Re: The SEN Thread 9
The AFL’s season kicks off on Saturday night, not that we would know it in Melbourne, the heartland of the game. The Giants have a stand-alone game in Sydney. It’s an historic game with the new franchise and Kevin Sheedy planting their footprint on the competition. It’ll be a one-sided affair, the Swans win by a margin of fifteen to twenty goals. Surely we can give them their own night but surely not their own week. We should also have had other games to complement the week of football or simply just delayed the season a week. The season should always start with a bang. For me it really kicks off on Thursday the 29th when Richmond belts Carlton.
I’m KB, That’s My Take.
KB continues to eschew the more popular and safer bungee jump prediction method of most media in favour of the more dangerous highwire-without-a-net prediction of a Richmond obliteration of the Blues which carries a much deeper, longer, and harder credibility fall. Then again, if you keep tipping the Tigers to win every Thursday night season opener against the Blues as KB has the previous three years, eventually you’ll get one correct.
One must wonder too, just when did KB write today’s typical thirty-five second opening monologue when we’ve known for several months that the two NSW teams were kicking off the season ahead of the rest of the league?
That’s the topic that could get the collective Mensa Talkback Society calling in with like-minded opinion. But it could be an appropriate subject for Wednesday protagonist, Jon LeBaron-Ralph to dissect with his usual Sheahan-like gusto. … JLR quickly agrees with KB about no buzz, excitement, or fanfare. He lists the expected no-shows from the GWS list and with KB they both lament the possible crowd numbers for what should be an easy Swannies victory. JLR expects some regrets from the AFL after about ten minutes of Saturday night’s game and KB ponders the possibility of a record winning margin which is 190 points.
Should Sheedy be coaching? LeBaron-Ralph puts forward his ideas for how GWS should be structured based on a swathe of his own experience at the University Blacks … Will Selwood be in trouble for tweeting on the Folau Match Review decision? … On to talkback and the minutia of the season opener being right or wrong … JLR changes tack smartly with his already second attempt today at KB’s excitement about Richmond’s chances against Carlton. He’s astounded at the betting prices for Richmond still on offer as the Blues are so vulnerable due to injury.
The tributes for the sad passing of Jim Stynes is next and JLR makes some salient comments about the grieving process and the rush to commemorate the passing with what seems to be everything but a public holiday. Queens Birthday medal would suffice says JLR. He won’t be forgotten and references Ted Whitten as an example.
Back to the stand-alone game between GWS and Sydney … KB laments that the Americans would already be planning the Jim Stynes manuscript but it’s not something we do in Australia … On to the swimming on Channel Ten and the approaching Olympics which lead to KB talking about which sports are better to watch on TV or live in person. Now on this slooooow Wednesday I reckon this may be the 20th time this discussion has been raised on SEN shows.
Swimming, Rugby, NHL, are all lost live but great on TV agrees KB and JLR. … Caller thinks the best thing the AFL can do as a tribute to Stynes is to offer financial assistance and the use of their business acumen to the Reach Foundation … SMS texter wants clubs to give part of the Queens Birthday receipts to Reach … All sounds great, but who takes the pay cut? … Seems like JLR doesn’t like much of anything live as he lobs in NFL and golf as better on TV, as he corrects a caller in regards to NRL: “I didn’t say it was good, I just said it was better, KB. It’s still a very limited game.” Under the LeBaron bus goes rugby union as well … Rowing, triathlon, surfing are listed as better on tele. No kiddin’ fellas.
KB announces that you can set the sporting agenda, so since this is such a lazy Wednesday show I decide to ring KB myself to put a little explosive venom-like-Denham influence into the programme. Upon initially getting through covertly as a disgruntled Carlton supporter the panel operator bloke or whoever summarily dismisses me with epithets as I’m apparently the third different Blues fan already this week to ring through a @#!&*$! bomb hoax against KB. Shivers!
KB won’t be improving what’s on live television anytime soon as he wants to know why the swimming coverage was on live TV but not the track and field Olympic trials? JLR answers in a heartbeat: Thorpe, Klim, Huegill, Libby Trickett; that’s why.” LeBaron-Ralphy keeps going dropping names until KB bails out to safety of an ad break.
Etihad Stadium is widely nominated as the best place to watch footy, and Formula One car racing, WWE wrestling, and Tour de France are all better on TV as almost every sport on the planet is eliminated as a live spectacle … caller nominates that pretty much all sports are better on TV due to high def, which makes the topic discussion a dud discussion topic. MMA is yet another added to the list … Due to high definition TV, JRL is surprised by Timothy Michael Watson declaration that Channel Seven had seventy percent of the NAB Cup Final viewership … As the background music signals lamentable hour’s end, one can only hope Rowan Dammit! and Stevie Salisbury can lift the show to greater heights after 10. KB and Jonny hit each other with feathers today – no points scored. I score a morning beer for the bomb hoax gag.
The AFL’s season kicks off on Saturday night, not that we would know it in Melbourne, the heartland of the game. The Giants have a stand-alone game in Sydney. It’s an historic game with the new franchise and Kevin Sheedy planting their footprint on the competition. It’ll be a one-sided affair, the Swans win by a margin of fifteen to twenty goals. Surely we can give them their own night but surely not their own week. We should also have had other games to complement the week of football or simply just delayed the season a week. The season should always start with a bang. For me it really kicks off on Thursday the 29th when Richmond belts Carlton.
I’m KB, That’s My Take.
KB continues to eschew the more popular and safer bungee jump prediction method of most media in favour of the more dangerous highwire-without-a-net prediction of a Richmond obliteration of the Blues which carries a much deeper, longer, and harder credibility fall. Then again, if you keep tipping the Tigers to win every Thursday night season opener against the Blues as KB has the previous three years, eventually you’ll get one correct.
One must wonder too, just when did KB write today’s typical thirty-five second opening monologue when we’ve known for several months that the two NSW teams were kicking off the season ahead of the rest of the league?
That’s the topic that could get the collective Mensa Talkback Society calling in with like-minded opinion. But it could be an appropriate subject for Wednesday protagonist, Jon LeBaron-Ralph to dissect with his usual Sheahan-like gusto. … JLR quickly agrees with KB about no buzz, excitement, or fanfare. He lists the expected no-shows from the GWS list and with KB they both lament the possible crowd numbers for what should be an easy Swannies victory. JLR expects some regrets from the AFL after about ten minutes of Saturday night’s game and KB ponders the possibility of a record winning margin which is 190 points.
Should Sheedy be coaching? LeBaron-Ralph puts forward his ideas for how GWS should be structured based on a swathe of his own experience at the University Blacks
… Will Selwood be in trouble for tweeting on the Folau Match Review decision? … On to talkback and the minutia of the season opener being right or wrong … JLR changes tack smartly with his already second attempt today at KB’s excitement about Richmond’s chances against Carlton. He’s astounded at the betting prices for Richmond still on offer as the Blues are so vulnerable due to injury.The tributes for the sad passing of Jim Stynes is next and JLR makes some salient comments about the grieving process and the rush to commemorate the passing with what seems to be everything but a public holiday. Queens Birthday medal would suffice says JLR. He won’t be forgotten and references Ted Whitten as an example.
Back to the stand-alone game between GWS and Sydney … KB laments that the Americans would already be planning the Jim Stynes manuscript but it’s not something we do in Australia … On to the swimming on Channel Ten and the approaching Olympics which lead to KB talking about which sports are better to watch on TV or live in person. Now on this slooooow Wednesday I reckon this may be the 20th time this discussion has been raised on SEN shows.
Swimming, Rugby, NHL, are all lost live but great on TV agrees KB and JLR. … Caller thinks the best thing the AFL can do as a tribute to Stynes is to offer financial assistance and the use of their business acumen to the Reach Foundation … SMS texter wants clubs to give part of the Queens Birthday receipts to Reach … All sounds great, but who takes the pay cut? … Seems like JLR doesn’t like much of anything live as he lobs in NFL and golf as better on TV, as he corrects a caller in regards to NRL: “I didn’t say it was good, I just said it was better, KB. It’s still a very limited game.” Under the LeBaron bus goes rugby union as well … Rowing, triathlon, surfing are listed as better on tele. No kiddin’ fellas.
KB announces that you can set the sporting agenda, so since this is such a lazy Wednesday show I decide to ring KB myself to put a little explosive venom-like-Denham influence into the programme. Upon initially getting through covertly as a disgruntled Carlton supporter the panel operator bloke or whoever summarily dismisses me with epithets as I’m apparently the third different Blues fan already this week to ring through a @#!&*$! bomb hoax against KB. Shivers!
KB won’t be improving what’s on live television anytime soon as he wants to know why the swimming coverage was on live TV but not the track and field Olympic trials? JLR answers in a heartbeat: Thorpe, Klim, Huegill, Libby Trickett; that’s why.” LeBaron-Ralphy keeps going dropping names until KB bails out to safety of an ad break.
Etihad Stadium is widely nominated as the best place to watch footy, and Formula One car racing, WWE wrestling, and Tour de France are all better on TV as almost every sport on the planet is eliminated as a live spectacle … caller nominates that pretty much all sports are better on TV due to high def, which makes the topic discussion a dud discussion topic. MMA is yet another added to the list … Due to high definition TV, JRL is surprised by Timothy Michael Watson declaration that Channel Seven had seventy percent of the NAB Cup Final viewership … As the background music signals lamentable hour’s end, one can only hope Rowan Dammit! and Stevie Salisbury can lift the show to greater heights after 10. KB and Jonny hit each other with feathers today – no points scored. I score a morning beer for the bomb hoax gag.
