special k

my how the worm turns. it was only a couple of weeks ago that weagles fans were calling for all sorts of medieval torture to be inflicted on barry hall for snotting staker. now it's daniel 'wayne' kerr's turn to have a 'brain snap', flattening scott west with a headbutt. not only that, but staker's been reported for striking.

i'll be very interested this week to see what slime fans have to say about the ketamine kerr incident. the excuse of retaliation due to being scragged off the ball isn't open to them since they said hall couldn't use it. they called for hall to get 18 weeks (rest of the season) so let's see if they apply the same standard to 'special k' or expose themselves as the hypocrites i suspect them to be.

1 friggin point!!

well, it was hard to take the loss but i was very proud of the boys last night. they took the game right up to geelong and should have won. sandilands played the best game i've seen from him. crowley and carr were as tough as ever. and of course, there was super-pav. hopefully this is the week that the team turns the corner and starts winning a few games. although it's always hard to accept a loss, it's a lot easier when the team plays like they did last night instead of how they did against richmond.

as far as the lost time goes, it wasn't a factor in us losing last night but could easily cost a team the game in the future and needs to be sorted.

half time thoughts

it's half time in the freo vs adelaide match and we're behind. the first half has confirmed two things for me. firstly, our skill level is nowhere near that needed to be successful. the number of times we turn the ball over through a poor handball or kick is completely unacceptable and has to be urgently addressed. it's a problem we've had since the club was formed and costs us a lot.

the second thing is that glen jakovich is a small, petty man who still holds a grudge against freo. it's been a long time since i've heard such blatantly biased commentary. i don't think i've heard him make a single positive comment about freo but he's quick to sink the boot at every opportunity. what a chump!!

a new low in reality tele

i've had the misfortune to catch the end of 'my kid's a star' for the past couple of weeks whilst waiting for underbelly to come on. this is a seriously disgusting show. forget the fact that the kids are mediocre talents at best.. the parents are not fit to have kids. what sort of parent puts their kid in a show like this. the bit i saw of tonight's show involved the kids busking on the streets while their parents ran around hassling the public for money. the attitude of the parents in the debriefing interviews was despicable. one mother (who looks like a transvestite) talked about how she was accosting families with kids and abusing them when they didn't give her money. what a classy piece of work that one is. i guess with the way reality shows were heading i shouldn't be surprised at this steaming pile of parrot droppings.. but it doesn't mean i've gotta like it.

big bad bustling barry hall

so bazza got 7 weeks and the weagles fans are crying the roof down. i get the feeling that even if he'd been hung by his bollocks from a subi oval light tower and left there until the birds had pecked his bones clean there'd still be some footy-ignorant weagles fans whinging that he'd got off lightly. "he should have had to wait til his wrist was healed before being hanged" they'd whine in their posh accents whilst dining on caviar and champagne. i find it very interesting that when steven baker got 7 weeks for snotting jeff farmer behind play last year there wasn't a peep from these people who now reckon it's worth at least 18 weeks (rest of the season). what a bunch of hypocrites. as for their cries for legal action, they should be careful what they wish for as one of their key midfielders is well known for his dirty play and would be a prime target for legal action should that pandora's box be opened.

let's hope we can now get on with the season and have some degree of rationality back.

footy reality

if i ever consider tipping freo, e-girls, adelaide or port bogans again on the weekend after the derby and showdown games will someone please hit me over the head?

what a ripper!!

say what you like about this incident but one thing that can't be denied is that it was a ripper of a left hook and hit staker right on the button. for me, the funniest part of the whole thing is watching hunter's pathetic performance. he comes in to fly the flag for staker, realises he'll get creamed by big bad bustling bazza so takes a dive like a blubbering little girl and hides on the ground. i love that he's gonna see this footage for the rest of his life and constantly be reminded of it.

the quarter time tussle between waters and bbbbh really shows how soft the weagles are. only one bloke had the balls to actually have a go at hall whilst the others just wandered meekly past. how shameful.

v festival

i've just got home from v festival and what a good time it was. i got there fairly late and caught the end of cut copy's set. they seemed pretty cool and i'd be keen to see them again. following them was the legendary the jesus and mary chain who played a good set.

the highlight for me was a brilliant performance by duran duran. i last saw them play in london four years ago and since then andy taylor's left the band again. i'd also heard mixed reviews of their eastern states shows so was wondering how they'd go. i needn't have worried as they were in good form tonight. of course, it's hard to go wrong when you can pull songs such as planet earth, girls on film, rio, hungry like the wolf, the wild boys, a view to a kill, notorious, the reflex and ordinary world from your back catalogue. simon really seemed to be enjoying himself (and the crowd adulation) and regularly broke out into grins. john's bass playing was masterful and had me spellbound. it's the first time the durans have been to perth since 1983 and i really hope we don't have to wait another 25 years for them to come back.

the final act was the smashing pumpkins and they were also good although suffered from being upstaged by the durans. they didn't play a number of their most well known songs but still kept the crowd happy, particularly when the opening notes of 'today' rang out.

all in all it was a very good concert. i think the $130 ticket price may be a bit steep when you compare it to the number of bands you can choose from at the big day out but then again, it's a smaller crowd here so you can actually get a spot at the front of stage for your favourite bands. i managed to end up right at the front for the durans which helped make the show.

derby 27

how sweet it is!! it was a pretty scrappy game but there were still some great individual performances. roger hayden played a blinder, as did palmer. for him to need 20 staples in the head to hold his brains in after a big knock and still go on to play a dominant game is fantastic. pav was his usual magic self and young maynes also showed a lot. there were a few freo supporters sitting around me and we made more that enough noise to drown out the weagles fans for most of the game. having said that, it's not hard to drown out weagles fans since they only tend to open their gobs to chant 'eagles, eagles' (how creative) after a goal's been kick. wirrpunda was pretty good for the losers, as was ketamine kerr and shirley temple priddis. fletcher flatlined (again) and embley and the albino hansen were hardly sighted. lynch saw his goal tally and thought they'd put his IQ on the board whilst selwood spent the day hiding from des.

after the game there was the usual sour grapes from weagles fans after losing a derby - something that happens more often than not these days - with the attempted jibes of "well, it was freo's grand final". personally, if i was a weagles fan i'd be concerned if my team wasn't approaching a derby with the same amount of passion as freo.. but then again we know which activities they've historically had the most passion for.

as a postscript to the game, there was a standing bet between dean 'soft' cox and heath black that the player from the losing team would don a dress and pose as a mannequin in a myer shop window on monday. sadly the weagles have decided to welsh on the bet and reinforce their image as the afl's most unethical club.

wedding

finally michelle and beava's wedding came around on friday and it was a really lovely day for it. rain had been predicted but held off nicely. it was held in the secret garden at caversham house which is a beautiful locations by the river. it was a great time with good food, a few frothies and a bit of a boogie and fantastic to see them tie the knot.

ren and stimpy

ahhh.. this brings back some memories!!