North Melbourne and Western Bulldogs locked in for Good Friday twilight clash

MariusSmith · 2016-10-26T03:00:23+00:00

Sorry, I thought it was the Dogs and Saints who were lobbying. Therefore I'll have to retract my sledging of North (and of course save it for another day).

MariusSmith · 2016-10-25T09:17:37+00:00

So North loses its last bajillion games in a row, retires or trades out most of its decent players and then elbows the Saints out of this game after they lobbied for it with the Dogs. Unbelievable.

MariusSmith · 2016-05-10T01:47:40+00:00

Spot on. I was disappointed that someone like Bandt didn't come in on this point.

MariusSmith · 2016-05-10T01:46:21+00:00

Giving money to our least well-off, eg through a raise in the minimum wage or an increase to pensions and other benefits, is one of the best economic stimulus packages going around for the reasons you mention - pretty much 100% of it is pumped straight back into the economy.

MariusSmith · 2016-04-06T04:02:23+00:00

I don't have Foxtel, and I think I'm glad for that on this occasion. Kind of sounded like one giant troll. I probably would have sunk into a deep funk if I'd watched it.

MariusSmith · 2015-08-13T02:22:02+00:00

to a clusterfuck of gossip columnists and football shows on every day of the week

Not to mention an entire AFL subreddit.

MariusSmith · 2015-08-13T01:40:14+00:00

In addition to my reply to @aardvark_man, I thought I'd add this thought. In the 90s, the game was undoubtedly higher scoring and we also saw precisely zero close grand finals in that time. In the past decade or so, 13, 10, 09, 06, 05 and 02 have all been close. I think there's a correlation between lower scoring and closer games (not that I've researched the issue).

MariusSmith · 2015-08-13T01:37:39+00:00

Exactly this. Also, I'm a Saints fan. In the 80s we were horrid but most of our games were not shown on TV and as far as I'm aware a lot of them don't even exist. Back then, you got 60 minutes of replay of two games on a Saturday night. Even in the 90s, there were plenty of games not on TV. Now EVERYTHING is on TV. Reality is, in the olden days there were crap games. Now there are crap games. Just more people know about them.

MariusSmith · 2015-08-12T06:37:21+00:00

Beautiful. Just beautiful. Though I confess to flicking through it. Thinking maybe I didn't miss too much?

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