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It was made clear in the same news story, sorry, puff piece, about Jetta designing the jumper that he wasn't fully recovered from shoulder surgery to be available.

We could be beneficiaries from this information. Infiniti should want to increase sales and therefore may up its marketing spend.

"FREMANTLE superstar Nat Fyfe says he has avoided serious damage to his troublesome elbow after being forced from the training track at Cockburn on Monday." Phew. For a moment there I thought they were training at a place called Elbow and he had an injury of a different sort.

It's a news program?

They missed a couple of opportunities with those rule changes. If the game really is intended for foreign markets such as Europe and the USA, obviously they should change to a round ball because the traditional shaped ball is too hard for the inexperienced and not readily available in those markets anyway. And given those northern hemisphere winters, it should be played indoors, in which case traditional goals would be no good, so put a ring on top of a pole at each end of the ground. They want to remove the bounce at the beginning of each quarter, so lets just throw the ball up at the start.

To be fair, if Roos had pruned the list to get rid of all the dead wood he inherited, he would hardly have had enough left to field a team.

Tricky word, "sanction". I know what you mean, but "sanction" can be used both negatively and positively. I hope everyone who read this realises that you were using "sanction" to mean "disapproves of" rather than "approves".

I thought that was Jack Watts

Have there been many (or any) indigenous AFL coaches? Was Michael O'Loughlin one? To answer my own question: Barry Cable certainly was.

Clearly Demonland needs a facetious/sarcastic font. We probably also need one for irony, another for political correctness and another for objecting to political correctness. Just in case.

We cope by remembering what we saw without having to revert to a video screen. Hence, we still remember the artistry of Robbie Flower because we saw it live and still remember. Of course, in another 10 years or so, we'll start forgetting things...

I thought the Cristina reference was the name of the artist who had the job of restoring the inside of that wonderful church. If I'm mistaken and my post is sacrilegious I'm quite happy for the mods to delete it. What I was attempting was a bit of humour paralleling Michelangelo's method of painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling while lying prone on a bench. Just saying I'm bordering on anything to do with DV-8 has completely put me back in my place.

I'm guessing Cristina started on the bench and eventually moved to scaffolding. Also, clearly takes, sorry, makes a mark at its highest point. (Apologies to all. Am having a quiet day).

Explains a lot. Surprised our medical team didn't recognise this condition, though.

I know it's only early February, but I can't see how anything else is going to surpass this comment for post of the year.

A tautology? I thought it was a contradictory paradox. But you're the writer. What would I know?

I was actually thinking the opposite. When he was with us I thought he seemed to be carrying a bit too much weight around the midriff. But this photo suggests he's been working hard and looks to me to be fitter than I've ever seen him. I, too, hope he can have a great career from hereon. And should that happen and people on here say we should never have let him go...it doesn't mean he would have been just as successful if he'd stayed. The new environment, for whatever reason, might have been just the spark he needed to get the best out of himself.

Make Melbourne Great Again (but in blue letters instead of white on a red cap).

Agree with everything until the last sentence. How can a self starter be given a start?

I don't know if I'm speaking for all MCC members...but the feeling's mutual.?

Maybe I'm cynical, but that's why I assumed we announced our intention to get out of the gaming business. But I would have thought that's not in itself going to be enough and we should find some other genuine community benefit.

It's also why Geelong does so well. The good news is that just about every Liberal held seat in Victoria has become marginal so, who knows, maybe some pork barrelling in East Melbourne between now and the Federal election might be a possibility.

I'm not commenting on the specifics of the most recent injuries, but I believe that even when I'm not working I have a responsibility not to do things that put my employability at risk. I suspect not everyone will agree, but in my view, if you want to be paid above award rates, or above the average for that type of work, you should recognise that the other side of that coin is a need to do more than just the minimum. For mine, that means presenting myself in the best possible manner and the follow on from that is that I should not take unnecessary risks, even when I'm not at work. The greater the reward (meaning, in this instance, the higher the financial compensation above the award rate or average pay), the greater the responsibility. The converse is that if I want to turn up to work hungover or not in physical shape to do my job (apart from unavoidable illnesses or accidents), I shouldn't expect to be paid the higher rate (or, in some instances, to even have that job).

Console yourself with the thought that you probably missed a personal audience with the Pope due to the Y2K bug interfering with the Pontiff's calendar so his alarm didn't go off (in other words, the Bell didn't Toll for Thee). I can't think of any other reason.

I agree that the question becomes "Why?" But first I wanted to see if my interpretation is correct. One potential reason would be to slow the game down by deliberately creating the opportunity for more congestion. Having said that, I'm not sure if it would be a strategy that a team would wish to adopt.