Grapeviney

Thread's been purged of the politics and insults - there's a general board for that.

Kouyate’s goal was great (both the ball in and the finish) but yep, too little too late, thought you could / should have played with more intensity and urgency when Aurelier was sent off.

Yeh it tends to be either feast or famine with Spurs, although I thought Dele was probably fractionally off-side on the first one.

@Macca Good news - Talk Sport website is working, Macca, but I’ll be listening to the TV commentary tonight as Peter Drury is one of my favourite callers. Edit: just saw your post, beat me to it

Hmmm I'll try again this weekend too. Perhaps I listened successfully through the computer / website last time and only tried the phone / app on the weekend. I like the radio call too, listened to most Spurs matches last year. As with the TV commentary, the standard puts our own (AFL) callers to shame.

I'm almost certain I listened through Talk Sport a couple of weeks ago Macca, but no such luck last weekend - was definitely blocked with an ad telling Australian listeners to go through EON. Did a little bit of hunting around and noticed others had the same problem (the Talk Sport app review page is full of Australians telling them to unblock it). I (think I) tried the website on the weekend, too, same problem as the app.

EON have gone bust and the British rights holder, TalkSport, have still got Australia on geo block, so there's no way to listen to the broadcast at the moment. Pretty pathetic situation, to be honest, as EON went belly up a few months ago so it really should have been sorted by now. The general standard of coverage here leaves a lot to be desired, especially for the EPL as one of the world's premier sporting leagues. The SBS match-of-the-round is neither the earliest game nor the best fixture, and Foxtel have either lost the rights to the English Championship or are no longer showing it, and we're getting Turkish football instead. Even the La Liga coverage is ordinary, with most games called from the studio rather than live at the ground, and very little atmosphere / crowd noise in the audio feed making for a very dull viewing experience. /end rant PS: Because of the aforementioned EON issue, I ended up following the match in a Spurs forum game-day thread - funny how similar it was to the Demonland game-day, with hysterical posters calling for good players to be banished to the moon on the back of a single mistake, and realists trying to talk them down off the ledge. Think it's time to (reluctantly) fork out for the Optus subscription.

Update: he can fly.

Spurs dropping to 6th, what gives @Macca? Not impressed with our swag of summer signings?

Hell yeah!! Welcome back, Jesse - hope you kick a bag!

Kicked 6 in his comeback game! Also celebrated his 40th on the weekend with a few of the boys.

Late last year Eddie slipped past Wiz on games / goals but their records are remarkably similar. Farmer played 249 games for 483 goals; Eddie has 14 more games and 27 more goals, with both averaging 1.94 goals a game. Milne's record surpasses both - 275 games for 574 goals at 2.09 goals a game. Interestingly, Jeffy (277 goals from 156 games) has more goals in fewer games than Cyril (273 goals from 185 games).

The Black Dog Institute does some excellent work in this space and there are lots of good resources on their website. They've also published this great book where depression sufferers tell their own stories from the first onset of the illness, through diagnosis and then into recovery / management. There's lots of great little tips in there about how to deal with it as people tell their own coping strategies and what they do to help them stay healthy. There's also a chapter written by the partners / families of those people where they talk about the strain that mental illness can have on relationships and different ways to mitigate it. There's a similar book on bipolar disorder which I've found to be really useful. Good luck mate! Like others on here, I'm happy to chat if you ever need someone to talk to.

The League Cup Final was a cracking game, shame the Saints couldn't get the chocolates.

I wish it was closed, permanently. I know some want to maintain the rage, but, thanks to the endless appeals, we've had this saga shoved down our throats for too long now. Whats left to discuss? Who cares where Jobe's medal is? Let's assume he still has it, what value does it have - it's not like he can pawn it on the black market, or even show it to anyone. It's a medal of shame. I don't care if it's sitting in his sock drawer. I know I don't have to read it, but I'm sick of even seeing it as the next unread thread, just like I'm sick of seeing it in the media. If I was a Bomber supporter and I came on here and saw that everyone's knickers were still in a twist about it, I'd laugh my head off. It does nothing except perpetuate the us-against-them mentality they so desperately want to foster with their solidarity walks or whatever they called. At what point do we say enough is enough?

BeIN have started showing a series of football rivalry documentaries taking in some of the game's great grudge matches. Each hour-long episode focusses on two derbies. So far they've shown Celtic-Rangers + Slavia-Sparta, Ajax-Feyenoord + Flamengo-Fluminense, and Real-Barca + Olympiakos-Panathanaikos. Some are better than others but, for the most part, there's lots of good footage, great goals, riots, historical info and interviews. Fla-Flu once played in front of 194,000 people at the Maracana! Imagine there'll be plenty more in the series and they'll be repeated over the next few weeks with so little football being played.

This is one to put on the watch-list. Won the B&F this year for the Mandurah Mustangs in WA a few weeks ago - in their Year 8 team. Don't know too much else about him at this stage... except that he happens to be the son of the Wizard. Wish we had a pic of him like we did of a very young Billy Stretch, but this will have to do for the time being. http://i.imgur.com/bKAya7F.png Updated Photos: http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2011/05/21/1226060/175382-cloudstreet-jeff-farmer.jpg

You're a pretty hard taskmaster, Adam, although to be fair I've only seen them in action once this year.

Yep, a pretty good start to the season for the Reds, Macca, considering their tough draw, with wins away to Chelsea and Arsenal, the Foxes at home and a point at White Hart Lane. Klopp would be pretty happy with that return.

Is this a cut-and-paste job or are you typing these responses out individually?

Pretty good game at Old Trafford once Mourinho's men actually got going, by which time they were already 2-0 down. Ibrahimovic will be ruing what should have been an absolute gimme for his second right on half time, but didn't realise how much time and space he had for the shot. As it is, his goal means he has now scored in a string of top European derbies, including for Barca against both Real and Espanyol, the Milan derby for both Inter and AC, the Italia derby between Inter and Juve, for Ajax against Feyenoord and for Paris Saint Germaine v Marseilles. Elsewhere, Liverpool and Spurs both won big while Gunners needed a last-minute winner to get past the Saints at home. Your boys continued their inauspicious start to the season, Macca, succumbing to Watford after being two goals to the good.

Please leave the Facebook / Big Footy rumours where you found them. I've removed all posts relating to it.

...AND WE'RE BACK>>>>> Season kicks off tomorrow night but it looks like I'm stuck with the SBS coverage of just one match per week. Have spent half my day trying to work out the Optus subscription, only to be told I have 2 options - watch it via an interrupted / lagging stream on TV, or watch it on my phone (yeh, cos watching sport on a tiny screen is just awesome..) My phone's with Optus, so I'm eligible for it, but my internet service is with Telstra, and it's unreliable and prone to hiccups. Was prepared to switch to Optus internet, but apparently they can't offer a reliable connection - even via satellite - because I live in an apartment! Go figure. Anyone else having similar issues? Anyway, here's this week's line-up, with SBS broadcasting Hull v Leicester @ 9pm on Saturday night. Saturday Hull v Leicester Burnley v Swansea Crystal Palace v West Bromwich Everton v Tottenham Middlesborough v Stoke Southampton v Watford Man City v Sunderland Sunday Bournemouth v Man U Arsenal v Liverpool Monday Chelsea v West Ham Edit: Here's a tip Optus - don't buy the f...ing rights if you can't offer a quality product..

Worked his backside off all night and finished with 20 disposals 12 marks 5 tackles 9 score involvements 4 goals 2 behinds - couldn't ask for a more well-rounded game from a CHF.

Looks like everyone's getting in on the Leicester celebrations..