Earl Hood

Brisbane Roar sack coach after 5 losses in 6 games this year on the back of two premiership A league cups in 12 and 13 plus coach of the year award. It's Norm Smith all over again! Maybe the curse will be transferred?

Gee your Mum must have been pretty cool when she was driving that! Not exactly you stock standard Holden FE sedan of the times.

If we were examining an 18 year old D Breterton I wonder what we would be saying. Undersized for a key position, not quick, can't play mid field, can't play back. Let's move on. But hold on he is a natural forward, he has heeps of mongrel and can take a contested mark and kick a goal. What do we do now? Is there some way of testing for that mental capacity to compete that the likes of Brereton, Hodge, Selwood and others have/had to get to every contest? If there is I wish we knew it because if you get one or two of those characters on your list and you are off and running.

Agree Rjay and I also wasn't sure about Hodge for the Jimmy medal. He did a lot of uncontested mopping up down the back and knocked up possessions but I thought Stevie J and even The Fletch put in some crucial plays that made the difference. But perhaps I am sick of the Hodge love train that goes on year after year! But that said he is bloody too good to be real.

Yes I heard the same interview and I have heard similar comments elsewhere that this draft is not so clear for talent at the pointy end, that real talent could go very deep. Isn't that just freeking typical for any draft where we have multiple early picks? Still let us try to be positive and hope we get this one right for once!

What photos are you looking at Felix?

That 5 looks vaguely familiar

As The Dorks are now doing. It is easier when you are sitting up on top. But their success is still built on early pick draft success in 2001, 2004, 05 and 07. The rest they have traded in or developed from late picks and rookies to play roles and produced the almost perfect list. The future is they will keep plucking known talent from the likes of us until they implode at some stage down the track we all hope!

DL not sure about the Trojan horse analogy, with Jaquie Lambie in the Palmer U Party I would use the loose canon on a rudderless ship analogy myself. That said am taking a shine to our Jaquie, she is ruffling a few feathers on behalf of her Taswedgen voters and good luck to her. And she has today voted against Tony's financial planning legislation which is a win for the battlers versus the big banks. Good on her I say. While Tony has Royal Commissions chasing Julia Gillard as to if she took the odd ten grand for her house reno's or if the CFMEU is ripping off the likes of Grocon and yes that should be followed up. However he is happy to look the other way when the CBA or ANZ use financial planners in assorted investment vehicles to bankrupt thousands of ordinary mum and dad investors and hound them though the courts even though they knew how those people were entrapped. The Big banks, too big to fail and too big to prosecute it seems. That's our Tony!

My worry is where is BBO he seemed somewhat distraught last night. He seemed to be confused about spitting and swallowing in wine tasting and how you could work through an entire wine district and still play a round of golf. These are complex scenarios I know and I believe Clint has worked his way through this. As for me last time I toured Rutherglen I forgot to spit and was at one point what the lads used to say in my day as well and truly "fly blown" the next day!

Gee we didn't tank that much we were just Shyte! You get early picks when you are absolute Shyte. That is the system.

Before a bomb blew up the No 96 bistro as I remember it. Was that the beginning of terrorism in Oz?

He said he didn't run. He just ran some laps to make an appearance for the occasion. Says he is fit and ready and his mind is in a better place, soft tissue problems gone and his foot is good. All I know is if I see him playing forward and turning it on like he did for 10 games in 2012 for the freaking cats I may be physically ill!!

BBO it is about whether you spit or swallow, and I am talking exclusively about wine tasting here. A true sommelier such as myself or as I am sure Demoneyes is can get through any number of wineries yet still enjoy the marvellous grape varieties and vintages of the wine district one is visiting at the time. A wine tasting tour is not to be confused with sculling beers in the back blocks in places like Blackwood!

Yes BBO I have never got South Park, poor animation and violence. If you want poor animation we can go way back to Clutch Cargo where the animated figures stayed the still but their mouths moved but for adult content I prefer Rodger Ramjet or Rocky and Bullwinkle and I could throw in King Leonardo from the Bongo Congo! Gee that is going back in time, the pinnacle of cartoon entertainment.

Are you thinking Paul Johnson, 200cm, good below the knees, reasonably agile for a big bloke but......

Are you being served, Dads Army, yes the pinnacle of British humour, I don't think. Are you free Mr Humphries and all that and they don't like it up em sir! No the pinnacle of British humour was Not Only But Also with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore but they are all dead and the early tapes have long gone but for some snippets. But sheer genius on the little that is left. Then you have some gems from Monty Python and later on Fawlty Towers

F Troop over Get Smart! Get a grip on things DC.

Apparently Tony did well today with the 20 top leaders in the world he was boasting about stopping the boats ( Indonesia not happy) dismantling the carbon tax ( US and China not happy) then he went on to lament his inability to charge the poor $7 to see a doctor ( most leaders dumbfounded) and that he was for building more roads (wtf). Thank heavens we have a leader who can so effortlessly strut the world stage.

BBO some say On the Buses was the high point of Brittish TV comedy (not me of course). Who can forget old Blakey and jack the conductor and the assorted clippies with blond hair and big you know whats. Those were the days. But In this debate I do put agent 86 above all others. A genius in a TV sitcom but I have nominated in general topic area of DLand that Jonathan Winters is the stand up genius of all time.However that is by the by, my real concern is where this so called lunch appointment took place with Biffen! As you know I have estates to the north of Melbourne where I occasionally tour and I make a point of dropping in to see how my serfs er I mean employees are travelling. I don't think I want to unexpectedly stumble into that abode. I mean one has to maintain standards in these trying times.

Yes I agree there is only one variable at this stage and that is the saint's pick. The rest we already know, the games have been played, the draft combine is concluded so what would be still debating? I am assuming MFC has about three options for picks 2 and 3.

Great stuff. I had watched that clip when Jonathan died but still gets me going. The one that got me in fits yesterday was from the Jack Paar tonight shows from the 60's. I had never heard of him but he was before Johny Carson. The skit was Jonathan doing a take on your typical scary movie, so he does a great impressionist voice of Boris Karloff as the mad scientist in the haunted house with a demented housekeeper etc. I am a techno ignoramus so have no idea how to load up the Utube link but it is a gem!

Macca I started viewing some of these Youtubes yesterday and had a great time and your comment that some comedy never dates is so true. I somehow ended up watching some Jonathon Winters' (Mork's son if I remember correctly) standup routines from 1964 no less? Just about [censored] myself laughing!

Deeko I remember Cale's as well during his draft year and then going back to it again a few years later and watching his highlights. You could see why he was highly fancied at the time, a tall running utility type. He displayed every skill requirement, long kicking to position, intercept marking, breaking the lines, marking on the lead etc etc. Oddly enough he replicated a lot of this in first season and some in the next then it all went downhill from there.

Or is that mop Shaun Smith?