John Hammond passed away on Saturday at 83 years of age.
John was a prolific Blues guitarist and singer and one of my favourite musicians. I discovered him quite late when he came on Derek Guille's program on ABC radio. He struck me as a humble man with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Blues and Blues musicians. His father, also John Hammond, was a talent scout and record producer and John jnr grew up in the company of many of the Blues greats.
George Thorogood's tribute to John probably sums him up perfectly:
"For more than 50 years, John Hammond Jr. was an icon, a professional role model and, most importantly, a friend. While we mourn his passing, we celebrate what the man and his music meant to us, and to so many.”
My favourite John Hammond album is Wicked Grin, his 28th studio album and a compilation of Tom Waits tracks.
There is a lot of argy bargy about winning and losing this game.
Reality is the media have been predicting our loss since trade week, before the draw was even out or the lists were even settled! In recent history if we lose they'll say "I told you so", if we win it will be "An upset for the ages" or "A game the Swans lost!", most will never claim Carlton deserved the win!
Yes the media have done quite well setting this up so they can't fail.
It's always a big ask playing the Swans in Sydney and even more so when there's so many newbies in the team. I think that that will work in our favour and we'll continue on from where we left off in the practice matches; another score of around 15 goals and a comfortable if hard fought win.
Surely the main plan is to get Epstein off the front pages again.....
He'll run out of targets soon enough.
The problem is that the US has run out of munitions. Despite Taco's protestations to the contrary, they've used almost everything they've got and they're hoping that a round table with arms manufacturers will boost production. They're also hoping that allies will come to the party but Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Poland and Spain have made it clear that it's an illegal war and they won't get involved.
We've gone with three KPDs, two KPFs (one a little on the small side) and two rucks and Sydney has three KPDs, three KPFs and one ruck. I guess Cripps gives us an extra tall if he rests forward.
It would be interesting to see the average heights of the two teams. I suspect that Sydney would be taller.
Labor just voted against giving Victorias anti corruption watchdog the powers it needs to investigate the 15B corruption on Vics big build projects.
All while Jacinta defends adamantly with 'they have nothing to hide.'
The balanced public already know how corrupt this government is yet for those on the fence this again doesn't pass the pub test.
That's not correct!
The Victorian Government introduced an omnibus justice bill in response to the Bondi massacre. The opposition and cross benches tried to add a half-baked amendment that was intended to increase IBAC's powers. The Government, as is their right, refused to allow that amendment to be passed. No Australian government would have allowed that to happen. It's the elected Government that sets the legislative agenda, not the opposition and cross benches.
A bipartisan parliamentary committee has made recommendations regarding IBAC's power to conduct "follow the money" investigations and the Government must table its response to those recommendations within six months. That is the appropriate and considered approach to developing legislation.
Meanwhile, VicPol's Taskforce Hawk has laid more than 70 charges against 15 individuals involved in construction industry criminality and the Big Build.
You can certainly question the competence of the Victorian Government but that's not corruption.
Very sad news. Apparently Dennis had been battling an illness for a couple of years.
He was a very knowledgeable and entertaining commentator - one of the best!
My favourite of Dennis's many brilliant lines was when Heath Shaw smothered Nick Riewoldt's certain goal in the 2010 Grand Final: "He came up behind him like a librarian!"
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I reckon Voss needs a positive win/loss ratio by mid season as that's when decisions will start to be made. Cox will be in the firing line too if Charlie the wonder dog isn't firing and the team are struggling..
Wright and Davies have both warned that it may take a while for the new players and coaches to gel but I think you’re right. At the very least there’ll have to be an improvement on last season evident by mid season.
Cox reminds me of a rabbit giraffe in the headlights 🙄
