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Selective quoting? If you watch the footage, the umpire also stated that he was holding the player… and indeed he was.

For anyone going to the game tomorrow, according to an email from the club, there will be beanies on sale at the SCG. My main concern at the moment is that an email I received from Ticketek states that entry into the various stands is staggered (as part of Covid control) and that entry to the Victor Trumper Concourse where we are sitting, begins at 2:35pm. The reason I am concerned about this is that according to the game day preparations email I received today from the club, the slide at the MCG is happening from 2pm... I won't be happy if we miss seeing that on the big screen because of this staggered entry.

And now two tunes from one of my favourite bands anywhere on the planet (although now long gone), the Blue Hearts; hopefully I haven't posted these in the past. First song is Train Train, and the second is Linda Linda, which we used to do in one of my bands in the 90's, much to the consternation of the local punters...

If we're going of the well beaten rock n roll track to parts less known, here's a couple from Japan in the late 80's early 90's... Firstly, a band called S.E.X doing a tune called After the War (one of the first things I saw on the big screen on the side of the Studio Alta building in Shinjuku: Next up is the band Complex formed by guitarist Hotei who was previously with a band called Boøwy (first seen on the same big screen as the previous song). He was also responsible for the instrumental in Kill Bill:

They didn't do so last year, so why would they do it this year?... unless of course you subscribe to the AFL and Media hate the Dees conspiracy.

One Sparrow, does not a Summer make.

That was 100% a free for a high tackle… was always there. St Kilda lost this game regardless of the umpiring. To have the lead they did in what was a low scoring game and then lose, speaks volumes for where they’re at as a team. It’s no different to our loss to Adelaide… everyone loves to blame the umpires because that’s easy, but the reality was that we gave up a match winning lead through our own ineptitude.

Brown is listed as an emergency, so could still be a late replacement for TMac.

defuture15… did you get allocated new seats? I got a seat relocation email from Ticketek saying the seats I was originally given are no longer available; we’re now in Bay 15 in the Victor Trumper Concourse in row CC.

You’re assuming that he has the players in his corner… they certainly haven’t been playing like they’re with him.

I got free tickets (MFC sent emails containing bar codes), but that might be because I live in Sydney.

I only went to one of those meetups at the Camelia Grove Hotel and it was a game in which we got smashed… there were plenty of those then. We may have met then? If you want to say hello, just look for my beard a few seats along ? We’re in seats 12 and 13.

My son and I are in row D in SBAY25 (Clive Churchill Stand); we opted for the free member tickets. We’re just behind and slightly to the right of the goals (if I’m remembering the layout correctly).

I got my tickets (to be sent to mobile), but when I click the links in the SMS they are not yet available. The first time I’ve encountered that.

Silk purse, meet sow’s ear.

Being a little self indulgent here, but I thought I'd share a few shots from the game where we played Brisbane Lions in Shanghai and our indigenous players excelled, guiding us to a great win. I've also included a couple of shots of a future captain (at that time) and of course, one of the author with one of his heroes... enjoy!

That’s easy, it’s the 5th Dimension because we’re up up and away (only people who are 100 years old like myself, will get that).

It’s the Weather Channel app, but since I wrote that comment, it’s now showing cloudy until 9pm then a 40% chance of rain from 9 onwards. I give up when it comes to getting accurate weather reports that don’t change by the minute.

Sorry to rain on your parade (chortle!), but the weather app is now saying that from 7pm onwards, there's a 70% to 80% chance of rain at Sydney Olympic Park.

I was looking on YouTube for the version of Living a Little, Loving a Little that Hiatt did with my favourite artist, Elvis Costello, but unfortunately could not find it. However, I did find this video of Costello with one of my other favourites, the legendary George Jones... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYP3R8AYuBk You'll need to follow the link as apparently YouTube doesn't allow embedding of this particular link (at least, that's what the message said as I pasted it here).

I think that wherever the game is played, it will attract a large crowd, simply because of the occasion and the high regard/admiration, in which Neale Daniher is held within the footballing community and beyond - the Big Freeze is NOT just about footy. The only down side is that Neale will probably not be able to attend in person, although I hope I'm very wrong about that.

Yep, and they'd save on costs by not having to fill the pool with ice.

I hope he's treating that perfectly good guitar well ?

I don't think I've seen anyone mention this yet, but while I would prefer to see the game go ahead in Adelaide where it would be bound to have pretty close to a sell out crowd, would ND be in a fit enough state to cope with the rigors of traveling to South Australia and possibly being accommodated there as well (a return trip on the one day would no doubt be very taxing on him), which is logistically far more difficult than a short trip to the 'G'. It would be a shame to see the event going ahead without ND in attendance.

What a bizarre comment. Do you have something against Beavis?