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He has been great and I love his desperation. Even when he knows he is too far behind to spoil in a marking contest he will still rush up and create pressure. (something both Mac's need to do more). The tackle count is mystifying to me as well. I shout at players to tackle instead of corralling the opposition It is my pet hate - I would prefer to be burned on the odd occasion by over-committing rather than corralling the opposition and let them waltz untouched one end of the ground to the other. If you know that a player won't put physical pressure on you already have the players measure. Having said that I can't recall Hibberd doing excessive corralling as opposed to tackling.

Young KPP take time and I do believe that he has been given games due to our lack of depth of tall backs. He played well in the second half. One part of his game I would like him to improve in - and there is no better player to watch and learn from than Hibberd. Even when beaten on the lead or second to the ball, Hibberd will put body pressure on the opposition and make his opponent earn a mark - more often than not bringing him to ground. It is a fine line between body pressure and coming in late but OMac too often slows down to the contest once he is convinced his opponent will mark the ball and go into "corral mode" too quickly. You need to make an opponent sweat a bit. He will learn.

I think "concentrating" is a stretch. But absolutely the media picks up on his nuances and oddities as he is a truly bizarre individual. Asking why the media keep picking up on things like Trumps handshakes, holding hands etc is like a clown at circus failing to understand why everyone is laughing at him.

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I think it shows how truly bizarre and "sensational" politics overseas has become when almost 2 months has passed since anyone has commented on our domestic scene.

This is just too funny...

I'll buy in on the "humor". Trump is the most bizarre person ever to hold the high office of POTUS. He is a walking comedy routine. You can debate what Obama did and didn't do in office, you can debate the criminality of the Clintons but there is no doubting that Trump is comedy gold.

Just to get a little more perspective on where growth will come from in Aussie Rules - on one of the fox footy shows last night - last season in the amateurs there was not one womens team - this season ? 41 teams ! The growth of females playing the game now there is a path is unprecedented. The growth in terms of teams and participants is spectacular. This can only be good for the game - Embrace the Daisy ! ( and the rest of the team !)

Horrible call.....Neanderthal call...18th century call..... The amount of interest the womens game has attracted is spectacular. My daughter has played Aussies rules for two years now and the leagues have exploded over the past 12 months with influxes of both players and new teams. This will translate into more females watching the sport at its highest level both the men and womens comps. As you mentioned, Daisy is arguably the most marketable face in womens football ( along with Erin P) and we should be embracing it.

I think they will always be slightly different - Williams was never quick of foot but was lightning quick with his hands - the congestion and numbers around the contest was not quite as great so in his day he would get the ball and it was gone in an instant. Oliver has this wonderful ability to draw players in ( the featured clip on has him drawing in 4 players) but getting his hands up high with the ball and releasing the handball with accuracy from eye level or higher. You watch - he rarely gets caught with his hands by his sides - they are free and high. Draw four opposition players to you and it will invariably mean that one of your teammates has to be free.

Oliver's hands are fantastic - but geez - "better than Diesel Williams" is over-reach

have a look at The Weed's goal. Oliver's one handed pick up at full pace and getting it off to Petracca was a thing of beauty. He is just so clean with his hands.

It just shows you that you need all moving parts of a club working. It really does defy belief how the Eagles won the premiership in 2006 with all that was apparently going on.

When you think about it ( and I am sure that other people those two brought in were also part of the revival) it is hard to imagine that all it has taken is two professional people to turn around the stinkhole that was our club.

sorry..you need to drive to "Stupid" and then go about 50 kilometres past for that decision. That decision was only second behind the decision for gross stupidity in the JLT where the ball was thrown in short from the boundary and hit one of the onballers on the back of the hea who was waiting in front of the ruckman and he was free kicked against for third man up .....

I thought that would come up - learn to throw the ball in umpire....

If I was the Saints coach I would also be giving Hickey a bake - even though Watts didn't really get much of a hand on the ball, to allow a second string ruckman ( shorter and lighter) to out body him, get front position and thereby allowing the ball to spill out the back was poor. Hickey had one job and that was to get the ball defensively to the front of the pack.

It has got to be both talent and development but I could not agree more on the first line. Putting talent into the cesspool of a club we were and it expecting it to thrive is just nonsensical. I think the club structure that Roos put in place and his emphasis on development ( and the coaches he has employed to do the developing) will be his lasting legacy.

They were talking about this stoppage on "Access all arears" - Saints outnumbered us 7 to 4 at this contest. Doesn't matter how many opponents are at the contest if you draw 4 players to you and still get away a "sublime" handball that Jones could run onto at full tilt. His hands are absolutely sublime.

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Surely the Clintons are not that insanely out of touch not to realise that their name will be forever mud. If I were Bill and Hill I would be sitting young Chelsea down and say to her "sweetheart..I'm sorry but you have more chance of being elected in Australia if you change you name by deedpoll to Dank than being elected in the US"

I have zero problem with Trumps dealing not being made public until after the FBI has investigated and come up with their conclusions - even if the conclusion is that there was co-ordination and collusion with the Russians to release stuff about Clinton. I have huge problems with Comey stating anything now about his Trump investigation and had huge problems with his handling of the Clinton investigation - ie - letting out information before the investigation is complete. But as I said previously - the problem with saying nothing is it comes out anyway - the CNN article I quoted talk of Government sources. The leaking continues unabated.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/22/politics/us-officials-info-suggests-trump-associates-may-have-coordinated-with-russians/index.html It is heating up. Whether it is true and whether it can be proven if true remains to be seen. What is interesting is the Trump Team are distancing themselves from those who are being investigated - Paul Manafort - "limited role for a limited time" - please.... he was the campaign manager until he resigned. Carter Paige - foreign policy adviser and Roger Stone was one of Trump's chief policy advisers. Call them periphery all you like but there is ample concrete evidence to the contrary. My tip is - there is going to be this ugly stink of collusion and the question will come down to - what did Trump know and when did he know it.

I am not arguing the respective right or wrongs of any investigations. - there is either has to be full transparency and disclosure of FBI investigations or none - Comey has had 50 cents each way. He disclosed the Clinton investigation and said nothing about the Trump investigation. "Did you answer Sen. Wyden that there is an investigation underway as to connections between either political campaign and the Russians?" King asked.

After so much more reading, Comey has got to go. Both sides of politics can shout that Comey's revelations about the FBI investigation into Clinton's mail server weeks before the election either cost her the election or had little impact - it didn't help her cause but cost her the election ? who would know. What is clear is Comey has said the investigation into Trump's (or his campaign) ties to Russia dates back to last July. That means there were two active FBI investigations involving Presidential candidates or their campaign staff during the electoral cycle and Comey went public on one of them only. Hmmm.