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Not quite. You have to buy a Tattslotto ticket and you have to put yourself in the vicinity of the bus to give it a chance! On the other hand, I find it depressing that more people know their star sign than their blood group. Full disclosure: I'm a Scorpio with A+ blood.

Stretching the definition of "embarrassing" here. It's testament to our recent success that most of the "embarrassing" records have been consigned to the bin.

When I read your post it seemed like Goyder was leaving like a King or government going into exile. I could have chosen any one of a number throughout history but chose Norway because it allowed me to equate McGowan (admittedly completely unfairly) with Quisling.

As far as I know, there's no link to Melbourne, but anyone brought up on the old VFA during the 70s would remember the flamboyant Fred Cook, Port Melbourne's full forward. Apparently passed away today aged 74. A great entertainer (in the days when there wasn't much entertainment in being a Melbourne supporter).

You make it sound like it's WWII and Goyder's the King of Norway going into exile while McGowan is Quisling.

You mean permanently? for for the foreseeable future? or that he's on a plane today and who knows how long for?

I'll bet you would have loved it.

Having just read through this thread, I feel the name Corey is to Casey like Bailey is to the Bulldogs.

I can't imagine Mick Nolan playing anywhere other than at Arden Street with the gasometers across the road. I still think the "Galloping Gasometer" is one of the best nicknames ever bestowed upon a V/AFL player.

Has there ever been a team with two players kicking 100 goals each in the same season? If so, I can't recall. I do remember when more than one player in different teams kicked 100 goals in a season. It's hard to believe now, but when we had full forwards like Hudson, Wade, McKenna and Jesaulenko (who wasn't always a full forward) and significantly less defensive pressure, I think it happened a few times.

Wasn't Brown told he wasn't wanted by Rhyce Shaw long before Noble arrived? I'm not suggesting Shaw or North made the wrong decision, just questioning the timing of when that decision was made.

Unless they all kick 100 goals!

I've heard a rumour that for the Melb v North scratch match we'll be playing for the Ben Brown Trophy which will look just like this but with the third finger upright, rather than the second.

Glad they trained in the morning. If they'd left it until this afternoon, they would need to be wearing scuba equipment. That's some storm that has just come through Melbourne. I assume Casey is about 4x worse, because, well, it's Casey.

Eradicating the record 190 point loss can be done in one of two ways. Either somebody else loses by 191 points to another team or they lose to us by that amount. I'd take either, as it gets us out of the record books. However, I wouldn't object if we were the team inflicting the pain for a change.

Do Chico rolls still exist? Or have they gone the way of other fine delicacies like the Polly Waffle?

If you're in Melbourne and still proudly displaying your Melbourne gear, you might get a nice surprise. According to 3AW's Rumour File today (28 January 2022), someone from the club is driving around and stopping at addresses with visible Melbourne paraphernalia, knocking on the door and asking the residents if they'd like their photo taken with the Premiership Cup. If so, the club rep goes back to the car which just happens to have the the Cup in it. Russel Howcroft (who is part of the 3AW Breakfast radio team) indicated that he had confirmed this with a Board Member. The specific house mentioned was somewhere in High Street, Glen Iris. Another fine idea from the club.

Haven't beaten the Dogs in a Grand Final on the MCG, either.

I wouldn't mind a re-boot of this whole topic to remind us what embarrassing records we still hold. We've got rid of the most embarrassing - the 57 years since the last Premiership - but what else is there? Two immediately come to my mind, neither of which I can see changing in the foreseeable future: largest losing margin in V/AFL history (was it 190 points against Fitzroy...is that right?) having no-one kick 100 goals in a season What else is left?

Perhaps it is now. This time last year the worst stat in football was number of years since last premiership.

Many thanks, deva. That's done the trick. I had no idea it would be that simple to fix.

Not a cynic. You just went too early... https://7news.com.au/sport/tennis/belgian-player-covid-positive-after-open-c-5416365

Thanks. That's probably it. But given everything else loads and works perfectly, I'm loathe to change any settings. I'll just have to continue to guess who is who. And use it to remind me of possibly the best newspaper headline ever:

If there are no trackwatchers can we be sure that training happened? Can't be too sure in the era of deep fakes, 5G and something to do with Bill Gates.

No, on a laptop. (HP Spectre using Windows 10)