Recent content by skilts

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...