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Yeah, would be nice to have a few ordinary players that could bag 4 goals.

Thought I'd spend the afternoon in the hotel room editing training shots (mostly taken by my son) and watching the Casey game. Off to watch the drug cheats vs the Deliverance crew at Etihad this evening; you do these things when you get to Melbourne only on rare occasions. See post below for link.

I think it's Flipovic (sp?) who's running laps at the moment... if it is, he's put on a hell of a lot of muscle since the weedy kid I saw training in January!

Looking forward to finally getting along to an in-season session.

According to Lewis as mentioned in the Age: "He told Fairfax Media the game would have a finals-like feel." it may be a true statement, but not the wisest choice of words given it's the QB game.

Hogan mustn't have gotten through training!

I would have thought that the best plan would be to change a player's approach to the game to remove the chances of being concussed at all. Most other players don't suffer repeated concussions, so what are they doing differently? Even wearing a helmet that "may reduce" concussion, is not going to lessen the long term affects... I don't know for sure, but isn't there a chance that all it is doing is prolonging the players footballing career while possibly masking the longer term affects due to more lesser concussions occurring over a longer period of time; this could be just as bad as a career shortened by severe concussions .

No idea...it was an interesting comment none the less.

No, we don't have a bet because I, nor you, know what they will do. China stand to benefit in terms of trade by stepping to the breach in the accord. Altruism is dead, but if it benefits all parties, no one will be complaining about that. As an aside, it was interesting that even in Pittsburgh, the community Trump use as the example he was doing this for (leaving the accord), the mayor stated that they would continue to work towards the accord's requirements.

No, you have no idea...just a guess. No different to how you view the predictions of climate change scientists really.

Like you, I have no idea, but I unlike you I'll wait to see before I cast my judgement.

Wrecker, I suggest you and your mates head off to the next summit and set all of those so called experts straight. They obviously are not in your league.

Standing up to radical Islam by proposing a ban on all middle eastern countries barring those who coincidentally he has business interests with? Remind me, where were most of the 9/11 attackers from and which countries are on his proposed immigration ban list? You know for a fact that the Paris Accord is a scam... congratulations, you have managed to see what almost every other leader of every other nation on the planet has been blind to. Frankly, I see very little difference between the likes of you and the conspiracy theorists at the other end of the spectrum that believe the 9/11 attacks never happened. All Trump has managed to do is open the door for China and lock themselves out. Let's see how great America is when no-one want to deal with them.

Wow, Lever is a bit of a head hunter.

Corrected

Easy to mislead with a simple sentence. Try this: A few hours ago it was reported that: "Beijing and Brussels have been preparing to announce their intention to accelerate joint efforts to reduce global carbon emissions. According to a statement being prepared before an EU-China summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, the new alliance will say they are determined to “lead the energy transition” toward a low-carbon economy." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/31/china-eu-climate-lead-paris-agreement Or this from the original agreement: "Based on analysis by some of the world’s leading energy institutes, China’s INDC represents a significant undertaking beyond business-as-usual and will help slow the rise in global greenhouse gas emissions. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), International Energy Agency (IEA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Tsinghua University, peaking carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 would reduce China’s emissions by at least 1.7 Gt or 14 percent from the most optimistic business-as-usual (BAU) scenario" https://www.c2es.org/docUploads/chinas-contributions-paris-climate-agreement.pdf

Yep, sure is: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/01/europe/eu-us-climate/index.html

I'd look at Reid before I looked at Tippet.

Thanks very much JTR! I'll call the club during the week to check, but that's certainly encouraging news. Appreciated!

Using parthenogenesis?

Thanks LS. Yeah, I'll probably do that... just thought I'd ask here first as I'm sure there are at least a couple of regular attendees here who will have the likely answer.

Not related to today's training, but based on experience of previous years, can anyone tell me what the training arrangement is in the lead up to the Queen's Birthday game. My son and I will be down from Sydney (arriving around the middle of Thursday) and I'm hoping there might be a Friday (or Saturday?) session. I probably ask this every year, but I'm old, ok - and I've only made it down for one QB game which was a few years ago.

I have no problem with all of that... particularly the fact that these people keep slipping through the net despite having form.

I don't choose to ignore that at all... my point was that the western media couldn't give a rats when its muslim children killed, because a) it's a case of muslims killing muslims and b) it doesn't sell newspapers. If they had been christian children, it would have been headline news. We tend to overlook the fact that the numbers of westerners killed by muslim terrorists pales into insignificance when compared to the numbers of muslims killed by muslim terrorists. If 126 muslims are slaughtered (as was the case just days before the Manchester attack) there is barely a ripple, yet if 22 christians (assumption) are slaughtered, then it's the muslims against the rest... against the infidels... and we are told that they (muslims in general) will stop at nothing until the world is purged of us heathen scum. Absolute nonsense!