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This is literally the only photo on google images that makes her look anywhere near decent. She's horrendous in most of them.

Just went for my 2nd run back from a little while being really lazy. I have a roughly 5km track around my block and when training to get into the Police and I was fit I was aiming for about 22 minutes. This time I was aiming for 30 and got 30:36 :/ I'd love to be running in Scandanavia! We've had a week of 40 degree heat here. I only ran today because it had finally cooled down to a managable high 20s.

I have absolutely no opinion one way or the other. If he wants to go to Everton, let him. We can invest the 8mil more wisely than on him

Only the very best teams can do that - it's a good aim but it's not a realistic expectation at this moment in time. I'm not suggesting we play total football. I'm just suggesting that we have the ability to go from a possession defensive game to a hyperattacking game very quickly and without notice. Hold the ball to tire them out then throw just about everything forward when they aren't expecting it. We can't just have one style of play. Passing the ball around in the middle will tire out their midfield and strikers, but their defense is just waiting there for us to do something. We need to worry those defenders in believing we could slingshot forward at any given time, and the best way to do that is to start slingshotting forward occasionally.

If we can't afford 2.5 million pounds for a player in the football economic climate in the year of our lord Jesus Christ 2015 it's probably time to volunteer for relegation.

We need the ability to change gear and be effective when we do so. It's great to not be shipping 3 goals every game, but we need to be dangerous when we go forward. At least dangerous enough that teams can't just park the bus and be safe in the knowledge that we'll never get through.

Yeah, you'd expect Oar to feature pretty regularly.

Really? Aussie Rules wins here pretty comfortably as most popular sport either by tv viewing or match attendance figures. Soccer is the most popular in terms of participation. Nope, it doesn't more people watch RL than AFL on TV. Average Australian weekly viewing figures:- AFL 519,975* * denotes shown on free-to-air Association Football 84,072 League 590,145* * denotes shown on free-to-air Union 82,246** ** only includes Australian teams Source: The Guardian (Whole article well worth a look) Who used data via OzTAM & Regional TAM, 25/2/14, 5 City Metro + Combined Agg, Total People, AUD Again, these figures would include the three State of Origin games, which are watched by everyone with a television in Australia, even if they have absolutely no interest in League. If you're only talking about NRL games, the AFL would be ahead week to week. Not to mention that more than 100,000 people per week are actually attending AFL games live compared to the NRL.

Japan would be strong favourites. Australia haven't really found a way to score without Cahill and Kewell. Not against good teams. We don't have enough players playing in top leagues anymore. Back in say the 2006 world cup squad, we had most of our guys playing in big European leagues. These days a lot of the squad play in Asian leagues, or just in the A-League. We had a far better side when it wasn't financially viable for our talented players to play in Australia.

I'd love to have Netflix in Australia but they don't allow it here. They have also recently begun to refer to people who have used a proxy to get around this roadblock, but still pay the full US price for the service, as "Location Pirates", and they are trying to stamp this activity out. I'm not sure how much harder they could be trying to push paying customers into full blown piracy tbh.

If it starts to work and we do start to score late, supporters will begin to marvel at our ability to hold the ball, knowing the late surge is coming, instead of being dead bored knowing that we simply don't have any ideas.

You'd think they could stream it on the official site or something. It's a joke that there is literally no way of watching the game unless you're in Birmingham.

Also curious. Given it's not televised I'm not getting my hopes too high. There will probably be a radio stream I guess

We've got a pretty nasty bushfire threatening the outer north eastern suburbs of Adelaide Fortunately nowhere near me but my wife has just taken the horse float up to try to rescue some horses that are currently stranded with their owners at a cricket oval up near the danger area. I start work as a Police officer in a couple of hours and I know my team will be sending a few people up to help with road closures etc. No deaths yet as far as i'm aware but it's still super hot at 39 degrees and windy and the fire is way out of control in the Adelaide Hills.

It's getting incredibly hard to keep staying up until 3:30am Australian time to watch that garbage.

Why did we even include Gresford in the squad if we're not going to bring him on here?

Still taller than Bannan

Stupid Mercator projection ruining everyone's perception

If it's based on single event peak attendance, then various motorsports and horse racing should be on there. Data point: the highest attended American Football game would be about 110k +/- 5k (there are a few college teams with stadia of that capacity that sell out every game). The Kentucky Derby (horse racing) normally draws 150k to Churchill Downs. The Indy 500 usually draws about twice that. In the UK, meanwhile, The Open Championship typically draws around 200k over multiple days; it's probably unrealistic to assume that much less than half of those are in attendance on the day with the largest attendance, which would exceed the attendance for any football match in the UK. League and Aussie Rules are fairly close in popularity (Teh Grauniad has some figures): there are roughly equal populations on either side of the Barassi Line, after all. I wouldn't be that surprised to find that, in a favorite sport poll, it goes Aussie Rules, League, Association Football, Union (with Cricket being somewhere in there, too, of course). It's also perhaps likely that it's a meta-study aggregating several different country-by-country reports, each using different methods. The lack of cites in the map may support that contention. League and Aussie Rules are probably pretty close to equal, with Aussie Rules slightly shading League, but in terms of average attendance (which i'm guessing might be a factor in this), it's not even close. Aussie Rules blows league out of the water. I reckon you'll find that the average weekly TV viewership in that article for league is blown out by State of Origin. Each SoO game is popular all over the country and even dead rubber SoO games would have a much bigger TV viewership across the country than the NRL Grand Final. Take away State of Origin and i'd be very surprised to see League beating Aussie Rules in TV viewership.

He doesn't even approach too good for the club. He is comfortably too good for the current team. I'll **** go mental if he leaves and goes to Spurs or Liverpool etc. If he leaves and goes to a Bayern or Chelsea or Real Madrid, he'll spend several years widely considered as one of the best strikers in the world.

I assume rugby is just rugby, and there isn't a country in the world where league is number 1

The understanding between Benteke and Weimann is gone. It would be awesome to have a player who could link up well with Benteke when he's in the box, he just seems to be too intelligent for Gabby or Weimann to really link up well with him and make the right passes and runs. We just needed to execute a bit better today, we stuffed up a lot of chances.

Benteke really, really needs a partner in there. He is looking really creative but just has nobody on his wavelength to link up with. Get Weimann on, they've worked well together in the past.

The A League is unwatchably awful unless you're actually at the ground, and it's ruined the standard of the Socceroos because talented kids can now make a living at home rather than going to Europe and actually learning to play. I nominally support Adelaide Utd but I'd rather the entire club fold than see Villa lose a single game. Anyway, I got a new cricket bat that I'd used and scored a 50 with before Christmas, and the beautiful current Villa away shirt. Very happy with how I've done!