... very occasionally

If you read above you will see it is said he is very quick over the first 15m after which he can't sustain his pace... but he has plenty of other skills that more than negate that.

It appears to be an intermittent problem... I have found that sometimes when you click on the Quote button nothing will appear quoted, but when you go back and click again, the quote appears; probably 8 or 9 times out of 10 it works just fine. Doesn't appear to be browser related as I have had it happen in both Safari and Firefox (never use IE) and both of those are always kept up to date.

Would you prefer we never got Roos?... because that was the condition he stipulated and the condition under which he signed on. I'm sure Roos would love Frawley and Hogan to extend their contracts, but I doubt he is as concerned as posters on Demonland... he would understand that they might like to see how things are looking under the new regime before committing beyond their current contracts.

This is the best policy (being happy with any of the three)... I have been leaning towards Salem since I first started that combined Freeman/Salem thread ages ago... so I know I'm going to feel a little let down if he goes earlier than pick 9 or if we pass and take someone else instead.