‘I won’t be able to play in the US’: Djokovic barred, withdraws from Indian Wells, The Age

Imagine what it was like to take care of him when he was a toddler. Bet he could hold his breath much longer than all the other toddlers combined.

The AFL has announced that the next AFLW season will run from August until November-December this year!

I guess it’s another small step towards aligning the men’s and women’s seasons but it does mean that we’re still a chance for an AFLW premiership in 2022.

I have really enjoyed watching Mimi's comeback from her ACL injury.  She plays the game with a bit of flair but, at the same time, is so dependable.

Her stats for the season (from the club website) are:

Quote:Among those 18 [nominated for the Rising Star], Hill ranks No.1 for disposals, kicks, handballs, metres gained and uncontested possessions. Additionally, she ranks second for contested possessions, intercept possessions, inside 50s and rebound 50s, while placing third for clearances and marks.

Last round and the match up we've been waiting to see. Tayla Harris vs Carlton.

The result is basically known. The ladder positions largely irrelevant. All eyes will be on Tayla.

So what do we do with her?
We'd know better than anyone how to play her...and I'm talking mentally more than  anything else.
I feel like she is one of those 'don't poke the bear' types. Make her angry and she'll play better.
Perhaps we go down the friendly path and make her feel like she is playing against her friends. She's said before she doesn't like hurting people, both in boxing and in footy.

I feel like she could be easily distracted as well. I forget who it was, but I think someone asked Richo (i think) a riddle during a game just to mess with him and he spent more time trying g to work out the riddle than focus on what he was supposed to be doing on the field.

The men's teams used to have dossiers on players with a list of do's and don'ts time to bring that back to Tayla.

Sorry, thought I already had this up.

Game today against another team we should beat.

We've made our first change to the lineup in weeks, a forced change with Lucy mcevoy an out with a sore calf and Brooke Walker returning.

A point has been made about half wanting effort and commitment and walker being left out sent alarm bells her way.
Well she had 7 tackles last week in th3 vflw and has been recalled this week.

Finals are mathematically possible, but realistically no chance. Still, would be good to get 3 on the trot

There is an interesting discussion of Round 1 team selection in the Melbourne game thread so let's see who can come closest to the 23 for Round 1.  I'm going with:

B Newman    McDonald    McGovern

HB  Williams    Weitering    Saad

C     O'Brien    Cripps    Docherty

HF    Fisher    Curnow, C    Silvagni

F    Owies  McKay    De Koning

Fol     Pittonet  Hewett  Cerra

Int   Kemp, Kennedy, Durdin, Williamson

Sub  Setterfield

Emerg  Curnow, E, Plowman, Young

Speechless, he was 52!

Suspected heart attack while in Thailand!

Condolences to family and friends.

Heart attack at age 74.

One of the very best ... the loss of a champion   

How do these a'holes sleep

Rcvd email today with my casual mobile plan cost near about doubling, eff next month.  $25 to $45.  >  >  >

Can anybody assist in explaining where and how to get the Carlton fixture into my iPhone calendar...??

A Google search takes me to a Carlton website page from 2017!

Yes, I'm having one of those days...