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Too soon?

I’ve decided that as long as I can get us gigs on the last weekend of each chemo cycle (a cycle = 2 weeks), I’m going to keep going with the music. To that effect, I’ve got us one at my local the Butchers Brew Bar for my birthday and so far have a reasonably good list of guests prepared to come and sit in with the band: Bob Spencer, Richard Burgman, Terry Serio, George Washingmachine, Mick Daley (in Melbourne he had a band called Coporate Raiders)…there will be others as well, depending on availability. Here’s my artwork for the Facebook Event I created. And the event page is here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1apjCbiZsx/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Now Apple Music I do have!! Get some more stuff out there… maybe a Casey song 😉

Is there any possibility that Langdon could go back.

Didn’t he say the same about Petty, and I’m sure he was being touted as a Half Back Flanker when he was drafted.

Not being a subscriber to either Amazon. Music or Spotify, I could only listen to the opening relatively few bars, but what I did hear was really REALLY good! To paraphrase Bob Hawke, any podcast operator who doesn’t play that, is a bum! Would love to hear some more of your material.

Firstly, thanks for your gentle and understanding/empathetic take on my loss and how it related to Louiza’s and my discussions in her final days - and yes, I attended her funeral at the Greek Orthodox Church in Newton here in Sydney, and it was absolutely heartbreaking as those closest to her mourned openly and with incredibly raw emotion; I don’t know if this is the right descriptor, but the whole experience was cathartic in the extreme… the minister taking the ‘ceremony’ had similar thoughts to us and expressed them unapologetically to the gathered mourners who took his words in the way he intended, approvingly. Not wanting to turn this into a political debate, but In these Trumpian times, empathy seems to be something that has taken a back seat, so it’s always refreshing to encounter the likes of your good self and others on this site! Now, onto the above quoted sentence from your response. Firstly, I am so sorry for your loss, so please accept my sincerest condolences; the loss of a parent is always devastating as we tend to consider them to be somewhat immortal, and I suppose they are, so please take heart in the fact that she will always live on in your heart and soul… a parent never really leaves. In yet another odd coincidence, I was just talking to a friend of mine on Friday (the drummer from my band), whose mother-in-law had been suffering for a relatively short time, with a very serious and ultimately extremely painful form of cancer (pancreatic). They were concerned that she might suffer terribly and were trying to come to terms with that possibility, but then just last week and out of nowhere, as she was getting up from the sofa, she suffered a heart attack and, according to the doctor, was gone before she hit the ground… no time to suffer at all. Even the worst things in life can have the oddest of upsides. Take care please.

Yes, I’m the same when it comes to being excited by the upcoming season, even though I’m resigned to a very likely bottom 4 finish… I just want to see how well the players adopt King’s game plan/style, and what kind of improvements we see if the players buy in; I’m particularly interested in seeing how Langford, Lindsay, Windsor, JVR and Jefferson have progressed if at all, and how well Latrelle and Xavier (Taylor) slot in. Ah bugger it, also AMW, Mentha, Jiaff, Mihocek and Steele. And yes, she was a devastating loss. It is ironic that she should go in the way she did, as it was not long before her ill fated trip to Bali for a wedding party, that we had been talking about how terrible it was that people of Islamic faith in this country were being targeted because of the actions of ISIS and the Taliban fundamentalists… I’m certain that if there is an afterlife, she would still firmly hold that belief!

Yes, and likewise, we didn’t get to see all of the good things at the Carlton training, just a selectively edited video of mistakes.

Sorry to be a Daryl Downer, but Bali always evokes sadness for me, as my good friend and train travel (to work) companion, Louiza Zervos was one of the victims of the bombing in 2002.

I would have given the proverbial left nut to be able to attend his show at Sydney’s Domain, but, going by what I’ve heard from attendees, the David Byrne concert was the ultimate… every single person I know who went, said it was the best concert that they had EVER witnessed!

As I understand it, there was no training on Friday(?), but what is the go today? No training or, being at Casey(?), just no track watchers?

No, I thought it was pretty clear that it was about his being dropped to Casey… “I still sit here to this day and I don’t agree with it but that’s (Goodwin’s) opinion and match committee’s decision and so for me it’s kind of over now and hopefully it doesn’t happen again.”

Yes, he’s the Travis Head of footy… looks serious (and no doubt, is) on the surface, but is a bit of an oddball.

Now, I’m not usually one to blow smoke up a person’s hind quarters, but that is one of the best reads I can recall ever having on this site!! Stats can be a very boring subject, but you had me invested to the point where I found myself reading it in an Antony Green voice. Thank you!

Or possibly, more of a roll player!

I really couldn’t care less about these kinds of rankings. Why care about teams that performed well in the past, when we should be more concerned about how our current team will perform from round one onwards. Cornes obviously has too much time on his hands.

It’s interesting that the media report posted by @Demonland focussed heavily on Lever’s solid hit out, yet the track watchers here barely mentioned him… was he performing as well as Will Faulkner would have us believe? Also, is there any likelihood that we might rotate Langford and Culley between the wing and midfield (yes, I know the wing IS midfield, but you know what I mean 😉 I’m useless with terminology)?

Talk about nit pick(ett)ing!!

Nah, he’s in our faces every single day of the week.

Well, and I know there is an ‘Introductions’ topic in the General forum that few seem to frequent, starting this topic is not a bad way to introduce yourself to the group, as a relatively new or infrequent poster. It is also a place to condense commentary on new players at the club, only; which saves readers the need to wade through a lot of non related information in the training threads.

One thing I’m loving about this post is that I’m getting to hear a load of bands I’d otherwise never had heard of, and adding them to my Apple Music collection of albums and playlists. Thanks all!

Dave has a band now called, Love City Radio. My band is Los Romeos Oxidados… we’re based in Sydney’s inner west (Marrickville area mostly). https://youtu.be/Vgj3b8BKvBk https://youtu.be/b6aRdG0DpA4 It’s a bit of a floating affair, constantly inviting people to sit in with us… so it can be a dog’s breakfast or, alternatively, the best thing since sliced bread.

I just hope he’s not doing too much frotteurnising with his team-mates!!

Just a couple of observations. This person is most likely doing his evaluation based purely on our recruiting on paper, so I doubt that he would have seen much, if any of what is happening on the training track. So, from that perspective, I’d say he is not so far off (12-14). However, my second observation would be that so far, based on the little I have seen in the way of training footage and the reading of the excellent (sucking up to posters moment) track observer reviews, if the players are able to translate that to game day when the pressure is really on, I can see us opening a slightly bigger two steps forward one step back, window for improvement (10-14), otherwise a two steps back one step forward drop off, if they cannot (12-16). That’s all I’ve got!