Earl Hood

DC better pack the steering lock and wheel clamps if you park near the Gat. Hope you are not driving anything fancy?

Too risky then as well, wrap him up in Cotten wool till next year I say. Then give him a run in next years NAB and if he has another hot spot issue, rest him again for a year. Can't be too cautious on this guy. He could get to the end of his contract with just half a dozen NAB highlights. But at least we have managed him well.

2005 I believe

Strewth is this panic stations stuff? The kid has just started with us. I would wait to next year for these negotiations myself.

Oh I forgot to mention that while I was watching the preliminaries today, the Vince and Howe show, for an hour or more we did have Alex Neal Bullen, ABN for the first 30 minutes. He looks a likely type but just did some rapid handball exercises, some sprints and then headed off for the rooms. Obviously the dislocated knee is being handled very carefully.

I think it is more Greek than Latin. As in sodium hypochlorite solution, a disinfectant. Sorry I have wandered into chemistry by mistake!

Whoops think I meant Mitchell White!!

Apart from the Rigoni comparison, when Van the Man ran past me today was I mistaken in thinking I was looking at Peter Walsh reborn from the 90's?

Is it the double time on a public holiday stuff that is the problem here? Seems like very few office staff were on deck and only the Footy Department staff and players were working. Of course the only problem with that argument is that looking at GRRM's list of staff is they are all managers, not many doers there at all. As managers they are paid to do a job at any time of the day.

If he was training indoors Biffen makes a good point he should at least have made an appearance on the side lines for the kids! I assumed from the trainers comments that he had the day off.

The trainee will probably cop the brunt for this [censored] up

Asked one of the trainers about Hogan. He said he had stayed over in Perth for a few days and only flew in this morning. So no need to hit the panic button yet!

Still no team. Can't even make the delayed start time! I have watched an hour of the Vince and Howe show so far.

Only thing missing is most of the team!9

What does it look like this year? I have not seen it in detail.

Any chance of getting a Spanish paella with a quinoa salad while I am up that way?

Shut the car industry but keep the Submarine industry! If I had the choice I would save manufacturing jobs in the car industry at half the subsidy realising that as the $AUD drops we start to earn export dollars. Last I heard we are not looking to export Submarines but the jobs will cost a bomb. Well done Tony again.

Oh we can only hope. A few injuries would help but apparently they are at full strength even with 10 or more players on the wrong side of 30! How do they do it?

Sri Lanka having a real dip at the moment. Dilshan 7 fours in a row, six off Johnston! If Sangakkara stays in they are a chance, arguably the best cricketer in the game at the moment. Their supporters are going mental.

re The Prince I thought I did that in the 70's and early 80's. At metropolitan leve, run with your opponent when they have the ball and take off when we have it. Why is that so hard to do for some of our players?

Thanks for that Macca. Great memories of the Master Blaster in those visuals. My only claim to fame with Sir Viv is that I was holidaying in India in 1987/88 for a few months and found myself staying at the Presidents Hotel in Bombay at the time with the West Indian team. I happened to share the lift a number of times at night with Sir Viv I remember. Viv was always with some pretty young Indian girl heading up to a party on the upper floors as I remember it. He was certainly a batting genius!

Macca Sorry I am a Luddite but I have tried to upload the latest Utube copy of Sir Viv Richards singing his new song Smokin Joe. Average Barry White simile but the video of Viv is classic stuff. Can you please help.

Gee they say every dark cloud has a silver lining they say. I feel for the bananna farmers in Queensland but I have a holiday place somewhere down on the Surf Coast is all I will say. Anyway the old guy next door who has lived there for years has a cluster of bananna trees on his property right on our fence line. I, oh I mean he could be sitting on a fortune. TR4 won't jump to the coast any time soon. The old boy doesn't keep up with the news much these days, maybe I will offer my services at harvest time and the produce will need to be marketed of course. Opportunity knocks!

Did Frost play forward? Just worrying about McQueen's left nut that is all.

A Harry Hoo bet??