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To be completely honest OD, I do not possess a cheque book :-) I do however participate in club auctions and have purchased a number of items that when combined with memberships for myself and my son, make my contribution not less than significant. I will always give to this club and will only cease to support them when they throw that last shovel full of dirt over my cold body.The cost of my traveling down to Melbourne with my son for round one (fares, accommodation, food etc) to support my team at the game, unfortunately reduce my ability to give much at the moment, but that is the lot of being an interstate supporter.

I hope they don't mind me doing a little advertising on their behalf, but for any Sydney supporters, I had an email today from the nswdemons informing of an evening with Don McLardy; details of which are: Friday 5th April, from 5pm at the King St Brewhouse, 22 The Promenade, King St Wharf (Darling Harbour) Rsvp's can be sent to [email protected]

Last seen plying his trade on Demonology. That is however, an almost generic head... could be Harpo Marx, Neil Gaiman, Brett Whitely, and it would seem, numerous others.

You missed my nomination of Mitch Robinson

I would suggest to RR that he keep nominations open for another day or two and then add a poll using the nominations.

Don't know if you noticed Alf, but he bears a striking resemblance to yourself. And I suppose it's only fair I offer a nomination: http://www.carltonfc.com.au/player-profile/mitch-robinson

Could imagine a crowd chant of Garlo, Garlo, Garlo in the mode of the Dexys' "Gino"...even the MFC trumpeter could revive his career by taking on the brass line from that tune.

When I was a kid in the early 60's, my younger brother, sister and myself used to sit around playing with the old Ouija Board (the 60's version of a video game?) when for some reason we mentioned the Richmond Tigers. The board went crazy and from that moment on, the Tigers were on the most hated list. These days though, apart from a couple of clubs (still Richmond, and Carlton) my hatred is generally reserved for the supporters and the AFL. Adelaide supporters remind me of the inbred, banjo toting, wooden teeth wearing hillbillies from Deliverance. Essendon supporters are just plain feral and Collingwood supporters are just plain scary. I used to dislike Swans supporters here in Sydney because of their blind support with little knowledge of the game, but now I think they are among the most reasonable supporters in the game and I find it impossible to dislike the Swans as a club - in fact, I have nothing but admiration for their achievements.

Flying down from Sydney with my son

As does your defeatist attitude.

As much as I dislike the Crows, I hope they demolish/humiliate the Bumbers.

You may be right, but that last line was a little ambiguous... if I misinterpreted it, then unreserved apologies to Pipefitter.

He is earning "that sort of coin this year" because that is what he was contracted to. Hardly his fault he has had a few niggles.

I find it interesting that there are a number of posters referring to LJ's "alchohol problems". To the best of my knowledge (which isn't particularly extensive), I thought LJ did not have a history of drinking until the Alice Springs incident blew up; in fact, I was of the impression that he was close to being a non-drinker. If that is true, I would say that LJ's problems stemmed from having little or no experience of being in an alchohol induced state. This is not intended to excuse his drink driving, but just to question this idea that he has a "drinking problem" per ce.

Apologies to Disney and 'Old Yeller'... I give you, the "Old Dee Theme": Old Dee was a hunter A rearin', tearin' hunter In any chase he knew just how to run And when he hunted trouble He always found it double And that's when Old Dee had fun Chorus: Here Old Dee Come back, Old Dee Best doggone 'old dog' in the east Old Dee was a fighter A rootin', tootin' fighter In any scrap he knew just what to do A rough and ready fellow Although his coat was yellow (well, red and blue - but that doesn't rhyme with 'fellow') His bold Demon heart was true blue

So you have backed off on your machete wielding, woman beating attacks? As nutbean correctly stated, LJ is hardly alone in the drink driving stakes and no-one is saying he should be absolved simply because of who he is as there is irrefutable evidence that he was well over the limit... note the word "evidence". He will no doubt receive the appropriate penalties for that effort. Meanwhile, you think he will get off these current assault charges purely because of who he is and that he will eventually do time for some future crime - in other words, in the event that LJ is found not guilty through the courts, you will always believe that he is guilty; I disagree with nutbean's assessment of you being "a piece of work"; you are an extremely nasty piece of work!

To quote your earlier post , but he threw it all away due to a lack of discipline (note I deliberately avoided any reference to any form of "troubledness")... Cousins and Martin, both sublimely skilled, both self centred party boys with no real understanding of the meaning of "team". Too big a risk for mine.

I've been building a pile of blu ray discs to watch starting Sunday... a few on that pile I now have, in no particular order: Wreck it Ralph (3D) Life of Pi (3D) Storm Surfers (3D) Man With the Iron Fists Seven Psychopaths Samsara Intouchable Quatermass and the Pit Earth Vs Flying Saucers Marley Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (3D) Beasts of the Southern Wild The Qatsi Trilogy Cabin in the Woods The Who Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 Busy times ahead!

So was Benny

Ok, for 2013: 13 games at the MCG of which 10 are 'home' games and two games at Etihad of which one is a home game So, that is 15 games in Melbourne plus Geelong which is near enough to be considered a Melbourne game, so that is 16 games in Melbourne of which 11 are home games plus one home game in Darwin... Sydney is one and a half hours away as is Adelaide and Brisbane isn't much more. Hardly going to sap their strength or give them jet lag. Maybe you believe we paid up members and interstate supporters should be willing to fork out the extra to travel to the MCG/Etihad and accommodation... thankfully the club treat us with a little more respect than that. There are just two we will travel any great distance for - Pattersons and TIO whereas West Coast travel across the country eight times and half way across the country twice and Fremantle travel across the country ten times - and isn't that really hurting their chances...not!! So essentially, we will have one more game at TIO in the future under such an arrangement - hardly the end of the world, but quite possibly the beginning of a new world for the club.

Sorry OD... I'm just not used to such compliments

Yeah yeah, sure.... anyway, hope there might be a possibility to catch up with a few (your good self included of course) next week when I and my son come down for the Port game (fingers crossed and hoping that they have a training run at Goschs on the Saturday).

I often get mistaken for nutbean... seems he has the same problem? ;-)

If he leaves, I could see it being to a club like Collingwood, but only if someone like Daisy Thomas is on his way out of the door...hopefully on his way to the MFC.

As someone else mentioned, depending on when the games are played, it does not necessarily have to be as hot as many seem to think. As far as distance goes and Port Adelaide having some sort of advantage, it is just 700km difference if traveling from Adelaide or Melbourne... hardly a leg up and hardly a climate that will suit them better than us. And what is that comment about "a footy loving audience"??? Are you saying they don't love their footy in Darwin? Give me a break. I may be wrong, but I would have thought West Coast and Freemantle travel a lot more than us throughout a season, yet it hasn't really affected their chances/performances.