Took over from where our cricket team left off :)

Useless trivia via Twitter:

When Sweden is playing Denmark, the abbreviation is SWE-DEN. The remaining letters, not used, spell DEN-MARK

Basket-brawl....

I recon we were taller than the Filipinos ..... they had to try something :)

Commentary said it was a "dark dark day for basketball" 
Pfft it was the best advertisement for basketball that the sport has had since Michael Jackson and the Chicago Bulls. 
Now everyone will want to watch the game. 

Just have to hope they don't ban or suspend too many players! ....Michael Jackson must have been the smallest point guard ever.

Might be like ice hockey though ...who started the first ever brawl?

Australia and Phillipines may have invented a completely new game... Gladiator Ball :)

The Italians are 400 years ahead of us. 
They call it Calcio Fiorentino. Look it up.
Mix between soccer, league, chess, tennis, hide and seek and with a bit of UFC.

A bunch of Italian skinheads out on a saturday arvo.
https://youtu.be/Mm_7iA8uDZc

All jokes aside tho...I just watched several vids of the basketball. Wow. That was pretty serious stuff and kinda worse than they showed on morning breakfast tv.  It's def gonna go a long way with the penalties you'd think.

There's a vid of the Phillipines taking team selfies afterward...apparently they thought it was acceptable behaviour.  Their asst coach hits our player over the head with a chair and Luc Longley has to wade in and rescue him.

Pat Hughes mother of Garry, Graeme and Mark has passed away.  She was a great lady.

Sad to hear that. .. my thoughts are with the family. ..
It is good that the Hughes are apparently back in the tent at he club.

So your mate Priest back in place of Klemmer.  There goes our winning streak haha.

In more cheery news fan favorite Priest is back in the side. .

So 2 future immortals we should win easily... 😊

You should have known that I wouldn't miss the good news. ..

Congratulations on becoming a Weekender.

Looks like a sport GG Allin invented...

I love youse all esp Bloody and Hounddog and Zef ………...thanks for making the effort to let me know what was going on . 
We are on tour again ……………..I have no idea how to post on here except by replying to someone , is that how it works ?

Great to see you on board Balso....

Most of us are promoted rapidly from Under 7s but Dman is struggling with post quality.

Watching Brazil v Mexico in the WC, I am a long term Brazil fan, they are looking the goods again.

Hey Balso, if you want to post something without replying to someone else just hit the POST REPLY button which is on the left and under the REPLY button.

why is Priest a coach favourite?

Just curious...
How do you move up levels? Is it based on volume of posts or how many times your opinions become fact?

Might have some to do with Deano phoning me 😊

Number of posts ..... 

Anna, Priest is one of only 2 players that Pay brought to the club this year - the other being JMK.

He will play them more often and be more patient with their progress than most other players because they are HIS choices.

Next year he will have more (Cogger, Crichton and Lewis). 

You cant argue with the JMK selection but the Priest one is 50/50. 

Priest is a 29yr old dud.

Thanks Nancy . I will try it now ………..Quite amazing really how the remnants of the old BDP cling together through the ups and downs 
of internet weirdness ……...it could be argued that the hold outs from the move to the FB page a few years ago are feeling justified bearing in mind the 
privacy failures of the behemoth . Remember that was the reason for the punter page in a sense .

https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photography-priest-admonsihes-mean-nun-image12497787

nancy loves a priest   lol

Oops I posted a reply without actually typing a anything. Anywho, Not sure what Deano sees in the Priest but I hope he repays back to the coach in the form of a better performance. I'm not a fan but lets see if he has a better game.

Balso, glad to see you made it across. I tried your email but it kept bouncing back.
You (& anyone else) that only got the link via private message on punters can thank HD for sending a PM to Dan, and Dan for mentioning it on here, it gave us a way to chase up a few more with pm's that may not have found it.