Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[raman]

If we play a Vic final, please let it be at the 'G.

 

[DonDynamite]

If we play a Vic final, please let it be at the 'G.

Against Richmond

 

[raman]

UFC 162

Wow... what a silly, silly boy.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Murray 2 sets to 0 up and 2-0 in the 3rd with the break. Lets see if he finally gets a Wimbeldon title for the poms/brits after 75 years or so. Or will Djokovic's superior fitness get him up in 5???

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Haha Murray lost his serve after being 2-0 up to make it 2-2. Djokovic holds his to go to 3-2 then breaks Murray easily for a 4-2 lead. Thinking is the choke on? But Murray does bloody well to break back and be 3-4 down but back on serve.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Murray held serve and back to 4-4.

9th game was a cracker. At 15 all Djokovic after a decent rally drove ball deep to Murray's back hand side, and advanced to the net, Murray go ball back, cross court, a back hand lunge by Djokovic, gets ball over the net half way in box and somehow murray gets there for a passing shot down the line. Same thing happens next point for murray to go 15-40 up. Then wins easy point and goes to 5-4 up.

Serving for Championship and gets 40-0 up. Crowd go nuts. But the Djokovic wins 2 great points. Longish rally and Murray hits long for deuce.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Great point by Djokovic to get Advantage but then big serve by Murray and Djockovic hits it long for deuce again.

Long rally and Djokovic gets to the net does a drop volley that just catches the tape and falls over for advantage. Shortish rally and Djokovic drops ball short and whipped away by Murray for deuce again.

Djokovic wins cross court volley with both at net for advantage and then Murray wins a 9 shot rally by coming to the net and smashes the ball away. deuce again.

Djokovic doesn't put away smash, Murray gets it back, but Djokovic volleys into net. 4th Championship point!!!

Djokovic return of serve almost goes out Murray hits deep, but Djokovic return hits the net. Massive, massive roar. Andy composed, but then almost cries and looks completely stuffed.

Swans 1933 --> 2005
Fred Perry 1936 --> Murray 2013

Does a Cashy and climbs up to his supporters box area. Starts walking back and high fives crowd but forgets to hug mum. Crowd tells him to go back and mum walks down the stairs and he walks back off the little commentators box roof to give her a hug.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

British and English sports is back. Investing that sports lottery monies into the 2002 Commonwealth Games sports and other Olympics sports and then winning the Olympics and spending monies on facilities, coaches, coaching at all levels, talent identification, sports science etc is paying dividends.

cycling, rowing, athletics boxing at the Olympics, cricket, rugby union, win Wimbledon finally, pro cycling, golfers winning majors the last few years etc. Shit they might actually do well at the World Cup next year.

 

[Ebert80]

Lets just hope the pommy cricketers arent inspired by that in any way!

 

[chiwigi]

British and English sports is back. Investing that sports lottery monies into the 2002 Commonwealth Games sports and other Olympics sports and then winning the Olympics and spending monies on facilities, coaches, coaching at all levels, talent identification, sports science etc is paying dividends.

cycling, rowing, athletics boxing at the Olympics, cricket, rugby union, win Wimbledon finally, pro cycling, golfers winning majors the last few years etc. Shit they might actually do well at the World Cup next year.

If he'd lost he'd be Scottish not British, same as the Lions would have been Welsh if they lost. Neither had much to do with lottery funds.
The Olympics and cycling on the other hand.

 

[Portia]

Fuuuuuuuck The Age requires that I get a subscription now. I'm actually torn about this.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Fuuuuuuuck The Age requires that I get a subscription now. I'm actually torn about this.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

 

[Shaxx Attaxx]

I really don't like Andy Murray. That is all

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Who's Brian Taylor?

Don't you guys mean Big Boy Brian 'The Human Meatball' Taylor from the Fox Footy commentator factory?

Oh boy wowee.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I really don't like Andy Murray. That is all

He used to annoy me then I found out he was a student at Dunblane primary school when the massacre occurred in 1996. His family even knew the shooter. I figure that entitles him to some good fortune and some personal neuroses on court.

With Marion Bartoli winning the women's final it was a Wimbledon for the slightly out of synch.

I do find it amusing the English claiming the Scot as a Great Briton so they can lay claim to winning Wimbledon. Their best women's player is an Australian too as is their best professional cyclist.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I remember a game this year when BT was complimenting the form of the goal umpire, and mentioned him by name, saying that we don't give the goal umpires enough credit.

Everyone started ripping into him, and rightly so, asking if we should know the names of the ballboys because 'they don't get enough credit' - and making BT look like the biggest ******* tosser, all live on national television. He was quiet for about five minutes after that. Best television I've seen this year.

He only did that as cover because he has the hots for Chelsea Roffey and mentions her by name at every game she officiates. Oh boy wowee back in five Darce.

 

[GeelongFTW]

I remembered one of the most terrible commenters ever.

Kelli underwood. Shocking voice, not cut out for commentating.

 

[Peck]

I remembered one of the most terrible commenters ever.
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Kelli underwood. Shocking voice, not cut out for commentating.

Far better than Luke Darcy.

I really hate that they don't have a second play-by-play caller in Dwayne Russel's games. The best set up is Commeti and Mcavaney because they can both call plays, and they can both give decent analysis particularly Dennis. All you need to add to that is someone who has to know what is going on and add one sentence in every 20.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Self-explanatory. Dunno if there's another one of these threads floating around.

So I just learned that Brett Ebert is our third highest goalkicker in our AFL history. If he kicks 12 more goals before the end of his Port Adelaide career, he'll be second. That's depressing.

I think you can stop being depressed about this.

Those 12 goals aren't ever going to arrive.

 

[raglan road]

Fuuuuuuuck The Age requires that I get a subscription now. I'm actually torn about this.

You can still get another 30 articles a month free through the smh. Not as good as the age but you still get the Real Footy portal. There's always The Age Library edition, the State Library gives you access at home if you register:

http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=e1000492~S1

Just browse the archive for today's paper. Not the same as the online site but something. But yeah I'll probably reluctantly get a $15 monthly subscription.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

If he'd lost he'd be Scottish not British, same as the Lions would have been Welsh if they lost. Neither had much to do with lottery funds.
The Olympics and cycling on the other hand.

Clive Woodward used all the new facilities and sports science t stuff that were put in place for the Manchester 2002 Comm games to help England win the 2003 rugby world cup. English rugby have continued to use those facilities, sports scientists etc. The Lions are dominated by the English and the Scotts and Welsh unions copied what the English did. That base came from the lotteries monies. Tennis over the last 15 years has taken lotteries monies, whilst indirect, it had some impact on Murray.

Bottom line is, the British had a sea change in the way they funded sport, became more professional, that toughened up their attitude and it spread thru most sports who wanted to keep up. It took time, but it has spread out across the board.

No real difference to Oz. The 1980's the AIS spent monies on buildings and sports scholarhsips and tried to pick winners. The states started their own sports institutes/academies In the early 1990's they changed and decided that for a lot of individual sports they would let the athlete stay with their coaches in their home states and use the AIS as a centre of excellence. Then when Sydney won the Olympics hosting rights in late 1993, the federal government ploughed hundreds of millions of dollars into the Olympic campaign. That feed through to all sports as they wanted to keep up. Winning the Olympics meant governments started spending monies on sports infrastructure on sports that had nothing to do with the Olympics. Better facilities eg stadiums saw more $$$, more $$$ saw more spent on professionalising the sports.

 

[Hellgood]

A few quotes from the main board on O'Brien:

They're saying on SEN that apparently Seedsman has a "silly nickname" and that Bucks jokingly asked Harry if it was OK if they called Seedsman that nickname, sort of a joke with Harry O about his "sensitiveness", for lack of a better word.

My question is, what is Seedsman's nickname that is in question?

Les.

When Seeds first got to the club the players coined him Les due to his haircut making him look like a lesbian, was a good call imo.

Apparently it was that Buckley also mockingly sought H's permission to use it in a player meeting, after Harry had asked the playing group to discontinue it's use despite Seeds not having an issue with it.

There is also more coming out that Harry sought Buckley out and things got to the point where it got physical and the 2 had to be split, take it with a grain of salt but it appears to not be just a minor disagreement.

I think HO needs to take a deep breath and work on one social issue at a time, not every plight is his plight.

What a strange situation.

 

[Schulzenfest]

In fairness, Seedsman really looks like a lesbian.

If he doesn't like that, I can't imagine what he'd think of Anus Wantfrees

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[Noobz0r]

10 minutes, small fry. When that thing is 10 hours get back to me.