AFL medals...

[lindsay]

Anyone here had/having a bet on the Coleman or Brownlow?
Me being a Richmond supporter, in May, I put $20 on jack Reiwoldt at
20/1 for the Coleman (he's now 5/1) and the ripper is I put $20 win at
40/1 and $10 place @10/1 on Trent Cotchin for the Brownlow, who is now
3/1 second favorite :)

If Cotch gets up, i'll get a $1000 for a $30 outlay!!!!

Go Cotch!! :)

[Daniel]

"if", Lindsay, "if"!!!

Daniel

[lindsay]

Yeah, I know... but what a bet! 40/1 and he wins? Woo hoo!!!

I'll slap a couple of green ones down for some grog at Mart's puel
party... you know, the one he hasn't actually agreed to yet..:)

Actually, I have a bit of a session lined up for the Cup Day weekend....
I've got a mate who has commandeered a decent sized spit roaster, so
were gunna do a whole lamb on the spit, and hopefully a keg for all the
guys who helped me when the shed and dunny and everything else was built
on my bush-block. Should be a good little piss-up :) There wont be too
much sleep on the saturday nite :)

[Daniel]

Gee, Lindsay, thanks for the invite!!! You *DO* realise all of us here
were there with you......in spirit, if nothing else!?!?!?

Daniel

[foxidrive]

Make mine a double...

> if nothing else!?!?!?
>
> Daniel
>


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Mic

[Lindsay]

"Daniel" <dx...@albury.nospam.net.au> wrote in message
news:p67jg9-...@nntp0.iseek.com.au...

> lindsay wrote:
>> Anyone here had/having a bet on the Coleman or Brownlow?
>> Me being a Richmond supporter, in May, I put $20 on jack Reiwoldt at
>> 20/1 for the Coleman (he's now 5/1)

Whoops! That should have been $10.00 at 20/1

Well, I dunno wether to wait till Cotch gets up, or go collect my $210 on
Jack now.... :)

> and the ripper is I put $20 win at
>> 40/1 and $10 place @10/1 on Trent Cotchin for the Brownlow, who is now
>> 3/1 second favorite :)

tab has him equal fav @ 5/2
tatts has him equal fav @ 9/2
sportsbet has him equal fav @ 3/1

Remembering Abblett had two weeks off earlier this year, Cotchin has played
all 23 games..

>> If Cotch gets up, i'll get a $1000 for a $30 outlay!!!!
>>
>> Go Cotch!! :)
>
> "if", Lindsay, "if"!!!

Well, one half is in.... :-)
>
> Daniel
>

[David J Richardson]

In article <5045d1bf$0$1788$c3e8da3$7649...@news.astraweb.com>,

"Lindsay" <ask.me...@hornet.net.ay.you> wrote:

> Remembering Abblett had two weeks off earlier this year, Cotchin has
> played all 23 games..

It's a Fairest & Best award, remember. Fair players don't insist on
more games than they were allocated.

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[Lindsay]

"Daniel" <dx...@albury.nospam.net.au> wrote in message

news:dpakg9-...@nntp0.iseek.com.au...

>> Actually, I have a bit of a session lined up for the Cup Day weekend....
>> I've got a mate who has commandeered a decent sized spit roaster, so
>> were gunna do a whole lamb on the spit, and hopefully a keg for all the
>> guys who helped me when the shed and dunny and everything else was built
>> on my bush-block. Should be a good little piss-up :) There wont be too
>> much sleep on the saturday nite :)
>>
>>
>
> Gee, Lindsay, thanks for the invite!!! You *DO* realise all of us here
> were there with you......in spirit, if nothing else!?!?!?

Not ALL.. some tea sipping crossant eating inner city wannabe's wern't too
happy about me speaking about regional Victoria; you know, all they wanted
to hear was their tram timetables, and where they could get a dodgy dim
sim...

Should be a good blast (pardon the pun)...We'll have the Aust "C" grade
champ in a shootoff with a B grade shooter, I've just shot and killed $300
worth of wild dogs ( ok thats a bit missleading, I was lucky enough to shoot
6 wild dog pups (I'll bet the adults were wild!) with 6 rounds, before they
grew into a pack of adult wild dogs.) I feel like John Wayne after the
Alamo :)
I havent shot so good since I was 18 years old. Pics to come.... (tonight or
tommorow nite...)

Current bounty on wild dogs regardless of age(afaik) is $50.00 each, hence
$300.

[Marts]

Lindsay wrote...

> worth of wild dogs ( ok thats a bit missleading, I was lucky enough to shoot
> 6 wild dog pups (I'll bet the adults were wild!) with 6 rounds, before they
> grew into a pack of adult wild dogs.) I feel like John Wayne after the
> Alamo :)

It's a shame that you're having to do that. As a dog lover (we have two JRTs) it
makes us angry that negligent owners allow their dogs to escape like that, or
worse - they dump them up the bush because they're too lazy deal with them more
humanely.

What breeds are you seeing out there?

[Daniel]

Lindsay wrote:

<Snip>

> Remembering Abblett had two weeks off earlier this year, Cotchin has played
> all 23 games..
>

What, Lindsay, did Cotchin play a starring game for the seconds one week
as well as the 22 games that the seniors played (even if the 22 were
spread over 23 weeks)??

Daniel

[lindsay]

On 5/09/2012 10:30 PM, Daniel wrote:
> Lindsay wrote:
>
> <Snip>
>> Remembering Abblett had two weeks off earlier this year, Cotchin has
>> played
>> all 23 games..
>>
>
> What, Lindsay, did Cotchin play a starring game for the seconds one week
> as well as the 22 games that the seniors played

probably, he's that good afaic.

(even if the 22 were
> spread over 23 weeks)??

ya got me. I forgot about the bye...

[lindsay]

On 4/09/2012 10:41 PM, Marts wrote:
> Lindsay wrote...
>
>> worth of wild dogs ( ok thats a bit missleading, I was lucky enough to shoot
>> 6 wild dog pups (I'll bet the adults were wild!) with 6 rounds, before they
>> grew into a pack of adult wild dogs.) I feel like John Wayne after the
>> Alamo :)
>
> It's a shame that you're having to do that.

I must admit, when I yelled at one to make it prop before it got back to
the scrub, i had a twinge of sorrow (i guess) coz a couple of them
seemed quite cute. Then I remembered what they are capable of one out,
let alone in a pack. And a pack is the LAST think i want on my joint.

> As a dog lover (we have two JRTs) it
> makes us angry that negligent owners allow their dogs to escape like that, or
> worse - they dump them up the bush because they're too lazy deal with them more
> humanely.
>

As a shooter, I think hunting with dogs should be banned full stop.

> What breeds are you seeing out there?

The one that started it all was seen 2 months ago casing down some
'roos. It was huge, easily the biggest dog i've ever seen. Only way to
describe it is I thought it looked like a small tiger, and it ran with
the same gait.

A month ago, it scared the bejesus outa me... i was eating mt dinner,
and this thing howled at the full moon, not more than 300 metres away
from me. I thought I was on a horror film movie set. As I was by myself,
i thought it prudent to stay where I was, I just made sure the shotty
was close and handy. Did 50 klms on the quad bike the next day looking
for it, with no luck.

Anyway, there's this smell coming from the otherside of the fence, so I
go over and discoverthere are 3 dead roos spread out over around 500
metres. and one of 'em had a set of brown ears sticking above the
carcass. Fox I thought. went back and got Betsy, my trusty .223, went
back and this guy was trotting away back towards the scrub.

> http://www.hornet.net.au/pics/dog/dog1.jpg

This one I immediatly thought had some Shepard in it. Then later in the
afternoon, i got some more of the litter.

> http://www.hornet.net.au/pics/dog/dog1and2.jpg
#2 looked a bit dingoish to me..

and then another (this pic is a bit gruesome...)

> http://www.hornet.net.au/pics/dog/dog2_1_3.jpg
The one at the botton (#3) has a foxish head

And later in the evening just before sunset

> http://www.hornet.net.au/pics/dog/dog4.jpg

Got the last 2 on Monday morning

> http://www.hornet.net.au/pics/dog/dog5and6.jpg

I spoke to the local Dept of Primary Industries dog man, and lo and
behold, he shot a huge bitch, full of milk, 3 weeks ago in a pine
plantation very close to my place, so we think these guys have been
without their mother and were surviving on roo meat. Apparently there's
going to be a concerted effort to 1080 bait a large area, including my
place, which I have agreed to.

I dont like or want wild dogs around the place when my son is riding his
quad. We actually banned him from riding alone until now.









>

[Daniel]

lindsay wrote:
> On 5/09/2012 10:30 PM, Daniel wrote:
>> Lindsay wrote:

<Snip>

> (even if the 22 were
>> spread over 23 weeks)??
>
> ya got me. I forgot about the bye...
>

If you listen to the Coaches, etc, the game is played at such a pace,
now-a-days, that they all want bye's, so I reckon what the AFL should do
is get rid of the pre-season comp (all the teams play other pracky
matches anyway!), and have the 22 rounds over 25 weeks, with split
rounds at about rounds 5, 10 and 15.

On the split rounds, they could have six home and away games on the
first week-end and three home and away games with an interstate game
with these players drawn from the teams that played on the first week on
the second week-end.

Just my thought!!

Daniel

[lindsay]

On 6/09/2012 7:49 PM, Erik Vastmasd wrote:
> I caught a glimpse of lindsay <ask.me...@hornet.net.ay.you> on Thu,
> 06 Sep 2012 07:08:56 +1000, writing in melb.general:
>
> <snipped>

>
>> As a shooter, I think hunting with dogs should be banned full stop.
>

> I was a shooter once but handed my firearms in to the Police as I got
> older and didn't think I would be out shooting again.
>
> But hunting with dogs?

Yeah, I was probably a bit fast there. They should ban hunting deer with
dogs. Or introduce some penalty system so if your dog is caught,
or shot running wild and free, the owner will be penalised heavily.
But that would mean mandatory mircochipping, which will never happen...

>
> Some years ago a few of us used to go away camping, one of my friends
> had an Afghan Hound, I had a German Short Haired Pointer and a Labrador,
> they were all bitches and didn't get on to well. But on a Sunday morning
> while we were away us two dog owners would take the three bitches out
> looking for rabbits, where they all cooperated together.
>
> We would take 4 stubbies and sit on a rock overlooking a gully, the
> Afghan always sat beside me while the GSH Pointer checked out the bushes
> in the gully. The Pointer hadn't been taught to retrieve and any of her
> kills were retrieved by the Labrador.
>
> Some rabbits being frightened away by my two bitches left the bushes and
> started running up the opposite bank, then away would go the Afghan
> Hound like lightening and catch them before they got half way up the
> opposite bank. The Labrador would retrieve those rabbits too.
>
> In two hours we would walk back to camp with up to 30 rabbits which
> provided a feast for humans and bitches alike.


Yum. Sounds like a lot of fun, and no-ones getting hurt, cept the
rabbits. Last time I saw rabbits for sale they were $24.00 each at Southland
I've got a few running around my place, but we tend to let 'em grow up a
bit, and just before we knock a few off, the Calesievirus knocks 'em off
around January. :(

[lindsay]

On 8/09/2012 7:30 PM, Daniel wrote:
> lindsay wrote:
>> On 5/09/2012 10:30 PM, Daniel wrote:
>>> Lindsay wrote:
>
> <Snip>
>
>> (even if the 22 were
>>> spread over 23 weeks)??
>>
>> ya got me. I forgot about the bye...
>>
>
> If you listen to the Coaches, etc, the game is played at such a pace,
> now-a-days, that they all want bye's, so I reckon what the AFL should do
> is get rid of the pre-season comp (all the teams play other pracky
> matches anyway!), and have the 22 rounds over 25 weeks, with split
> rounds at about rounds 5, 10 and 15.

I'd just be happy with every team playing everyother team once, ala
hardwicks plan of 17 rounds.

[Daniel]

lindsay wrote:
> On 8/09/2012 7:30 PM, Daniel wrote:
>> lindsay wrote:
>>> On 5/09/2012 10:30 PM, Daniel wrote:
>>>> Lindsay wrote:
>>
>> <Snip>
>>
>>> (even if the 22 were
>>>> spread over 23 weeks)??
>>>
>>> ya got me. I forgot about the bye...
>>>
>>
>> If you listen to the Coaches, etc, the game is played at such a pace,
>> now-a-days, that they all want bye's, so I reckon what the AFL should do
>> is get rid of the pre-season comp (all the teams play other pracky
>> matches anyway!), and have the 22 rounds over 25 weeks, with split
>> rounds at about rounds 5, 10 and 15.
>
>
> I'd just be happy with every team playing everyother team once, ala
> hardwicks plan of 17 rounds.
>

In my version, the eighteen teams would be split up into three groups of
six and each team would play the other five teams twice (shock, horror,
home and away matches!!) and the other twelve teams once.

And the groups of six *would* *not* be top six, middle six and bottom
six, but, rather, something like 1, 4, 7, 12, 15 & 18th teams in one
group, 2, 5, 8, 11, 14 and 17th teams in the second group and 3, 6, 9,
10, 13 and 16th teams in the third group.

To get a spread of good, so-so and weaker teams in each group!

And for the round that includes the now "Traditional" ANZAC Day match
between Collingwood and Essendon, the other matches would be West Coast
v Freoo, Adelaide v Port, Brisbane v Gold Coast, Sydney v Greater
Western Sydney, Geelong v Footscray (sorry Western!!), Carlton v North,
St Kilda v Hawthorn and *the* *battle* *of* *the *"G"*, Richmond v
Melbourne!! All "local" battles!!

But the likelihood of anything like that happening?????

Daniel (who, obviously, has too much time to think about things!!)

[lindsay]

"Erik Vastmasd" <erik....@sd.invalid> wrote in message
news:ab575e...@mid.individual.net...
>
> I'm happy to go along with "they should ban hunting deer with dogs" and
> pig shooting etc. where most of the work is done by dogs anyway. I feel
> sorry for country property owners who have to suffer because of the
> damage hungry lost dogs can cause.

I'm not a deer shooter, hell, I'm not much of a shooter full stop.
But when I read that a sheep farmer in Corryong(sp?) has had 2000
sheep (not 200, 2000!) sheep (not lambs, sheep!) destroyed by
wild dogs that live in the Alpine National Park which abutts to her
property, well, I suddenly lose all praise for the Dept of primary industry
or whatever they are called this week.

And we hear nothing from the likes of Stevo, melb.generals very own Greens
voter.
The silence is deafening from him and his latte sipping wannabe mates...
No yelling that the bounty on feral animals should be quadripled, no
apologising that reasonable shooters should be allowed access to class c
firearms,
no allowing licenced shooters into the Alpine National Park to do the DPI's
job,
no support or thanks for doing the govts job in other parks, no nothing.

No suprise. They will now have to find another hook to hang their
handbag from, as the Greens vote has dropped from 14% to 8%,
and is going south at a rapid rate.

As I said a while ago, say bye bye to the Greens, just like we said bye bye
to the Democraps. Seems like we've all had a taste of their policy, and
spat it out. Shame that Juliar has ruined the country in the process of
being the red headed harridan she is.

End of rant. Sorry :)

[lindsay]

On 10/09/2012 9:40 PM, Daniel wrote:

> In my version, the eighteen teams would be split up into three groups of
> six and each team would play the other five teams twice (shock, horror,
> home and away matches!!) and the other twelve teams once.
>
> And the groups of six *would* *not* be top six, middle six and bottom
> six, but, rather, something like 1, 4, 7, 12, 15 & 18th teams in one
> group, 2, 5, 8, 11, 14 and 17th teams in the second group and 3, 6, 9,
> 10, 13 and 16th teams in the third group.
>
> To get a spread of good, so-so and weaker teams in each group!
>
> And for the round that includes the now "Traditional" ANZAC Day match
> between Collingwood and Essendon, the other matches would be West Coast
> v Freoo, Adelaide v Port, Brisbane v Gold Coast, Sydney v Greater
> Western Sydney, Geelong v Footscray (sorry Western!!), Carlton v North,
> St Kilda v Hawthorn and *the* *battle* *of* *the *"G"*, Richmond v
> Melbourne!! All "local" battles!!
>
> But the likelihood of anything like that happening?????

Whilst it looks good on paper, it's $$$$$ thats drives the AFL, and
thats why they do the draw the way they do. To maximise income.

> Daniel (who, obviously, has too much time to think about things!!)

I'll give ya 9/10 for the above tho. :)

>

[Daniel]

Ow!! Now let me see...how can I impove it for that 10/10 grading??

Daniel

[lindsay]

On 15/09/2012 7:40 PM, Daniel wrote:

>>> And for the round that includes the now "Traditional" ANZAC Day match
>>> between Collingwood and Essendon, the other matches would be West Coast
>>> v Freoo, Adelaide v Port, Brisbane v Gold Coast, Sydney v Greater
>>> Western Sydney, Geelong v Footscray (sorry Western!!), Carlton v North,
>>> St Kilda v Hawthorn and *the* *battle* *of* *the *"G"*, Richmond v
>>> Melbourne!! All "local" battles!!
>>>
>>> But the likelihood of anything like that happening?????
>>
>> Whilst it looks good on paper, it's $$$$$ thats drives the AFL, and
>> thats why they do the draw the way they do. To maximise income.
>>
>>
>>> Daniel (who, obviously, has too much time to think about things!!)
>>
>> I'll give ya 9/10 for the above tho. :)
>>
>>>
>>
>
> Ow!! Now let me see...how can I impove it for that 10/10 grading??

Ok, make Richmond play Essendon or Carlton, and richmond have friday
night tv game every week, and i'll give ya 10/10. :)

[Daniel]

But what a waste of good viewing time then, Lindsay!!

Daniel

[lindsay]

On 16/09/2012 7:50 PM, Daniel wrote:
> lindsay wrote:

>>> Ow!! Now let me see...how can I impove it for that 10/10 grading??
>>
>>
>> Ok, make Richmond play Essendon or Carlton, and richmond have friday
>> night tv game every week, and i'll give ya 10/10. :)
>>
>
> But what a waste of good viewing time then, Lindsay!!

not if youre a richmond supporter! :)

[Daniel]

And, Lindsay, do you reckon I'm a tigers supporter?? Sure, we wear a
basically black jumper, but we have a red strip!!

Daniel

[lindsay]

for anyone interested, here's the parents....
(warning: dead animals)
http://www.hornet.net.au/wilddogs1.jpg

The top one is the one I described below, the middle one would have to
be the dad, and the last one was the mum.

Bounty on wild dogs is now $100. it's still not enough.