The bogan/drug-dealer/serial killer unholy trinity has triumphed with massive bribery and blackmail securing a Port Adelaide “win”. Shame.
Melbourne pulled a similar scam and denied the Dogs - the second best team in the league after St Kilda - their rightful finals berth. Shame.
So now - The Saints will smish Adelaide, despite the massive corruption that will occur. The Dirty Birds will claw the Swans. North will mince Port and send them packing back to their ground of ill-repute. The clash of the also-rans (GFC vs Dees) will end with a narrow Cats win. It's all academic though, as the unstoppable Saints will march on to the flag.
Saints - first since 1966 and second since 1897 - in 2005.
Giovanni says:
When Port won I was like Vader at the end of Revenge of the Sith all like "Noooooooo!" and shit, but instead of saying "Where is Padme?" I was like "Where is Pavlich? Noooooooooooo!"
(You can't run me out - I'm Ricky fucking Ponting! Cunts!)
KL says:
I hear ya Geeves. It was a nasty weekend all round. But I must admit I hadn't given Freo much of a chance against Poort at Footy Park. Those cunts were always going to win that one.
Bye bye finals. Bye bye ashes.
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
Try waiting until the last 5 minutes of the last game of the last round of the season…of course, with hindsight, all we needed was a jaggy googly bounce from a Robbo kick from the boundary!?!
And so it be on - only 5 days to recover, but at least we have *true* home ground advantage where we've won ~ 20 of last 23 games there!
Geeves, time to face reality - I left the Cats game in the 1st quarter thinking "blowout", then they win by one f'n point at Spazza Stadium?? to Richmond?? Factor in, 1) we beat you 2 weeks ago, 2) MCG advatange, and 3) Ben Graham aint walking thru that door…Deez to advance as "Everybody's Closet Sleeper" team…err, that didn't come out how I planned it…
In other Domination Theory/ Perthanality famewhore moments of time - me and Orsini opened for DJ Mixmaster Mike @ Heat nightclub!!! We, and another dude, were only rappers on the nite (rest DJs), so we showcased MCO's ARG-era works (slipping in DT lyrics) then beatboxing, then getting mad ass backstage…save for the ass…we did get props from many random homeboys..f'n funny nite all round
Highlights:
*) Meeting some old, OLD school Domination fans. Man, if it hadda been a less mature and younger MCO there woulda been brawlsforall!! Full Swanny maggot surfy types who kept coming up, and totally *needlessly* "play"punching Orsini in the kidneys, shouting "YA GOTTA LIFT ORSINI!!! LIFT MATE!! THAT WAS GOOD SHIT BRO!! WE'RE AMPING MATE!" - granted, it was f'n funny, and good to see some old skool Swanny boyz out, but shit me!
*) Met my local barrista (no lawyer gags), and due to my backstagery, we now have a relationship - I give him my signed backstage pass - he gives me free, no-queue lattes for the year!!
*) We had a free comp ticket…this is how *pathetic* Perth is getting - NO-ONE WANTED IT!! Loro = gay, KL = party, (FREE TICKET?!?), we had to offer it to Antonio Beard, and he qualifies it with bringing his missus! Where are all the Party Boiyz?
*) During MixMaster Mike's set, which was damn awesome, I was somewhat aggrieved when I noticed this strange phenomenon. Whilst the old skool hiphop tracks were greeted with mooted hollering and dancing, the songs which elicited the most response, without ANY doubt, were the following:
- Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit;
- RATM - Killing in the name of;
and another that escapes me, but yeah, my first thought as I looked around at a sea of fist-pumping, frenzied collar-poppers:
"Dang, he puts on the [Nirvana/non-rap tune] AND WHITE PEOPLE LOST THEY MINDS!!!"
- I asked him if that was his "college" set!
*) Biting the bullet, and getting an autograph from the Great One…snuck in thru backstagery and then just pumped my DOMINATION THEORY CD in this face, and before I could say anything he's signing it, I'm like "waddup dude, awesome show, yeah, yeah, its true, I'm *that* Pound4Pound" (maybe not), BUT…after i got over the initial excitement, etc and actually had a considered look at the CD cover, it read as such:
"DJ MIXMASTER MIKE
who this?"
$GOLD$
$BDW$
Giovanni says:
Neita sleeps in an oxygen tank he believes gives him SEXUAL powers.
Ms Lee says:
I like the word "smish". Highly descriptive.
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
Alright, I'm hijacking this for a cricket rant:
1) England are cheating cun*s!
I literally reviewed the Laws of Cricket this morning, and it actually does not specify how large your squad is allowed to be - so theoretically, you could name a 22-man team for the 5th Ashes - *however* the entire team has to be written down and disclosed before the game commences…
I'm pretty sure Oz simply names the First 12, and as would England, as per tradition. It is also usually the case that in the instance of say, a fielder/ bowler, getting hurt, that the 12th man will be the automatic selection…
So how, in the fuck, can UK be bringing in 13th, 14th, 15th MEN???
They are basically exploiting a loophole, and by NOT bringing on Tremlett (12th man), but bringing on one-dimensional local hacks, they are abusing the spirit of the game (yes, it exists in hardcopy in the preamble!)
Admittedly, I've often wondered why this was never utilised before. Back when AB was retiring and there was no clear successor (Tubby Bitch who?), I actually envisaged naming AB as 12th man - but just leaving him on at 1st slip, rallying the troops and planning the attack! Why *not* have a specialist strategist/ captain??
Seriously, can you imagine the UPROAR that would've gone up if they were doing this with Tufnell? There goes half the comedy value of the game…
2) Oz cricket are f'n cheap and stupid!
Why does UK have a bowling and fielding coach, and we don't - AND they're both Australians!?!
Why does Shaun Tait, who bowls nearly identically to Jeff Thompson, claim that "[he's] never SEEN Thommo bowl…he was before my time"…….
…….
……
Umm, around 1980, they invented this magical item, now commonly referred to as A VIDEO PLAYER!!!!
Are you fuckin shittin me that Tait has never even seen a Ch9 highlights footage, LET ALONE, been sat down with the f'n Coach and given a detailed instructional review of his bowling action???
I know it is a really off-the-wall concept (ie learning something from history), but last time I looked, Punter was being paid $1million!! That's f'n shitloads, yet there is no funding available for:
- specialist coaches (including Best In The World - Lillee);
- archival footage;
- a video player.
It is startingly obvious that England studied many hours of footage, and devised a plan for each individual batter, and setting appropriate fielding positions…
It is startingly obvious that Australia didn't take one f'n seconds worth of footage of *any* UK player they handn't played before(hur hur Giles is old!), and their fielding is PLAGARISING Vaughan's!!!
Are these current crop so enamoured in their own "Indominables" image that they don't even give a shit about the past?
Why has Dizzy gone from #2 bowler in the world, to retired, in FOUR F'N GAMES????
What's with the no-balls??? Kaspa has a FIVE-STEP RUNUP!!
Pay the f'n money for a coaching/ archival staff ya punk bitches!
McGrath is KEY!
Doesn't Pieterson strike you as the kind of guy who'd expect you to buy him a jug when he arrived in the pub, and then would hit on your girl? He's a fuck! hangs out with Warney f'rcrissakes!
$BDW$
KL says:
This is all true, BDW.
I say they should hire you.
At the moment I think the Aussies are a bunch of arrogant cunts, and they will lose the Ashes because of that.
Where is Hussey for fucks sake? He was the ONLY guy to make any runs in the one dayers and saved our arses several times.
Buchanan and company are FUCKED.
Barney says:
Fuck oath!
fancy dave says:
Don't get me started.
To lose to a better team while playing your best cricket is fine. Admirable, if done with grace and humility.
To go down like this DEMEANS US ALL!!!
Giovanni says:
Haydo has got to go.
Check it -
Matty Elliot - back from the dead
JL - hard as steel
Ryan "Fuck Yeah" Campbell
Punter
Hussey
Clarke
Gilly
Warne
Brett Lee
Glen Mc GARTH (when fit)
Stuart "Greatest Bowling figures in history" MacGill
Giovanni says:
England - too few weak links.
Bell - talented but erratic. Showed chops in 3rd test.
Geraint Jones - batting coming along nicely, keeping getting better.
Giles - dull bastard, successfully boring people out because of the pressure at the other end from a selection of fast brutes, shaggy bastards and reverse swinging freaks.
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
$BDW$ National XI
S.Katich
C.Rogers
J.Langer
R.Ponting
M.Clarke
B.Hodge
A.Symonds
A.Gilchrist
S.Warne
G.McGrath
S.Tait
12th S.Waugh (yeah, I went there!)
Fuckit! Even tho' I tried to reduce the lefties, we'll give Buck Rogers a crack with Kato opening…JL resumes back at 1st drop…Hodge comes in as another rightie, along with Symonds in the hope that he is the Oz-Flintoff (imagine that middle order - Clarke, Hodge, Symonds = RUNS!!!)
Only 2 specialist quicks, Symonds on 1st change, Binga is starting to shit me - and we've proven all we need is Pigeon and Warne anyways, why deny it?
And yes, Steve will resume as on-field 12th-man Captain-specialist!
(* I CAN'T BELIEVE Vaughan is *still* trying to push the "our bowlers need to have toilet breaks"….MUTHAFUCKIN 10-OVER TOILET BREAKS??? Are they the weakest bunch of pussies to ever play, that they need little girly toilet breaks every 2 minutes? It is a TACTIC and your "denial" makes us ANGRIER CAPTAIN BLANDNAME!)
Surprise you didn't recall DiVenueto Geeves! Geraint Jones was born in Papua New Guinea - explain anything?
BBZ
KL says:
Fuck Rogers, put in Hussey.
Giovanni says:
Isn't Devo playing for Italy now? Selah!
Watto just made a double ton against some pie-throwing crabs in the county league, but would he piss his pants against Flintoff, Harmo, Simon Jones and the blonde Chewbacca - Hoggard?
Australia needs an allrounder, or at least a top six that doesn't include Haydo - who is a shambles at the moment. (The old man should be given some kind of chance to regain his touch outside of the test arena.)
Is that allrounder Watto? Does he have the class?
Symonds? The England top six (except maybe Bell) would devour his bowling, but his batting could turn any contest on its head.
JL
Ryan Campbell - you heard me!
Punter
Hussey
Clarke
Watto - give him a go OR Hodge
Gilly
Warne
Lee
McGarth
Stuart MacGill
Who needs a 5 man attack when MacGilla Gorilla is around to rip England to pieces? Maybe leave Watto out.
KL says:
How about we lose the ashes, get some priority picks, and then draft Jones, Flintoff and Harmison?
KL says:
Also, on the coaching issue, I read something in the paper recnetly about the Aussies getting some bloke to do some work for them in England… and they paid him with an autographed bat.
What fucking cheapskates.
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
Yeah, um, remember how I talked about long-pockets-short-arms Australian Cricket Association???
So of course during their 6-month offseason of NOT scouting England, NOT ascertaining or watching any footage, and basically, just expecting to turn up and give them a good hard whupping - well, then the 3rd Test happened, so they decided to FINALLY get some video footage of Flintoff, Pietercunt, etc….
…FROM AN EX-PAT STATS-MAD AUSSIE LIVING IN ENGLAND?!?!?
(yes, they paid him with a bat!)
It's MINDBOGGLING!! Channel 4(UK) is now giving us 1000per frame slow-motion, we have snickometer, hawkeye, etc, technology is evolving…but apparently we have to scour fucken EBAY to get some old footage, and then trade them Langer splintered-box!!! It's pathetic!
I can't believe they fancy themselves as "professionals"….F'n AFL footballers are more prepared, and there's 400+ of them…
YOU ONLY HAVE TO TRAIN 11!!! And 4 are bowlers!!
Oh, and fuck a Watto - you think the Poms would eat up Symo's bowling? At least he can revert to offspin. Watto has seriously totally revamped his bowling action, and is easy as piss to pick off! No movement, nothing! AND he has revamped his batting action…i guess he recognised the problem (but, err, wasn't that during the phase where he gave reason to be picked??)
Oh, and didn't Clarkey used to be a gun fielder?…
KL says:
Yeah, that's the story I read.
Clarke was a gun fielder until he fucked up his back. Now he is just an old man before his time.
Giovanni says:
Clarke's a big talent. If he gets his back right he'll be making the world tremble. Ganguly gave him props, and Ganguly knows his shit.
I haven't seen Watto bowl in a long time, it's a shame to hear it's gone to pot.
I'll say it again - MACGILLA GORILLA.
B-Diddy DubSac says:
Billy sends his apologies for not posting today…something about having his Tournament Final Patent Kicks plagarised in an AFL football match during a throw-in…something about an "exceedingly reckless roundhouse kick to the jaw"…anyrate, he got disqualified in a tournament for that, so I can only imagine what kind of punishment the AFL player in question is sweating on….
…..
….
That, and he also mentioned the turning point was a "piece of shit touch-ball" at the end of 1/4 time which travelled accross the line, but was awarded a "goal" as the player "was having a red hot go", ie rewarding effort as opposed to, y'know, reality!
I hope you're happy now- as its your fault, you've got to be the one to break this to Mrs Broadbridge! And also reverted me back to my old ways of hating BludNut UglyPoofter Geelong - seriously, CAMERON PADDLEPOP L(ION)ING??? WTF is going on there??
We just couldn't cope with ONLY 17 fit players at the back end of 3 "elimination" finals - Bruce, Green underdone. Reduced to a 2-man forward line, no Neita! no JRivers! Yze has been playing with a torn adductor for 3 weeks…at least there is hope for the future in Carrol, Nicholson, McLean, Sylvia, McDonald, Miller, Bruce, Green, Brown, White, Moloney, Rigoni, Davey, ROBERTSUNNNNNN, Roadhouse Holland, Wheatley, Whelan, Ferguson, Yze, Jamar, Bizzel, spirit of Allen Jakovich, and yes I just named the entire 2005 squad! Will $BDW$ be a 2006 Member…..?
F'n great week to return to Nostra Of Old you fuckin fucker!;)
(except for the Macgilla call - awesome figure of 0/120 off 20 overs ain't doin him no favours)…
I trust everyone in the world has seen the 10 Years Of Dockers doing the rounds? Sad, but true, basically Neesham & the Claremont Dockers were a bit too kooky!
$BDW$
Giovanni says:
Last time Neita played the GFC he had 3 touches and kicked a behind. Dang, you missed him. In the absence of 'Oh Brad' Ottens, David Johnson, David Wojinski, Corey "Corey II" Enright and Baldy Chapman we had no trouble dealing with the Dees. White shouldn't have thrown his face onto The King's boot in the first place.
The King didn't even get a week for it. And Shufflin' Steve Johnson (Inventor of the Steve Johnson Shuffle) never had a case to argue - a fact confirmed by no less an authority than Malcolm Blight himself).
Check it! - http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=227329
In all seriousness though, that was fucking horrible and I hope Mr White makes a full and speedy recovery.
So now the GFC is playing the Bloods - or is that the Floods? - at flood HQ - the SPS (Sydney Postage Stamp).
So, like I've said:
GFC to beat Sydney by 13 points.
Port to beat Adelaide by 30 points.
Saints to beat the WC Dirty Birds in the Grand Final.
(Robert Harvey? …He is immortal.)
KL says:
I like how Hayden "played himself back into form" by scoring 150… while some no-name on the Essex amateur team got 214 against the professional Aussie bowling attack!
Way to go!
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
[i]All-Australian Team Named - Deez snubbed, Forces $BDW$ To Select REAL AllStars! [/i]
(coz we REALLY needed to individually recognise Hayes, Dal Santo AND f'n Ball!…oh ,and they're ALL better than a Chris Judd?)
Who I dropped: Rutten (WHO?), Bowden (Whatevers!), Dal Santo & Ball(yeah, better than Judd??), LEO F'N BARRY? (T.Kennelly is better!), Goodwin (whatevers!), B.Harvey (better than Ling? Johnstone? no!)
$BDW$ 2005 AllStars
LBP - D.Wirrupunda (WCE)
FUB - T.Croad (Haw)
RBP - J.Clement (Coll)
LBF - L.Hodge (Haw)
CHB - C.Cornes (Port)
RBF - L.Gilbee (WeB)
LWI - T.Johnstone (Melb)
CEN - C.Judd (WCE)
RWI - L.Hayes (StK)
LFF - S.Grant (Kang)
CHF - W.Tredrea (Port)
RFF - M.Ricciuto (Adel)
LFP - M.Pavlich (Freo)
FUF - B.Hall (Syd)
RFP - R.Robertson (Melb)
RUC - D.Cox (WCE)
RRO - B.Cousins (WCE)
ROV - S.West (WeB)
Bench: K.Cornes (Port), P.Everitt (Haw), B.Johnson (WeB), C.Ling (Geel)
[b]Teh Other All Australian team [/b]
Backs: D Wirrpunda (West Coast) B Rutten (Adelaide) J Clement (Collingwood)
Half-backs: J Bowden (Richmond) T Croad (Hawthorn) L Hodge (Hawthorn)
Centres: N Dal Santo (St Kilda), S West (Western Bulldogs) L Hayes (St Kilda)
Half-forwards: M Ricciuto (Adelaide, captain) M Pavlich (Fre,antle) S Grant (Kangaroos)
Forwards: B Johnson (Western Bulldogs) B Hall (Sydney) P Everitt (Hawthorn)
Followers: D Cox (West Coast) L Ball (St Kilda)
Rover: B Cousins (West Coast, vice-captain)
Interchange: L Barry (Sydney) K Cornes (Port Adelaide) S Goodwin (Adelaide) B Harvey (Kangaroos).
KL says:
Oh yeah and Billy, here's a picture for ya:
[img]http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/09/06/pt_sp_whiteTV_0609_ent-lead__200×265.jpg[/img]
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
if you squint real hard, and use photoshop, you can *almost* see the ball within 200m of his head…
again, total "accident" that he's kicking at head height in a RUCK CONTEST!
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
King admits to feeling guilt over heinous act [url=http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=227495]CLICK HERE[/url]- most likely accentuated by the fact that he has not received a punishment befitting the crime, very similar to how Christian Bale's character operates in [i]American Psycho[/i], and I'm sure he is developing a nice case of OCD, trying to wash away his sins, ala Hamlet…shaken!
Then Bomber "Suitcase Face" Thompson comes out with *this* gem:
[i]"That's the game. Steven could have got very easily injured by Jeff White's head, lucky not to break a leg really…"[/i]
Hmmm, yeah, umnmmm gotta watch where you put your HEAD around Kingy, ie try not to STAND UPRIGHT and ALWAYS KEEP YOUR HANDS IN FRONT OF YOU FACE!! The day that bone structure is harder than polychemical carbon SHINGUARDS, is the day that shit will be tested on Mythbusters!
Maybe they can give Bomber Whitey's old face ala FaceOff, dumb mu'fucker!
Giovanni says:
My All-Oz side, based on personal prejudice - not who played well this year (i.e. some were injured plenny)
B - Wirrpunda, Scarlo, Josh Hunt
HB - Clement, Harlo, Bowden
C - Del Santo, Judd, Gary Junior
HF - Tredrea, Pavlich, Paul Chapman
F - B Johnson, G-Train, Rosco Robertson
RUCK: Cox, Ling, Jimmy Bartel
Bench: Riewoldt, Luke Darcy, Rohan Smith, Scott West.
Coach: Malcolm Blight
(As they said in The West, if Trent Croad is the answer at CHB, what the hell was the question?)
badger says:
Jerry enough of this charade time to pursue a career as a pundit for the fox network
KL says:
Come on Jeeves, I'm sure you could have fit a few more Geelong boys in there.
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
Vadge - Ben Allan agrees with me in yesterday's West - it was RECKLESS & NEGLIGENT…how the hell you "accidently" kick someone at head height will be a precedent followed by all pro-Kickboxers!
Got bored, and decided on a New All Australian Team based on the following qualifications:
1) At least ONE player from each team;
2) Try not to name those in the actual All-Aussie Farce Team;
3) Must be good blokes/ $BDW$ characters of the game/ must-watch footballers!;
4) When in doubt, go Deez!
B - T.Kennelly (Syd), A.Nicholson (Melb), A.McPhee (Ess)
HB - P.Licruia (Coll), C.Cornes (Port), M.Lappin (Carl)
C - J.Akermanis (Bris), C.Ling (Geel), C.Bruce (Melb)
HF - B.Burton (Adel), J.Brown (Bris), N.Brown (Rich)
F - M.Williams (Haw), N.Reiwoldt (StK), A.Davey (Melb)
RUCK: J.White (Melb), D.Wells (Kang), C.Judd (WCE)
INT: B.Kirk (Syd), A.Cooney (WeB), J.Hird (Ess), B.Peake (Freo), A.Hamill (StK), A.Lovett (Ess)
Yes, even tho' Peake and Crowley are the same dude, and since Polak took a nosedive, they is my fave Docker!
KL says:
That's an interesting team there BDW. I'd like to see those blokes take on the media's AA team.
But you'd have to get David Mundy in there on a half back flank I reckon.
Giovanni says:
What about an All-Australian couldabeen superstars team?
Adrian McAdam, Andrew Tranquili, Robert di Rosa, Grant Tanner, Jason Snell, Paul Lynch, Aaron Lord, Simon Minton-Connell, Scott Chisholm, John Hutton, Winston Abraham, Jeff Hogg, Scott Bamford, Brad Boyd…
Some big names there!
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
(any correlation between our lists, and shortened careers of specialist forwards? naaah! I liked Jeff Hogg!)
Gilbert McAdam, Phil Krakouer, Sean Wight, Simmo "Doggystyle" Atkins, John "Hotplate" Gastev, Mark "Wildman" Zanotti, the entire Dockers squad 1995-1999…and lest we ever forget, the Greatest PettyCrim, EcstacyHead - Sir Lawrence Angwin!
Also, FUCK A MUNDY! I don't get it! For mine, he's on par with James "Ghost Who Plays 100 Games" Walker - get 5 kicks off the backflank, fade in & out of games, runs….great attributes!
$BDW$ Squad would kick all shades of ass, considering they all average minimum 20 stats/game! U telling me u wouldn't pay to see a Shotgun, Reiwoldt, DaveyTrain lineup?
Giovanni says:
I forgot Daniel Metropolis, Jason Heatley, Steven Jackson, Brett Spinks, Shayne Breuer…
KL says:
What about Shane's little brother Daniel Parker?
25 games over 4 years for a grand total of 102 kicks and 53 handballs. He did get 18 goals though.
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
Did i ever tell y'all bout that time, after an all-too-frequent Uni-fuelled allnite bender…catching the obligatory taxi home from Dali (during which at some point had frequented that night club on Bay View something or other? - only noteable as the Eagles squad had been on it that nite!)…driving up Louise St, and we happen to spy a couple of likely lads, standing at the end of the driveway, looking bedraggled as fuck, making "efforts" to hail a cab as they stood nearly on the road in 6am broad daylight…
One of these men stood out to me, given his slightly largish frame of well over 6ft4 and hulking!…
Then I noticed he had what appeared to be an entire branch/ tree/ twig combo caught up in his shirt and hair…
That bedraggled, treed-up, frankenmonster looking muthafucker?
BRETT "QUENTIN LYNCH" SPINKS!!
(*seriously, Lynch = Spinks 2K5! And is Lynch the Biggest Dummy Full Forward to ever play more than 2 games???)
Of course, I saw time to comment on his state whilst breezing by at 60k/h with my head out the window:
"SPIINNNKKKSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! YOU SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCK!"
(why do I always run into AFL footballers when Im at my brazen best after a bender?…that other time with Belly in Subi got ugly…wtf is a Freo boy livin in Subi?!)
Giovanni says:
Ah, what a sad end for Sando. Damn - and it seemed like that "5 minute warning" came a full hour before the siren.
Hopefully old man Ricco will play on.
I think that the GFC, missing Oh Brad, Baldy Chapman, Wijinski, Riccardi, King (in the last qarter and a half), Baby Jesus, Chambers (No 2 ruckman) and having Harlo and Gary Jr play the last quarter with dodge hammys, did ok. Well played Cats.
GO THE SAINTS!
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
Mate, I'd just top meself and be done with it! Honestly, I was so ensconsed on willing home a *cough*second-team*cough Sydney, that I paid no mind to the opposition, until you can see that EXACT moment when their collective hearts BREAK! - when Davis kicks the final goal - Corey (on the ground) looks at the ball go through, THEN has a more telling look where he stared straight into the crowd and you could SEE him thinking "Fuck!, not just the match, there goes the season!" Brilliant!
The 5-minute warning is to let the Sydney timekeeper know how long they could keep the ball in the forward 50, and then to recheck the clock once Sydney claimed the lead…*bounce* SIREN!
(speaking of such, how classic was it to see the Geezer Bad Sports crowds put up umbrella's to signal pulling the team off for Bad Light - so the Aussie supporters retaliated by taking of their shirts to show how "hot & sunny" it was…THAT'S SPORTSMANSHIP you limey bastards! Who cheers paying record prices for no play???)
In reality tho - King and Ottens both had ordinary years, Chapman woulda been handy, Woja missed whole year, and where was RicciRicardo all game? Stupid bloody conditions at any rate!(oh yes, and sorry about forgetting to mention that beating the 2005 Broadbridge Banda-Aceh Wagon comes at a price - eternal damnation via the Curse Of Troy! ie losing by a goal in final second of game heartbreaker! That'll learn ya!)
Onwards Mighty Monts & Swans!!
KL says:
I really should have posted this picture here, but I did it in the Doc Whieldon thread, so you'll have to go and look there instead. [url=http://www.djkl.com/news/uploads/davis.jpg]Or just click here[/url]
KizzL says:
Well we may have lost the Ashes, thanks to the vagaries of there not being enough light to play cricket in the MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING DAY but overall the Poms were the better side. It was sad not to be able to witness the full potential of that final test though… imagine the Aussie having to chase 300 off 50 overs in proper sunlight to win. That would have been awesome.
Anyway, this is a fantastic picture of Tait's only good ball for the day. I call it "The Magical Levitating Stump":
[img]http://www.djkl.com/news/uploads/tait.jpg[/img]
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
Nice "block" shithead!! And celebrated in style with a Danny Green Neck-Vein-bulging "Fuckin A!"
Did I mention before I hate Kuntin Pieterson? Great baseballer, no offside shots, should have an awesome 2 year career once his youth/ energy disappear and is left with the most heavily flawed slugging "batting" technique in the world! He was trying to f'n hook Bing from 2 metres outside offstump?!? Pre-meditated much?
and then he turns out to be leading run scorer for the series - somewhat tempered by the fact that Warner was 10th!!
Paul says:
Hey dudes, check this website out, it is so damn hilarious! Some guy’s made family portraits of AFL players and its just crazy, you gotta see it to believe it.
http://www.121s.com/viewtopic.php?t=9709