I think this is the ideal situation for all parties. . Popovic is a decent coach. He has given the side a solid basis and whilst getting us qualified and producing an OK performance at the world cup has also done a reasonable job of introducing new players and rebuilding the squad. I'm not...

I'll consider it a win, especially considering where I was after matchday 1.

We've only got two windows. Playing higher quality is OK but it would be nice if we played a couple of games where the opposition will let us play the 3-4-3 more often than the 5-4-1. I suspect we may have trouble getting and keeping the ball against Brazil, even if they bring a side of...

Safely on page 1 roughly arounds the middle with only Stano being able to go past me.

They talk about an October window in the article but there isn't really one. It's a combined September/October window where we can play up to 4 matches. A game against Uruguay will at the latest be Tuesday Oct 6. Maybe as early as Friday Oct 2. I think we are prioritising gate receipts rather...

Not from day 1, only since they stopped giving him a gig on Insiders.

Yes, lets just ignore what the actual excise on beer is and go on a general rant.

I've said this before but you are really letting your dislike for Popovic cloud your judgement. I'm confident that at no point did the team decide that losing in the R32 was a good result and all of them were extremely disappointed that that happened. In hindsight we all look at the results and...

You don't think we showed fight? We had a good win against Turkey, got the result we needed against Paraguay quite comfortably (who went on to eliminate Germany) then matched Egypt and lost on Penalties and Egypt went on to give Argentina quite a fright. You are either very hard to please or...

I edited the post with a link to the ATO site that lists all the alcohol excise rates. It's higher on packaged beer (63.7 c/L) or about 24c per can. I've no idea of the other costs. Excise is small. GST is 1/11 of the cost. Every beer seller will have their own costs they need to cover, but the...

Whist excise on cigarettes is very high here the excise on beer isn't. It amounts to 43.4 c/L for draught beer in kegs (full strength). Thats about 18.5c per schooner. Accounting for some spillage its around 20c a schooner and around 27c per pint. I looked this up earlier this year when petrol...

Those of us that think that way still have the same desire for better results that you have. The main difference is that you seem to think it's the NT coach that is the problem, when it is actually player development that is the problem. There is an argument that its both, but the solution is...

Of the 4 you mentioned the closest we have to playing AFL with a round ball and no hands is Irankunda.

You must be disappointed at the way the Liberal party is destroying itself these days. They are where they ALP was about 10 years ago when it thought the Greens were an ally rather than a political foe. The Libs need to realise that ON aren't their friends or we will descend into a one party...

I suspect you are more aligned to the Howard/Abbott version of centre right rather than the Turnbull version of centre right.

Having players good on the ball is a quality of player thing. Our progress isn't being limited by the National Team Coach (whoever we may appoint). We can't match the success of Spain and Argentina because we don't have players of their quality (at least not in any huge number). Lets be honest...

Goes back to the French Revolution and the Legislative Assembly where more conservative members sat to the right and the more Liberal members sat to the left.

Q & A was an ordinary show made even worse when they had a few hosts that thought it was their job to answer the audience questions for the guests. Guests (if they were allowed to answer) were fairly balanced in views but the audience asking the questions tended to skew left. In any case for...

You must be a fair way off centre yourself to think that. The lefties think they are both right wing rags. Anyway we are all entitled to our opinions.

After reading a bit I thought I would give some general views of mine on a few of the issues raised. We don't need an Australian identity. We already have one. We produce footballers who have good physicality and a fighting spirit. That's our football identity, has been for a long time and won't...