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Also Tom's poor kicking in the back half usually occurred when he started to "think" - when he took first options quickly he was ok - but the longer he took and the more he held up releasing and looked and looked - well you just knew it was going to have a happy ending. Kicking at goal ? no problem - see goal kick straight.

sometimes the players aren't the sharpest tools in the shed but i guess they do get nervous with competition for spots.

And presumably throw them into rehab - whilst i understand that when 4 points are on the line you send a player into a game with a niggle or underdone but no club would be risking players on the training track or a practice game if they had the slightest niggle. Makes no sense to do so.

I lost my gonads in my divorce settlement - is that the same thing ?

I feel ghoulish. I am not sure what diagnosis fits Trump but he certainly has a few sheep loose in the top paddock and yet he was elected president. I am fascinated for this very reason. I have stated before and will repeat that in Australian politics there have been Prime Ministers and their platforms that I have vehemently disagreed with and could never have voted for but I would say that we haven't had a Prime Minister who I believe was unfit to hold the office no matter what i thought of their policies. Trump is looney tunes and is unfit to hold the office he was elected to.

One nation received 4.3% of the vote in the 2016 election and won 4 seats. Next you will be telling us Pauline Hanson's brilliant as well. I think that the likes of Trump and Hanson get elected says more about the "people" getting sucked in than it does about Trump/Hanson's "brilliance".

I have to see the comedy as there is little I can do, not only about who they elect, but also about their whole decaying system of government and the poor choices they have as leaders to select from ( not that ours are any better)

I know he holds a fairly important job but I am absolutely addicted to Trump.I have to read every day what new fluff and nonsense he has uttered. He is the comedy act that just keeps giving.

We don't have anyone nearly as good as Max but that is stating the obvious. If you recall, when Max went down early last season Pedo did a great job as his replacement. ( We do NOT want anything happening to Max)

both.....

You can bring in whoever you like but there has to be some justification for who you bring in as they are expending public money. And there is a difference between who funds an election campaign ( and Trump was pretty much self funded and actually spent a pittance) and who pays when you get the gig. So Ivanka and Jared are absorbing public money - shouldn't the public expect the best person for their spend ? What is interesting is I don't think much of Trumps appointments but many of them are multi millionaires/billions who don't do the job for the money anyway.

I think that Barnaby was hypocritical with his comments but meh - fluff and nonsense and no hanging offence. ( let me rephrase - it is a personal matter) Any politician that gives jobs or spends OUR money inappropriately ( read criminally) on wives, girlfriends, family etc should be booted to the curb. Not a Trump thread - but how the American public allow Trump's children (Ivanka and Jared K) as advisers is beyond me. It has been stated that they are not being paid but they have offices in the white house and it seems to me that there must be a cost to the taxpayer to have them as part of the administration.

You know on McKenna you could draw the same comparison with Hunt who didn't get on the park for a season and half . Did we do the wrong thing in retaining him too ? I do recall the same "constantly injured move him on" cry from some on here.

you can pay-out and delist but they stay in the cap unless they are traded to another club like Watts was.

And three biggest arguments I hear for doing nothing is "there are two many guns out in the public arena and people won't give them up so easily as we did in Australia and it is cultural in the States as opposed to Australia". I actually agree with all 3 arguments but vehemently disagree that these seemingly insurmountable problems should stop tough measures on gun ownership. I think it will take "generations" to remove the entrenched problems of guns ownership and gun violence but they just can't keep ignoring the problem and hope that things will get better. (they can and they will)

Actually I am in awe ! I can't keep one relationship together let alone three.

This really hasn't been really been discussed and I thought i would make comment it. The whole citizen saga absolutely made me see red. I understand what the constitution says and I understand the problematic word - dual citizens are ineligible to be CHOSEN to sit or to sit in parliament. There is probably some wriggle room if it wasn't for the word "chosen". What gets my goat is a clerical oversight led to tens of thousands of our dollars being spent on court costs and people elected not being able to represent in parliament and yet we have travel rorters on both sides of the political spectrum who basically steal money from the taxpayers, apologise and give it back and all is forgiven.....

correct.

The one club player may make us all feel warm and fuzzy but the landscape is that players look after themselves and clubs look after themselves. If both the player and the clubs needs and wants are aligned the player stays otherwise hasta la vista baby...

For a bit of balance. Congress as whole have been sitting on their hands regarding gun control. Whilst there is more will for change on Democrat side of the house there have certainly been complacency as whole to make strong changes to the gun laws. Bottom line is a simple - there is no need for semi automatic weapons to be available (in particular the AR-15). ( As far as I'm concerned you can ban the lot)

correct - the number of players who have made the same comment only to be playing elsewhere in a season or two... Sign on the dotted line and then you are a Melbourne player for the next (insert length of contract here).

Agree 100%. You have a complete lack of understand.....( tongue firmly in cheek)

You said that Obama paid for the false claims. You are wrong. What else you got ?

It was John actually. Diamond Jim was his nickname.

I don't know about normalising extremism but Trump has certainly gone a long way to normalising the bizarre. ( "Oh that's just Trump). I dislike equivalence to downplay or justify behaviours period. This idea that the impact of doing something abhorrent is somewhat lessened because the other side did the same thing just doesn't sit. I was speaking generally when saying that no side of politics , either in the US or here is immune from corruption and I do believe that whilst there is centre of the road reporting, there is also a lot of reporting that has left or right bias. You are right in one sense that behaviours are being compared when there is no equivalency at all. The clashes in Birmingham to me being a perfect example.