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Cranky Old Man

Belated condolences to Dubby and Bewdle. I hope your hearts mend OK in time. It is a tough situation to handle and sadly nothing friends can say will make it any easier. Take care.

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I wouldn't let Sia go under any circumstances. He is invaluable. I would sign him for as long as he can play and then move him into the management area so that he can have a role mentoring younger players, especially Islander players who not only have to adapt to the life of a professional player bu...

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Canberrigan. You don't wreck a Merc to keep your VW on the road. Wighton is one of our strengths, BUT at fullback. In the halves he is only just a first grader. Croker is being paid good money to be our back up half. Time for him to produce! Jackson Hastings has played a handful of FG games, one a S...

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If Croker does play five eighth he'd better be prepared to tackle because they will work him over. Believe it. He will be far from the only half back to be given the treatment during the round. I imagine our forwards are licking their lips at the prospect of trying out the Roosters pair as well! Ha...

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Highly regarded!!

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Yeah, I thought he was good considering. On a day like today Ricky would have been looking for 80 mins of good effort taking the strain off the props and he got that. His chase was good and mostly effective, and he tried to do some work around the rucks which he is normally good at. I think any crit...

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Mr Badger is not first grade standard!

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Sezer
Papalli
Hodgson
No a bad player on the field, and all forwards excellent.

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With about 10 or 12 mins to go, Whitehead was standing just in front of where we were sitting and I don't think I have ever seen a more exhausted player. He was just swaying in small circles. He must have plenty of ticker to have kept going the way he did, although Hodgson was in his ear a fair bit ...

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T_R wrote:Yep, but Sanders was never going to be the answer

In a contest between an honest man (Sanders( and two of the most reviled, dishonest and utterly uninspiring persons to have ever stood for the job, Sanders stood no chance.

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Geez, you would reckon that 8 years of GW Bush, with the steaming crud still falling from the fan in the ME would serve as a caution in selecting new President.

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If you read through my comments on last years games (and I know you'd just love to), you would note that I have long been a critic of Fensom and his silly errors, penalties, dropped balls, etc. But I also gibe him credit for the fact that he always plays on the absolute edge of exhaustion in every g...

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Before Christmas I overheard part of a conversation Ricky S was having with some friends. He mentioned the lack of closing out a game during the season past. I think we need to give some thought to who we want on the field for the last 20 minutes or so if we want to predict who Rick might pick. I'm ...

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bonehead wrote:Can't wait to see Gary Larson, Billy Moore and Flo pull the boots back on!

Plus Herman Hamilton, Merve "the pale Whale" Hicks, Don McKinnon and Georgie Ambrum. Just a cavalcade of stars!

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julian87 wrote:**** I hate fruit in cooking haha

My pet hate is an otherwise awesome salad ruined by **** mango or nectarine

Throw out the salasd and just eat the fruit.

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They have business assets in the region But aren't their fan base and club on the CC? The Bears don't really have a fan base, they just have a small collection of nostalgia freaks who pine for the days when all but one game each weekend were played on Sydney suburban grounds and North Sydney Oval w...

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Geez, its going to take a crook side to win the spoon from Newcastle this year. Might I interest you in the Gold Coast Titans, Cranky?? Yep. The two most wooden of wooden spoon contenders ever. How can they expect people to pay real money to go and watch them except for tragics supporting the oppos...

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Penrith have a good pack of forwards and some good outside backs, but gee their halves are stodgy albeit with pretty good kicking games. They desperately need a Blake Austin style player in there to liven them up. Is that Te Maire Whatsit up to the job? Or should it be Moylan?

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Geez, its going to take a crook side to win the spoon from Newcastle this year. They were completely bullied into submission in the first half, the raiders forwards were nearly fighting amongst themselves to get their hands on the ball it was so easy.

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We need a Sia Sol re=signing thread now so we can release some pent up angst.

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Trump now hinting he doesn't think Rubio is eligible to run for president. Seems his go to move for everyone he does up against is to say they weren't born in America. That's an old political trick from back in the Lyndon Johnston days. Accuse somebody of being or doing something slightly ridiculou...

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Clinton is very reminiscent of John Howard in some strange way. Slightly (or more) repugnant, no charisma, known to insiders as a bit of a shady operator, persistent, been around for years without really setting the world on fire but no absolute disasters, good political connections, probably got th...

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Matty Gordo. You are right, the lesser lights were on, but the same old suspects were still there and making the same old errors. Most notably Waqa and E Lee. The first half didn't tell us much as we had all the ball, but when the Knights got some, they scored (admittedly off a great ball from Pauli...

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My predictions are pretty much like everyones, just guesses. BUT. Storm. Every year somebody tips them to start to fall out of the top level and every year they fail to do so. But it is like predicting rain, eventually it will happen and I believe the drop will be sudden and deep when it happens. I ...

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In the photos above BJ L really looks extra fit. He really has no excuses this year, if he has got IT, he must show it now.

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I'd love to see Trump win the election. Be funny as hell. They are still about 10 years off recovering from the stupidity of George Bush, Trump could well be worse without any chance of being better. Years ago whilst studying history I read an account by a historian of the after effects of that run...

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Slight tangent but fair question for everyone Do you believe religious businesses and charities should be required by law to report income and have their books open to inspection like other businesses and non religious charities or do they deserve special treatment simply for being religious? Most ...

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This $8.5 billion figure of certification costs being bandied about has me interested. A quick google doesn't give me any definitive figure as to the costs of certification, just a figure of $11billion odd as the sum total of Aust sales of halal foods. I doubt that a market as cut throat as the inte...

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Thanks all. Old blokes like me sort of expect to hear of guys my age or a bit older dropping off, young ones come as a real shock. Knocks you back a bit. My sister is taking it pretty hard.

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Sisters daughter died weekend before last. Only 25. Pretty hard to take.

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Yep, it may be that he is their Mitch Cornish, brilliant all the way until the final hurdle.

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TR. My real attitude to all this is not that far from yours, frankly, except that I am a strong believer in anti vilification laws. Because of the nature of my work for the majority of my working life I have seen too often the material effect that vilification can have on a victim where there is no ...

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And now we're seeing another case, where legislation shopping has led to the picking of the lowest hanging of fruits. The case in point is not the most attractive in a PR sense, but that is often the way in legal matters. We could improve things by just having one law, "Do The Right Thing"...

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Re getting on the drink with Nickman, I am hoping to do so when he comes down for round 1, if I can get a daypass from Golden Evenings retirement home for the mentally bewildered.

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Oh, please. Emotive language and untested assertion. You and Nickman should have a beer some time, and whip yourselves into a frenzy. Here's the same text from an equally, though oppositely slanted perspective: " The Murdoch press has taken a strong stance against serious attempts by the radic...

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