It will be interesting to see how Collingwood play this week, having stolen Davies. It will also make next weekend's game have a little spice. I'm hoping we can keep our run against the Meat Pies going.

I'll be very interested to see our line-up for this game. Especially how the mids structure up with one of the game's best players permanently missing (Still irritated about that!).
I'll be going on Friday night. I'll be on the southern wing, near the coaches' boxes.
This may be our home ground, but we are not the home team.

Predict 1 player, who is currently not considered to be in our top 12-14 players and just seems to be making up the numbers, who will be a lock in pick by about Round 12.

I’ll throw one in Matt Cottrell. Is having a full preseason, feedback on him the training has been excellent so far this year, but where he plays and who he displaces....  I have no idea. 

I've got to make this observation about T20 cricket.

I'm not a huge fan but I do appreciate some of the skills, yet I can see that the plasticity in the rules means it's not very useful for measuring cricket talent.

One thing I've noted, the effectiveness of a bowler seems geared to their level of exposure to the batsmen. The more a batsmen becomes familiar with a bowler the greater the toll the batsmen takes on any overs bowled. What this means is that often the newbie bowler, in yesterday's case Ellis bowling for Sydney Thunder, often has the best economy rate.

It's not primarily the bowler's skill that has them perform well, but also the batsmen's ignorance.

What a blessed relief it is to see Kyrgios looking like a focused, serious, committed tennis player (i.e like pretty much everyone else on tour), rather than a brittle, half-arsed, temperamental brat.

Well played NK. Hopefully this is the future and not just a flash-in-the-pan moment.

I'm not a huge fan of tennis, I appreciate the athletic nature of long matches. I'm not sure why as an individual sport it pays or attracts so much big money given on a global basis it's pretty much elitist, a bit like golf!

I had to turn on today to watch what radio was describing as a stirring comeback by Williams versus Wang, it was described as an epic match!

However, for the short time I watched, all I saw was 15 minutes of screaming and verbal abuse blatantly emitted in the direction of at and intended to intimidate an opponent! Supreme a strength and athleticism without a shred of good citizenship or healthy sportsperson like behavior. Just a screaming ball of abuse and derogation from a self-entitled lunatic, praised by the commentary!

I mean, screaming in someone's direction until they are distracted isn't being the best tennis player, it's just being the best bully or the loudest mouth!

I'm over it, I'll hope and barrack for Barty to endure, but I won't turn that tournament back on no matter who is playing.

How the f... does Dan Andrews escape massive scrutiny re the bush fires (ditto the NSW Premier). No fan of Scomo but forests are a State Government issue....his head should be the first to roll. I guess the Libs have been silent as they don't want to rock Gladys' boat....

Shame on the lot of them.

The 2010 Victorian Royal Commission recommended the “state fund and commit to implementing a long-term program of prescribed burning based on an annual rolling target of 5 per cent minimum of public land” - equal to 385,000ha annually.

It appears the State Government here abandoned hectare-based targets in 2015, opting for a ‘computer modelled measure of residual risk’ ....WHY?

Using the Royal Commission’s target of a minimum of 390,000Ha of annual hazard reduction burns across Victoria, the actual planned burnt areas were;


2018-19 : 130,000    Deficit- 260,000
2017-18: 74,728      Deficit- 315,272
2016-17 : 125,052    Deficit- 264,948
2015-16 : 197,940    Deficit- 192,060


A cumulative deficit over the last 4 years in Victoria of over one million hectares of land.

And they knew from their mapping that fuel load issue was a major problem again.

And it appears the NSW Government was just as bad!

The AFLW girls had their first practice match of the season today against St. Kilda down at Ikon Park.

Was St. Kildas first ever game in the competition today (albeit pre-season) and we handed them their first loss.....of which i'm sure there will be many.

Carlton by 11 points.

No further details as yet.

https://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/552668

Quote:Carlton’s AFLW/VFLW List Manager Wayne Siekman has tendered his resignation from his position at the Club.

Siekman has accepted a role with the West Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL after joining the Blues in May 2019.

Hi, I doubt this problem is just myself as I use multiple platforms to interact with the site.

But someone else might have noticed that during edits, either via Quick Edit or Modify, the editor inserts blank lines in the top of a reply in the space below a quote. Maybe it's because of the way I use the site to save drafts, but after two or three three edits you can have a large whitespace at the top of your reply.