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I should think so mate, you've got me second last... All I can say is that, with a couple of exceptions (sorry Will). it's been a really evenly matched season so far. Difficult even for highly skilled former tipping champions like me to get up and running.

I suspect Will has been training all off season, he does not take losing lightly. Probably been in round ball game tipping comps....

I'll just settle for liking that lunch you're gonna buy me tomorrow!

Well tipped Oz!

I'm trying to buy this game but Microsoft wont accept my Thai bank card.

Good bread here, the German husband makes various smoked sausage etc as well.

My wife is a very keen fisherperson, she does extremely well using live shrimp (goong noi) as bait for tilapia. She has no problem buying small hooks and light line.

I'm in, I'm under my old account name .... not sure how that came about. Mrs says I'm getting senile but we all know that can't be true. Probably something to do with my new 'puter

Is Frenchmen jumping off of buildings. A six-pack of sauvignon: could canned wine help save the planet? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/09/canned-wine-industry-environment can wine.webp

Interesting article, but nothing really new. I was involved in bush footy for years, playing barman at the most successful country club of all time, and all of the bush league clubs used to have big money for recruiting. Most prized were SANFL (this was pre-AFL days) players at the end of their career. I remember a decent back pocket from a very ordinary team kicking a 100 goals a season for several years at a riverlands club, and well paid for it.

‘There’s too much money in local footy’: the bidding war for Aussie rules footballers Local Australian rules football clubs are paying large amounts of money to secure top players. Some say it’s corrupting the spirit of community sport Joel Dwyer thought he was lost. It was his first Australian rules football game for a regional Victorian team that was paying him and two mates $700 each a week, and he’d never been to his new home ground. As he drove through Victoria’s flat and desolate north, he saw no sign of a town that could support a football team. “We drove past two clapped-out buildings and down a gravel road and then you just see the light towers at the footy oval, and that’s the first thing you see,” he says. It was 2016 and the town, which in that year’s census had recorded a population of fewer than 100 people, needed players. Through a convoluted series of events, including a Contiki tour someone involved with the club did with one of Dwyer’s mates two years earlier, the coach came upon Dwyer’s mobile number. Dwyer says someone from the team called him up and asked if he would be interested in making the drive north from Melbourne every week, if the price was right? And did he know anyone else who could play? Such is the often strange world of semi-professional Australian rules footballers, some of whom are said to be paid more than $60,000 for a 20-week season – almost double what the best players in the AFLW competition make (though the recent signing of a new enterprise bargaining agreement means this pay will be doubled next season). Read more.... https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/08/theres-too-much-money-in-local-footy-the-bidding-war-for-aussie-rules-footballers

Is Degoey looking for another club?

... wont be going to North, Hawthorn, Collingwood, Crows.... probably a longer list than that.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/hawthorn-hawks/afl-news-2022-investigation-into-hawthorn-football-club-reactions-response-racism-allegations-of-first-nations-players-pregnancy-termination-alastair-clarkson-chris-fagan/news-story/fab72951628d483a5840363b2cf3e9ce

Many come from a culture where they have to start over in the cauldron of an AFL club, the club needs to be careful in telling them what they can and cannot do off the field, maybe have a panel of indigenous former players to advise them. (Some clubs have this). I'm certainly not saying that the club should be automatically condemned until the facts are in but the media will see that they are.

Allegations or not, the sh!t will stick. The rules are black and white and have been for years, anyone who plays fast and loose with Indigenous players deserves everything they get. Ignorance is no longer a defence.

If the Eagles get Mitch Georgiades for Riolli they will get the best of the deal and Port have rocks in their head. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-trade-news-rumours-whispers-mitch-georgiades-west-coast-eagles-port-adelaide-kysaiah-pickett-brad-hill-north-melbourne-kangaroos-jeremy-sharp-josh-corbett-fremantle-dockers/news-story/dae31d1950b12b77e984c67f0c58e329

Now there's a hard act to follow.

I'm not sure that he's what we want anyway, I hope they're not laying out too much $$$ for him. I see we've got salary cap space, I just think that it could be better spent.

I played Age of Empires II

Your wife goes out with Dustin Martin?

The ABC channel (Australia Network) on TrueVisions has a few AWFL AFLW games on all weekend. Unfortunately it clashes with some good stuff on the Cartoon Network.

Thanks to Will, who can buy me lunch next week, and all other participants for making this thread such a great place during the footy season. I'll have a little brag, when I saw Brisbane lose and Oz went past me followed by the Wobbles being 4 goals down at three quarter time I thought I'd gone for the proverbial doctor, but decades of virtuous living was finally rewarded. Port hammering the despicable Crows made it a great weekend.

You're at the right end of the season FJ, things are starting to go pie shaped for a lot of clubs already.

Eight goals in a losing side today, a true champions game.