WHOOSH!

Still here. Just popped in from the slopes where I've drawn a line in the snow with my Range Rover.

Mick Malthouse? The extension of today's stupid comment that Collingwood play too many blockbusters is "We want easy games." Wanker.

Adam Goodes? Rort! People have been muttering he got off his THIRD charge because he is aboriginal. I don't buy that. It's because he plays for Sydney and not Melbourne. You see, the Affle want Goodes to overtake Jim Stynes' consecutive games record so that a Melbourne achievement is expunged from the record books, thus further clearing the way for the Affle to shaft the Demons.

Comments

[Adsy]

Take games off Collingwood, make them play up North while sides like the Doggies and North get to play in the blockbuster games. See how the look on his smug, arrogant face changes then. (A tad harsh perhaps?)

I wonder if Goodes is heading for some sort of record - consecutive not guilty tribunal visits. I'm sure Champion Data takes records of that ilk, they seem to do everything else.

[Tony T]

I hanker for the days when clubs can tell Collingwood to "shove it, we don't need your favours." This living on your knees business gets right up my bugle. As does the Affle with its continually shit canning underperforming clubs as if every club should be successful every year.

I agree with Patrick Smith today. Rather than keep clubs on a leash by drip-feeding cash and fuck-arsing around with their draw... sorry, schedule, they ought to just pay off all debts.

[James]

Paul Roos has questioned the AFL tribunal, effectively saying they got in wrong in NOT suspending Goodes. Unusual? Yes, but it's still an AFL coach speaking-out against a tribunal decision. Aren't there rules against that...? Maybe it's just Sydney - again!

[Tony T]

This year is International Year Of The Go Soft On Coaches Who Can The Affle & Tribunal.

[brownie]

I drew a line across the Calder Freeway median recently while driving somebody else's Lexus in heavy rain
and I do hope the line your RR drew in the snow was NOT like that one

[ann o'dyne]

Rort” is a word with a number of meanings...
The source of all these different meanings of “rort” is not at all clear...
The earliest recorded meaning (from 1919) is to engage in a sharp practice – or to pull a con trick of some sort – that’s a “rort”.
But in politics it is ballot rigging (or perhaps branch stacking) that is most often called a “rort”; while in the world of employment, finding a job with good pay and not much work is finding yourself a good “rort”.
Quite unrelated seems to be sense of a wild party, or going on the town – that too can be called a “rort.”
The source of all these different meanings of “rort” is not at all clear, but it’s possible that they all come from a 19th century London slang word “rorty” – meaning “fine; splendid; jolly; or boisterous”… a word that quickly adapted to the antipodean climate, and then changed out of all recognition.

(got that from ABC website)

[Tony T]

Don't worry, Brownie, mine was a complete lie. Well, a literary lie-cence, anyway. The closest I came to snow on the weekend was opening the freezer.

Rorty.

[carneagles]

The AFL is just insane. We've got an administration rushing headlong into a quixotic mission to take Aussie Rules to west Sydney and the Gold Coast, which is about as sensible as setting up an AFL side out of Mawson Base. We have an umpiring fraternity that is as unaccountable as it is utterly inconsistent. We have a tribunal structure that follows up a string of harsh decisions against blokes who make head-high contact - regardless of intent - by effectively clearing a "favourite son" for what looked for all money like a deliberate act.

To paraphrase one of the Two Guys from Kabul: sometimes I think they want to fail.

[brownie o'dyne]

my line in the grass was real and I flattened one of those red Go Back. Wrong Way signs - what was worse - Keilor, the irony or the pissing rain.

and thanks for the Rorty link ... "rejection of absolute truth" eh?