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I agree - it’s a very over-rated term.

Basketball’s last great boom was in the 1980’s to 1990’s, when Melbourne alone had 4 professional teams, compared to just 2 today. But after thé boom faded, thé AFL had a great influx of players “with a basketball background” - for so many junior baseball players aspiring g to a professional...

Depends on the money on offer - keep in mind the SA Govt are paying the AFL $80 million for the rights to host Gather Round.

You THINK …lol. … is any video evidence to support this doubtful claim that dates way back to the previous century? Being literally from the previous century as the only possible example you can think of, it proves the point that Pendlebury would never get a week as no other player in...

Haha - so the media interviewed the player - like that hasn’t happened before. Really clutching desperately at straws now. Still awaiting an answer to my oft repeated question here, so. I’ll try for the fifth time - Has a suspension for an open-palm tummy slap ever happened before? Ever? No?

The reference I made was very specific to NRL copying Australian Football in State of Origin rules for rep games (as I’m sure you knew). But seeing as you introduced any old old interstate rep games not played under state of origin selection rules, referring to an 1908 NSW v QLD game, then even...

That wasn’t State of Origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Origin “A State of Origin competition is a type of sporting event between players representing their state or territory. State of Origin began in Australian rules football on 8 October 1977 between Western Australia (WA) and...

It was never State Of Origin though.

You’re most probably right … I wonder if there’s something in the fine print in the Gather Round contract to keep prices low to encourage the maximum amount of footy tourists, in return for the AFL getting the big bucket of SA Gov’t money.

Yes, lest we forget … in exactly the same way NRL fans always appreciate that State Of Origin selection originated with our Australian Football in 1977.

True … but the $80 million being paid by the SA state government will help the AFL coffers just a bit.

In the 1990s, Alabama's popularity inevitably declined somewhat - as how could one possibly land another 27 # 1 hits in a decade. However, unlike most of the major country artists of the 1980’s, whose careers nosedived due to changing tastes, especially the rise of the neo-traditionalists, then...

So I aak for an example of an open handed slap leading to a suspension and you reply with a video of Barry Hall’s clenched fist punch to Matty Maguire’s gut. :think: Seems we have no history at all of any open hand slaps to the tummy resulting in a suspension.

Still awaiting an answer. I’ll try for the third time. Has a suspension for an open-palm tummy slap ever happened before? Ever? No?

The Tassie Devils will be so hugely successful, they will also buy ownership of these new clubs?

I’ll ask this question again, seeing as no-one has answered it yet - When is the last time a player was suspended for an open-palm slap to the tummy?

For 15 years, starting in 1982, Alabama began sponsoring the June Jam, a music festival staged in their home town of Fort Payne, in the Appalachian corner of N.E. Alabama, close to the Tennessee border. Headlined by the group, this event drew as many as 60,000 fans at a time to the small town...

Look at the vision - it was clearly an open-palmed slap, not a punch.

Trying to recall the last time an open-palmed slap to the tummy led to a suspension. Anyone here know? Caldwell only got a fine for his closed-fist punch to N. Daicos - https://www.afl.com.au/news/913039/match-review-essendon-bomber-jye-caldwell-learns-fate-for-nick-daicos-strike-on-anzac-day

From 1982 until 1984, Alabama won the CMA’s most prestigious award, the Entertainer of the Year. Alabama’s run as a dominant force in the music industry constantly saw chart-topping hit after another without fail. As we have seen, Alabama’s early work was much a mix of mountain harmonies...

The A-League keeps struggling along … barely - https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/drama-as-aleague-broadcaster-global-advance-goes-broke/news-story/309c9031ca953d58cf4db0ab2ce0feb0 “… Global Advance’s demise is the latest blow for the APL, which has lost millions of dollars this season...

Well, TBF, the Armidale, NSW born and raised Wilkie has expressed his support on multiple occasions for a brand new tax payer funded swanky new Hobart stadium in a prime location …. … only he demands it be a rectangular stadium to host soccer, NRL and rugby codes, while he insists the AFL make...

Clean through most of the 1980s, Alabama established itself as more than just some country band named after its home state. Thanks to their sudden and enormous rise in popularity, Alabama left Myrtle Beach’s Bowery venue after regularly performing there for about 7 years. At first, the cousins...

… but, in good news, I’m hearing major sponsors are being locked in already for the 2032 Budget Olympics, with Vinnies to be announced as the principal sponsor - they have undertaken to provide quality second hand furniture - a sofa - for the QSAC corporate box, while Cash Converters, The $2...

Unfortunately, the Labor Party have very strict internal rules against any MP crossing the floor to vote against the party position e.g. this happened in Victoria in 2022 - https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/alp-moves-to-expel-rogue-mp-kaushaliya-vaghela-20220214-p59wa0.html...

Time for more country music history as we head back once again to 1980. As we’ve already seen, in the late 1970’s and into the 1980’s, country groups had come to the fore, with the Southern Gospel inspired quartets, The Statler Brothers (posts # 949-952) and The Oak Ridge Boys (# 961-964) and...

So Rebecca White has just stood down as Labor Leader. This just might … maybe … hopefully … open the way for Tasmanian Labor to change their opposition to having a new stadium - especially when the Federal Labor Gov’t have committed to paying $240 million of the bill for it - almost a third of...

Oh, come on, that can’t be right …. Surely it’d be much more than just half!

The other thing to keep in mind is that even if Lambe maintains her personal opposition to the new stadium, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the newly elected members of her “Party” - who essentially are independents that got her endorsement to use the “Jacqui Lambie Party” name in the...

Neither do the umpires.