opinion de farce

[Theo Bekkers]

petulance wrote:
> On Jul 27, 2:38 pm, [email protected] wrote:

>> People watch AFL? It's considered football? (yes I know what the F
>> stands for, but if I call a turd chocolate cake that don't make it
>> so). What ever will they think of next!

> Please do not insult football by equating aerial ping pong to it.
> There is only one true form of football and it was invented in the
> British Isles.

There's no need to get all petulant.

Theo

 

[Theo Bekkers]

Michael Warner wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:38:47 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> People watch AFL? It's considered football?
>
> A great many more than take an interest in any other sort of football
> (or runball, in the case of thugby), apparently.

More people in Australia play soccer than any other 'football' game.

Theo

 

[barry taylor]

"Michael Warner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:54:19 +0800, Andrew Priest wrote:
:
: > Phill Liggett has a column in today's Australian ... details at
: >
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22140376-2722,00.html>
:
: FWIW, I found Phil's article a lot more annoying and wrongheaded (he
: constantly drops clangers as a commentator, too, even though he's
: an enthusiastic chatter and reputedly a nice bloke). He's arguing that
this
: year's race is now pointless because the elite dopers are being chucked
: out, and I couldn't disagree more. IMHO this will go down as as the year
: that the Tour was saved.

FWIW the article I am reading at the link above
is a comment under the name of Jeremy Whittle
and NOT Phil
whose comments on SBS coverage have been much more positive about Le Tour


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[Michael Warner]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:33:42 -0700, Harng Goh wrote:

> Maybe I missed something, but I didn't see Phil Liggett's name
> anywhere in that article.

Ok, whichever ******** it was who wrote it

 

[Michael Warner]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:54:39 -0700, [email protected] wrote:

> Garn! You have Subiaco over there in WA, the Wallabies play there
> every now and then. What more do you want?

I'm not in WA, and from what I've heard they don't win very often these
days

 

[Michael Warner]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:39:57 +0800, Theo Bekkers wrote:

> More people in Australia play soccer than any other 'football' game.

Sure , but the crowd consists mostly of their immediate familes

 

[Michael Warner]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:57:38 -0000, petulance wrote:

> Please do not insult football by equating aerial ping pong to it.
> There is only one true form of football and it was invented in the
> British Isles.

Would that be the form where big beefy blokes shove their heads up
each other's arses and push, or the form where the players take a dive
if anyone gets within a metre of them?

 

[Andrew Priest]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:06:33 GMT, Halcyon <[email protected]>
wrote:


>Phil Liggett's article? Methinks you guys do Phil an injustice...his
>article is in the Oz tomorrow.
>An easy mistake to make as his photo is alongside the article written by
>Jeremy Whittle of The Times.
>Halcyon

Yep I got it wrong as took the byline from the actual paper and missed
the "tomorrow" bit.

My appologies for such a significant mistake.

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[TimC]

On 2007-07-26, ProfTournesol (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>
> Greg Baum
> a so-called 'sports-writer' for The Age (should be sport-writer as his
> knowledge and interest in sport stops at AFL) has written an error
> filled opinion piece in today's Age. Never one to let mere facts to get
> in the way of his opinion, he reached the predictable conclusion.
> Perhaps he's also responsible for today's on-line poll on The Age site
> too.
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/tourd...1185339167858.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
>
> I couldn't imagine the Age allowing their cycling writer to write a
> major article on footy - why do they do it?

Eh? You better put the tinfoil cap back on -- I thought it was a
reasonably well written article with a sympathetic view towards the
end.

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[TimC]

On 2007-07-27, Andrew Priest (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:55:56 +1000, ProfTournesol
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>Greg Baum
>>a so-called 'sports-writer' for The Age (should be sport-writer as his
>>knowledge and interest in sport stops at AFL) has written an error
>>filled opinion piece in today's Age. Never one to let mere facts to get
>>in the way of his opinion, he reached the predictable conclusion.
>>Perhaps he's also responsible for today's on-line poll on The Age site
>>too.
>>http://www.theage.com.au/news/tourd...1185339167858.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
>>
>
> Phill Liggett has a column in today's Australian ... details at
> <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22140376-2722,00.html>

Now that was a terribly written article, but it also wasn't Phill Liggett.

Hint: the byline seems to state "Jeremy Whittle"

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