Its our breakout year.
I like him as a player and hope he goes to next level but realistically our player of the year is almost certainly going to be one of the established imports or Averillo.

Have we sacked anyone yet???...

Is there a single likeable character amongst the world's top 10 -20 male tennis players???...

Please note, I've always thought Rafa an on-court  grub...

Bloody hell .. still on the Fox at FB thing???... If he starts the season at fullback I'll wash Villis car in a mankini... 

Hehehe...

Please be true, Villi's car needs a wash...

I do think you are safe, if he is on the list, the Fox is 3rd or 4th choice.

Yes, but I make a point of never playing the game, so I guess I don't count, but I haven't lost a point in over 40 years.

But I'm not likeable just better.

Patolo certainly looks the goods. If he gets a start at prop it will probably be due to suspension of the hotheads. We have plenty. Would be great to see him turn out to be an Asotasi type. 

Well for one I wasn't even talking to you, but since you want to carry on you have just proven my comment.

Over the years, Federer, Agassi, Chang, Edberg were all likeable players. I would have to say that outside of Federer, there is only Dominic Thiem (current top 10) that is likeable and possibly Alex the Demon or Gail Monphils that are outsude the 20 but at least likeable.

Coming from a greek background i have a soft spot for Tsitsipas and Baghdatis before him but i can easily see why Tsitsipas can rub off the wring way to some.

Agree on Rafa. Federer is still in the top 20 & ok. A couple of the young ones haven't blotted their copybook yet but it will probably happen as their head swells.

For those that want to watch something more exciting than the tennis, I'm going to challenge Villi to 100 games of rock-paper-sissors, put your money on the favourite.

Wow, thats alot of hand jerking....

watch Auger-Aliassime. He is the next great. 

Ah yes, he looks like a calm and composed young player with a good skill set and is Canadian to boot, so rather likeable. Also top 10.

Has everybody calmed down this morning?

Just remember everyone, this isn't TK or your living room, it's a public G-rated sports page & people should leave out the swearing as women & kids of all ages read it at times too. Some women are ok with it, but others are very offended by it & uncomfortable around it. As for how to conduct yourselves in front of kids, especially other peoples kids in public... 

Noted BN...

I'd always thought the 'reading this topic' numbers here and on TK were bots or hack grub germoulists figuring out what post they could turn into an 'exclusive'...

On that I've heard TBaz and Gus have fallen out at training this week and TBaz will be replaced by Freddy Fittler...

It's a while since I spoke with anyone at the magazine. Long story short, they can't employ someone to monitor every post 24/7. They just expect reasonable self-moderation & an appropriate etiquette for all ages considering where we all are. The inclusive thing is for real too. They don't want to be contacted or bothered about every little thing, only if there's technical issues with the website or if some psycho cannibal or someone else that shouldn't be on the loose shows up, so they can get the police to sort it out asap.

And for sure, I've seen several women members on the page, likely from other sports threads on the site, possibly they could be magazine staff too. It's possible some joined to post & never actually did. I'm sure there's countless other people, male/female of all ages landing here from google & elsewhere too, which would be hidden in the "guests" tally at the time.

Selling HDs posts as NFTs will pay for 100 mods!!!...

And signed copies of the Book of Odvious Essays... :)

Also, Canterbury have a women's team too, so any of them could pop by reading anything Canterbury. There's anyone ever been associated with Canterbury past & present, along will all their friends & families. I can see over 30 guests on now as I write this & only 7 people have posted on the current page. It goes into the hundreds frequently, which is a lot for so few posters. Often it hits high numbers at odd hours, so there could be keywords turning up in google resulting in people from overseas popping by to read whatever.

Ha!!!....

My agent Villi will be in touch.

Man I think you’re really overselling here.

Nobody from any of the more visible Dog sites knows we’re here, except maybe for Anna. And if they don’t know, nobody from the club, team or anything associated do either.

Those numbers you see, the guests and all that - bots, looking for keywords to sell us whatever pops up In your feed above.

We’re on our own here, just the way I like it.

I agree.
Everytime we post an "I hate Des" message, you'd think theyd be itching to jump on and debate the post or support it. But its always the usual suspects on here.

And if the latest covid debate didnt prompt then to jump in and express themselves..... they dont exist

Shutup U mockbot!!!...

The website actually does have at least 1 bot, probably in each thread. I'd be surprised if google didn't do a scan sometimes too. Add in another (possible) one for the advertiser & that makes 3. Advertisers like that mostly use cookies in your browser though, a sniff through your browsing history.
Just never assume or act like we're alone here, because we're not. What's posted at quiet times when the population may be under 10 stays visible for whatever day in the future anyone decides to go through it. The place does show up in google, even pages from last year, the year before etc, whether TK folks search for it or are aware of it or not. 
If the population says 35, it's most likely over 30 are people. In fact I'd be very surprised if it was any less & would need to see evidence.
And bear in mind, other threads, in other sports categories on InsideSports, don't have the same regular & fluctuating guest population as this page. Most are dead pages, not an extra 2 dozen bots you're saying we had today or an extra 100 or so bots dropping by at other times. 

I just checked this page :

'It went along on its roof for so long that it started to wear into my helmet' - Skaife looks back on a life on the road [Comments] (insidesport.com.au)

I was the only population, apart from an original post....from an InsideSport bot.

Yes even bots blame Des.