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Because I live locally, I get to partake of her wonderful food once a week. I find that any more often is too self-indulgent. Her son might be one of the best footballers going around, but she is a genius as a baker, and as a businesswoman. She's in a class of her own. We are so lucky to have...

O.K., the inevitable has come at last. It's pocket pissing time. Ever since Max's debut, and during his stellar career so far, I have refrained from ranking him among the great ruckmen I've seen over the past 67 years of watching footy. The major reason for my reticence is that I am a biased...

Max hasn't done much if this recently.

I don't find it a hideous thing to watch the sport I love with a passion played at a standard of excellence it rarely reaches. Despite any affiliation I have to a particular team, the game itself is what I really love. The standard played by the successful sides in each of this weekend's games...

This is Australia, a land in which being called 'an intellectual' is intended as a calculated and grievous insult. It is not just confined to these boards. To all in tents and porpoises, in schools at all levels, history is is exactly that, history.

I fear this is wasted on here.

I'm not going to mention the umpires. Oops! I tend to watch the footballers, whom I find far more exciting. I'm pleased that our victory over Richmond in last season's finals is still excruciating for their ferals. Mind you, I thought the Tigers' performance in this year's finals series was...

Very impressed with Coleman's development during the second half of the season. Hits up blokes by foot fifty metres ahead, very often resulting in inside 50s, or even better.

Re: Melbourne's mids, Petracca: Hardly touched the ball against Geelong - could be due, maybe not. Oliver: Has been the best player in the comp. this season - if we can limit his influence even fractionally, it will be a victory for us. Gawn: Played a very ordinary first half last week, and then...

As with Geelong supporters after Thursday night's game, I expect Richmond supporters to attribute their loss solely to being crucified by the umpires.;) I've never understood why people who watch footy are so pre-occupied with what umpires do,. They are rarely entertaining, the umpires that is...

The imbeciles at the AFL refuse to pay for equipment which will provide a clearer rendering of what happened. The more advanced technology has been readily available for several years.

Stokes' motivation in all this is to preserve the value, monetary and otherwise, of the mountain of VCs he has paid outlandish amounts for. Maybe now people might realise that there is nothing particularly noteworthy about being a trained killer. Maybe now young men won't be coerced into...

I too am anti fa. There is fa to much fa going around. How fa does it have to spread before something is done? So fa, blame must be sheeted home to the almost criminal inaction of the government. The late, great Otis Redding started this movement nearly sixty years ago, when he wrote that...

I, obviously mistakenly, thought that the value of education and of integrity would be self-evident. It would seem that this is not so in your case. I profoundly apologise for not writing that which you would have preferred.

Interesting that this thread has enjoyed a revival. In my not so humble opinion, there is nothing more important in life than education. My son is now aged thirty-nine, well past primary or secondary school. as he should be. When he was eighteen, he told me, "Dad, I'm not going to be an...

Whitlam? He seems to be responsible for all other ills to befall Australia. It must be said that a thread about 'gouging' is an improvement on ones about 'groping'. However, it must also be said, in contradistinction to my own argument, that threads about the latter are thin on the ground on...

Australia: one of the few places in the world where to be called, 'an intellectual' is intended as a calculated insult.

'Odious' shares the same distinction.

-And your presupposition is that this turd gives a twopenny black f***k about our nation's first peoples.

Two incomprehensible, gibbering imbeciles at loggerheads. A meeting of great minds. It would serve Hanson better were she to actually read these speeches, scribbled by her illiterate flunkies, before she tries to deliver them. Presupposition in play here here is that she can read.

Almost as many people have an ongoing relationship with Jesus, and he's been dead for 2,000 years. It's the grave robbing I hate most in religion. Mind you, it's at the top of a very long list. Next on that list is why your beliefs should be of any significance, to you or anyone else.

I claim no depth of understanding of what it is to become aware of such a profound and defining difference in ones life, when compared to most of the population. My best mate's son became his daughter about six to eight years ago. Having known her since she was born, it always seemed to me that...

My watching of Facebook et al indicates that this is, in fact, more of a morbidly obese line.

Personally, I am unable to find a reason why you shouldn't. After all, it's not as if you're intending to insert a pole. Then again...

Not so much of a problem. Nearly all of them are Americans. Funeral directors are ecstatic.

It has been an unalloyed pleasure. I haven't been around here for a while. I've been busy trying to save our local cricket club from imminent extinction. We realised after we asked for a commitment from our players, in June, that we would be unable to field three teams, as we were able to do...

It is an horrendous experience to contemplate a world without women. Everything I know about how to lead an ethical existence has been taught to me by women - the guardians and preservers of civilisation.

Waits for Collingwood supporters to blame the umpires. Shouldn't be too long. A game in which it was proven that Moore is less.

Finally, with three minutes to go in the third quarter, Collingwood supporters at the ground found something to cheer about - Joel Selwood kicked the ball out of bounds on the full. Go Pies.

We enjoy the unique facility of two exceptional rucks, neither of whom would/have embarrassed us were they left top cope on their own.