You Little Beauty

Well, I never thought it would happen..... but after spending 25 years supporting the Cats, I finally had something to get excited about. After 43 years of Grand Final heartache, the boys from Sleepy Hollow roared to life at AAMI Stadium and as the late Ted Whitten would say....."we stuck it right up ém". OK, I hear the other 15 teams supporters say, you won a pre-season comp...big deal!!! Carlton did it last year and finished dead last. St Kilda the year before and they have choked in the last two Prelim Finals, so what makes this any different?? It's a valid argument. I mean you only have to win 4 games in this comp and you've got a "Priemership". But the exciting part of this is two fold. One - we beat Adealaide....IN ADELAIDE. No mean feat, that even the best teams in the comp have struggled to do over the past 20 years and lets be honest...our record at AAMI has been worse than Perth, Sydney and Brisbane combined. The second is the fact that the AFL tried their hardest to shaft us, by having it played interstate, thinking it would guarentee the Crows a flag and a shit load more supporters than they need. So to Andrew D.... sucked in. I bet London to a brick, that if we had kicked more goals in the 3 qualifing games it would not have been played at Kardinia Park, but rather Telstra Dome, which is pretty much a neutral venue. Hence the reason why the Sevens Rugby in the Commonwealth Games was all finished by the Friday night prior to free up the ground. Added to this, we rolled the highly fancied Crows with 8 of our starting 22 sidelined due to off season surgery and rehab. We had to rely on 1-2 year players, to make up the difference...and what a difference they made. To Mark Thompson and the boys congratulations, keep up the great work....and bring on Round 1.

Reality TV

What is with all the reality TV over the past few years??? Just when you think it can't get any worse, along comes another piece of crap about normal, every day losers either losing weight...or being stuck in an house or on a remote island for 12 weeks, while the world watches their every move. Please...have we become so lame as a nation, that we actually reckon this is decent television?? What happened to the great drama's...or more importantly, the great comedies. For those of us old enough, half hour episode's of Kingswood Country or A Country Practice, shits all over Big Brother and any other piece of shit on tele at the minute. My wife and 2 children gave me for Father's Day last year, the first series of Home Improvement on DVD. It is brilliant. A mate of mine has every episode of Seinfeld. It is brilliant. You can't get classic comedies on television anymore...unless it's insomniacs TV at 3.30am. Thank God the ABC still has some integrity and balls to still show decent British comedy and drama. The Bill has been going forever and Little Britain is the funniest show on TV at the minute. My wife actually has a theory on this....and being a sports nut, unfortuneatly I don't think she is too far off the mark. Due to the fact that Channel's 9, 10 and 7 are so hung up on broadcasting either the NRL, AFL, cricket, Commonwealth, Winter and Olympic Games, they throw huge and ridiculous amounts of money for the broadcast rights, that there is no money left in the coffers to pay half decent actors to make a 1/2 hr sitcom or drama. As a result, they sent a camera man and sound guy out into the street to film everyday wankers, for nothing, because it's cheaper. Sad, but true and I don't think it's going to change in a hurry. Thank God for DVD box sets.