Ext User(David Clayton)
02-02-2008, 01:14 PM
From http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/not-far-
enough/2008/02/01/1201801039811.html
Not far enough
Leaping Larry
February 2, 2008
I THINK Africa is an excellent choice of venue for certain football
matches, although I'm not 100% sure about the choice of teams for this
weekend's Carlton-Fremantle game in Pretoria. Call me a visionary, but I
can see Port Adelaide playing all its games in Africa at some point in
the future. They can make sure they take their coach, their rancid theme
song, and all their fans with them as well. However, I don't see any real
need for other AFL teams to become involved. Well, maybe one or two of
the other interstate clubs. And that Gold Coast franchise we've been so
desperately needing. And all the howler-monkeys who insist on doing
entertainment over the PA system during breaks in the football when
you're trying to have a quiet chat with your mates, or listen to the
radio summary. I think football and Africa would be the only winners.
Well, more football really.
J.P. Page
Eaglemont
Dead-set beret-wearer
PEOPLE seem to be underrating the Asian Champions League as a very
exciting and original concept. It's that unique combination of all the
best performed teams from the entire Asian and Middle-Eastern regions in
that year, plus two teams who went really well in the A-League one year
earlier, but may have completely crapped out and become a shambles in the
subsequent season that is entirely completed before they play in the
Asian Champions League.
I mean, other similar competitions only have the best teams in them. How
dull, how yesteryear, how jejune.
P. Plant
Lower Plenty
Square none
YOU know how we always hear all that stuff about the AFL, the players'
association and the clubs giving players all that guidance, and seminars,
and counselling and codes of conduct about how to behave in a creditable
manner both on and off the field, and after they leave football? Well, on
the evidence to hand, both in recent times, and going back over the last
few years or so, I have to say they need to: (a) use more diagrams; (b)
talk more slowly during the meetings, and possibly repeat the key points
more often; (c) look into technological developments to see if the
information can be fired directly into the subjects' brains; (d)
discourage the players from using cars, alcohol, drugs, nightclubs, and
possibly money; (e) discourage the players from ever actually leaving the
field, let alone the country; (f) go back to the ol' drawing board.
J. H. Bonham
Keysborough
Clear as cement
AFTER a complete and exhaustive study of all events up to and including
the hearing and final resolution of the Harbhajan Singh/Andrew Symonds
affair, I find myself having to admit that I may have been too harsh in
the past about the incomprehensibility of the Duckworth-Lewis system for
resolving shortened one-day matches. Next to this mess, the Duckworth-
Lewis system is about as complicated as the content of Australia's
Funniest Home Videos.
J.P. Jones
Edithvale
Greater tradition
AS I'D guessed, there is already a great deal of ill-informed hue and cry
about the decision in the Harbhajan Singh case, such as the letter from
J.P. Jones ("Letterbox" 2/2). Yes, the man who was accused of committing
the offence was found not guilty of it, and yet still fined. Yes, the
cricketer who accused him was denounced as the real instigator, but
received no penalty. Yes, the vital evidence that would have impacted on
the case was rendered unavailable to the arbiter, owing to world
cricket's governing body, the ICC, being, err, asleep, or out of the room
getting chalk from the hall cupboard, or the dog ate the evidence, or
whatever it was. But both investigations and findings are completely in
step with the greater tradition of cricket. For example, since the World
Cup, Bob Woolmer was declared murdered, then not murdered, and now all
these months later, there's still apparently no findings at all. You
can't fight greater tradition.
Peter Grant
Lalor
--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
enough/2008/02/01/1201801039811.html
Not far enough
Leaping Larry
February 2, 2008
I THINK Africa is an excellent choice of venue for certain football
matches, although I'm not 100% sure about the choice of teams for this
weekend's Carlton-Fremantle game in Pretoria. Call me a visionary, but I
can see Port Adelaide playing all its games in Africa at some point in
the future. They can make sure they take their coach, their rancid theme
song, and all their fans with them as well. However, I don't see any real
need for other AFL teams to become involved. Well, maybe one or two of
the other interstate clubs. And that Gold Coast franchise we've been so
desperately needing. And all the howler-monkeys who insist on doing
entertainment over the PA system during breaks in the football when
you're trying to have a quiet chat with your mates, or listen to the
radio summary. I think football and Africa would be the only winners.
Well, more football really.
J.P. Page
Eaglemont
Dead-set beret-wearer
PEOPLE seem to be underrating the Asian Champions League as a very
exciting and original concept. It's that unique combination of all the
best performed teams from the entire Asian and Middle-Eastern regions in
that year, plus two teams who went really well in the A-League one year
earlier, but may have completely crapped out and become a shambles in the
subsequent season that is entirely completed before they play in the
Asian Champions League.
I mean, other similar competitions only have the best teams in them. How
dull, how yesteryear, how jejune.
P. Plant
Lower Plenty
Square none
YOU know how we always hear all that stuff about the AFL, the players'
association and the clubs giving players all that guidance, and seminars,
and counselling and codes of conduct about how to behave in a creditable
manner both on and off the field, and after they leave football? Well, on
the evidence to hand, both in recent times, and going back over the last
few years or so, I have to say they need to: (a) use more diagrams; (b)
talk more slowly during the meetings, and possibly repeat the key points
more often; (c) look into technological developments to see if the
information can be fired directly into the subjects' brains; (d)
discourage the players from using cars, alcohol, drugs, nightclubs, and
possibly money; (e) discourage the players from ever actually leaving the
field, let alone the country; (f) go back to the ol' drawing board.
J. H. Bonham
Keysborough
Clear as cement
AFTER a complete and exhaustive study of all events up to and including
the hearing and final resolution of the Harbhajan Singh/Andrew Symonds
affair, I find myself having to admit that I may have been too harsh in
the past about the incomprehensibility of the Duckworth-Lewis system for
resolving shortened one-day matches. Next to this mess, the Duckworth-
Lewis system is about as complicated as the content of Australia's
Funniest Home Videos.
J.P. Jones
Edithvale
Greater tradition
AS I'D guessed, there is already a great deal of ill-informed hue and cry
about the decision in the Harbhajan Singh case, such as the letter from
J.P. Jones ("Letterbox" 2/2). Yes, the man who was accused of committing
the offence was found not guilty of it, and yet still fined. Yes, the
cricketer who accused him was denounced as the real instigator, but
received no penalty. Yes, the vital evidence that would have impacted on
the case was rendered unavailable to the arbiter, owing to world
cricket's governing body, the ICC, being, err, asleep, or out of the room
getting chalk from the hall cupboard, or the dog ate the evidence, or
whatever it was. But both investigations and findings are completely in
step with the greater tradition of cricket. For example, since the World
Cup, Bob Woolmer was declared murdered, then not murdered, and now all
these months later, there's still apparently no findings at all. You
can't fight greater tradition.
Peter Grant
Lalor
--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com