13 June 2010 158.1 – Stan opens up on AFL losing Brownlow votes… Catchup with John Rillie talking NBL, NBA Finals & where NBA free agents may head… Sean starts the discussion of superstitions in sports from NHL Beards to Daniel‘s no high-five rule… The Gelding gets a few winners and lays down the challenge to the Sydney Colt…
Thanks for in-show tweets @Susan_Shan, @SydneyColt, @lisahayes4, @GayleESaunders, @the_dos & @Smileyj14
As US comedian RonWhite says “You can’t fix stupid, because stupid is forever”.
Stupid is exactly what the Aussie bid for the 2018 World Cup was!!
As we discussed with Mark Fiorenti on Sportzfan Radio several months ago – Australia had NO chance of success with the bid. The Aussie camp was still trying to convince us that we were a realistic bidder, notwithstanding Sepp Blatter (FIFA President) telling anyone who cared to listen that Europe would be the preferred venue (for that read will be the venue) in 2018 and FIFA also reinforcing that with Australian representatives at every turn.
It took our own Asian Football Confederation to jolt us back to reality when its President came out in support of the European bid this week.
One wonders at the capacity/capability of those running Aussie soccer not to be able to see the forest for the trees.
The AFL/NRL must be laughing out loud at the time and money wasted on that part of the bid.
What does that say for the 2022 bid?……more on that one later.
6 June 2010 – Part 2 – Hear Nicole query the honesty of Melbourne Storm players over signing multiple contracts. She says Dalligan is mistaken if he thinks they didn’t know something was wrong. Fiorenti talks about the World Cup and the Socceroo’s 3-1 defeat at the hands of the US. The Panel discuss Jason Akermanis’ newspaper article and query whether the Bulldogs penalty is too harsh. The Panel also muse on their favourite movie coaches of sporting teams and discuss listeners tweets with Hoosier’s coach, Norman Dale getting the most support.
6 June 2010 – Part 1 – Thundering start to the show with Dalligan fired up ranting on the AFL poaching NRL players. US reporter Dan Butterly thinks the Lakers will beat the Celtics in NBA and Blackhawks will lift the Stanley Cup after game 7. The Gelding although picking two winners at Flemington says he would have been more successful but for some “interesting” rides by certain jockeys. Long time Fitzroy supporter, Stan has some observations on the career of AFL Legend Kevin Murray.