It's most likely illegal throughout Australia. Governments protecting the taxi monopoly/ensuring comfort and safety standards are kept (depending on what side of the fence you stand).
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It's most likely illegal throughout Australia. Governments protecting the taxi monopoly/ensuring comfort and safety standards are kept (depending on what side of the fence you stand).
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Lol. They need to reach the standards first before they're kept.
The state of most taxis are terrible and are getting worse each year.
The thing that will keep Uber in check is the market.
If standards are poor, the business model fails.
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Trengrove to Pitted to Shools.
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Hah, no it's definitely pronounced Pole-Ek, but I was poking fun at Bruce's shithouse pronunciation. Surprisingly he actually says Polec properly.
Are these the same safety standards that make it illegal to get a lift from a mate?
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Did you mean, Jarad Polec ?
Edit.......Ooops just read up to the reference of Bruceeee the Delicious Mcavaney commentary style lol
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One of the commentators called him Pollock, as in Jackson or Graeme.
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If Bruce pronounces it correctly then kudos to him because he'd be the only one.
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Pollock?????? That's a fish!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock
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Wasn't there a Richmond player called Polak? I believe he was hit by a tram.
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Graham.
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Don't shoot the messenger, people. I merely presented the alternative reasons that may be given for regulating taxis. I did not express a view as to which side of that I was on.
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Or a painter. Or any one of three South African cricketers.
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Breathless Bruce doesn't pronounce a lot of things correctly. He's in too much of a hurry to finish a sentence before it's finished.
Isn't he.
You almost get the feeling, don't you......
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Well he was giving the Blues the pole.
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Robbie Gray's near perfect game of 4 goals and 31 disposals got him 8 votes in The Advertiser's Merv Agars Medal, while Patrick Dangerfield's 20 disposal game where he didn't trouble the scorers and only touched the ball 4 times in the second half got him 7 votes in the Merv Agars medal. I
The Merv Agars is the be all and end all of worldwide sport awards so this is an outrage
Robbie Gray's near perfect game of 4 goals and 31 disposals got him 8 votes in The Advertiser's Merv Agars Medal, while Patrick Dangerfield's 20 disposal game where he didn't trouble the scorers and only touched the ball 4 times in the second half got him 7 votes in the Merv Agars medal. I
The Merv Agars is the be all and end all of worldwide sport awards so this is an outrage
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Well...it is hard to fap and comment at the same time, I suppose. Don't you think Dennis?
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I didn't watch all of the Cows v Norf game but I would have thought from what I saw that S. Thompson (27 disposals, 7 tackles) may have got a vote or two in the Merv. But no, Thompson gets a big fat zero and Dangerwince, who went completely missing when the Cows needed someone to stand up and get them over the line, gets 7.Just saw this on FB
Robbie Gray's near perfect game of 4 goals and 31 disposals got him 8 votes in The Advertiser's Merv Agars Medal, while Patrick Dangerfield's 20 disposal game where he didn't trouble the scorers and only touched the ball 4 times in the second half got him 7 votes in the Merv Agars medal. I
The Merv Agars is the be all and end all of worldwide sport awards so this is an outrage
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Just saw this on FB
Robbie Gray's near perfect game of 4 goals and 31 disposals got him 8 votes in The Advertiser's Merv Agars Medal, while Patrick Dangerfield's 20 disposal game where he didn't trouble the scorers and only touched the ball 4 times in the second half got him 7 votes in the Merv Agars medal. I
The Merv Agars is the be all and end all of worldwide sport awards so this is an outrage
They have no idea. You could tell with the commentary something was going on when they said Patty had only had 3 touches in the last half. "Yes, but they were all score involvements." I noticed one where Patty was alone for ever in the forward pocket and not chasing his North opponent out of defence. North should have been able to clear that ball easily and it would have been mostly Patty's fault but they screwed it up. Another cow player did all the hard bustling work and got the ball to Patty who handballed to Eddie Betts in the square. Result, a big, fat tick, for doing a big, fat nothing. Patty is becoming what the fantasy gurus call a fantasy pig, he makes sure he gets the ball where he will get fantasy or supercoach points.
And the 6 to Jacobs and the 6 to Sloane was a bit of a joke too. I think they award these like gas bills where they don't read the meter but just charge the average. Jacobs was very ordinary and McDonald only allowed Sloane less than 10 free possessions. He certainly tried but last time I heard it was God who loves a trier, not Merv Agars.
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There was an incident late in the last near the boundary on the broadcast side of the ground just outside the Cows' forward 50. Patty was tackled with the ball and the umpire called for a ball up. The wince Patty gave when he got up was definitely Merv vote worthy.
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