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Can't wait for him to turn 20 so that I never again have to hear about him being 19, but otherwise I really like his attitude.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/mcc-moves-to-de-stigmatise-non-striker-run-outs-in-latest-law-updates-1304409 One's first impression is that these changes - new batsman facing even the two batsmen crossed, destigmatising of "Mankading", etc - are amending things that a neophyte to the game...

I remember (or perhaps mis-remember) West Indian quick Ottis Gibson taking bags of wickets one tri-series in the mid 90s, then never hearing of him again until he got into coaching a few years ago. And though I don't remember him, I had a coin of Ashes 89 tourist Greg Campbell.

"It's not about the chocolate. It's about the 34 players".

"But aren't you the head of this gang?" "No. I just stop by the club occasionally to read the complementary newspaper"

Given that we have to use at least 95% of the salary cap anyway (it's a rule), we could offer Joe Daniher a new loooong term contract that's front-loaded (i.e. he gets lots of the money in 2016 when it doesn't matter, but in years 2017, 2018, etc, he'll get less than he otherwise would have, and...

Soft on AFL HQ, sometimes even a mouthpiece. Hard on selected targets. Not sure she's quite the "tell it like it is, no fear no favour" people think she is

Caro gave her stock standard "this could have turned out so differently were Hird not so selfish" arrow (and turned against the players abit. She used to treat them like victims, "young men" etc), but aside from that... Lone Wolf got a jab in about tanking, "nudge wink", but really, everyone...

Today's verdict seems to have put an end to the "feel for the poor players" line. The infantilsation of the players (adults on six-figure incomes) is one of the worst developments in modern sport (especially AFL). They aren't children and the club is not a boarding school.

Explosive dramatic opening montage recapping entire saga from blackest day / "shocked to be sitting here" thru to today's ruling or I walk. Hopefully all four of them are in town. No Damo, please.

Special Footy Classified tonight after the cricket. Bombshells! Fallout! Ramifications!

Oh crap. Richmond won. That'll be the first 20 minutes of this week's show taken. Because everyone knows Richmond winning is "good for football". Essendon smashed again, so a bit about that, "but taking nothing away from the Bulldogs, who were magnificent", etc. There was a draw and Hutchy...

Good ep last night. Hutchy in fine form. Belligerent, contradictory, callous, foolish, and, when the tables are turned, prissy. If not quite back to his absolute "best", then certainly back in the thick of it. Yay!

Quite. Maybe that's why I disliked it (though Hutchy’s pouty indignation at Gary’s cheeky claim that he “got his man” in McKenna’s axing was fun. More needling of Hutchy, please). The attention and focus and sheer time devoted to them that Richmond gets year after year after year from "the...

Weak, homely and utterly phoned-in. Sad, really.

That's certainly why I watch it.

Solid, decent, okayish, no-frills episode. Kind of piecemeal, touching on lots and lots of topics (Carlton, Gold Coast, etc), but because it’s Round 2 and there’s no blood in the water, yet, the sharks were left to snap at each other: Hutchy was in rare (sadly these days, all too rare) form...

Second tame show in a row. My heart lifted when the pre-show ‘on the show tonight’ bumpers promised “fall out” (music to my ears), but alas, it just wasn’t to be. Show seems to have lost a lot of its hunger and its passion and its high octaine, all-guns-blazing sensationalist sleaze. Back in...

Very meh. Considering it promised exploding helicopters. Where's the fireworks? Where's the sensationalism? Where's the questioning eachother's integrity and getting personally offended? Where's the no room for the faint-hearted? This isn’t quite “the best in the business” mutual...

Liveliest and best show of the year. When Hutchy's wrong about something, he's really wrong, off somewhere spinning in his own demented orbit. But when he's right, oh, when he's right. Brilliant.

Some nice tetchiness this week from Garry towards Caro and her imaginary "people I've spoken to" in regards to Mitch Clark (Garry's at his best when it's about Melbourne). Actually, the whole show had a slight "Caro vs. the rest" vibe to it, kind of like the old days. The others seemed peeved at...

Oh, me too. Even middling, it's still light-years ahead of that other Monday night offering, Talking Footy, which, aside from Carey (who is far too good for it), really is just boring dross. Good point about Thommo. I always thought his shrugging "resent it all you like. It's the truth"...

Footy Ass has been sort of "just going" this year. Maybe they just have premiership hangover after last season's explosive, high-octane melodrama that was the "Essendon Saga" (remember though midweek "breaking news" special editions?), but this year there's been plenty of room for the...