Perhaps on that first, tragic day of 18 customers, he had a point. Today, when I barely had time to scratch myself for giving advice on diseases ranging from the cough of a common cold to how best to handle the four medications prescribed to deal with the nausea that will come with the chemotherapy, I'd done enough to prove that youth and inexperience don't necessarily mean you err. Hindsight is a wonderful thing however. Which is why we need to turn its judgemental eyes to the White men's decisions of last week
- St. Kilda pushed Collingwood. The footy world predicted it. Einsteins we are not. One from one, we move on
- It was Freo's Grand Final. FFS! How many Grand Finals have they competed in? Precisely. Please direct all abuse and witticisms at @Freo_Dockers (Fake Fremantle Dockers). You won't regret it. One from two.
- Henty's new medical centre. It won't be new, it will be the refurbishment I feared. It comes with the promise form the Greater Southern Area Health Service that there will always be a doctor in Henty (*Cough* Bullshit *Cough*) and that the the renovations will allow him to take on an intern to lessesn the load (lord please be truth). It also comes with a potential $300,000 State Government grant. I did know that, but that the person agitating for the new medical centre lied to the community about this fact did not help our cause. We may get the grant, we may not. So as of today, it's a wash. One and a half out of Three.
- This was just a statement about how proud dad was of his softball girls (Awwwwww...)
So a 50% record. We'd get a job for channel 7 as it stands.
Sadly, I hope you didn't come here for anything other than footy tonight. Because that's all the discussion circled around. So here we go...
** There's Collingwood who will likely win the flag (60% chance). There's the biggest threat Geelong who are still outstanding and as hard as nails to boot (25%). There's Hawthorn who are playing exciting footy and could '08 it. (at 10pm of their premiership window they stole one and are at the 15% chance they were in '08). There's Carlton at 0% chance of winning the flag and a 20% chance of beating Hawthorn tonight (been and done, but we said this at 6:30pm). You heard it it here first and worst.
** Sydney aren't in a good way right now. St. Kilda are. And it isn't at the SCG, it's at ANZ stadium. Sydney's loss to Richmond last weekend said nothing about the Tigers and everything about Sydney. They're not in a goo... Oh. I said that. We'll see.
** Melbourne and Richmond is ridiculously tough to tip. But going out on the Fremantle limb (geez, didn't that work well), neither team is remotely good and Melbourne with all their turmoil will have set themselves for this. If they can't get up this week I would be massively concerned as a supporter. You lost your coach you didn't want to play for, your president that is your club icon and you love to death probably has several new stress related brain tumours (so you literally have loved him to death), and if you look at your draw, it's improbable but not impossible to make the final 8. To paraphrase Warrick Capper; "Richmond are as weak as piss, let's murder the bastards!".
** No rethink at Collingwood? I've heard that Mick should only take so much credit and it's the assistants and the set up that deserve the praise. Bucks will fit in like, um, a well fitting glove after back to back flags.
Bollocks. He's on a hiding to nothing. What's left after Mick leaves that sort of legacy? A club not willing to run through the brick wall for a flag, that's what. And don't give me this assistants and VFL staff bullshit. Who did the players run to embrace after they won last year? Mick Malthouse is the Wayne Bennett of the AFL, loved and respected by all the players. Good luck with that Bucks. Especially if Mick decides he has a point to prove to the Collingwood FC. And I don't doubt he will have. When he arrived, his claim was that he wanted to turn them into the Manchester United of the AFL. I laughed then. I don't now. He has done it, and the club is going to cast him aside as a "mentor". No they aren't, not if he doesn't want it. So many clubs in the AFL would take him on as coach in a heartbeat right now and that's where my money is. He'll stick it up Collingwood. Dad and I aren't betting against him. Too clever by half with your succession plan Magpies. But that's Eddie everywhere to a tee. Love your mates when you've got 'em, burn 'em when it's past time.
** Speaking of St. George and Wayne Bennett, did he lose his team when he announced the Newcastle signing? If you're a Dragon through and through, do you want to run through the brick wall for him anymore? Pete says no and it's hard to argue. We were going to win another flag hands down. It's a shame it may end like this. You wouldn't put a red (and white) cent on the Dragons to win the flag anymore. And they should have.
So that's the week that was. Not a single Keno number. Three middies at the club. Hawthorn much better than the scoreline suggested, but likely not good enough to trouble the Magpies. But the beauty is in waiting and seeing. Which is what I get to do when Arsenal play Liverpool this week.
And for those that might get the joke that there's only one Denis Bergkamp well I say to you; there's only one Carl Jenkinson.
I failed the fitness test. I could only kick the footy 20 metres, not my normal range of 30. I don't get to play tomorrow, so I need another scotch. Down, down, down; down into my belly.
Stay cluey sports fans, you need to pick apart what the White's have got wrong. Cheers 'til then,
White Ox.
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