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4 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said: Now it's almost a must win for Carlton as are the next few weeks if Voss is going to continue much past the mid season, bye bye.
Fixed it for you.
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43 minutes ago, Roost it far said: Quote the quote and then quote the next and subsequent quotes. If you leave a quote out you can go back and requote the missed quote but once you quote a quote you’ll have to manually delete that quote. I find it best just to quote one quote at a time. Don’t quote me on this though.
Can I quote you on that?
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1 hour ago, rpfc said: Woke is having empathy.
I care. Shoot me.
<sarcasm>Ok, I’m going to hit you with my greatest insult: I bet you’ve just had your 10th shot, libtard!</sarcasm>
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11 hours ago, Big Col said: Given that statistically they'll be amongst the 660 AFL listed players, obviously those who are gay aren't currently comfortable in announcing it (eg at a Brownlow function).
What disturbs me is that it’s the press who get hold of this news (by whatever means), and they use it as click bait on social media such as Facebook, because they know that it’s going to result in massive numbers of hits and it will bring out all of the homophobes in droves! All it does is add to the reasons that anyone, let alone an ex footballer (of any code), will remain silent about their sexuality… and I’m not talking about just in the sense of telling the world…it’s very possible they will be afraid to even tell those close to them. There is far too much encouragement of hate in social media!
I’d love to see gay players, rather than announcing themselves via press releases or whatever means was used in this case, just rock up to club events (even the Brownlow) with their partner, without making any announcement.
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1 hour ago, picket fence said: Adams not up to it!
Hey PF, not footy related, but…how are you quoting people in your posts? You’ve gone from having the quote appearing twice in your posts, to the quote appearing three times in the post I’m now quoting?
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Friday is my birthday gig, with many of my usual invited guests hopefully sitting in (Richard Bergman, Bob Spencer, Mick Daley, Terry Serio and George Washingmachine among others), so it should be a bit of a blast.
I thought I’d also post a reminder that I have set up a link to PayPal if anyone feels that they’d like to donate to Cancer research as well as to my birthday bliss (a 50% split); I’m treating my portion as recompense for my cat herding duties, whilst organising these gigs over the years!
I believe some very generous soul from these forums has made a donation, but my guess as to who it might have been, was way off the mark… regardless, thank you so much, whoever it was!! Much love to you!
For anyone else that may also feel so inclined, just follow this link:
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14 hours ago, Tom Dyson said: It has to be said as well that Patrick Voss is a horrible waste of perfectly good oxygen.
What an embarassing, self centred, egotistical individual.
He reminds me more than a little of Maynard; although I have to say I enjoyed the flash back to the old World Championship Wresting, when he lifted Langdon above his head…all we needed was Jack Little on commentary. Both players had a good laugh about it… the security guard however, looked a bit unsure of how it would end.
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13 hours ago, picket fence said: Oliver took 1 Game!! And 30 odd possesions today and a goal and KING Punted him., yeah right!@
You really ARE the ‘king of knee [censored] reaction’… can you honestly, hand on heart, tell us that Oliver was performing up to standard over his last couple of seasons with the Dees? He was not invested at all, and yes, he has done well at the Giants (as has Trac at the Suns), but that’s not really a surprise, as it’s far from unusual for players to be reenergised when they move to a new environment.
Windsor, Langford and Lindsay will improve, but to expect them to contain midfields of the like that Freo, Sydney, and even Carlton have, is a little unfair. We are lacking in midfield depth, yes, but I’m happy to see these guys given games and a chance to develop against the best. As for next week, I have no idea what changes are likely to be made, but it will be interesting to see whether Jiath and Latrelle Picket survive the cut… Jiath may make way for AMW, and Latrelle for ? (probably too early for Mathews to get a run).
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13 hours ago, The Taciturn Demon said: He'll get another gig somewhere else and that club will be making a spectacularly bad mistake.
So…you’re saying that he’s coming to the Dees then?
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2 hours ago, bing181 said: Hopefully the coaches are developing this system and the confidence for players to keep doing it.
Fixed IT for you.
Fixed it for you 😉
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2 hours ago, binman said: I respectfully disagree.
The Champion Data player ratings are, in my humble, by far the best, most accurate such rating system.
In the Saints Dees game the top 7 rated players were (note 20 ratings points is considered an elite AA level performance):
Max Hall - 28 points
JVR - 25 points
Jack Sinclair - 20.2 points
Jack Steele - 19.7 points
NAS - 16.4 points
Sam Flanders - 15.8 points
Maxy - 15.7 points
This is the coaches votes:
9 Jacob van Rooyen
8 Max Hall
7 Max Gawn
2 Callum Wilkie
2 Jack Sinclair
1 Jack Steele
1 Caleb Windsor
Five of the top CD rated players got coaches votes, with the same top two (albeit in different order).
The coaches obviously put more stock on intangibles like huge last quarter performances or kicking clutch goals (goals are big point scorers, hence JVRs rating's but there is no differentiation about when, and in what circumstances those golas are scored) that have an outsize influence on the result.
Which is why Maxy got 7 coaches vote - he was massive factor in us winning that game with his huge last quarter. Windsor, who had 12.3 player rating points, was super influential in the first half so i can sort understand him getting one coaches vote.
That said i would have given Sharp votes. He was our fourth highest rayed player for the game (13.9 points) and had an incredible last quarter - 11.2 rating points for a quarter of footy is unbelievable (a goal, goal assist and score involvements were a big factor in that rating).
By way of contrast, Maxy, who was also massive in the last quarter, and super influential on the result, had 6.5 rating points in the last q.
Sharp was a big reason we won that game and deserved coaches votes IMHO - well done young fella.
No problem, it’d be pretty boring if we all agreed on everything. I rated mine based on the fact that Gawn played all but 12 minutes of game time and in the wash up was the most influential in our winning the game.
I then ranked Hall because aside from scoring a clutch of goals, he had a big influence around the ground and kept the Saints in the game with his individual contribution.
JVR’ contribution speaks for itself.
I rated Sharp ahead of Steele, purely because his contribution in the last quarter was what got us across the line.
Stats and rankings are all well and good.. I just base mine on what I see 🤣
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Yesterday was the start of fortnightly chemo cycle #6… pretty uneventful I guess, with my weight stabilising at 10kg below normal. One positive was that my CEA marker in my bloods, that measures the tumour’s activity, was down from 8 at the beginning of my last cycle, to 7.2 this cycle; what is considered the normal range is somewhere between 0 and 5, so I’m certainly heading in the right direction.
Of course this doesn’t give any indication as to what is happening with the traces in my lungs and liver, so I’ll just have to wait for my high contrast CT scan’s results, and that is booked in to take place on April 15th.
As I usually get zero winks of sleep on the first night of each cycle (thank you steroids), I decided to upload a lot of my photographs (not footy related) to my Instagram photography account, so if you would be so kind as to take a look (and even Follow me), so that I don’t feel like this effort was all for naught, here’s a link for you to follow:
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I reckon that they got the votes from our game very wrong. Gawn should have got 10, Hall 8, JVR 6, and although Steele was very good, I would have had Sharp ahead of him, due to the fact that he pretty much won us the game with his last quarter effort.
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14 hours ago, Willmoy1947 said: The inconsistencies are well above "the not paid enough" mild synopsis.
I certainly wouldn’t want their job, knowing the abuse they cop.
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11 hours ago, old dee said: What about the saints player in the last quarter with the ball with no way out just ran over the line in the behind area. Isn’t that a free kick to the other side. Nothing paid!
I agree that was a bad decision, but I doubt it was deliberately called because we are the MFC.
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2 hours ago, DemonOX said: Not sure what anyone else thought of the umps but bloody hell they were atrocious.
Felt like they had a Saints jersey on and was very annoying and frustrating.
Hopefully they improve but I won’t hold my breath.
Maybe, like the players, they’re a bit rusty. Also, they now have a few new rules that they have to get their heads around. I refuse to believe that they are somehow under orders to disadvantage our club… that’s one conspiracy theory that doesn’t sit well with me (I’m not saying that you are a conspiracy theorist DemonOx, but there are those who definitely fit the bill)
I’m of the opinion that they probably aren’t paid enough, considering the level of abuse that is directed at them.
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4 hours ago, dees189227 said: I was reading McClures article & he mentioned after each song we'd play Robbie Williams entertain you then the players song, which didn't happen.
I think that Let Me Entertain You was meant to be played after our first goal and all subsequent goals would have just the goal scorer’s choice played.
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On 14/03/2026 at 10:34, Ghostwriter said: I’m shocked by Fritta’s choice of Daft Punk. He’s slightly cooler than I thought he was 🤣
I thought that too until I had a listen to the chosen song… too much autotune (not enough cowbell)… but I loved JVR’s choice of Rock the Casbah, which got plenty of air time!
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WERRIDEE'S Top 500 Songs
in General Discussion
That’s one hell of a list! Is that in order of favourites from 1 to 500? I don’t think I could manage that (in fact, I know I couldn’t), so well done you!
I haven’t read it closely, but my main disagreement would be your rating of Fleetwood Mac who to my mind ceased to exist after Peter Green left… while the two songs you cited were big money spinners (chart toppers), I’d rank Albatross, Oh Well Parts 1&2, The Green Manalishi and Black Magic Woman from Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, well ahead of them as songs.