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Poor old Tom always gets pushed into the shadows.

Xander, the not so great.

To be perfectly frank, I agree!

Reading that Big Footy thread, they’re saying that Rucci clarified that it’s a Melbourne based club, as opposed to the MFC.

Assuming he qualified to play, which he doesn’t, I think you would find that considering Fritsch went for scans on his foot today after Sunday’s scare, they would not be risking one of our most important players in a VFL game.

Yeah, back in the day, I used to really look forward to reading the Harley Reid thread. 😉

As someone with stage 4 cancer I can empathise with your health situation and wish you all the best. However, that won’t change the fact that I have found some of your posts to be a little too self aggrandising and often, without being able to cite specific posts, just a rehashing on what was already being speculated in the media, but as if it were a great revelation.

If he were a racehorse, he’d be DNF.

Actually, I am 🤣

The long range forecast says 70% chance of rain, but that’s in the morning. Afternoon is cloudy with some sunshine. But I’m not relying too much on that forecast as they rarely get it right.

My son and I are in Bay 2 Row AA

Not if you’re an interstate member 😁

Yep, they couldn’t pick up a Nikon the post, nor if the ball Canons off a players finger.

They use cameras now?? I thought they had some guy on the sidelines with a mallet and chisel and a stone tablet.

Yeah, I’m not sure what I was thinking, but that was definitely a bit of a brain phaart on my part.

Yeah, sorry, a bit of a brain phaart on my part.

This probably says more about where my head is at than anything else, and this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but I’ve often thought about the fact that a touched ball going through the goals is awarded a behind, while a touched ball going between the goal and point posts is also awarded a behind. Shouldn’t the latter be either a ball up or a boundary throw in?

Agree with all of that, but, and I’m probably wrong, I thought all goals were reviewed before the centre bounce to restart play took place… in which case, how could that not have been picked up? It beggars belief!

I saw the mini replay on Foxtel a while ago and the ball clearly misses the post, but the weird thing was the commentators trying to say that it clipped the padding… 😵‍💫

That’s something that can affect both teams… I don’t subscribe to this ‘umpires are out to get us’ conspiracy.

Thanks matey… it a bit of the ‘how long is a piece of string’ situation. Chemo can last from 3-6 months or even longer. The optimist in me says I’ll be back doing it again early next year, but the realist says don’t hold your breath. 😁

Wow! I’d never heard that before… thanks! I don’t think I’d ever have picked that as The Last Time.

For me AC/DC died along with Bon Scott… they still wrote good tunes but Brian Johnson’s vocals (for want of a better word) just rubbed me the wrong way! (and I’d seen him with the band Geordie in the very early 70’s… and even then I walked out of what was a free Canberra Day event on an oval somewhere after watching a few local bands, who were great by comparison). Favourite songs are so hard to rank as the list will always depend on my mood and my memory. There are songs that that many love that would never make my list (Bohemian Rhapsody being the first to spring to mind), so here are a few in no particular order (10 to begin with): 1. A Hard Days Night (Beatles) - that opening chord gets me every time! 2. Bitter Sweet Symphony (Verve) 3. Bang A Gong (Get It On) (T-Rex) 4. White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane) 5. Marie Provost (Nick Lowe) 6. Making Plans For Nigel (XTC) 7. Shivers (Boys Next Door) 8. Stupid Girl (Ellen Foley) 9. I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down (Elvis Costello) 10. Factory Girl (Rolling Stones)

It’s the gif that keeps on giffing.