The forecast is for showers in Sydney. The pitch traditionally is slow and spins early. If it has any bounce, our bowlers should do OK, but that is a low probability event. 2 spinners for the Poms? Mmmm.

The Aus selectors have confirmed Glen Maxwell is on the outer not through poor form on the field but poor form in the dressing room by leaving him out of the ODI squad.
They have to be kidding?..Chris Lynn is in but cant field properly due to injury, Maxwell is probably the best fielder in the country and has been in ok form in the Big Bash.
Steve Smith has said Maxwell has to train smarter....???........ok Smith and the inner circle dont like him but that doesnt mean he gets left out when his form warrants selection and then give a BS random excuse saying he has to train smarter....

There is a growing movement to see second BBL teams established in some of the single team states.

It would seem to me the critics have a point, SA and WA in particular have a significant advantage given the wealth and resources in those states.

Is it fair to have WA and SA telling the country how much GST they should receive from the wealth they generate, and then argue that they are too poor to support a second team?

Proponents for the change are saying it's too easy for the wealthy single state teams to attract and retain players.

I think Qld is borderline, simply because it's Qld and many players do not want to go there, the state basically runs on welfare, and there are too many issues with social boundaries in the North, Central and South of the state. North Qld thinks it's another country, Central thinks it runs the show and the Southern Border believes they are part of NSW. ;D

I appreciate Tassie shouldn't come into the consideration, it's GDP and population is a bit low to sustain two teams.

This call seems consistent with the AFL's national stance, but I appreciate the AFL "subsidises" some teams, at least in principle if you can call it a subsidy.

I suppose Perth and Adelaide would defend their patch as vigorously as The Melbourne Storm!

Hello mods.

Possibly as a result of not sending many PM's, I far too often forget to check the "Save a copy in my outbox" checkbox, with the effect that my sent PM"s are rarely saved.

Is there any way we can change the default behavior to automatically keep all sent PM's, without the user having to do anything to save them ?

Thank you.

Theyve signed another ex PA player.
http://northernbluesfc.com.au/?p=5607
They drafted quite abit of young talent this year.
http://northernbluesfc.com.au/?p=5646

Federico beat Coffield to the B&F this year.

Today I saw on FB they have signed Josh Hill ex West Coast

http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2017-12...ve-numbers

Some big shoes to fill for a few

Looks OK to me.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-12-13/af...baby-blues

I'm tipping the Nthmond ferals will be out to burn the premiership flag come the Rnd 1 final siren on Thursday 22nd of March 2018!

A Merry Christmas to all, we've got them covered! ;D

Mitch Marsh has been named in the squad replacing Sayers.

Looks like Hanscombe will be out and the Marsh brothers will play....

Super effort.

kudos....