It's trade time!

AFL...Well it only took about 2 weeks, but with my never say die attitude, I refused to believe I couldn't find myself in a crowd of 100,000 people at the Grand final. So close to the action I thought it was possible. I knew I was somewhere by the race where the players come out, but did we have the honour of making it into 397 of the AFL websites finest photos? Yes we can! I also knew I was sitting near a guy wearing a red white and black beanie (two places to the right), and would you believe he was a Geelong Supporter? I found this out in the dieing minutes of the game when scores were level, we were all tense as f#$k and I abused him for it; 'who are you going for man?' I asked confused, 'Geelong' he said, as if I should know, as to which I said: 'your beanies throwing me off!', 'Im Sorry, sorry', he cowered. But its ok cause by the end we were high fiving. He was actually sitting next to me at the end of the match but as you can see by the beer in his hand, he had more important matters to attend to.

Me in green... I swear:
The players go in at half time

After half time the players returned. I decided to give them a pep talk, spur them on. I leaned over the race and told them all StKilda's goals were charity and yelled 'you can take em!'...Scarlo and a few of the boys stood upright, with a determined look on their faces. And at the end of the game Tom Harly referred to his supporters and how passionately they supported and got the Cats over the line. Even as only 1 in 100,000, ill take my piece of that pie.

Trade time......And after resistance from the hostiles (Bradshaw and Rischitelli) Carlton have ended up with the biggest rip off trade in history. They gave away the coleman medalist Brendan Fevola, for the famous....drum roll.......Lachlan Hendersen...WHO????????????????????

Yep thats right, its true. Fev wants a fresh start after the consequences of his Brownlow antics finally hit home...a month later.


Surprisingly nobody wants to be you right now either. You can't hold your booze, and you have just traded in your eventful Melbourne lifestyle for the exciting nightlife of the patronisingly named: Bris-Vegas, and a pair of Brisbane thongs matey. Enjoy!


Carlton arent the only ones that got a raw deal though. Geelong traded in superior ruckman Shane Mumford, for the best of Freo's bargain basement bin. It couldn't have been a better deal if it was Richmonds factory seconds. The footy Gods have decided Geelong don't need anymore Premierships.

But the most confusing deal of the week by far was the Burgoyne deal. In order for him to go to Hawthorn trades from Essendon and Geelong also became a part of the deal?? Don't ask us to expalin it cause it'll do your head in. Mark Williams ended up at Essendon and then then was talk that Campbell Brown too might leave the Hawks. But Jeff Kennett would have none of it as he staunchly stated 'we will not lose any of our Premiership players'. He was then tapped on the shoulder and reminded that they had already lost Premiership player Mark Williams. He really knows his shiz.


Luke Ball just can't seem to wait to leave the Saints. He continues to knock back all their offers. But his trade to the Pies has hit a snag. And now the Saints have withdrawn their offers. He will now float around in a sea of draft waters. Xav Clarke also leaves the Saints for the BL. It's not looking like the Saints are out to make up for last years Grand Final, as half the team will be missing. They have however scored Andrew Lovett from the Bombers.

cricket... After the Poms claimed to be a whole new team upon arriving in South Africa, The Aussies decided to put them back in their place and march into the final of the Champions Trophy. Against our other main rival New Zealand, the Aussies marched home for Victory. Watson scored 105 and took a couple of wickets. The star was Brett Lee with a 5 for. New Zealands figures were so poor it's not even worth a mention, honestly. It's not quite the Ashes but we will take our trophy.

captain Ricky Ponting said he was "ecstatic" about winning a second successive Champions Trophy

Bathurst .. A new generation of Holden heroes wrote a fresh chapter in history at Mt Panorama yesterday. Holden drivers Garth Tander and Will Davison have won the Bathurst 1000, overcoming various weather conditions to win Australia's best-known V8 Supercar race, and knocking Ford completely off the podium.

Tennis...The Tomic Hewitt feud heats up, with Tomic claiming he rejected Hewitts offer to practice hit with him becuase he had 'Swine flu'...hrrm, the ol swine flu excuse ey. Tomic claims he did not want to infect our Leyts. He did however try to practice his with Ferero at the time, so obviously he didn't mind giving swine flu to him :-s.

Horse racing.... Starspangledbanner pulled off an upset win in the Caufield Guineas on Saturday. Winning jockey Dan Nikolic celebates with his father John after a successful ride on the winnner:

We will follow the reast of the program coming up including thousand Guineas day and Caulfield cup day.

Mr Ed Interview update....After trailing Ed last week, we lost him on the Freeway. But we heard a whisper this week he was guest appearing at a surfing contest in Hawaii. After the event he managed to give us the slip yet again in the change rooms.

Interviews: We chat to Jason Asselin about the 2009 Justin Fanashu cup coming up (Gay Soccer). We also talk with Tim Hewitson about the Melbourne Aronauts upcoming 'learn to row' session.

All that n more on the show that goes through more balls than Roger Federer.



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