Earl Hood

Hoges, they always were you know. His back troubles I mean. Even when he had them they were always behind him by definition. Sorry to be pedantic. And he may have pulled up well but using what? Oh sorry.....I will stop there.

He has a full set of teeth then Jane?

Short answer is no one when it will count. I think you could compile any 22 players from the other 17 teams you like and I would still back the Dorks. I don't see an individual football weakness amongst their group and of course they play as a well drilled team, the main players have played together for 10 years so they know intuitively where others are in any contested situation. Threepeat on the way unless they get the sought of injuries they got last year but at the back end in the finals.

After attending the match today I hope Geelong has fallen off a cliff because the Dorks just played stunning football after the first quarter. If the Cats are still a top 6 side God help the rest of the competition. We might as well hand them threepeat cup now. If they had kicked the ones they usually do that could have been 100 pts plus. Their run and spread looks unstoppable, they somehow have 4 players at every contest and multiple options on the outside forward or back. Geelong made a lot of unforced errors, they maybe on the slide big time, they matched the Dorks on the inside for a while but they look very slow on the outside. No Varco, Christiansen this year, Motlop tried but made errors and Cockatoo was overawed. Mitch looks abit slower than I remember but still played well with 3 goals and a good run in the ruck. Hawkins had a shocker.

Off to the Gee to watch the Dorks vs Cats in the members. Not sure why I accepted the invitation and then found they all want to get there at 1.30, two hours before the game! I'll be pizzled before the first bounce. I could get evicted if I start abusing Clark when he takes a mark and then Frawley when he spoils Mitch and dont start me on Rivers. Things could turn ugly.

Rjay I agree with most of your comments but take issue with Selwood' s tactics. Isn't it the same as someone ducking their head into an opponent? Yes it might be less dangerous to Selwood but the umpires are paying him a free because it is potentially as dangerous. I am sick of seeing the Selwoods drop their legs as soon as they sense contact and more importantly raising their arms as soon as they are grabbed. The Hawks Peoppollo does it every time he is tackled, his arms go up to make the tackler's arms slip up to the shoulder, no doubt plenty of oil on his arms as well. And yet another cheap free payed inside 50. I believe if a tackle is legal when first applied it should be deemed legal even if it slips up or down because the tackled player drops his legs, raises his arms or keeps running on in the tackle.

I think the great players have always exploited the rules to the limit. If umpires are silly enough to pay this tripe your best players will duck their head in heavy traffic. I thought the AFL and rules committee had woken up to this rubbish. Cross also got done for diving on the ball late in the last quarter and supposedly endangering a Suns player's legs. The problem for me was Cross arrived first onto the ball and the Suns player second and why ignore the earlier 90 minutes of footy where this probably happened a dozen times but no frees called?

Hmmm you are right but there were a number of brain fades/clangers during the game. Against better sides we would have been punished big time. If we can cut out some of the pedestrian efforts we could really be something. We appear to have a number of good role players, now all we need now is about three game breakers.

Where's the trumpeter?

Jamar battled hard in the ruck but Smith won the contest overall I thought, very tall and put some good taps out to his midfielders advantage.

6 Macca 5 Jones 4 Watts 3 Garlett 2 Cross 1 Viney Special mention to Bert Newton, the Prince, Tyson, Brayshaw and Vanda.

Might be too old?

Rising Star History dictates it must be Saad

Can report that the price of bottled water is down to $3!

"So What" So Good!

Macca, thanks for that, it reminds me so much of an early George Benson, brings back a lot of great memories of the 70's and early 80's when I was in my prime. Life seemed so simple back then, you could just lay back and listen to this guitar music for hours without a worry in the world then call up a few mates and head out for a big night. Doesn't happen these days.

I will keep a look out for a Day of the Dead tee shirt at the Gee. But if we lose "Don't Blame Me!"

Wonder why Pedo is on the back burner this year? All things being equal he would be the pinch hitting forward- ruckman for round 1. He was ticking all boxes last year until he was legally Karate chopped across the face against Brisbane last season when he wasn't looking. Thank God the head is sacrisanct in the AFL I say or he could have done time for head butting Merret's forearm.

Hardtrack doing the 1030 am seconds match at Olympic Park but not the ones at the Gee? I would love to be at Olympic for Casey but had been pre-booked for a brunch unfortunately. Oh well.

I am going and hoping to take along my 14 year old niece who has just arrived from Egypt. She lived with us for a year several years ago and back then we went to every home game but she has never seen us win a match. How bad is that? Very hard to get her attention for tomorrow, she remembers our last game together where we both got drenched in the rain sitting with the cheer squad watching MFC lose yet again For the record as well, my bespoke tailor requestes payment for his services! Apparently this is a problem for BBO who expects it is more payment and enough to be a model and walking advertisement for anything my tailor produces.

Gee the bar is set pretty low if we are saying since 2007. God I hope Dazzle is right.

Was watching but missed the Prestia bit. I assumed it was Gary Ablett, but has he re-signed? If it is Pretia he will probably go to the Hawks, you know the team with the bottomless salary cap.

I played tennis with Jonesy for a number of years, albeit quite some time ago when we could both cover the court much better than we could hope to these days but he was a straight shooter back then I thought. Unlikely to have changed his values markedly I think.

Quite a bit in the US I believe and Of course there is the exponential growth in earth quakes in a couple of states in the US where fracking has been going on longer. I wouldn't trust a mining company to fully understand the consequences and likelihood of what they are doing with new technology like fracking. For heavens sake their track record is appalling - Ok Tedi anyone, Deepwater Horizon, Santos's endless mudflow in Indonesia. Miners equal cowboys in my opinion.There is an article in the Age today that talks about the science and increases in seismic activity in Oklahoma due to fracking and of course big business pressure to deny anything is happening. Hmmm I am thinking Cowboy miners again.

Listened to Little and Hird at their presser on SEN on the way home. They both thanked a cavalcade of people who were involved in this sorry saga but both failed to mention Bomber, (as I heard it anyway). Looks like Thommo is on the outer at Bomberland big time. He was the guy who tried to warn them off their mad scheme I thought.