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4 hours ago, AlexRRR said:
Great......back to your freeloading ways......
Freeloading…
Hospital stays and ongoing care …free
Disability pension… free
Seniors card…. Free transport +
Health Care card … Alll meds at $5.40 a script.
I would say that I am officially a….. BLUDGER!
Thank you Australia.
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Dockers v Saints..
Dockers are playing half hearted
Last week was a piss poor effort.
Hope they are awake and come to play tonight.
Not going as my Sister is taking the step grandchildren. Two boys 9 and 11.
Didn’t you love going to the footy when you were a boy.
Go Eagles!!
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On 03/05/2018 at 5:03 PM, AlexRRR said:
It’s a bitter pill when your most hallowed player likens your game to an opposing code.
Yes, horror of horrors, Leigh Matthews says Australian football is starting to resemble rugby league.
Worse than that, the Player of the 20th Century has taken to watching the NRL on TV. Although Matthews is struggling to discern the difference between his indigenous game and league.
Australian football’s chronic congestion problem — and the turnovers and clangers created by the heavy traffic — might soon warrant AFL intervention.
Because not only is Matthews a powerful voice in the game, he’s also on the Laws of the Game Committee. And the way he’s talking, the AFL will act if the sport doesn’t find its own way out of the congestion maze.
Yes, there have been some terrific close games this season, Matthews says. And the evenness of the competition has created a “growing middle class” of clubs.
“(But) I’m not sure whether we’re seeing a fantastic spectacle,” he says.
Matthews had a lightbulb moment while switching between the Swans-Demons and Storm-Broncos matches on TV last week.
“It just hit me — how similar the two looks were,” he told Adelaide’s FiveAA this week. “(In league) you pass the ball
sideways and after two or three passes that bloke gets tackled and you start again.
“(In Australian rules) it’s one handball, two handballs, three handballs, fourth bloke gets tackled … It just hit me how similar the look that AFL has to rugby now, just the congestion around the footy.”
Setting aside Matthews confusing the name of the game and the league — if anyone can be forgiven for this travesty, it’s Matthews — it is clear Australian football has a serious problem.
And the worst offenders are the Swans, he says.
“They might be the form team of the competition, the Swans, but they do play a ‘smother you’ brand of footy,” Matthews says. “And if it wasn’t for (Lance) Franklin giving you a few highlights up their forward end, I’m not sure whether I’m keen on it, watching the Swans play, to be honest.”
As The Weekend Australian examined in detail last week, football appears to be stuck in an evolutionary cul de sac.
Where in the past the game mutated its way out of impasses (remember the chip, chip, chip style of the mid noughties, an environment in which Nathan Bassett once took 22 marks — one contested — in a game?), it appears to be choking under the weight of the phalanxes of players around the ball.
That feeds into a rising toll of turnovers, clangers and ‘intercept’ marks as sides try to find their way through the defensive zones.
Still they strive for the perfect play. But playing perfect football is next to impossible in the heavy traffic. Too often they instead serve up the opposite — horrible, grating turnovers — because they’re trying to play perfect football.
Confounded by the defence in depth, clubs are trying to ape the handball deployed to such telling effect by the Bulldogs and Swans last year. So handballs are up. The Crows, Cats and Giants are all handballing much more than they were last year.
But all too often it’s handball as a last resort; handball to flat-footed players with their backs to the goal, players who are sitting ducks for the gaggles of opponents flocking to the ball.
Forebodingly, Matthews says we might be stuck with the clutter. After all, the rolling mauls have dominated the game for at least five years now.
We might never again see a free-flowing, open style of football.
Read this in another paper while having a coffee today while out....a few more people weighed in on it as well...i totally agree the game is getting ugly, i dont think a scrum with congested football is anything good to watch, watched a half of Rugby last weekend, less congestion, much less, Buckley had the best idea.....pay more free's, he's dam right, 2 grabs at the ball is no longer a mark, hands or arms over shoulders is no longer in the back or to high....ugly just ugly....
But..... I like it. Still comes down to fitness, athletic ability, quick hands and a straight kick. You can’t have perfect without some imperfect. There seems to be more free kicks and I a sure the 50's are up.
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On 03/05/2018 at 5:03 PM, AlexRRR said:
It’s a bitter pill when your most hallowed player likens your game to an opposing code.
Yes, horror of horrors, Leigh Matthews says Australian football is starting to resemble rugby league.
Worse than that, the Player of the 20th Century has taken to watching the NRL on TV. Although Matthews is struggling to discern the difference between his indigenous game and league.
Australian football’s chronic congestion problem — and the turnovers and clangers created by the heavy traffic — might soon warrant AFL intervention.
Because not only is Matthews a powerful voice in the game, he’s also on the Laws of the Game Committee. And the way he’s talking, the AFL will act if the sport doesn’t find its own way out of the congestion maze.
Yes, there have been some terrific close games this season, Matthews says. And the evenness of the competition has created a “growing middle class” of clubs.
“(But) I’m not sure whether we’re seeing a fantastic spectacle,” he says.
Matthews had a lightbulb moment while switching between the Swans-Demons and Storm-Broncos matches on TV last week.
“It just hit me — how similar the two looks were,” he told Adelaide’s FiveAA this week. “(In league) you pass the ball
sideways and after two or three passes that bloke gets tackled and you start again.
“(In Australian rules) it’s one handball, two handballs, three handballs, fourth bloke gets tackled … It just hit me how similar the look that AFL has to rugby now, just the congestion around the footy.”
Setting aside Matthews confusing the name of the game and the league — if anyone can be forgiven for this travesty, it’s Matthews — it is clear Australian football has a serious problem.
And the worst offenders are the Swans, he says.
“They might be the form team of the competition, the Swans, but they do play a ‘smother you’ brand of footy,” Matthews says. “And if it wasn’t for (Lance) Franklin giving you a few highlights up their forward end, I’m not sure whether I’m keen on it, watching the Swans play, to be honest.”
As The Weekend Australian examined in detail last week, football appears to be stuck in an evolutionary cul de sac.
Where in the past the game mutated its way out of impasses (remember the chip, chip, chip style of the mid noughties, an environment in which Nathan Bassett once took 22 marks — one contested — in a game?), it appears to be choking under the weight of the phalanxes of players around the ball.
That feeds into a rising toll of turnovers, clangers and ‘intercept’ marks as sides try to find their way through the defensive zones.
Still they strive for the perfect play. But playing perfect football is next to impossible in the heavy traffic. Too often they instead serve up the opposite — horrible, grating turnovers — because they’re trying to play perfect football.
Confounded by the defence in depth, clubs are trying to ape the handball deployed to such telling effect by the Bulldogs and Swans last year. So handballs are up. The Crows, Cats and Giants are all handballing much more than they were last year.
But all too often it’s handball as a last resort; handball to flat-footed players with their backs to the goal, players who are sitting ducks for the gaggles of opponents flocking to the ball.
Forebodingly, Matthews says we might be stuck with the clutter. After all, the rolling mauls have dominated the game for at least five years now.
We might never again see a free-flowing, open style of football.
Read this in another paper while having a coffee today while out....a few more people weighed in on it as well...i totally agree the game is getting ugly, i dont think a scrum with congested football is anything good to watch, watched a half of Rugby last weekend, less congestion, much less, Buckley had the best idea.....pay more free's, he's dam right, 2 grabs at the ball is no longer a mark, hands or arms over shoulders is no longer in the back or to high....ugly just ugly....
But..... I like it. Still comes down to fitness, athletic ability, quick hands and a straight kick. You can’t have perfect without some imperfect.
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On 01/05/2018 at 9:28 PM, Will27 said:
I think Bomber made 7 million on a property deal last year.
Obviously not selling drugs (if he did) because he needed the money.
Personal use ?
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Hi fellas,
Still alive, although I did call for the morphine and to let the angles take me away in an intense experience in ICU.
A nurse, who I knew, said "We don't do that service here you will have to come back yourself Joseph," 3 minutes later I was back with the living. Than F%%% too, because when I was down there I had turned into a weird slug/bug (indescribable) and had to wriggle my way up a slimy tunnel to get back to the light.
Through the fog a Chemo and the fallout I wasn't able to get past telstra and get my tips regestered.Missed the fantasy team too... Had a killer team picked out after studying the "Fantaty" magazine for three solid days.
Got Dad and Granddad's medals out for ANZAC day.
Going for the Bombers, my second favourite team after the Mighty Eagles.
Only thing off about being an Eagles supporter is the embarrassment when other supporters complain about ticky touchwood issues like "Eddy Everywhere likes the Blues more than the weagles,,, boo Ho HO"
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On 2/6/2018 at 10:25 AM, Will27 said:
Not a good start for new match review officer Michael Christian.
She kicked her in the front of the bum and only got 2 weeks.
Even for a short season, that's light IMO.
A male player would've received a minimum of 4 weeks for
a kick in the pills.
But there are no pills,,
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19 hours ago, Radar501 said:
Very dignified reply Jo. I, too, put my financial trust in a man who correctly called himself a broker.
Bet you it wasn't him that went broke. Beware anyone that comes out of Bond University. The "ratbag" factory.
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On 1/30/2018 at 1:07 PM, AlexRRR said:Hey you can afford the 6 grand a yearcomitted to 3 or 5 years u will be dining in the dining room not queuing for a burger....
Haha!! Wish it were true Alex.
Fact is I can’t pay my rent, Yes “rent” Lost the properties to a financial adviser who is reported to be swanning it up in HK.
I always say “I’ve been financially advised into poverty”
I don’t own a Range Rover, but a 1999 Hilux Workmate. Good reliable vehicle.
Who would have a new car and park it 300 metres from the beach to be covered in salt spray every day. At least the Hilux can wear a bit of rust with honour.
I guess I portray that I am flush. Just it’s always been a successful strategy to get a few roots over the years.
But I did make provision for my daughter's education and tucked it up into a trust that even I couldn't raid when she was 15. It gave her security to know that if she studied really hard she had the means to achieve goals. And she did and has.
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7 hours ago, AlexRRR said:
we expect rises but wages ages have been flat for more than 10 years and if your a contractor try 20 years...
.........Notwithstanding the massive increase in licensing, insurance and other compliance fees
On 1/28/2018 at 9:50 PM, Will27 said:-
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14 hours ago, Will27 said:
What 12.50 gets you at the new Perth stadium.
Bargain.
Must have been prepared by a chief that sports a man bun.
Any sauce for the cardboard box come with that?
Looks like we will be taking our own.
The Schultz sandwich being a favourate.
Schultz Sandwich:
Being any home prepared food that can conceal a 4 oz stainless steel hard liquor flask
I see nothing.. nothing..... nothing..
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8 hours ago, AlexRRR said:
Gees Jo im sorry to hear your in a battle....very good luck to you and I won’t hang it on you again till you get better....good luck..
Haha!! Thanks for the support Alex, Hang it on me as much as you like, just be prepared to be the easiest hook..
Better drop your pants and check your nut sack for content if you are really going to bow out of the footy tipping.
You may be growing grumpy and impatient in LOS but don't forget you are an Aussie.
I would miss your knowledge.
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Thank guys
Good to see you FJ. Recon you will like this memory of mine.
Me in the middle amongst the Generals
Ford Fairlane ZH
351 Windsor with a warm cam
650 double pumper
Genie headers
FMX box
9 inch LSD
8 inch front and 10 inch rear tyres
Absolute Rocket.
Good horse float tug. Smooth and fast.
Most comfortable seats I’ve ever sat.
Could do circle work till it dug a hole.
Squeaked and rattled and went like the clappers.
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Well it’s happened fellas.
Iv’e joined the Big C club.
High grade B cell Lymphoma.
Pic of my welcome home door after my first course of Chemo at Sir Charles Gairdner Resort.
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Good 2018 to all.
Looking forward to another season of good footy and wise comments.
Our seats view at Optus oval.
Apparently there is a bar directly behind and easy access to the dunny.
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On 1/5/2018 at 8:13 AM, AlexRRR said:
"this exclusive club Jo is called Bankwest Club...yes you need to have shares in a bank to afford to be a member"
I am in the family club, my Sister's husband has secured three seats together. Seems like we have maintained 2 tier undercover and moved more towards the wing. Not perfect as the seats are centre row and not on the end as before. Working on that with the classic "diabeties need to take a piss often at short notice angle" so need end row seats for less inconvenience to other patrons..
Daughters boyfriends Dad has MCG membership, so, looking promising on that front too.
2018 AFL Visa tipping contest should be interesting this year, hope you are going to keep up the scintillating dialect.
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On 10/16/2017 at 6:34 PM, Thechook said:
It's a no from me.
No. A can of worms that could wreak havoc on Junior Football
Geez! I’m glad I’m not a kid growing up these days.
Can’t get on any sort of personal wheeled transport without wearing a helmet.
I know its safer,,, but,, imagine growing up without feeling the wind blowing through your hair.
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On 10/3/2017 at 6:16 PM, AlexRRR said:
And hot of the press and a blow to a trusty rusty TV CHOOK's is Scott Lucas the manger of one future star in the making has come out and flatly said his client Paddy McCartin is quote "going no where" end quote.
Manager and managed going nowhere I guess.
Who’s going to be 2018 surprise?
Possibly the only cert is it ain’t the Dockers ,
I ‘d like to see the Saints come September.
Good song.
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Shooting in Vagas. ??
Best Dusty and Dane get over there pronto and sorts things out.
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Thanks for that Gazman1.
I would love for Richmond to win as I like their song and as a West Australian I naturally hate Croweaters, Hate Adelaide’s jumper colours,,,, just don’t like them.
BUT! With Don Pyke (a Weagle) as the coach, I think they will have a plan and a counter plan for any move that the Tigers try to take.
I hope the Tigers win but my money is on the Crows,,, Dammm them!
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1 hour ago, farmerjo said:
Hard to make a case for him seeing as Shiels was concussed.
If I was a lawyer scaring up some cash for another luxury holiday,,
I would argue for the concussion to be put aside as there is no proof of when it occurred.
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16 hours ago, farmerjo said:Well i enjoyed the game tonight,until they showed a couple of fags kissing after Cameron's 5th goal.
Everyone whinges about a certain religion taking over well,who are having the babies,not these guys.
SSM vote NO.
I don’t care who gets married to who,,,
but please stop showing turd burglars swapping spit,
I find it nauseating.
In fact ,, the whole huggy huggy kissy kissy trend makes me feel ill
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On 9/11/2017 at 2:19 PM, Gazman1 said:
I only have 3 e-mail addresses, if you can send the to me so I can send the form for you to tips for next weeks games
Hi Gazman1,
Thanks for hosting the finals tipping.
My email "[email protected]"
I would like to raise a glass and sing the Tigers song on GF day.
Can't see the Weagles getting there after the "Kick it to the tall men" style of play.
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14 hours ago, farmerjo said:
We could do one on here,and i'll tally them up after the GF.
This week i'm picking
GWS
CATS
BOMBERS
PORT.
Good idea FJ
joboss dream picks:
GWS M 8
Tigers
Dons
Weagles
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I am flattered to be offered a spot in the fantasy league.
I will decline as I have two more rounds of Chemo to go and it does knock me around. Plenty of confusion and fatigue big time.
Could possibly pull a rabbit from the hat but with the confusion would possibly misplace the hat and the rabbit would starve, or eat the hat.
Next year 2019, all you will see are a clean pair of heels as I blitz the field.
Also planning to star in the tipping.