All our sponsorships are sold, all kit, all players, and there’s a waiting list.

Told you it wouldn’t take long. We’ll be the most expensive brand in the League with one Top 4 finish. And then we’ll stay there.

Solves 99.9% of computer problems known to man.

You do know Dman runs a ‘Geeks To You’ franchise?

Surely he’ll hook you up with mates rates....

Pimpin’ ain’t easy...

Geeks to you.

Not Greeks to you, that is a joint venture.

Not joints to you, that is our other venture.

Dman is the Elon Musk of Australian petty crime.

I thought Ctrl+Alt+Delete was.....

Villi surely that’s  a rappers name right???...

Theres there’s a Ieremia Nanai in the cows squad.... wonder if he is any relation to the great man???...

Apart from players with the initials JT, the Cows have a real knack of signing duds.

Dman do you feel the need to torment us by mentioning Nanai's name?

Just when we began to forget about him altogether and move on....Bang, you bring back all those bad memories.....

You're a cruel man....

BN, Zef and others......
Just picked up the Optus 5G Home and set it up (in other words plugged it into power socket).

Tried it at a several locations around the house till I got a green light (signal strength).

I ran a comparative speed check and I get 120Mbps on the 5G standing in front of it while connected with my phone and 66Mbps on the NBN also in front of it with my phone. Uploads are similar (about 80-100% better).

I will monitor it over the next few days but it seems to be a better option for me than the NBN so I will likely call and shut it down.

Marki, that's great news. All you'd have to worry about now is testing consistency, making sure nothing in the vicinity starts causing disconnections. That just comes down to how many appliances, industrial equipment, odd-ball power transformers & whatever else there is between you & the tower & it only takes someone to use the one that does it once per week to throw a spanner in the works, but I'm confident you should be fine with it. I had excellent consistency with the previous gen, mind you, I'm in a small town with not much between here & the tower, it's not like there's over 500 brands of microwave ovens, workshop machines & things kicking in along the way. The actual audio frequency the new gen works at is extremely high, much higher than the last gen, so in theory it should be fine. It might keep the roaches out of your house too if you don't stop streaming!  Anyway, see how it goes for a bit & hopefully you'll be able to move on from nbn.

Just remember 5g is line of sight transmission and whilst it may work perfectly well it is also  susceptible to all kinds of interference.

Just keeping up with a bit of MSM... 

There’s an article about a dead whale that includes this - “The whale didn’t display any obvious signs of injury or death”....

He was just resting, and pinning for the Fjords.

Any shock selections in tomorrow’s 17???...

Just thinking that over, possibly Dietz in 14.
Hoppa and DWZ keep their place but need a good game.
Odgen to start is another possible surprise.

My team:-

1. Alan
2. DWZ 
3 Cotric
4. Hoppa
5. Newsreader (Meaney)

6. Avocado / Wake-up.
7. Flano wearing flano
8. Hetherington.
9. JMK 
10.  Terminator Odgen
11. RFM 
12. Elliott.
13. Jacko

14. Wake-up / Dietz
15. Napa.
16. Atoni not that imposter Toomaga.
17. Doorey / Schoupp 

I admit Schoupp would be a real bolter, but apart from Dietz and Atoni he was one of the lesser known players who really impressed.

i reckon about 5 games in weather we are in the top 8 or not take the boys out for a days work as brickies labourers give them a reality check.. make them enjoy the game they play too!!

DWZ error rate is too high but have him running through holes on the back of 3-4 don't generate errors early ball and speed battles.. don't give him the option to drop the ball!! DWZ dropped how many under the high ball last year? obviously doesn't have the hands - also pushes passes that aren't on - unforced errors are for reserve grade..

Lewis to play NSW Cup

Britt deserves a bench spot! Britt tried to do too much last year.. was all in his head get him running hard at the line and tackling!!

Jackson has lost some of his go I reckon.. needs to reconfigure his game play in the line more in defence and push forward in attack (without the ball).. too dominate without the skillset needs to play his role in the team rather than as captain..

MEANEY / ALLAN  would prefer Meaney out the back was coming into his own last year and forming relationships with ball players will start to hit holes and is solid under the high ball happy to see Allan back there and have conceded he will start 
ALLAN / MEANEY see above
HOPATE Would like to see players given pull to their strengths.. Hoppa might have lost his speed but gained strength so with his ball skills I'd like to see him pushing to the line even through the line more and less reliant on trying to beat the man.. create opportunity rather than on the back of it.. it's pivotal we play to players strength rather than augment sets
COTRIC $moneybags
DWZ error rate is too high but have him running through holes on the back of 3-4 don't generate errors early ball and speed battles.. don't give him the option to drop the ball!! DWZ dropped how many under the high ball last year? obviously doesn't have the hands - also pushes passes that aren't on - unforced errors are for reserve grade..

AVERILLO     why not ?
FLANAGAN    needs to learn this is his team now - free to roam push and pull his weight think he has it in him he just needs to find it week in week out 

NAPA form reversal with a tinge of belief 
LEWIS / WAKEHAM / MARSHALL - KING happy to trial these guys through the hooker role Marshall - King needs to lift but quality ball from Lewis or Wakeham could earn them a starting spot
HETHERINGTON keep the rubbish at home!!
JACKSON has lost some of his go I reckon.. needs to reconfigure his game play in the line more in defence and push forward in attack (without the ball).. too dominate without the skillset needs to play his role in the team rather than as captain..
DOOREY 
ELLIOTT needs to play his arse off - personal opinion aside doesn't have the great dynamic to his game and most 2nd rowers locks put on the kilos 2-3yrs in - hes not fast and lacks ball skills in your face defence - needs to learn add another facet to his game - runs hard tackles well needs more if he wants to hold his position imo

BENCH can always push through numbers but i like the idea of this bench there's only a couple other options that will actually dominate through to 1st grade 
SMITH 
BRITT Britt deserves a bench spot! Britt tried to do too much last year.. was all in his head get him running hard at the line and tackling!!
THOMPSON would be nice to see him come on and stay on
STIMSON

Pay packet comparison would also help.  The pressure first grade footballers are under is often brought up. I heard an AFL commentator say "working at the Altona Toyota factory, having 3 kids a 25 year mortgage and the factory is closing in 6 months. That's pressure, not playing football"

Thompson is suspened until round 5.

Our pack is smaller than some, but is more competitive than many imagine.

Big guys still important but speed and stamina becomingly increasingly so.  The speed and continuity of the game will diminish the value of the big guys who play limited minutes.

Brent Read reporting that the Dogs about to hand school teacher his debut.... Marki’s boy Deitz

Maybe it’s true that Tyrone Harding (winger top 30) has been released and Deitz is in?

Injury exemption for JMK (don’t ask me how that works)

If he plays I’d suggest he’ll be playing for a contract, maybe even top 30. Which is one way to do it I guess.

I’d rather keep the spot(s) open because it’s a long way to the end of August and only 3 others have filled their 30. Makes pre Aug 31st signings problematic.

Just keep ruling out JMK or Kotoa if we want to play him again.

Pretty spot on.... Twitter talk has the Dogs granted an exemption to play Deitz due to JMK injury 

As you say.... give JMK a few weeks off and let’s see how Deitz handles himself in the top grade & if successful, let’s not lose him like we’ve done with decent No.9’s of the past

JMK and Katoa are still on the pup crawl with Dman .... he may even buy a round...

Dogs side named on site.

IMO Waddell and Katoa slightly lucky, Wakeham slightly unlucky.
Dietz in 14.
The rest of the side very logical and odvious,

I think it’s becoming clear Lewis is a long way from NRL under Toms plans. Absolutely no spot for him in the halves, there’s 3 in front of him and another coming next year.