Golf Day – October

Just when you thought all was lost and forgotten. Golf Day is back after 2 wash outs.
Today was a glorious day and a very tight contest with some shake ups in handicaps and rankings.
Big Bruce was the winner today at Capital with a total of 4 skins and 3 tied skins which jumps him up to 3rd place overall.
The Baron was the big surprise of the day, playing with no handicap, no skill and no talent and still walked away with 2 skins and 2 tied skins and finally making it onto the money board. Nice one.

Golf Day November will be played at Fairburn and we are looking at the weekend of the 15th.

Hardwick finally finds a den

After being passed up by North and ummm forgot which other club were looking at him, anyway, Richmond has signed on the hard man Damien Hardwick.
It follows a pattern of the bottom eight teams realising that their teams need some aggression and hardball getters.
Hardwick played 2007 games as one of the toughest defenders in the AFL amd should bring that to Punt Rd.
So what does this mean for the veterans, Richardson and Cousins?
Hardwick says, he will wait a few weeks….
Port Adelaide! That was the other team!
Anyway read more here.

WOW…as if it could get any worse

What the? A movie tag for the biggest online game ever?
Yep it has been in the rumour mills for years and it has finally been confirmed.
World of Warcraft has been confirmed for a 2011 release as a movie.
And Sam Raimi will direct it. I think that this is the only good part.
I once was a WoW addict and as most know a MMO addict but to this day I can not see the fascination to play WoW still. It is monotonous, it is elitist, it has no questing flavour and it is all about must have the best gear. Now they make a movie!
Well Sam Raimi makes some damn fine flicks such as Evil Dead Army of Darkness and Spiderman 2 to name a couple but WoW? Come on.
And as if any hardcore WoWer would log off to see the movie. Damn, I just imagined Cheap arse Tuesday night at a cinema when the servers are down for maintenance….*cringe*

Golf Day August UPDATE

Golf Day August has had some major changes.
Due to lack of numbers because of various conflicting events, this weekends Golf Day has been moved.
NOW: 1pm tee off for 9 holes at Magpies.

Dream Team rd 21 – The Prelims…

Last week’s semi was a thriller with the Kneejerkers coming out on top by 150 points.
Sorry Stu, truth be told, thought you had me when Dal Santo was a late exclusion.

That brings the Kneejerkers to the 1st Preliminary and we are up against the Useless Geezers……
Unfortunately this may be the end of the road for me. Useless has averaged 2000pts a game and I have only once score 2000.
I have also look at the initial team releases and I am in trouble once again with my backline and forwards,
Grimes still out with injury, SJohnson out again with injury, MBrown fracturing his foot is out for the rest of season and of course Ziebell gone, I have 1 doughnut in the forwards with possibly up to 2 in backline. And no Griffen or Skipworth in the midfield hurts too.

So the line up is:
DEF: Gilbert, McMahon, Hodge, Drummond, Houlihan, Geary with Post listed as emergency.
MID: Bartel, Dal Santo (C), Lockyer, CCornes, Beams, Muston
RUC: McIntosh, Sandilands
FWD: Riewoldt (vc), Didak, Pavlich, Franklin, DThomas, Russell

Gotta say, I am quite impressed in how far Kneejerkers have gone this year. I made the same mistakes as last year by trading far to early, I was also without internet for the 1st 6ish weeks and had to do everything by my mobile phone and of course I got smashed early with long term injuries (Harvey, Ziebell, Westhoff and Wells). Hey, you never know, my guys could be guns and Useless have shockers.

The Guild aka Felicia Day the ultimate geekgirl

I have finally watch both seasons of The Guild, a web based series written by Felicia Day.
For those who don’t know who she is, slap yourself upside the head.
You may remember her in Buffy or Dr Horrible’s Sing-a-long.
Anyway, do yourself a favour and watch this stunning redhead at work. She does capture the ultimate geekgirl.
Here is a clip featuring the cast of The Guild doing, well…something.

Just had to add…you like the Guild, get a load of The Legend of Neil….and yes Felicia Day is in it, as a sex crazed fairy.

North have a new coach.

North Melbourne have announced today the appointment of the new senior coach, Brad Scott.
Brad Scott will take over in 2010 with Crocker remaining in charge to the end of this season.
I do not remember Brad Scott playing for Brisbane in their premiership 2001 and 2003 sides. In fact I can’t say I remember him at all.
Saying that, is credentials look great. Currently mid-field coach of Collingwood (and how bloody good is that mid field with the likes of Swan, Pendlebury, Beams, Wellingham and so on) before that he was their development coach. In his playing days, he was a hard nut and renown for his fierceness at the ball.

If he can bring across the fierceness to the Roos, and develop a strong mid field, I can not wait.
Now all we need is a forward line.

*EDIT* I do remember Scott from his playing days finally. And yes he was a hard ball defender. If he can bring with him the hardness and commitment back to the Roos, (specially the tackling!) I will be excited to see where North will be in 2 seasons.

Dream Team. Round 20, The Semis!

What a match last week! With gaps all over the field, Dal Santo pulling out last minute, captain Bartel playing crap and both ruckman failing..not to mention Franklin!
So what was the outcome?
Lucky for me, Dodgey Fellas also had gaps in the field including their captain!And the VC was SJohnson who had a shocker!
Kneejerkers win by 13 points!
Hell yeah!…..then this weeks team line ups were released….
Hell no!
I have more holes than swiss cheese in my backline again. No Grimes, Geary, Post and Petrenko is an emergency!
What does this mean for this weekends semi final against the Indefatigables?
Well I do have a lot of guns back in the side but 1-2 doughnuts in the back are going to hurt. And with out of form Franklin, SJohnson and unpredictable Russell, I am not overly confident.

DEF: Gilbert, McMahon, Hodge, Drummond, Houlihan and possible Petrenko
MID: Bartel, Dal Santo (vc), Lockyer, Griffen, CCornes, Beams
RUC: McIntosh, Sandilands
FWD: Riewoldt, SJohnson, Didak, Pavlich, Franklin, DThomas, MBrown

Gadget, I hope your Geelong players fail miserably…cept Bartel and SJohnson of course.

No sir. I don’t like it.

As soon as the retirement of Dean Laidley was annouced and North Melbourne were on the hunt for a new coach, I had one name for the Roos to chase. John “Horse” Longmire.
But of course North mucked around with the Nathan Buckley option and now it is too late.

SYDNEY Swans coaching co-ordinator John Longmire says he had no hesitation in accepting a two-year agreement to replace Paul Roos as senior coach, despite the lure of a return to North Melbourne.

That’s right, Longmire has signed up for a 2 year deal at the Swans to start in 2011 after Paul Roos leaves at the end of 2010.
This, for me, is very disappointing as I thought Longmire would have brought discipline, hard work and real heart back to the Roos.
I think Crocker is a great choice as a caretaker coach but I am not comfortable about him being the long term coach. But who does the signing of both Buckley and Longmire leave?
Apparently there are 3 left: Darren Crocker (North caretaker), Damien Hardwick (Hawks assistant) and Brad Scott (Magpies).

Oettinger Pils – beer

It has been a fair break between beer reviews and I wish this beer was worth the wait.
It wasn’t.

I was in need of a new beer as I wanted to get this review thing back up and running but it seems my local (I have moved so its a new local) has bugger all choices.
I see this Oettinger, 500ml tinnies, sitting there and I said “what the hell”. sidenote: they are available in stubbies but only 330ml so I upgraded
I take a swig straight from the can and it was super bubbly. I mean really carbonated with a tinnie taste. So I poured the second into a glass. Still super bubbly with a tin taste.
The colour of the beer was a sickly yellow and has the after taste effect of eating pop rocks
The first thought I had of taste was…garlic, yeah I know. Not a good thing. And its was very weak.
It says its 4.7% (1.9std drinks) but that can only be if you do not eat, move and drink the 6 in one go.
If you haven’t worked it out yet, I was not a fan.

Pub beer: Not likely to even find it let alone have the courage to order it.

Couch beer: No….no and no.

Regular beer: Take a guess….

Overall: