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Just looking at the results of the NRL trail games for NRL supercoach research and saw that Broncos vs Storm in Tassie drew almost 12 thousand people. Just wondering would it be a good idea for the NRL to stick it to the AFL and give Tassie their own team before the AFL does. Surely this would sting a bit for Demetrio.
 
My house has been invaded by relatives... a one month old baby and a four year old, plus two barking dogs amongst the throng... help, I'm losing it.
 
Watsclarkosmob said:
Just looking at the results of the NRL trail games for NRL supercoach research and saw that Broncos vs Storm in Tassie drew almost 12 thousand people. Just wondering would it be a good idea for the NRL to stick it to the AFL and give Tassie their own team before the AFL does. Surely this would sting a bit for Demetrio.
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I can't see a NRL game working in Tasmania purely on the fact relatively few are interested and there's basically no coverage. Considering, 12k is fantastic; however, I doubt this would be the case on a permanent basis. But another argument could be that Tasmania doesn't have an AFL team or and A-league so consequently it would get behind a NRL side. Nonetheless, thoughts of such a side would be a long, long way off.

It will be interesting to see if Melbourne or whoever eventually play a game or two in Hobart.
 
I laughed. A bigger moron you won't see around.

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grizzlym said:
I laughed. A bigger moron you won't see around.

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It didnt seem to want to let go either! Ouch...:D
 
Driving home tonight and just past Eastlink on Wellington Road and I get that strong smell of burning wood, like a big bushfire has or is occuring somewhere nearby?

I sure hope not, so far we have been lucky this bushfire season.
 
Grizz,

What was that one you posted a while back, about a midget Filipino private eye karate expert, ala blacksploitation-style?

I was telling a friend about it, but I forgot the name...
 
eldorado said:
Grizz,

What was that one you posted a while back, about a midget Filipino private eye karate expert, ala blacksploitation-style?

I was telling a friend about it, but I forgot the name...
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Ahhhhhh.... Weng Weng. With his CV he should have been President of that country...
 
go hawks!!! said:
Anyone else notice that HUN is now suscribers only.... Or is it just me?
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Yes and havent bothered checking the hun online since. stuff em. Same when they went that with The Australian. Plenty of other news services out there.
 
Tassieboy said:
They're deluded to think we will pay to view their garbage.
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Exactly, like someone said to me at work today when I raised it, simple solution, just read The Age - which is free of course.

I think HUN is a Murdoch paper, I remember hearing him speak in NYC a few years back, and he was bemused to see the WSJ was charging subscription online....until he saw the subscription revenue. Notice that
WSJ is not free....
 

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Difference being the WSJ is actually a quality paper and has a great online resource. Whereas the HUN is just crap.
 
grizzlym said:
Difference being the WSJ is actually a quality paper and has a great online resource. Whereas the HUN is just crap.
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Thank you for your insight kind sir:D

Actually the key driver to keeping WSJ was corporate subscription revenue. The question is how many corporates subscribe to HUN, I would say most subscribe to AFR, Age and perhaps Australian.... Not HUN, i guess if you want to know who Ricky Nixon threw out last night then HUN is the way. Oh well time will tell I won't read it
 
go hawks!!! said:
Thank you for your insight kind sir:D

Actually the key driver to keeping WSJ was corporate subscription revenue. The question is how many corporates subscribe to HUN, I would say most subscribe to AFR, Age and perhaps Australian.... Not HUN, i guess if you want to know who Ricky Nixon threw out last night then HUN is the way. Oh well time will tell I won't read it
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Stating the obvious is something I do so well. From my view, though, the Hun is offering nothing extra. And on top of that, their journalism is so base, so in the moment, it offers nothing from an archive point of view. As for opinions...

I have a real world subscriptions as well as online for The Age, Australian, HUN and BRW. The HUN I occasionally flick through while making a toasted sandwich, that's it.

Good luck to them but I find it humorous at the value they're putting on their mediocre content.
 
Have a read of this article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?pagewanted=1

Its a guy writing about why he left Goldman.

"I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work."

Anyone who has dealt with this firm will know what he is going on about. Believe it or not, Goldman has a significant role in the current European debt crisis.....

I found this article to be great reading, i'd say his life will be in danger afterwards though.
 
Love this.

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go hawks!!! said:
Have a read of this article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?pagewanted=1

Its a guy writing about why he left Goldman.
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Ahhhh, the vampire squid. The stories I have heard about them makes you believe every possible conspiracy theory regarding the capitalist machine in the US.

There are some great reads on them from a particular website which escapes me atm that likes to write about corruption in the financial markets. Nothing like customer service muppet-style!!
 
One of the more disturbing things I've seen in quite a while.

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On this, the 30th anniversary of the Falkland Islands conflict, the description by the great South American author Jorge Luis Borges comes to mind: "like two bald men fighting over a comb".
 
grizzlym said:
On this, the 30th anniversary of the Falkland Islands conflict, the description by the great South American author Jorge Luis Borges comes to mind: "like two bald men fighting over a comb".
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An unfinished war according to many Argentinians I know, and it was Thatcher's greatest victory.
 
This is brilliant.

Darlek relaxation Tape.

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