Sign of the Times: Ed Cowan can't take a trick

If it wasn't bad enough being dropped from the Test team, Ed Cowans luck seems to have left quicker than his strike rate if the screen grab below from melbournefc.com.au is anything to go by:

see second story in the news section. courtesy of melbournefc.com.au

Top 5: Reasons to support Hawthorn this weekend

It must be a very cold week in hell as for the first time in living memory; I will be supporting Hawthorn in a match.  It's not that I particularly like the "poos and wees", its just that I really dislike Fremantle Football Club.

I've blogged previously about my dislike for the Fremantle football club, but for those not inclined to read another diatribe, let me summarise:
1. Fremantle FC is the product of a Marketing plan, not a club that grew organically out of an existing community (which there was);
2. Fremantle FC is, therefore, a false product that the AFL has been peddling that the good people of Western Australia have been buying up in droves;
3. Fremantle FC apparently got sick of being a bit of a laughing stock of the league (read: trading the rights to Luke Hodge to Hawthorn for Trent Croad before losing Croad back to Hawthorn, not drafting Andrew McLeod, drafting Clive Waterhouse) so ungraciously sacked its coach and pinched another;
4. Said pinched coach managed to get the team to win, though with a very ugly game style that doesn't endear the game to anyone and will leave a forgettable legacy;
5. Their uniform and song are ridiculous.

Seen above, the old and improved Freo jumpers.  You tell me which is the improvement.

I realise that many of these criticisms can be pointed at other clubs, but this isn't about other clubs, its about the "Shockers".

And so, for this weekend only, I'm hoping they will be a happy team at Hawthorn.

Sign of the Times: Queensland needs to work on its Marketing

I've commented previously about the Marketing attempts of the South Australian government at drawing people to the state through the prospect of death in the woods, though it seems this may be a trend with State Governments, as evidenced by these Queensland plates spotted recently:

Queensland, just throw us away when you're done