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[Siamese Cat]

Des Headland has joined luminaries such as Glenn Lazarus and Dougie Hawkins in running for a seat in WA on behalf Clive Palmer and his merry band of whack jobs.

Priceless .... I'm from Perth and the water tastes like shit. There's definitely something in it, hence support for Clive Palmer and the existence of monstrosities like Gina Reinhardt.


We can do this.

 

[The_Reaper]

Priceless .... I'm from Perth and the water tastes like shit. There's definitely something in it, hence support for Clive Palmer and the existence of monstrosities like Gina Reinhardt.


We can do this.

There is bugger all support for Palmer over here.

 

[Siamese Cat]

There is bugger all support for Palmer over here.

Finally! People have stopped drinking bore water.


We can do this.

 

[basashi]

Grand Final sprints have been held from 1979 to 1987 and from 2002 to the present.

According to Wikipedia, no one knows who won the 1986 race.

 

[FootyJunkie]

Finally! People have stopped drinking bore water.

It's all over the pavement in Perth.

 

[Ashton Agar]

Did you know that Buddy chose Sydney?

 

[basashi]

From 1938 to 1949 in the VFA you were allowed to throw the ball, as long as you moved both hands together and raised neither above shoulder height.

Here is a link to an article in 1947 where the boss of the VFA said that the throw would stay forever:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/22450216

Two years later, you had to handpass the ball again.

I would give my lefty to watch a video replay of a game in that era.... Aussie rules played all over Melbourne for 11 seasons - when rugby style flick passes were allowed!

It must have been greased lightning.

Indeed, Mr Snook in the article maintains that it was the reason for the growing popularity of the VFA in that era.

 

[Gydafud]

With their loss on Saturday, Fremantle has joined an illustrious club of "Teams that lose their inaugural Grand Final". It is now 9 to 8 in favour of the losers for Grand Final debutantes.

Teams that Lost their first GF
Essendon
South Melbourne/Sydney
Collingwood
Carlton
St Kilda
Richmond
North Melbourne
West Coast
Fremantle

Teams that Won their first GF
Fitzroy
Melbourne
Geelong
Hawthorn
Footscray/Bulldogs
Adelaide
Port Adelaide
Brisbane Lions

 

[La Vache]

Brent Guerra retires after 255 games, 14 seasons at 3 clubs.

In 15 matches against Carlton he has a record of 15 wins, 0 losses.

 

[TheLoungeLizard]

Brent Guerra retires after 255 games, 14 seasons at 3 clubs.

In 15 matches against Carlton he has a record of 15 wins, 0 losses.

Can we draft him for round 1 and the finals?

 

[Shane Hird]

bump

 

[Sttew]

Did you know there is a morgue underneath the MCG? Yes, I was told this on a tour of the MCG a few years ago and this little known fact has stayed with me.

 

[Shane Hird]

Did you know there is a morgue underneath the MCG? Yes, I was told this on a tour of the MCG a few years ago and this little known fact has stayed with me.

This is all I could find...




We went to a cricket test match. The ground is so huge you can be nigh on certain to be able to buy a ticket on the day and just walk in - which is good. If Australia are doing badly or the match is a dull one then the locals stay away and the MCG becomes a cavernous morgue with an atmosphere to match.
http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/ShowU...rne_Cricket_Ground_MCG-Melbourne_Victori.html

 

[jakson68]

Did you know that Cyril Rioli plays great football.
Its just unfortunate that it only happens three times a year and in 5 minute intervals.

 

[jakson68]

That when it snows,
My eyes become large and
The light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray.

LOL, gold

 

[Shane Hird]

Did you know that Cyril Rioli plays great football.
Its just unfortunate that it only happens three times a year and in 5 minute intervals.

And has to to added that he also makes Bruce twitch in private places...

 

[Shane Hird]

1. No player having a surname beginning with the letter U or X has played in a premiership side. In the case of the letter X, this is perhaps not as surprising as it might have been, given that none of the 12,232 VFL/AFL players to date has had a surname beginning with that letter. There have been 21 "U" players, but none have tasted premiership success.

2. The most common grand final margins are 1, 4, 5, 9, 33 and 35 points, with each having been recorded four times. There have been three drawn grand finals, and three each with margins of 6, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 39 and 53 points. Under the six-goal mark, no grand finals have been decided by margins of 8, 16, 21, 22, 23, or 34.

3. The highest score recorded in a grand final is 177 by Carlton in its win over Richmond in 1972. The Tigers' losing total that day, 150, would have been enough to win any other grand final from 1897 to 1979. Richmond's 1.7 (13) against Collingwood in 1927 is the lowest grand final score, just behind the Magpies' 2.2 (14) kicked against Melbourne in 1960.

4. 68, 85 and 89 are the most common grand final scores, each having been registered seven times; 68 was a successful score once, with 85 and 89 a winning total on three occasions.

5. John Longmire broke one of footy's longest droughts on grand final day last year, becoming the first coach with a surname beginning with the letter L to win a premiership. Fremantle coach Ross Lyon will be looking to make it two in two years. Perhaps the Lions were onto something in appointing Justin Leppitsch as their coach.

6. A reassurance for non-Collingwood fans who still can't come to terms with the fact that the Magpies broke their premiership drought in 1990 is the fact that the club still has not won on the last Saturday in September since 1958. Earlier drawn finals meant that the Pies' 1990 flag was won on October 6, while their 2010 win came on October 2.

7. Essendon's longest premiership drought was bookended by grand final wins in which the Bombers registered exactly the same score. The Dons won the 1965 flag by kicking 14.21 (105) to St Kilda's 9.16 (70) and their next flag, in 1984, came when they registered 14.21 (105) against Hawthorn's 12.9 (81).

8. It won't surprise many to discover that Smith is the most common surname in VFL/AFL history, with 119 players of that surname having taken the field. But when it comes to winning premierships, the Smiths run a distant fourth behind Johnsons, Collins and Browns. While 51 Johnsons have played the game at the highest level, 14 of them have won premierships, while 13 of 65 Browns have achieved the ultimate, as have 11 out of just 36 players with the surname Collins. Only nine Smiths have achieved premiership glory.

9. If Fremantle gets up to win the 2013 flag, a record set in the 1960s will be equalled. The 1963-1968 premiership teams were coached to victory by six different first names: Bob (Davis), Norm (Smith), John (Coleman), Allan (Jeans), Tom (Hafey) and Ron (Barassi). A Dockers win would see that record matched with Alastair (Clarkson), Mark (Thompson), Mick (Malthouse), Chris (Scott), John (Longmire) and Ross (Lyon).



10. Omen punters might be well advised to note that Hawthorn has never lost a grand final against a team beginning with the letter "F". The Hawks took out their first flag by beating Footscray by 43 points in the 1961 premiership decider

 

[00Stinger]

Carlton holds the record for most consecutive quarters with at least a score - 2094 quarters, stretching from 1968 until 1990. However, the game that they finally overtook this prolific scoring record from Collingwood was ironically the lowest scoring game for fifty years (Carlton 3.13.31 d, Geelong 2.12.24)

 

[tribey]

Not as amazing, but reminds me of Josh Carr, 10-0 wins against the Crows.

That's more amazing, because Guerra's career has sen him always playing for good to dominant teams.

Poor Carr had to play for the bunch of purple pansies.

10-0 in Showdowns, which is just astonishing given their nature and the old cliche of 'throw form out the window, they're 50-50'.

3-4 for Fremantle vs. Adelaide.

 

[Balance]

10-0 in Showdowns, which is just astonishing given their nature and the old cliche of 'throw form out the window, they're 50-50'.

3-4 for Fremantle vs. Adelaide.

That's right, surprised no one corrected me on that until now. Still very good.

 

[crazywildhorse]

Did you know there is a morgue underneath the MCG? Yes, I was told this on a tour of the MCG a few years ago and this little known fact has stayed with me.

Apparently there was a morgue in the old Olympic stand.

 

[Sttew]

Apparently there was a morgue in the old Olympic stand.

Must have been a condition for getting the Olympic Games, maybe they were expecting mass bloodshed with the Russians and Hungarian teams.

 

[crazywildhorse]

Must have been a condition for getting the Olympic Games, maybe they were expecting mass bloodshed with the Russians and Hungarian teams.

I nearly spat my tea out when I read that. I've never heard someone outside my family bring this up. I am half Hungarian, and from all the descriptions that my Grandfather regularly provided, I wouldn't have discounted such a scenario.

 

[canussie]

Fred Fanning kicked the record 18 goals in a match in his last game of VFL football.

Even funnier is that he left to play for Hamilton Football club in the Western Wimmera Football League as they tripled his salary

That's crazy

I believe this also led to the creation of Hamilton Imperials, whose club rooms were directly across the ground from Hamiltons.

 

[Dirty Bird]

Must have been a condition for getting the Olympic Games, maybe they were expecting mass bloodshed with the Russians and Hungarian teams.

I hope the morgue isn't too far away from the swimming centre.
With what happened there in 1956, the swimming centre may have needed it's own morgue.