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Most DOF want their own man/person in the head coach role. Mitchell would be no different and once the rumours of Howe to the England job, you can bet he was relishing getting in "his" guy. EH probably knows he's pissed on Mitchell's chips - just look at Mitchell's face everytime the camera cut to him against Wolves.

Watching St Pauli back in the Bundesliga is like watching Ashley's Newcastle, depressing and turgid.

Has CT got there yet? I feel LTA's only problem is, they are a teenage lass with a thing for pirouetting dark men, and doesn't realise it takes more for us sad middle aged bastards to get excited.

It's the same the world over. We finally have a Labor (that's how they spell it here) government and they live in fear of doing anything meaningful re-green energy or anti fossel fuels because between the murdoch media and the rightwing cunts, they are scared of being hounded out of office. Just stand up and have some balls, do everything you know is right and people will get it but act all meek and the like and the cunts win, just because the mindless think they are the stronger ones.

BTW cunt, who you calling a boomer?!?? 😉

We have the, not often enough, FB chat and yes, checks notes, we can confirm, while we too do not wish to speak for her, she's doing alright. It's been 15 odd years since we saw her smiling face but hey, opposite sides of the world and that.

Seeing @LongTimeAdmirer has us on our best start to the season in 20 years, I would say they are making a meaningful contribution!

I think Cath is still in touch.

Because Australia is full of so many rednecks and long distances, our infrastructure for electric vehicles is fucked. Hybrids are the logical choice here for the moment, so we thought about moving the HR Holden on and went and test drove a Suzuki Swift mild hybrid. Small battery so the car doesn't weigh another 1000kg, self charging and under 30k for the top of the line. We tend to ride the bike or scooter around town, so we only need a car for longer trips and what is the point of having an expensive car bleeding money in the garage. The HR is staying for the moment but with the Swift getting 4L/100km we will probably go that way eventually.

Snap.

Didn't Ant also own the Nissan hairdresser's special?

@Gemmill things like the Smiths vinyl, if you want to get the best money for them, advertise them on a Smiths FB page or forum. Discogs and ebay are all over the shop but useful for price guides.

Fight you for them! Lucky bugger.

People on here seem to get upset when we reference the 70s for some reason, so it's the new Bluey or nothing. A bunch of comedians called the D Gen overdubbed a bunch of Lucky Grills "Bluey" scenes and renamed it Bargearse if you want to relive some of your fan club days @spongebob toonpants

On the subject of our national treasure Bluey, his dad is voiced by the lead singer of 90s Brisvegas indie band, Custard.

Saw them around 90/91 and he was doing that then, man is a fucking bore with a whiny voice.

Once what's left become Gilead, you'll all be aspiring to migrate there, with the chosen ones.

@RobinRobin years ago I worked on a show that did a story on Sophie Monk when she was The Bachelorette. The network was a no smoking building but they allowed her to smoke on the roof terrace because she would have been out the front sucking them down. And that terrace was just outside my office and she just chain smoked with her entourage. Definitely a beer goggles stunner and fuck me, as bogan as they came. Obviously once she tipped over 40 there wasn't enough spackfiller to maintain her TV career (watch her show up on something next month now!)

Actually it is the reverse. Soccer was huge here before WW2, there are records of football ashes matches and I think Australia v NZ was one of, if not the first official national team match, played in the world. And after with the post WW2, European skilled work migration influx to our steelworks and the like industries, it grew even more. But it was around the time of the "ten pound poms" that Australia was barred from FIFA because of issues with the national association, if I remember correctly the various States didn't want to be governed by a national body and because they could not get organised FIFA disoffiliated Australia from playing other countries. Also being the 1950s and 60s it was the time when sport news coverage started to grow and in Victoria the media got behind aerial ping pong (what was then Victorian Rules Football aka AFL) and in NSW/QLD they got behind rugby league, union was for poncey private school boys and amateurs. And that's what fucked football initially in Australia, TV in the 70 and 80s made sure it never had a chance to recover. So then a lot of the migrants, especially their children rejected the old country football and played whatever the "footy" of choice was depending where they lived, in order to assimilate, especially at school. And those that did continue to play football, found that the professional teams all had a home nation association, so as I said prior Sydney Olympic, etc. Both Newcastle and Wollongong were primarily football cities due to their Northern and Welsh roots (Newcastle) and Italian/Greek/Yugoslava (as it was then) populations and that's where I grew up. Eventually with the commercialisation of league, even those two places have moved to league as the number one football. When I was 16/17, I played NSW State second division U18 for Fairy Meadow (suburb of the "Gong") Italia. They were paying their first team players more than what a lot of the National Soccer League were playing their first team. It's still the same, those that play top tier state league for a Sydney Croatia or Marconi earn better money than a lot of A-League players, the clubs just don't want to play in the national league because they would have to drop the country of their origin reference.

Of course it's better, Ricky Gervais isn't in it. Last King of the Cross about organised crime/nightclubs in Sydney red light suburb Kings Cross. Even it is funnier than Ricky Gervais and it's a titty filled crime drama.

Sorry KD but he wasn't even the best drummer in Nirvana. It's amazing this doesn't happen more often with musos - oh but it does, they just aren't all as rich as fuck so no one cares. Opposed to good "guy" Dave, who has dined out on his image, which is now of a man who fucks around on his wife because he can.

He's going to be huge for the team this season, really hope he pushes on to be a club legend.

Auld Les was about one of the footys (yes I know) Rob, he no likey the world game.

You Scotty, for once, are 100% correct. It was an era in football when the English expat teams wanted to make sure they weren't mistaken as one of the wog (their words not mine) teams, like Sydney Croatia or Sydney Olympic or Wollongong Macedonia - see the pattern here? Northern Spirit and Perth Glory were all about how fucking Anglo expat they could be. You are and you know it! Just not as old as I am, regardless, I remember when you use to go watch games there - with your grand dad and how he let you have a sip of his schooner of KB, fuck that shit was vile.

btw @RobinRobin did you ever see him play? I saw him both when he was young and then those last years for Northern Spirit. He was an average player at best. Saying he cannot do it for them, well he couldn't in his prime either.