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Ian Minus - you're a dick!!

@jdrama68 EVERY team that is drawn to play against the Dragons will lift and perform like they've never performed before. No team wants to be the first to lose to the Dragons. Dragons will finish on 6 undeserved points.

@Kristinartz 3

@SaltyGoat17 I don't understand why the Greenies aren't up in arms about this desecration.

I couldn’t agree more!!

@sunflow15685280 I had some for lunch today.

Who here likes dolmades? I love them 😋

@JVMonte2 Alchemy - Dire Straits

What is the greatest “live” album ever released?

@CuteCatsMagic Yes, this boy was one of a litter we found in our yard. His siblings and mother were re-homed. Mack stayed with us.

Would you adopt a stray cat?

@Woody2Jenny @Mon4Kooyong I came to say the same thing, but you've said it already.

@Mon4Kooyong This is going to be hilarious - wait until these owners all find out how much it will cost to replace the battery and to undergo a major service. The resale value of these vehicles (being Chinese) is going to be a disaster.

The government’s FBT exemption on EVs has been a massive policy success/ it's helped thousands of people afford EVS for the first time. In a cost of living crisis, we should be building on it - not winding it back.

@rocknrollofall Hard to decide but Double White is mine.

What's your all time favourite The Beatles album?

@ellymelly Just ask Jayant Patel

Tony Burke bragged that our medical system doesn't function without migrants. That's not a good thing. That's a disgrace. Including migrants in the health sector is fine. Making it dependent on migrants is not. We're a first world country with - allegedly - the highest education standards in the world - and our hospitals function on imported skills??? And he laughed as he said it.

What’s the greatest debut album in rock history, in your opinion?

@FrankBr05713205 Still got mine.

This was my calculator in college. On the plus side, it didn't need any batteries. Anybody else ever use one?

@SydneyFC Semi-final leg 1 tickets booked. Sitting in our regular seats. #WeAreSydney #SydneyIsSkyBlue

@DireStraits77 If it's the absolute 'final', then it has to be Going Home, the song that they played at the conclusion to their concerts.

There’s a Dire Straits song for every mood, but only one can be your 'final' listen. 🎸🎵

@oscgoat I'm usually up at 6am so was looking forward to watching this at a convenient hour. That plan is now completely stuffed.

OH GREAT SO 3AM IN AUSTRALIA. THATS AWESOME THATS JUST WHAT I WANTED

@IfindRetards How is it possible to be so stupid. Unbelievable!!

Tony Burke has declared immigration, particularly from India, is the “solution, not the problem” for the housing crisis in Australia. How can he acknowledge there is a housing shortage and say he is fixing it my importing an unsustainable amount of people? Absolute retard.

@kelly_ques Without a doubt, Switzerland.

What’s the most beautiful country you’ve ever visited?

I STOPPED BELIEVING SPORT WAS OURS AND THE NRL PROVED IT I used to think sport belonged to us. Whether it was standing at the rail at the races or watching a game unfold on a Friday night, I believed the same thing most people still cling to, that the fans, the punters, the people who live it, were at the centre of it. I do not believe that anymore. And if you want a clear example of that shift, you do not need to look any further than the National Rugby League. What people see in the NRL is competition, tribalism, rivalry. What actually runs it is something very different. A commercial machine built on broadcast rights, expansion strategy, and corporate alignment that operates on a level most supporters never even consider. I have come to realise that what we engage with is just the surface. The game itself is the product, not the priority. In the NRL, matches are scheduled for television before they are scheduled for fans. Kick off times shift to suit broadcasters, not the people who turn up. Entire rounds are shaped around maximising viewership, not preserving tradition. And people accept it, because they are still emotionally attached to the version of the game they think they are watching. But that version is not what is driving decisions. The same applies across racing. People talk about the thrill, the form, the ride, the finish. I get it, I have lived it. But underneath that is a system built on bloodstock value, stallion economics, syndication structures, and long term financial positioning. A colt winning a race is not just a sporting result, it is a potential multi million dollar shift in future breeding revenue. That is the real game. And yet the average person standing at the track, or having a bet, has almost no visibility on that layer. They are engaging with the outcome, not the mechanism behind it. That disconnect is everywhere. In the NRL, fans will argue for hours about refereeing decisions, team selections, or who should be in the halves, without any understanding of the financial pressures, sponsorship obligations, or broadcast considerations that influence the bigger picture. In racing, people will debate rides and track bias while having no comprehension of how ownership structures, breeding rights, and international capital shape the industry. I am not saying that to dismiss the passion. The passion is real. But it is being directed at the wrong level. Because the uncomfortable truth I have landed on is this, we are not part of the system in the way we think we are. We are contributors to it. Our attention is monetised. Our loyalty is leveraged. Our outrage, our debates, our engagement, it all feeds a structure that operates far above us, financially and strategically. Whether it is the NRL negotiating broadcast deals worth hundreds of millions or racing operations structuring stallion deals that run into the tens of millions, the scale of what sits underneath is completely disconnected from what most people see. And I include myself in this. I used to think understanding the game meant understanding the sport. It does not. It means understanding the surface. The deeper layers, the equity, the ownership, the strategic control, that is where the real decisions are made. That is where the direction is set. I still watch. I still follow. I still care. But I no longer confuse the two. Because once you see how much of sport, whether it is the NRL or horse racing, is driven by financial architecture rather than pure competition, you cannot unsee it. The illusion that it belongs to the people starts to fall away. And what you are left with is not less interesting. It is just far more honest.

Sydney won tonight due to great goal keeping and a MVC mistake. We'll need to improve if we want to go any further in this comp.

Longest 6 minutes of my life!