Finals Week 3: It really is a two horse race!

AFL...Mick Malthouse tried to rub the Cats the wrong way by heaping some pressure on them. Im not sure, but I think it backfired. The Cats recorded a 73 point smashing over the Pies on Saturday night, more popularly referred to as a ‘slaughtering’. It turned out to be a case of Cold pies on a hot tin roof after all that. We had to keep looking at the scoreboard to make sure it was right, and just think, the score line would’ve been even worse if the Pies let Pendle’s play on crutches!

The game began in a weird fashion. There were so many Seagulls on the Ground in the first quarter, players were kicking the ball to them by mistake.

Chappy confused *Why the hell did you kick it to the bird for???..Im over here!*:


We might have more sympathy for them if it wasn’t for one of their classy supporters harassing me before I’d even set foot outside my car. Wise man once say ‘the only thing better than beating Collingwood, is thrashing Collingwood in a Prelim, or a Grand final’, Wise Pies supporter once say ‘F&*K, F*&^k…do I know you? Does it matter?’

The pictures as usual tell the whole story anyway.

*Get outa my way peasant*:

Collingwoods number 9 celebrates without actually marking the ball:

The score blows out to 70 points...*Come here I need a hug, bad!*:

Careful Moondog, he knows the Mafia!:

Blow the siren already, even the Cats fans are bored.

In contrast the Saints won an epic battle with the Dogs on Friday night. Two teams, both Premiership starved for many years playing off for a spot in the Grand final. Some waiting for 50-60 years to win a premy, but only one could go through. And the game lived up to all expectations. I think you can tell who won. The winners are most likely the ones high fiving.

*Yay! Ouch!*:

*D'oh!...2 prelims in a row lost*:

The Saints prevailed with one man standing tall, and not just because he is tall. Nick Riewoldt kicked the sealer as Doggies fans hearts broke all around the stadium, and Saints fans felt what Cats fans went through in 2007, scraping in by a nose hair, and their best chance to win it in about 50 years.

The Money shot:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, but to footy fans in general it was a feast. Hard tackling, hard running, seconds ticking, and everything on the line. The Dogs appeared to abandon their game plan and overrun in the first two quarters. We have become familiar with their 2nd and more importantly furious 4th quarter goal surges. But after running off their legs, they seemed to run out of steam by half time.

*Bugger off, I called it!*:

Cooney Greets Goddards groin... *Personal space dude*:

So now the two best teams face off in the Grand final, for the first time ever. And don’t ask us who’s going to win. And don’t ask us the meaning of life either, cause right now those 2 questions are about even. You can't be deceived by scorelines, this game could go either way, may the best team win!

Congrats also to the All Australian Team. Most selections appeared justified, with just a few missing out, and a few interesting ones making it in. The usual suspects were there though; Judd, Ablett, Chapman, and all the others with a full head of hair.

The Brownlow medal is this Monday during the show. We will update the count throughout the night. The fav's are still Ablett, Judd, Swan and Riewoldt. Text us in your brownlow pick or your smokey. It could be a surprise from the cats with Enright, or Boyd from the Bulldogs. Or just tell us who will poll best from your club. Again it looks like there is atill a connection between the skill and the bald gene.

NRL...Afl fans sure got a good look at Karmichael Hunt on the weekend, as he stared for the Broncos; the Gold Coasts first big investment. The Dragons out of the finals in straight sets and well and truly slayed. Brisbane now take on the mighty Storm.

The Eels win in style with a 46 point thrashing!...An Eels club blueprint has revealed the reasons behind their wins. The document apparently shows how Anderson has employed psychological weapons to lift his team for the finals; it reminds them why they started winning, and details the characteristics of the players who have impressed....Careful guys, a magician never reveals his secrets, especially before the Grand Final ;-).

Cricket: Tim Paine's maiden international century handed Australia a 111-run victory over England in the latest match at Trent Bridge.The Aussies are just one win away from claiming a 7-0 sweep of the One-Day International tournament after Paine scored 111 to steer Australia to 8-296 from 50 overs, and some trademark sharp fielding by Ricky Ponting helped restrict England to a total of 185 with nine overs to spare.

England paceman James Anderson says Australia's 6-0 lead in the one-day series flatters the tourists.....Well it'd still have to flatter a bit more than ZERO.

Australia's Cameron White lashed out during the fifth international one-day match against England at Trent Bridge:

Netball...The Australian Diamonds have sealed the best-of-five trans-Tasman series with a nail-biting one goal win over the Silver Ferns in Invercargill today.
Like so many other matches between the teams, the game went down to the wire, with the Diamonds holding strong in the final term to take the game 47 – 46. Diamonds’ goal defence Julie Corletto was named Player of the Match. After a slow start the Aussies are back on track.

Athletics...Speaking of the track, South Africa's sports ministry has called for the axing of the country's athletics chief for lying about gender tests made on runner Caster Semenya. The Chief
denyed he knew about the test results that declared Semenya a Hermaphrodyte. Either way just let her run. You can only work with what you've got. If she can't compete we will be forced to create a special Hermaphrodite Olympics. Of course then in the interest of equality we would have to create an Olympics for every specific type of human; i.e.‘the middle aged man with a pot belly Olympics’ (shouldn’t be hard to find contenders) and of course ‘the straight chicks that hold the cricket bat backwards Olympics’. It might become exhausting for the IOC, especially as cricket hasn’t even made it in yet. Sportists!...Just let her run!

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