hardtack

The fact is he was due to attend training for the IR matches that afternoon - why didn't he deem it to be prudent not to drink at all the night before??? He was NOT free to live it up at all! He screwed up and the fact that he is one of ours, does not excuse him at all.

One big issue I think you will find come out of this is that he will have placed more doubt in the minds of those who matter at the MFC as to his ability to keep himself under control. You can be certain that the likes of Neeld and his assistants won't be thinking "ah, no problem, he was only up half the night getting [censored] in preparation for an International Rules game... good on the kid!". Regardless of what anyone here thinks of the IR series, the MFC will be viewing Colin as someone who has just let down his team by showing them little or no respect. He may as well kiss goodbye to any chance of being promoted to the leadership group... ever.

It was HIS car... of course he had an obligation to remain at the scene... like it or not, the fact that he allowed this other person to be driving his car made it his responsibility.

And if he had been a player from Collingwood or Carlton or wherever, you would have been all over this. Just because he was one of our players, that does not excuse his stupidity. It was HIS car and it was HIS responsibility as he let his mate drive it an obviously reckless manner - you don't lose control and break one of those poles when you are out for a lazy Sunday drive. The guy may be not guilty of causing the accident, but he most definitely is guilty of rank stupidity.

Please tell me you are kidding. He leaves the scene of an accident in which HIS car was involved! Anyone leaving the scene of an accident is immediately making themselves the subject of all sorts of speculation... and of course the first thought will be just how drunk was he? Who cares if it is off-season, he must know that something like this WILL make the news regardless of who was driving and he must know that leaving the scene is not going to reflect well on him. And more importantly, he must know that, like it or not, it WILL reflect badly on the MFC (there are enough gutter journos out there who absolutely thrive on this sort of stuff).

Very very sad news.... he succumbed to his injuries :-( Vale Marco.

He was just trying to make Neeld feel at home :-)

When the passenger is the owner of the car, I imagine it might be.

I was singing Over, Under, Sideways Down in a band here in Sydney in the early 80's :-)

Well, here are a few I could mention: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (with Peter Cook) The Bedsitting Room (featured just about every British comedian imaginable) Bedazzled (the original with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) Dr Strangelove (of course)

Yes, love the Badfinger soundtrack - "If you want it, here it is, come and get it, but you better hurry 'cause it's going fast..."

I still have vivid memories of seeing the Stones at both Kooyong in Melbourne and Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on that Exile on Main Street tour... at the peak of their powers.

There's only one thing worse than being talked about and that's NOT being talked about. (I think that was one of Wilde's your majesty)

Don't get me wrong, I think pink Floyd deserved to have a mega hit/money spinner. I just happen to think it was one of their worst albums, having a preference for their more cerebral stuff :-) It did have some good tracks on it of course, but it just didn't really do it for me as an album from day 1 of it's release. In fact, I can only think of a handful of albums ever, that grabbed me from the moment I first heard them... The Rollings Stones "Beggars Banquet" and "Exile on Main Street", The Clash's "London Calling", Elvis Costello's "My Aim is True" and "Get Happy", Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Heartbeat" and a few others.

He did some great stuff post CCR... Centerfield and Eye of the Zombie being a couple that immediately spring to mind. Favourite CCR album was their second, Bayou Country - was never a fan of Cosmos Factory; probably because every party you ever went to back then had it playing (or maybe it's just me... after all, I'm one of those blasphemers that can't stand Dark Side of the Moon).

Well this was posted on Facebook by the AFL with a link to the article on their site... so hopefully they have got it right.

Sure is... could call him Pythagorus because he="MC Squared"

Well, if the Hammer brings back bad memories, perhaps Clark might confound the opposition a la MC Escher :-) or alternatively MC Hellshit from the Japanese minimalist/industrial band The Boredoms :-)

And the opposition, well, they can't touch this!

LOL... Gold!

If we ever have to return all of those words we've borrowed, the English language will cease to exist.

40,873 - could be 874, but it depends on whether I can convince the guy up the road to take a membership.

True, but I still contend it would be having zero impact on their fitness levels.

Oh yes, the couple of minutes it takes them to tweet 3 or 4 times a day, must really have a major impact on their fitness!

But that is the point exactly! I will be watching this and loving it, because I get the feeling that we could see a new "world record" winning margin.