I lied, I went to the football again. You didn't expect any different, did you? I wrote I was an imbecile, and you know I never lie. Football is harder to give up than smoking. There ought to be health warnings on the tickets - "Football can harm your dignity".
The bad news is Melbourne lost, and looking at the draw, will continue to do so. We'll come bottom. If Daniher didn't have another year on his contract, he'd be gone by mid year. He still could be the way things are going. The good news is there'll be no fade out this season.
Incidentally, this young girl was checking me out in the pie queue, then later I overheard her telling her friend I was hot. Or that the pie was. One of the two.
Hot pies? they were okay against Adelaide, but I have tipped the Hawks to give them a bit of sauce today.
Posted by: Scott Wickstein | 04/09/2006 at 03:52 AM
It was you.
There's no such thing as hot pies at the footy.
Posted by: Dirk Thruster | 04/09/2006 at 04:57 AM
Never fear, there's always somebody worse off. I know a guy who is going to the Gold Coast and Sydney to watch us in the next two weeks. AHAHAHAHAH cop that. I'll be sitting in front of my television crying.
Posted by: Adam 1.0 | 04/09/2006 at 08:57 AM
Looking at the draw again (I'm a sucker for detail, and also desperately trying to find the merest shred of hope for the season), it is conceivable we will lose every single game this year. (Sorry, no hope there.) That's a new low, even for the Demons, especially in the very first year they decide to dump the first-round concession.
Posted by: Tony.T | 04/09/2006 at 10:44 AM
Sounds like it's time to start going to Olympic Park instead Tony and watch real football - the way God intended it to be played. Though as per usual you Vics are delving in heresies what with stomping on players heads and touching up the ref and all.
Posted by: pat | 04/09/2006 at 11:28 AM
When in Rome, and all that, Pat.
Posted by: Tony.T | 04/09/2006 at 11:37 AM
When confronted by the awesome combination of Tony with pie in hand I'm surprised they weren't throwing themselves at you
Posted by: Russell Allen | 04/09/2006 at 01:18 PM
Pity the vow of abstinence didn't extend to a cold ale in the other hand. Get some plumbers crack goin' and you would look quite teh h0tness.
Posted by: CB | 04/09/2006 at 01:34 PM
"We'll come bottom."
In your dreams! Never gunna happen Gunner Sugden while there's a B/W army of untalented kiddies and too old, too slow fogies lorded over by a President wot's decamped to Syddie.
Let's head down to Daffyd Rhys-Jones's's's's' pub and drown our corrective sorrows whilst sharing a pot of Ribena with Shane Woewodin. Sums up the problem dontcha reckon comrade?
Posted by: Sedge | 04/09/2006 at 02:24 PM
Is it supposed to be the "on" or "off" year for the Dees? Or should that be bad or atrocious year? I saw the 2nd half yesterday and they looked very poor. A team thats been soft mentally for quite some time, and not looking likely to change.
Posted by: Living in Canberra | 04/09/2006 at 05:24 PM
Meanwhile, Bangladesh are pounding the Australian bowling, and are 1 for 172.
Posted by: Scott Wickstein | 04/09/2006 at 05:50 PM
Like a pie. Not hot. Stale, crusty, full of fatty stuff inside.
Posted by: Francis Xavier Holden | 04/09/2006 at 06:06 PM
Not to worry Scott. You can always depend on MacGill to get a wicket with a rank long-hop.
Posted by: Russ | 04/09/2006 at 06:45 PM
Chock full 'o' racehorse offal.
Posted by: carneagles | 04/09/2006 at 08:45 PM
Sounds like the Melroy Limons weren't such a bad idea after all, Tony. Maybe South Sydney would still be interested in a merger. Or failing that, Bangladesh.
Posted by: Clem Snide | 04/09/2006 at 11:46 PM
Can't both be hot? I don't know, I've never met you. Cold pies are revolting.
Posted by: Miss Q | 04/10/2006 at 09:36 AM
Woey is skippering that proud West Australian club East Fremantle through one of their leanest periods at the moment, collecting a shirtload of touches and generally looking too classy for the WAFL. The Sharks even notched a win on the weekend against Club In Crisis East Perth - not sure that they will win too many more though.
Posted by: Gareth | 04/10/2006 at 02:24 PM
With Collingwood coming up with a win over the weekend, does that now mean that football is 'fixed' and that it is no longer the unnatractive, no-contact sport that threatened to drive the fans away?
There was and is still plenty of contested footy being played but it was only being played by sides that stood a chance of winning a contest.
Posted by: Some other Bruce | 04/10/2006 at 04:19 PM
Forget about the Mons Tony - I made an emotional break with the Eels yesterday and for the first time ever went for the Panthers over them. Emotional. Tears. and joy. sob sob.
Seeya at Hindmarsh stadium this Saturday Tony.
Posted by: pat | 04/10/2006 at 05:57 PM
Ye Gods...I've just tuned into the Test Match...
Posted by: SaggyGreen | 04/10/2006 at 08:01 PM