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My parents were in the South Melbourne Salvation Army. We didn't go into those establishments. I take it you are joking.

I don't know if logic is part of coaching but you basically advanced two arguments. The first is that only coaches know about coaching so you argue from authority and second that anyone who disagrees with you is an expletive idiot - an ad hominem. I wont even go into the circular argument about...

Courts almost never order specific performance on an employment contract where one party in this case the employee terminates the contract. Only in unfair dismissal (a statutory remedy) or prohibited reasons dismissal (statutory). Are you seriously suggesting a court would order an employee to...

That's a really good stat for a ruckman. Sounds like his rovers were getting thrashed by the opposition. Its what we need is a big ruckman clearing out physically the opposition at the stoppages. He's certainly big enough.

I think it was because Reid jumped into Grundy and sometimes beat him to the tap. Which also underscores just how good Reid's game was. . Sinclair cant jump at the moment particularly at the ball ups. He has battled on manfully. Thank goodness we have a big young bloke coming in to help him out.

Reasonable summation. You are kicking metaphors through the middle from sixty metres out on the boundary into a howling gale.

I am also an old Western Suburbs Magpies follower. It died for me when we took on the basket weavers from Balmain. The Souths mob are the closest club to a Melbourne tribal crowd. The Chooks? Spare me.

I have followed the Bloods in both cities. In Sydney sport is entertainment. In Melbourne its life.

The difference for me is summed up in the old crims estimate of the two cities. You go to Sydney for the dough - Melbourne for the mates.

It was very good coaching. Credit where its due. And particularly to Clarke. A player who is resurrecting his career with guts and determination. Impressive.

You probably didn't realise it but you were actually in New Zealand

Not since Alan Killagrew have we seen such emotional generalship from the boundary. Amazing transformation.

Fair enough. Reid nearly won us the game off his own boot. I don't think Reid was given silver service by our battling midfield. At the risk of inciting another uproar Pendles (if that's what we call him) is an outside mid. My own view of him is he is a skilful potentially very damaging outside...

Melbourne supporters are notoriously fickle. They had half of Melbourne following them in the late fifties. On a rough population projection with intergenerational tribal loyalty like a great club such as South they should have two and half million supporters today.

He wasn't even best on the ground. By your own sentence "influential" is not "dominate". I agree he was influential. The two words are exclusive not conjunctive. By definition (that old fuddy duddy English language again) a player who isn't best on the ground cant dominate a game. He didn't...

Really? I try and use the English language with some precision. He didn't dominate. A lot of his possessions were under pressure. My definition of domination is actually the accepted one in the English language - "be the most important or conspicuous person or thing in." That he was not. He...

Big men mature late. We recruited the great Frank Johnstone as a ruckman from Port at the age of 29.

I am 70 and I will take that chance. Blake Caracella

You can lead a Horse to water but you cant make him drink. Employment contracts are worth SFA really. People walk out on them.

An employment contract in elite sport can't compel performance. It can only provide a penalty in the breach. We are talking about people plying their trade not Roman galley slaves.

He is only in purgatory. Final judgement awaits. Let us all pray

I don't condone violence but certainly has a mitigation plea on sentencing for provocation

Treloar put a lot of junk ball up in the air and Pendelbury didn't dominate. There was real pressure on them which is enough against really good mids.

The future coach of North put two tags on the Pendelbury and Sidebottom and it went ok so why not again?

There is a God

Your club was known as the Handbags so it really doesn't matter

Could be a very similar to the Bont. Very hard to out mark and very dangerous going forward from the centre

I agree we can attract the decent. But the super stars? North are threatening million dollar contract offers. They have been below the salary cap for years. They were always a club that depended on the money to attract players. Buckley is a new regime and maybe they believe Longmire can attract...

Its not the Country Party here cowboy. We do have a Ladies Auxiliary

They hold the dollars. Their President was boasting at their presser that they are cashed up. Scott whinged about not having high draft picks because his record of mediocrity had them always placed mid table. They desperately need a big name player or two. They must have plans to entice a Kelly...