AFL Dream Team – round 15

Dammit dammit dammit.
3 Trades left with 3 rounds to go before the Dream Team finals and I have been hit hard with more injuries this week.
I am guaranteed a doughnut in my forwards this week with injuries to Pavlich, SJohnson and of course Zeibell,
But that is not all, Sandilands is out so I am a ruck down unless Pyke comes off the emergency list and plays.
Good news, Drummond is back. Finally, oh wait. What’s that? Get f…, Geary out so it means I need Petrenko to come in off the emergency list as well.
But there is good news! The Chad is back! This is lucky as Skipworth is out…no doughnut there.
So taking that all into account, I have a possible score, based on averages, of 1695 if all emergencies play.
This does not look good.

Golf Day – July

Bet you thought I’d forgotten about Golf Day…..well no I didn’t. I just didn’t realize I was running out of days.
So here is July’s Golf Day:
We are back to the beginning but this time for a full 18 holes!
Belconnen Magpies Golf Club
Sunday 19th July.
Now I have a tee off time of 12pm which is yet to be confirmed. I do need to confirm numbers. Also if people are too lazy and want golf carts, they need to book em.

Dawn of War II goes beta!…oh wait

Yes I know Dawn of War II has been out for a while but look, there is something exciting on Steam.

‘There is Only War,’ The massive update for Dawn of War II will first be available as an open Beta to all owners of Dawn of War II. Players can now participate in the Beta through their Steam client.

See, exciting isn’t it?
I am opening my steam account as we speak to get on board this beta and can’t wait to give it a whirl.
Yes I know many fans of Dawn of War 1 do not enjoy the sequel as much but I do. I also pretend it is not a sequel and in fact a new W40K game that just happens to share the title to the classic DoW.

Any way, get on the beta and enjoy. Read release notes……wait for it……..wait for it………here.

Thanks to Terra for pointing this out to me.

VW toughens the f*@# up

Volkswagen is a decent car company, I have 2 mates that own VWs, a Golf and a Jetta. I am impressed with their power, safety and even their design but there was something missing from their range….

VW finally has had that spoonful of cement and has hardened the f*#@ up. Presenting the concept Robust, the VW ute!
Check out the tray….The size is shorter than a Hilux but wider, will come in common-rail turbo-diesel engine 4,5 or 6 cylinder and trying to find out anymore on it is painful…

Looks like it will be at least 2-3 years before we see it in Australia for sale.

Golf Day June …a wash out

The heavens were awoken to the news that the Fishmalt Golf Day were traveling and they aim to stop us.
7 brave folk prepared to meet the day last Sunday, only to have rain come crashing to earth.
We prayed that in Yass it would be clear and we checked the weather reports…..rain with a chance of rain.
It was not to be.

This is the 1st time Golf Day has not gone ahead and I for one, am mightily disappointed.
On to July then…..

The Messiah is coming!

The Messiah is coming!

My wife and I held hands far too long and now we have a little us on the way!
Below is little ‘Cleetus’ first photo at just 12 weeks and 2 days….which makes it a 23rd of December aquatic exit!

I keep telling Mrs Drakkhart to hold out for 2 more days and we will have the name covered…Little Jesus Drakkhart.

E3 Trailers…best of

GameTrailers has just released their wrap of the best E3 trailers for 09. Check em out…

Best Trailer – this surprised me
Best 3rd Person Shooter – since when does a platform game like Ratchet & Clank become categorized as a 3rd Person Shooter?
Best RPG
Best Online
Best Action - Dante’s Inferno? Was that Dragon’s Lair updated to look freaking awesome?
of course they also have
Most Disappointing
Most Embarrassing
You get the idea…there are more so go to Game Trailer to have a gander.

Coheed & Cambria

Ok so I am slow in discovery Coheed & Cambria but I had not heard of them until I saw the trailer for 9.
I mate of mine than educated me that the music used for the trailer was Welcome Home by Coheed & Cambria.
As I have been listening on an endless loop the new Disturbed album, he insisted I checked them out.
Was a good move. I do like it, yes sir, I do.

Recommend a listen if you like the styles of Disturbed, Alice in Chains and even Cog.
Apparently, Coheed & Cambria are on Rock Band, just FYI.

Laidley is gone

Dean Laidley has resigned as the North Melbourne senior coach as of today.
And I for one, am pleased with the decision.
Even though North this year, have been wrecked with injuries, they have played their worse season I have seen for a long time. Yes some blame goes to the senior players but I feel that is where the coach should have stepped in and got more out of them.
North lack discipline, hard ball gets, consistency and a game plan. I thought, Laidley, at the beginning of his 7 year reign, would bring with him the hardness of how he played for North. This has not been there for the last 3 seasons. His selfishness has shone through more in this and last season where his feelings are over ruling the goodness of the team; prime example is leaving Daniel Harris out of the team for most of the year because they don’t get along. Harris is our only consistent hard ball getter and tackler.
So what happens from here? For the rest of the season, who will step up to interim coach?
Darren Crocker? He was a great defender in his day, and our backline currently is playing ok…well the younger players are like Urquhart and Thompson are.
Darren Bewick? Has been in charge of our forward line….hmm, we have no forward line and that has been a major problem this year.
Anthony Rock? In charge of the midfield. Well that would be the hardest job as our midfield keeps changing because of injuries.
My choice? Good question. Crocker for his hard ball defensive style or Rock for his Collingwood experience and therefor discipline? I think I lean towards Crocker to get us through the year but not to be the Coach next season.
Coach for next season I would love to see John Longmire come back and bring with him the discipline and hard work that Paul Roos brought to the Swans. Other candidates would be John Blakey, David King or Ross Smith. From the Senior coaches, of course we would love to have the hard nose Mick Malthouse to come over but I don’t see Collingwood letting him go.

Crocker has been announced as interim coach
A little spill about Laidley here

Note I just reread this ramble. It come across that I didn’t like Laidley as a coach. That is not true. It just was time for him to move on and North to get a fresh face in the caoching role. Laidley did very well early into the gig. He had to break the senior players out of Pagan’s Paddock and introduce a different style of play. He did very well at this. But it is not working now and his focus just seems to be lost with North. At another club he would bring something very useful but I think North have got as much as we will get from him.

Woah…This looks interesting

Gamer…..just watch

LARGE