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Yep - and on weekend the parks on the Avenue are free and not time limited (the Avenue boarders the cricket ovals opposite the zoo and is one street to the west of Royal Parade, which it runs parallel to)

Its a free gig rjay - perhaps go along as an anthropological exercise.

Playing a free gig at fed square tgis friday with an up and coming local rock band Public Figures. It will go off - and super, super packed - starts at 7:30 but I reckon they'll stop letting people in by 6pm such will be the interest (I saw ki g Gizzard lizard there are a few weeks ago and it was super packed - there'll be even more people for this gig)

It's just sooo short sighted. It does my head in

It's certainly been a long and winding road since then.

Really? Two Victorian clubs , one big and the other big enough to ensure a 65k crowd at the G. And we only play one a year for 2 decades? That's bizarre.

Could not disagree more Rjay. Out of interest have you seen them live? I could not count how many hard rock bands I've seen live. From aprox 1983 when i started regularly going to gigs, there very few seriously good hard rock bands who have toured Australia I've not seen. And Amyl and the Sniffers are right up there as one the very best rock bands I've seen live. The band, who toiled away for a decade in Melbourne before breaking out when they took London by storm a few years back is super, super tight and Amy Taylor is a force of nature. And powerful as all get out in terms of her personal politics and in your face anti misogyny. Far from being performatively outrageous she is one of the most honest, singular, real and direct rock performers ive ever seen live - up there with Mark Arm (Mudhoney), Iggy Pop, Rob Younger, Brendan Huntley (Eddie Current and the Suppression Ring), Nick Cave, Donita Sparks (L7) and Curt Cobain. But i guess that's the beauty of art - we all see and hear things differently.

Are you sure they don't play Don't look back in anger after a loss?

A big, big year then. Some other notable events: The Sunset Crater Volcano in what is now Arizona, USA, erupted for the very first time. This volcano is still there today! The Seljuk Turks, a powerful group from Central Asia, began to invade Anatolia (which is modern-day Turkey). They captured important cities like Caesarea and Ani. This marked the start of their expansion into this region. On June 9 1064, the city of Coimbra in Portugal was captured by King Ferdinand I of Castile (a kingdom in what is now Spain). Harold II, who would later become King of England, was shipwrecked in Ponthieu, Normandy (in modern-day France). He was then taken captive by Count Guy. The building of the famous Duomo (cathedral) in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, began in this year. Borivoj II of Bohemia, who became a Duke of Bohemia (a ruler in what is now the Czech Republic) was born

Damn - I wish i could say i went to Primary School in the 80s!

One advantage of being old is that primary schools in the 1970s had a real emphasis on ensuring young people knew the difference between grammar and their grandmother.

I sometimes reflect that music from say the mid 90s is now 30 years old which would be the equivalent of in say 1995 (when i was rocking out to Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers) listening to music from 1965. The top 10 hits in Australia in 1965 were: Shake, N' Bake - Normie Rowe & Playboys The Carnival Is Over - The Seekers Help! - The Beatles Rock and Roll Music - The Beatles Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley I'll Never Find Another You - Seekers Under the Boardwalk - The Rolling Stones The Wedding - Julie Rogers Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter - Herman's Hermits Ticket to Ride - The Beatles

Brilliant. Missed your work last preseason 666

I think if he stays fit he will be a really important player for us next season.

With his eyes I presume.

Yep, that's where I've landed. And I'll think the same even if claz gets back to his very best next season, which I sincerely hope he does. By the by, if claz does in fact get back to his AA best that won't mean the call to trade him was wrong. There would be no way of knowing if that would have been possible if he had remained at the dees. Perhaps rhe only way he gets back to his best is by a new environment amd the motivation to prove the dees wrong.

Yep - that was my gag (Iike many supporters I hated when Barass played Robbie at hbf.

Georgie Prespakis and Hanksy - both gun footballers who are terrific to watch.

Windsor is the new Robbie!

Seriously? How many of the current board do you think had an 'in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of an AFL club' before joining the board. How much 'in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of an AFL club' does Dan from Stan have? Bloke lives in Sydney. Does he even support the dees?

The other point i'd make is it's a disingenuous straw man argument to correlate having a more transparent and open election process that actively encouraged people to put their name forward with that process necessarily throwing up some clueless footy fan nuffie. For one thing that's an implicit insult to the members - 'members are so naive and dull of mind that they will elect some person who has no idea - better leave it to the experts, us, particularly given our stellar track record of anointing board members with gun skills that have underpinned our success' But more significantly, it's ridiculous to think that outside of the board's tiny pool of candidates that amongst our 60,000 odd members there are not people who are supporters of the club AND have the high-level skills, knowledge, experience and abilities needed to make positive contribution to the club. Further to that point, good governance is having Position Descriptions for board members. Anyone putting their name forward for consideration would have to demonstrate how they meet the PD and related KPIs. Then members can make a decision based on that information.

Huh? It IS an open election is it not - or at least should be? Isn't that the point? That's to say it's supposed to be an open election where members get to elect their board member but in reality, it's anything but. To be clear, of course its common practice for a board to identify both a skill gap and have preferred candidate in mind -it's ever been thus. But I'd make three points. Firstly, that approach to filling board seats is often a factor in in scenario's where boards are performing poorly. Why? Because it makes it difficult to get a diversity of experience and viewpoints, critical to good governance (particularly in organisations supper sensitive to market forces - in our case our need to sell memberships to survive, let alone thrive) and reinforces a job for the boy's culture. Secondly, there are no issues in the Board identifying Dan from Stan as their preferred new board member however I'd argue it's in not appropriate for a future President in announcing his presidency to essentially anoint Dan from Stan in that statement (or any for that matter). Why not simply do something like create a page on the MFC website with info about their preferred candidate, and any other candidates, promote that page and let members review that info. Thirdly, the process is just a continuation of the status quo model of filling board seats at the MFC. In all seriousness, how has that model worked out for us since 1964 when the then board sacked a coach who had won the previous years' flag halfway thru a season? For almost all of the intervening period we have been a shambles from a governance perspective. And we have been spectacularly unsuccessful in that period - winning the solitary flag in nearly six decades At the end of the day the buck stops with the board - they own both success and failure. Does anyone seriously think our lack of success is not a function of our poor governance? Hell, the one flag we have won since 1964 coincided with one of the few periods of stability at the board and executive level - and even then I'd question that boards' effectiveness given, amongst other things it signed off on Goody's, Claz and Tracc's contract extensions (a decision we are now paying for - literally), failed to land a home base, failed to leverage our flag into sustained membership growth and oversaw a culture that seemingly now needs to be reset. What that saying about insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?

Nice synergy with Kate Hore hopefully also registering her 100th goal. Can't wait.

I think an issie with Bannon is what is her best role amd position? As a tall forward she doesn't take enough marks. And as quick as she is, somewhat surprisingly given her athletics background, I'm not convinced she's great option for the wing, or even the high half forward role (by that I meanboth roles require elite fitness and running power- does she have those attributes?). If she can really improve her marking I'd like to see her play as a tall forward who gets up the ground in the Jeremy Cameron mould. Loved Gillard's game yesterday and i just love how hanks goes about things. A one touch player that is as natural a footballer as you'll ever see.