How did Wesley LeGrand go?

First week of finals
The 4 ''''home teams''' were
CO beat ML
CA beat SS:
SK lose GW
BL beat PA

The one team that lost was SK
SK played at the MCG
They had a home state final but not a home ground advantage at MarvAL

MorALly this is wrong
They squeeze more into the MCG than MArveL, thats fine for the AFL who most prob make extra $$$$
Crowd was 68, 465
But is it fair for the players of SK ? Wait until you play "home" finals at the opposition's home ground

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Like we just had to :evil:

DOC wrote:It is quite obvious.

Given Maynard was in the air, Brayshaw having already kicked the ball had a duty of care to "catch" Maynard.

Brayshaw should get 3 for tunnelling

Has Rioli got photos of these umpires?

Another gift from the umpires

Last weeks banner was slightly off the money

Lucky they re-signed Ken so they could concentrate on finals.
Severely flogged both games

Boak deserves another year more than most others
Never gave up all night

Lost at the selection table, but Ken and the fans will still defend the decisions.

The club seriously needs and outside influence to come in and change things up. Lol, I'm pretty drunk but that's all in your head. Port fans care calling for blood at the moment and have desisted about 10 players themselves.

:lol: that even reads drunk

Wedgie wrote:Anyone seen a better rate for Paramount Plus than $89.99 pa?
I'm sure I've seen it somewhere cheaper but can't remember where and I'm up for renewel soon.

I haven't

Have you got one of those coupon extensions for Google?
I get discounts all the time with them
https://www.joinhoney.com/

Port imploding

Got my tickets to the GF if Collingwood get through

Wedgie wrote:

Jimmy_041 wrote:Got my tickets to the GF if Collingwood get through

I have tickets if Geelong get through!

I got mine from a Geelong mate so I reckon you're gone

Lightning McQueen wrote:

MW wrote:Taylor Adams officially out of the GF with hamstring awareness.

Resting him for the following week?

We've got a history with drawn GFs

I know that there is some data to the effect that there are far less clubs falling over post salary cap than pre salary cap, but not sure to what extent this is correlation as opposed to causation.

and contrary to popular belief, it was first proposed by country leagues because payments were getting out of hand

Gaza score today

$3,392

I know that there is some data to the effect that there are far less clubs falling over post salary cap than pre salary cap, but not sure to what extent this is correlation as opposed to causation.

Only in my opinion, however I also suspect an unspoken reason why salary caps are in place is to also keep the tax department at bay. I do find it interesting how blokes can knowingly can get paid $9-10k in traceable funds a year on top of their current earnings and not pay a cent in tax (In some cases much more as coach ect) - If that goes too big then you are giving the tax department a real good reason to get involved. Also, if you get too big you can leave yourself wide open to more interesting activities as we have seen in some cases with grass roots soccer across the country.

Interesting discussion this

I was talking with an AdFL umpire at the pub and he said he gets taxed on his payment yet others say they dont.
My understanding was hobbies weren't taxable until the ATO deems them to no longer be a hobby (ie) you are earning regular good money. You also cant claim deductions (which is fair enough)
Anyone know for sure?

PatowalongaPirate wrote:

Booney wrote:Anyone fancy mowing my lawns this arvo?

I can craft a pretty good GFC logo in the middle.

119 would be better

FB marketplace and gumtree. So many scammers trying to buy things.
Whatever happened to paying cash for this stuff? every c..nt asking for my payID or paypal.

My favourite recently selling a full set of golf clubs with bag:
"Where are you located?"
"I am in xxxx (south of Adelaide)"
"that is lucky for me, I am in Penrith. Can you please speak with Australiapost to have it sent to me"

ffs

Well technically, he is closer to you than Sydney.........

Sorry to be a pain

Can you please change the name: Jimmy 2 to Hellboy Coopers

Mrs Jimmy is doing it

Dedja back and living up to his signature

locky801 wrote:Looking for recommendations

Looking for a decent company or tradie to do some general repairs and painting of my pool decking which is in need of a facelift

Any one got any one they can recommend

Jack Dent
"Jack of All Trades"
0419772008

Does all our work - ripper bloke

locky801 wrote:

Spargo wrote:That public drunkenness is no longer a crime in Melbourne, taking effect as of today - Cup Day

Few decades behind the times it seems

Should cut the Court's waiting time in half

A good night out

Drunk & Disorderly
Resisting Arrest
Abusive Language

It's not easy to do

Have a look at PAOC last year
They were a bees knacker away from getting relegated & ended up in the GF
It wasn't for the lack of trying to find replacements. We just couldn't
Very difficult to replace 140 goals - we were 550 points down in attack from the previous year
They got Barto back for the 2nd half which made a difference - he was our top goal kicker :shock:

This year we have 2 new players + 115 goals

One slip and you're gone in the top 2 divisions ala Goodwood

3 minute Telephone doctors appointment this morning re getting a prescription

Just got billed $92.70 no wonder everyone goes to hospitals that is simply robbery :evil:

No shit, same thing today, $62.80 to find out my lad's xray results. I know I'll get $42.80 back but seriously.....and the Doc called 3 hours late.

This is the real reason of ramping, not the lack of paramedcis/ambulances etc (although they are real problems to). Make GP's affordable/accessible and hospitals would be less inundated with "minor" issues.

I have always said the way to fix ramping is charge doctors rates to visit.
But no government has the balls to properly address the problem

Thanks guys

Gees it was a difficult week to punt!

After the way Optus treated my aunt after my uncle passed away a couple of years ago, I would never go back to them.

She went to cancel his service following his passing. Their first response was that he had to contact them to cancel the cover. After they dragged the chain on the cancellation for months, the TIO got involved. Once the complaint was resolved and his phone service finally cancelled, they asked my aunt if he'd be interested in a new phone plan!
That is bad.

But that’s on an individual not the actual company

If it was just one employee, then yep I'd get that.

But the whole process took about 6 months for them do a simple cancellation of a deceased estate - involving multiple agents. Not to mention their complaints team actually thought it was acceptable to sell a mobile phone to a dead person.

I think Facebook did something like this
"You need to organise for the deceased person to delist the page"

Yes to Bass but the other clubs have now worked out how to beat it

It wasn't Rawlings' game plan that won that one. Quite the opposite. Change or you're not here next year.
Then we win it so he goes back this year to try to prove his game plan does work

Buckley did the same (although he missed the premiership). They cant help themselves. Maximum hubris


That was easier than shooting fish in a barrel. :lol:

Bass will be the head coach before the end of next season, let’s see if he’ll change anything from that ultra defensive game plan that, as you say, everyone worked out years ago.

Maybe I need to create a separate Norwood whinging thread. 8)

It's just that we like to win premierships........... :P

another grub wrote:what did Richard Wilkins get arrested for?

Bitcoin

The problem with politics has been years in the making, and isn’t confined to State or even Federal political parties, it’s manifested itself throughout democratic countries. SA has some unique quirks though.

There are few politicians will real conviction anymore; popularism is king.

Shit, I despised a lot of Howard’s policies, but at least he had some conviction. Same for Hawke, Keating and Whitlam. Fraser seemed to have that quality after he left parliament. We’ve had muppets since.

In SA, you had Hall and Dunstan. Imagine any political party today who could only get re-elected by virtue of an obscene gerrymander, but then have a leader who instigated reforms to remove it. That’s what Steele Hall did.

As we moved from the 70’s into the 80’s, there was the blip called David Tonkin, then the Bannon years. Yes, it ended in disaster, be he was unassuming and also someone of substance. Arnold was given the ruins and had no hope of holding power, so the longest period of Liberals in power began (since Playford), lasting just over 8 years. Brown was a genuine and decent leader, but rolled by the entitled Olsen, who was targeted from within and eventually self imploded. Kerin then picked up the mess to run it out until the Rann, and then Weatherill years.

This is where Labor honed their ‘electoral maximisation skills’. They skilfully targeted marginal seats at the expense of all the safe seats to cling onto power for 16 long years. Rann was a Dunstan wanna be, and Weatherill was just an opportunist.

What did the Liberals do during these 16 long years? Court the electorate? Provide a serious alternative? Nope, they spent most of their energy on a civil war that started in the 60’s. 2 generations of Halls, Chapmans, Evans, then throw in a Wilson and DeGaris, formed the basis of the warring factions. The ashes of these wars are still smouldering today.

Marshall was the Liberal’s attempt to move on from the factions, but he was hopeless, and an easy prey from a well oiled Labor electoral machine. Enter Malinauskas, a genuine popularist who cleverly touted his youth. Having his rig displayed for all at a pool certain helped.

The Liberals are trying to move on from all that past, but have no idea how to do it. Labor, if there is anything you can say about them, are disciplined and are a machine when it comes to engaging in electoral warfare. I’m not sure the next Liberal Premier is even in parliament yet.

So, in my opinion, this is why you have what you have today in SA politics, and it’s depressing.

A very good summary other than the Labor gerrymander during the Rann / Weatherill years which Labor blamed on Steele Hall!
I know Labor thought Marshall would get a 2nd term due to the pandemic but the people suddenly turned against him because they wanted the government to take charge back again.

Then add in the worst election campaign in history. J. Christ Esq wouldn't have got elected on that campaign. Labor's campaign was targeted and effective despite the mis / disinformation which the Liberals were totally ineffective in countering. They thought they were going to romp it in

Imagine doing a quick google search to check something before posting. Oh, the humanity!! <swoons>

Not sure what the fuss is about re Tredders anyway. If he's elected, he still won't be the dumbest former AFL footballer on the board of an Adelaide-based AFL club.

Much more fun lobbing hand grenades and sitting back and watching

Well, until someone else does it and then its fun proving them wrong with carefully assembled facts :-B

$3,737

I cant see A Jarman in the list unless he's anonymous

Jeez, leave the kiddies alone for a few hours and straight into the gutter they go! #-o

Do you call it Devon LM? :lol:

I was in Woolworths the other night trying to get some stuff from the deli
There was this stuff called Devon there.
I asked the girl what it was.
She gave me a bit to try (just like the old days at the butchers)
I said "Nah; not as good as fritz"
I'm not sure she understood

dedja wrote:Yep, clutching at straws it seems.

Probably good that they’re both in custody (apart from the obvious reason) as it would be an awkward convo between them about her throwing him under the bus.

Must have Georgina McGuinness managing their PR..........

Given many of them are good mates you'd think they'd sacrifice the money for the opportunity to play together.

Lycett just finished a 5 x 600k deal, should be ok.

That's the thing a few people miss, playing with mates, and the chance to win a flag as well.

Correct: If you keep thinking you have to buy a premiership then you will keep buying + keep getting the mercenaries who only play for money & stay a year or two and give nothing back.

You will also continue to ask "how do they fit them under the salary cap?"

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Bum Crack wrote:

dedja wrote:Look up

didn't see that

I seen it, was just a tad scared to click on a link that dedja posted

One of those Glenelg FC home movies?

Davey is digging in and doing a marvellous job against top rate bowling attack & in very difficult conditions on Day 1
This will go down in (his) history as one of the finest knocks in Test history

However, I do expect the difficult conditions will take a toll on him and expect him to go down with severe body cramping etc once he hits 100 and then again on 200.

Legendary stuff by Australia's greatest, and dearest, cricketer.............

Deserves a statue outside every stadium

Wednesday so banh mi

Bring back the Truth and Heart Balm

All is forgiven

locky801 wrote:Cheese Kransky sub with sautéed onion and bacon topped with mustard

fart

I do like a chilli Kransky - best ones are at ROCS ground
I think Churchills make them especially for them

Geez what sort of roll is the Power Captain on.

Gets engaged
Gets made Captain
Gets a huge contract worth who knows
Now about to become a dad

Been a big month or two for the lad, deserves it all as well

Way he is going is a premiership on the way ;)

Plenty of time to work that one into the resume (He'll need it)

Ridiculous & illegal money still being thrown around

$2,000 per game

Are these offers coming from AdlFl clubs? I hear about them from/of players in country leagues. Where; mostly I suspect they've added a bit of mayo to get more from an Adelaide based club, but this is surprising given the recent Gaza happenings.

Country (but that includes suburban - not AdFL)

Trader wrote:I should probably jump into this thread as well.

About 5 years ago I went from 115 to 82, and settled around 85, which I was happy with.
Well, over spring I shot up to high 90s and the Xmas/NY period has seen me hit 101.

Time to take it seriously again.

Too many free Cokes in Vegas?

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Spargo wrote:I can still remember when “spoofing” meant something else…

To be fair, Jimmy probably has “spoofed” once or twice while using his phone.

To be fair, Mrs Jimmy said the same thing when I told her she was being "spoofed" on her phone

First 14 days - down 4 kgs

well done 041

whats your routine re: eating / exercise etc ?

New nickname: Jimmy Four Kegs

Option C: all of the above

No bad carbs like bread, pasta and rice
Trying to keep close to 18/6 fasting
Bigger lunches (usually BBQ meat & halloumi) / much smaller dinners
Still drinking low carb cider and red wine + 8-12 litres of water / day
Gym - weights plus x-trainer 3-4 days @ 30 - 60 minutes (depending on how bored I am at the time)
60 minute walk every night with Mrs Jimmy & dogs

Kahuna wrote:What is 18/6 fasting?

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/in ... ting-guide

I did it last year and dropped 6kgs in 8 weeks

Not wearing a hat or cap all those years ago playing cricket

More melanomas taken out the scalp today, 16 stitches, gunna be a painful weekend :evil: :evil:

Got my appointment with Sundoctors this afternoon
Nothing major in the past 5 years - mainly nitrogen touch ups
The old nurse giving me a lecture about having a suntan is the worst part

Nitro'd a couple of (same) spots but that's it for another year
In and out in 15 minutes

Seriously everyone - get an annual check
They keep photo records so they can compare
You have to pay a $70 gap with Sun Doctors but you dont have to wait weeks / months

https://sundoctors.com.au/

locky801 wrote:When you smash your prescription reading glasses on a Sunday and have to pick up cheap pair from the chemist and everything on screen is blurry

Really gives me the $hits when you have a $5 pair for a year with no problems
Spend $500 and they attract adverse incidents
Like buying a new car

Week 3
Down another 1 kg which means 5 in total
Lost 3" of my waist - I am in the weights room as well so suspect that is affecting weight loss

Lightning McQueen wrote:Divorce being submitted, it’s been a touchy subject as I told the ex on January 1 that we need to get it all sorted ASAP.

I now have peace of mind should anything happen to me or I win x-lotto

I'll hold our winnings whilst you get it finished

Even though I check "Log me in automatically...." it doesn't. I get logged out (I'd say) hourly?

Delete any cookies or website data for the site.
And stop looking at "those" sites. Incognito doesn’t stop the viruses :D

Work computer, so that isn't likely! ;-)
Yeah sure. :)
Reminds me of a time when I was working late at a winery, left my computer on to do some outside jobs & the cleaner came in but didn't realise anyone was still there. Caught him wet handed.

EFA