nutbean

It needs to be made very clear - that if a club really wants him they will only get him if they finish down the tail of the ladder and he is free to walk into their club OR they deal with us. If the player is not a free agent then he doesn't have free access to go anywhere. The angst over him going to a Sydney or Hawks - he can only get there if we deal with them. ( assuming that both those clubs will finish near the top of the ladder)

Sunnyboys tonight at the forum - i am getting too old for going out 3 times a week to a gig. Imagine if I drank as well ( which I don't)

Parkway drive

Saw them at Soundwave a week back and they threw respect for woman back to the dark ages. I was outwardly aggrieved but internally chuckling - a parody of a parody on a parody. We all have individual tastes in music but we are trying to showcase Australian Rules Football - so we import an overseas act ? I thought Tom Jones and Ed Sheeran did well last year but my question is why ? Why we can't showcase Australian talent at Australian Rules Football Grand Final.

Can you please leave me out of this

Spot on - compare this to Sandilands who stands straight and even though he hardly jumps he raises his hand(s) straight up or out and taps/marks the ball at its highest point making it near impossible to stop. Gawn is hunched and therefore the advantage of height is diminished.

obviously you have never had whack in the nuts ( it is so not ok)

This is why I love Paul Roos ! The 18-year-old had even floated the idea of getting back before the season ended, but the experienced Roos quickly knocked that exuberant idea on the head. "The first thing he (Petracca) said to me [was] 'oh the doc said I can play in four or five months', and I said 'well the coach said you can't'."

I like the idea the idea of the coach being on the bench during games as he can deliver instant feedback and get interaction with the player coming off the ground - the downside being you obviously get a better picture from up in the box. However with McCartney onboard I think we can have the best of both worlds. Roos up in the box and McCartney down on the bench

nutbean [damN] that's better..

nutbean damn !

Have a read of that document ‘comfortable satisfaction’, which is defined as lying in between the criminal ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ and the civil ‘balance of probabilities’. despite stating that it is not bound by the rules of evidence, an examination of Cas drug cases indicates that it operates in a similar way to common law courts in regards to how it uses the evidence presented to it. It does say exactly as you suggested, then it says it is not bound by the rules of evidence but then it says it operates in similar way to common law courts on how evidence is presented. If you read other articles on CAS drug cases the above does fly in the face of suggesting that "evidence" is treated the same way as in civil proceedings. Because it is not bound by the rules of evidence (and despite what the above says) I would say that the balance of probabilities being lower than comfortable satisfaction is arguable at best.

Binny - I think this is where I came unstuck previously. Beyond reasonable doubt - is for criminal proceedings Balance of probabilities - is for civil proceedings The lowest hurdle to jump is what applied to this case - comfortable satisfaction. My reading of this level is that it is so low that it almost throws the onus back onto the defendants to prove innocence.

What does that even mean ? He is going to get his marching orders before the season even starts ? Why is it so hard to understand that young ruckman always have been, always are and always will be a work in progress. They are always given more time than a speculative midfielder or back flanker as they take so much longer to develop.

I think Ross Lyon has a habit of playing very few of his regular season starting squad and likes to play (a lot kids and) the last few on the list who wouldn't get a game during the season to see how they go Freo Backs Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia Half backs Sylvia Sylvia...........

you can't argue with intensive porpoises.

For me - if the records above cannot adequately address all the issues quoted above you may as well not have records at all. Its a bit like say we keep copious records from every game - except goals and behinds kicked by us and the opposition. It is semantics - whether you want to say there were no records or records that were inadequate - the information that is not available means that the records they have or no records is exactly the same thing.

To me - no records always rang alarm bells. Have you ever heard of any medical practice/regime operating without records ???? I don't believe there were no records for one moment. But taking the argument to its logical conclusion - let's suggest that records were not made. It poses the question - when anything medical has always been covered by copious amounts of record taking - why would a club put all its players on a regime of supplements and not take records ? To me its damned if you can't find the records and damned if you didn't make records. (for the record - one of my many ex wives was a doctor and the extent they went to keep records was over the top - with the litigious nature of anything related to medicine and medical services it is essential)

I have always believed that Dawes is a perfect 2nd or 3rd tall - his strength is leading up and creating space behind him not taking pack marks. Expecting him to lead our forward line after we had no Clark and Hogan last year was always going to be a big ask. I know a player like Dawes need to be judged on goals and marks but you need to factor in his leadership ( which he admittedly let himself down by getting suspended) and the 1% er's. We have been sorely lacking a footballer that scraps and fights at every contest and busts his guts to keep the ball in the forward line - that is what he brings to the table.

The extra hour of sun during daylight savings is fading my curtains...

I'll meet you half way. How often do you see Kelly of Geelong constantly turn the ball over under little pressure ? Geelong's skills will improve. When our skills start poorly - you are correct - they don't recover. I think the major difference is - Geelong do have a lot of highly skilled players that may need a few runs to get their skills up to scratch. We unfortunately are not blessed with an abundance of skilled footballers - so we need some improvement in skills from the perennial offenders but we need a huge lift in output from the likes of Watts, Jetta, Salem and Toumpas ( to name a few) who can dispose of the ball well.

eww

On Frawley - injuries aside - he will play every game this year

No..He looked like a player who hadn't had played a game for two years but one thing was apparent. He knows how to make space, how to lead up and when to drop back and how to be in the game - he got clear repeatedly - it was his hands that were rusty and let him down - dropped some gimmes and fumbled. To me, the only thing stopping him being a very good pick up for Geelong is his history of his body letting him down.

lots of errors in all games I thought