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[Ron19]

Now going back on the posts I note my brother comments about me not being fair. I love the fried donuts with the toffee coating from the Thasak Markets. Every time he gets them he sends a picture and says how nice they are, is that fair??

Here is some more that my dear one went out and bought for you this morning so you would have something to munch on

during your trip to Ubon Ratchithani.

[Radar501]

Why do those three donuts remind me of Carlton's season so far?

[BookMan]

Why do those three donuts remind me of Carlton's season so far?

or freo

[Ron19]

Why do those three donuts remind me of Carlton's season so far?

The Dockers as well and while we're at it,might as well throw Brisbane in.

( Edit - Hadn't seen the previous post )

Edited April 12, 2016 by Ron19

[joboss]

This makes me think of the Dockers season so far,,,

[Ron19]

This makes me think of the Dockers season so far,,,

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[joboss]

This makes me think of the Dockers season so far,,,

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Yes,, Not savy enough to post images in this case.

The image is in the food theme and is a picture of a pavlova that's falling apart.

On a positive note,, I don't believe that the Dockers will spend the whole season asleep, they have got to come good sometime.

The loss of Sanders may be a good thing and force them to come up with a better game plan.

But not next week.. My tip is the Roo's are going to run them off the park. Roof open or closed won't make any difference.

Carlton at home a week later will be the tipping point. Lose that and they may get booed if they show a face in the Cafe strip.

[Ron19]

This makes me think of the Dockers season so far,,,

Doesn't show image.

Yes,, Not savy enough to post images in this case.

The image is in the food theme and is a picture of a pavlova that's falling apart.

On a positive note,, I don't believe that the Dockers will spend the whole season asleep, they have got to come good sometime.

The loss of Sanders may be a good thing and force them to come up with a better game plan.

But not next week.. My tip is the Roo's are going to run them off the park. Roof open or closed won't make any difference.

Carlton at home a week later will be the tipping point. Lose that and they may get booed if they show a face in the Cafe strip.

Was it one of these ?

[joboss]

Hi Ron19,

Not one of those photos, but same same.

[BookMan]

Hi Ron19,

Not one of those photos, but same same.

Bennell will make a big difference when he is on the park for them.

add cam mccarthy 2017 and hogan in 2018 and they look okay

[joboss]

Hi Ron19,

Not one of those photos, but same same.

Bennell will make a big difference when he is on the park for them.

add cam mccarthy 2017 and hogan in 2018 and they look okay

Oh good gawd!

May as well make a statement like,,,

“The Dockers are going to make the new Burswood stadium their own..”

[Ron19]

We need another Luke Mcfarlin as well.

[Will27]

Hi Ron19,

Not one of those photos, but same same.

Bennell will make a big difference when he is on the park for them.

add cam mccarthy 2017 and hogan in 2018 and they look okay

McCarthy is contracted to GWS until the end of 2017.

If it isn't resolved for next year, I can't see him having an AFL career if he has to sit out for another year.

GWS have every right to be furious IMO.

Not sure of the legal ramifications and it won't happen, but I'd love to see them stop paying him.

[Will27]

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[joboss]

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Some inspirational usage ideas:

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[BookMan]

'Dockers write off Bennell until second half of the year'

FREMANTLE recruit Harley Bennell won't be available to make his Dockers debut until the second half of the season as he is set to undertake an eight-to-10-week program to rehabilitate his injured calf.

Bennell re-injured his calf playing in round one of the WAFL, just a week prior to the start of the AFL season.

Dockers coach Ross Lyon said last week that the club had sought specialist advice on Bennell's calf issues from AIS head of physical therapies, Craig Purdam.

Freo confirmed on Tuesday that Bennell would be out for eight-to-10 weeks in an effort to fix the calf issues for the long term.

The club also said that ruckman Aaron Sandilands would miss six weeks following the severe rib and lung injury he suffered against West Coast on Saturday night.

Sandilands is still in hospital after needing surgery on Sunday to fix multiple fractures and re-inflate his punctured lung.

Skipper David Mundy will miss this week's crucial clash with North Melbourne with a calf problem. He was ruled out of last week's Western Derby last Friday after suffering the injury at training on Thursday.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-04-12/dockers-write-off-bennell-until-second-half-of-the-year

[Thechook]

Josh Bruce has turned down huge offers from the Dockers and Essendon and is resigning with the saints.

[Ron19]

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Edited April 13, 2016 by Ron19

[BookMan]

'Pies, Tigers went too soon on coaches: Barrett'

FOUR weeks ago, two big football clubs could not have been happier when they peered into 2016.

This AFL season was going to be their best in a long time, and the fresh air of October to early March had stimulated senses to the point where fairytales seemed like they could come true.

Big-name players had been sought and gained, particularly in the case of one of the clubs. There was encouraging NAB Challenge series form, one club completing a clean sweep of matches, the other securing a win over last year's premiers.

The best players from both organisations were fit, we were told, and ready to have career-best seasons.

Buckley signs new deal

As the days ticked over towards the official start to 2016, it was a surprise to no one when the two clubs adhered to the now common practice of extending the deals of their soon-to-be off-contract coaches.

Collingwood re-contracted Nathan Buckley to the end of 2017. Richmond, after what we were assured was a rigorous review, pushed out Damien Hardwick's arrangement till the end of 2018.

Both clubs won't be backing away from those decisions. But if they are to be honest with themselves, after witnessing what their teams have displayed in the opening three matches of the season, and more pertinently, what their coaches are now saying publicly, they would be viewing matters far differently.

Tigers lock in Hardwick

That off-season air must be mesmerising, as both clubs had finished 2015 in disappointing circumstances, the Magpies winning just two matches after the half-way point and the Tigers badly eliminated after the first week of the finals for a third consecutive season.

That was the reality – both clubs were significantly off the fast pace.

Richmond and Collingwood have locked away Hardwick and Buckley before they should have, or needed to.

Apart from gaining respite from a media they don't respect anyway, it serves little gain to act in such a way.

This is not to say Hardwick and Buckley should not be coaching their clubs beyond 2016. They may both be the perfect long-term fit.

However, in attempting to stave off media questioning, both clubs have backed themselves into sharp corners.

And it is not as if the media pressure – which does dominate the thoughts of way too many supposedly experienced football officials in ways that it shouldn't – won't come anyway.

This is particularly so after both men have offered public comments in the past week that have deviated dramatically from previously stated offerings about their clubs.

Hardwick's observation after a bad loss to Adelaide last Saturday that the Tigers may need to "take a little half-step back to go two steps forward" was counter to the messaging coming out of Punt Rd in the off-season.

This, remember, is a club that kept reminding us that it was unlucky not to get a finals double chance last season. It is a team which clearly, despite the views of outsiders, felt it was close enough to have an immediate crack at a premiership that it aggressively targeted, and was bitterly disappointed to miss out on, Dan Hannebery, Paddy Dangerfield, Adam Treloar and Harley Bennell. It fought hard for, and secured, Chris Yarran, a move that has not worked to this point.

So rattled is Richmond after its ordinary 1-2 start to the season that it refused to make players available to the media after the weekend's loss to Adelaide.

And then, with that being the case, alongside Hardwick's curious "step-back" comments, the coach felt the need to front for two radio interviews the next day in an attempt to regain control of the narrative about the Tigers.

He failed, despite the confidence in one of those interviews where he said, "We'll still make the eight."

Buckley is clearly shellshocked by the events of the opening three rounds. He was blunt when he said on his regular television gig, "We're not getting it done. It's a coaching issue as much as a playing issue."

Buckley and his president Eddie McGuire loathe comparisons of Buckley's four years as coach with those of previous coach Mick Malthouse.

In many ways, their loathing is valid, for the Magpies have deliberately set off on a very different path under Buckley.

But facts are facts and no one can be sure where that path is headed. Having made consecutive Grand Finals in 2010 and 2011, Buckley has steered the club to a preliminary final, elimination final, 11th and 12th. The past two finishes have come after the club was 8-3 at the half-way point of the season. Since round 11 last year, Collingwood has won three of 14 matches.

The media pressure both Richmond and Collingwood desperately sought to bypass is indeed apparent anyway. It was always going to be if results weren't good, and both clubs find themselves in the precise positions they too cutely tried to bypass simply for the sake of it.

Hardwick and Buckley are feeling that media pressure too.

Hardwick is a media loather, quite possibly hater, from way back, and he got angry at sections of it that attacked his captain Trent Cotchin.

That's fair. Everyone who works in the media is fair game. But the most effective way to divert media focus away from negatives is to stop losing games in the manner in which the Tigers did against, strangely enough, Collingwood in round two, and to stop sending the type of mixed messages contained in the "half-step back" comment last Saturday.

Buckley is as good a football observations commentator as there is, and more articulate than many who work full-time in the media.

He too has angrily reacted to issues, in rightly highlighting specific factual flaws in a report about drug use at his club but also in making an unnecessary wide-sweeping comment about certain identities supposedly needing to stop making themselves the news via their commentary.

The two men are now openly engaging in battles against the media, the part of the football industry from which their boards sought to protect them when extending their contracts off-season.

There would have been nothing wrong with Richmond and Collingwood letting their coaches play out the previous contracts without the guarantees of futures beyond those deals.

Sometimes, uncertainty about a future leads to something special being created in the present.

Both clubs seem a very long way from anything special right now.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-04-13/damian-barrett-column-round-three

[AlexRRR]

Now going back on the posts I note my brother comments about me not being fair. I love the fried donuts with the toffee coating from the Thasak Markets. Every time he gets them he sends a picture and says how nice they are, is that fair??

Here is some more that my dear one went out and bought for you this morning so you would have something to munch on

during your trip to Ubon Ratchithani.

She dont like you RON, not look healthy

[AlexRRR]

Hi Ron19,

Not one of those photos, but same same.

Bennell will make a big difference when he is on the park for them.

add cam mccarthy 2017 and hogan in 2018 and they look okay

They can't wait that long young fella, they need some forwards NOW

[Ron19]

Now going back on the posts I note my brother comments about me not being fair. I love the fried donuts with the toffee coating from the Thasak Markets. Every time he gets them he sends a picture and says how nice they are, is that fair??

Here is some more that my dear one went out and bought for you this morning so you would have something to munch on

during your trip to Ubon Ratchithani.

She dont like you RON, not look healthy

You may be right although she ate two herself and left one for me.

[Will27]

Well gang, another tough round for us to tip.

WC v Richmond - hard for me to get a line on WC at the minute.

Only beaten Freo and Brisbane who are both winless.

Richmond have won their last 3 in Perth. They've been murdered

in the press this week. Time for them to make a statement?

Hawks v St's - The Hawks have set themselves for the last 2 games.

They might be 5% off and the St's are full of confidence. Could we see

an upset here?

Ade v Syd is the game of the round. Ade's forward line looks too strong

for Syd but the Swans, led by Parker are in supreme nick. Toss of the coin

for me.

GWS should beat Port in Canberra but Port could provide some nuisance value.

Coll V Melbourne - a real tough one. Like Richmond, the Pies have been pilloried in the press.

Win this and they can get the season back on track as their next 3 games are against Essendon,

Lions and Carlton. Melbourne looked good last week and were a bit unlucky to lose.

One last chance for the Pies?

North v- Freo - The unbeaten North versus the winless Dockers. On paper it looks like mission impossible.

Sandilands a huge out for Freo along with their skipper Barramundi.

North have a history of dropping games they shouldn't. Will it continue or will they go 4 nil up?

All the breast fellas.

[Will27]

Guys

Looking through the fixtures, Essendon have a Thursday night game against WC and a Friday night

game against the Hawks. Would it be prudent for the AFL to change the fixturing?

On June 10, they could swap the Hawks/Ess game with Geelong/North. On the bye round, they could

swap WC/Ess with Syd/WB.

That's not even taking into account next weeks ANZAC fixture.

It would be a bit of a hassle but surely we can't have Essendon being involved ön the big stage for another

2 rounds?

Thoughts?

[joboss]

Be interesting to see what FJ has picked as he says he placed his picks for first five weeks before his work related exile in the Philippines.

In 2007 I had was one of my best tipping performances when I did the whole year before round one, by heading up three pennies and heads were home and tails away.

[BookMan]

Well gang, another tough round for us to tip.

WC v Richmond - hard for me to get a line on WC at the minute.

Only beaten Freo and Brisbane who are both winless.

Richmond have won their last 3 in Perth. They've been murdered

in the press this week. Time for them to make a statement?

Hawks v St's - The Hawks have set themselves for the last 2 games.

They might be 5% off and the St's are full of confidence. Could we see

an upset here?

Ade v Syd is the game of the round. Ade's forward line looks too strong

for Syd but the Swans, led by Parker are in supreme nick. Toss of the coin

for me.

GWS should beat Port in Canberra but Port could provide some nuisance value.

Coll V Melbourne - a real tough one. Like Richmond, the Pies have been pilloried in the press.

Win this and they can get the season back on track as their next 3 games are against Essendon,

Lions and Carlton. Melbourne looked good last week and were a bit unlucky to lose.

One last chance for the Pies?

North v- Freo - The unbeaten North versus the winless Dockers. On paper it looks like mission impossible.

Sandilands a huge out for Freo along with their skipper Barramundi.

North have a history of dropping games they shouldn't. Will it continue or will they go 4 nil up?

All the breast fellas.

North will have no problem kicking goals.. but they almost lost to Melbourne last week, so can tehri defence stand up against Freo...oh hang on.. Freo has no forward line

GWS over port for me.. These are the games GWS need to win

Collingwood v Melbourne... On last weeks performance I'd be favoring Melbourne..

Adelaide v Sydney...tough game here...a real test for Sydney's new look back line... Sydney's midfield shoud dominate and supply enough inside 50s for Sdney to win

West Coast to hammer Richmond

[BookMan]

Guys

Looking through the fixtures, Essendon have a Thursday night game against WC and a Friday night

game against the Hawks. Would it be prudent for the AFL to change the fixturing?

On June 10, they could swap the Hawks/Ess game with Geelong/North. On the bye round, they could

swap WC/Ess with Syd/WB.

That's not even taking into account next weeks ANZAC fixture.

It would be a bit of a hassle but surely we can't have Essendon being involved ön the big stage for another

2 rounds?

Thoughts?

I can't see them changing things...Wasn't it Carlton who had 6 Friday night games last year?

Essendon could pull off an upset with WC

[joboss]

Truffles waxing lyrical to the Chinese about AFL

https://twitter.com/AFL/status/720461642023243776

[Ron19]

A nephew ( standing in the middle ) with Eagles players at Auskick clinic at East Fremantle

Edited April 14, 2016 by Ron19

[Thechook]

Well gang, another tough round for us to tip.

WC v Richmond - hard for me to get a line on WC at the minute.

Only beaten Freo and Brisbane who are both winless.

Richmond have won their last 3 in Perth. They've been murdered

in the press this week. Time for them to make a statement?

Hawks v St's - The Hawks have set themselves for the last 2 games.

They might be 5% off and the St's are full of confidence. Could we see

an upset here?

Ade v Syd is the game of the round. Ade's forward line looks too strong

for Syd but the Swans, led by Parker are in supreme nick. Toss of the coin

for me.

GWS should beat Port in Canberra but Port could provide some nuisance value.

Coll V Melbourne - a real tough one. Like Richmond, the Pies have been pilloried in the press.

Win this and they can get the season back on track as their next 3 games are against Essendon,

Lions and Carlton. Melbourne looked good last week and were a bit unlucky to lose.

One last chance for the Pies?

North v- Freo - The unbeaten North versus the winless Dockers. On paper it looks like mission impossible.

Sandilands a huge out for Freo along with their skipper Barramundi.

North have a history of dropping games they shouldn't. Will it continue or will they go 4 nil up?

All the breast fellas.

My hard choices are Swans - Crows (swans) Pies - Demons (pies)