We are over this whole merry-go-round but it does make for some amusing and humorous podcasting.

Seriously, can anyone actually believe any of the lies or half-truths that come out of either of these people.

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Fair dinkum, these people get paid a bucketload to tell you and I and the rest of the footy public what we already know and can see on TV every week.

How do they keep their journalistic integrity then?

In this day and age of high technology and social media, it’s frigging ridiculous that members of the medja have to resort to using twitter, facebook, fan forums and pub gossip to do their jobs.

And to make it even worse, they have to consult so-called experts in other sports on their opinions.

Sad really isn’t it.

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Kudos to Mike Sheahan for getting on board.  Unfortunately for the censors at the Bostonian, they don’t like being told they are 7 years too late.

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I have avoided comment on this scandal up until now simply because there is so much more to learn about the whole photo issue and I had to be sure that I didn’t say anything that would land me in legal hotwater.  As you can see from my vidcast, I am still quite cagey about things I do know and what I can say.

That being said however, I hope that the young lady in question manages to fight the good fight so that we can ALL understand that AFL footballers are NOT GODS!

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Forgive my crude diagrams on this weeks show but they are infinitely better than umpires number 21, 28 and 11.

Who was unfortunate enough to have to put up with a self-serving Saints supporter on SEN this week.  I only listened so I could take him down.

Does Steven Baker deserve all he got??

Damn straight!

Steve Quartermaine – you should know better.  We all know that Malcolm Blight is the Football Director at the Gold Coast Life Savers but really, badgering a fellow commentator is a disgrace.

To suggest that Giesch has unleashed yet another confusing and ridiculous ruling is an understatement but listen on and see what you think.

This weeks rant feasts upon the slow degradation of this sacred day within our society, and within the footballing fraternity.

Without giving a history lesson on the ANZAC’s, I get stuck into the
Hawthorn Football Club, and also the morons who like to denigrate the
memory of our ‘Diggers’ just to hear the sound of their own voices. GET A LIFE you morons

Listen to my Explosive Rants here (or right click to save) 9mb

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Totally missed the mark on this one dude! Honest mistake. Have you joined a media organisation? Lets point out your mistakes:
1) It wasn’t at all during the minutes silence!

2) There was plenty there (myself included) that aren’t fully aware of
the once a year ritual and thought that after the Digg holding the
cermony says ‘lest we forget’ I thought that was it.

3) There is no evidence, in fact quite the oppersite, that they did it
on purpose. In fact if you have a good look you can see that they
stuffed up and in fact, joint the line again as soon as they relised
there stuff up. If they had no respect for the occasion and moved off
on purpose, why would they bother joining the line again?

4) Why wouldn’t you comment on a big frack up like how on SEN when they are covering the ANZAC day VFL game, The Ox, talks all the way through the minutes silence explaining crap like how many people are at the ground.
Due, its sad when you turn into the thing you hate/dislike and dude,
this seems like something I would expect from The Age or Herald Sun or
worst, Patrick Smith and KB.
JMTC
Molly

Comment by Phillip Molly Malone – April 26, 2006

Explosion,
Four words mate: ‘They’re not gods!’.
There is actually quite a glaring inaccuracy in your explosive rant,
and that is the Hawthorn players walked off their line after the 1
minute (well, 32 second) silence. That is, after the poem and the last
call (both of which are as you said extremely moving pieces) and after
the words ‘Lest we forget’.

Now perhaps you have been to many
remembrance services, but I haven’t, being brought up by pacifist
parents. While I think the remembrance of the tragedy of the loss of
those young lives in war (the value of the loss is certainly debatable:
for instance Gallipoli did more to keep Turks free than Aussies) is
commendable, I am not comfortable with the implicit support of military
action, but in any case that is a personal issue, and if present I
would respect the ritual and remain silent during the silence (I fully
agree with your rant against the idiots who felt obliged to ruin it by
shouting rubbish).

But I was not fully aware of the particulars of the
ritual, and was unaware that after the poem, the last call, the
silence, and the ‘Lest we forget’, that there is the further component
of the singing of the national anthem and the raising of the flag to
half mast (possibly you can throw me into the sin bin as well after
that admission). I think really the blame of the really quite small
mistake should be placed at the feet of the Hawthorn or AFL management.

In a public spectacle like that the participants, in this case the
players, should have been made aware, clearly, before hand of the
procedure. This I think was probably not done, and I guess those
players won’t make that mistake next year.

Further comment: I need to state my allegiances. I am a Hawthorn
supporter (further evidence to dismiss my retort, but also this meant
that I saw the incident, because being in Lichtenstein I don’t go out
of my way to acquire the games of other teams) but I am also a one-eyed footytalk.com.au supporter, and find it the best place on the internet (including free-to-air streaming radio from Australia) for comment on football matters.

And lastly Explosion, I found the image of you sitting down with a
stopwatch timing all the 1 minute silences quite amusing. From your
reckoning, and given that all 8 games observed the 32 second silence,
you had over 4 minutes of almost complete silence. Surely that will do
you. Please excuse the flippancy of this last comment as I also agree
that a minute’s silence should be just that.

Grasshopper you must learn compassion for an honest mistake, Zenmaster Fu

Comment by Anonymous – April 27, 2006

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Good to hear someone speak some sense on the podcast!

Happy mothers day to all the Mothers.

Molly

Comment by Phillip Molly Malone  -  May 14, 2007

I

think there will be a lot of punters who are glad that The Explosion is

becoming obsolete on footytalk.com.au after the efforts of Ellie

Explosion.

Hope all mum’s had a great day.

Comment by Explosion  -  May 14, 2007 @

That was pretty cool great tribute! Your mum sounds like a top notch lady

Comment by Trez  -  May 14, 2007

Thanks

Trez. Yeah, mum goes alright. It is amazing how we generally don’t

lavish enough love and affection on our mum’s except for when Mother’s

Day comes around. This way, I can show her all year round and now the

whole world knows it too. Mind you, Ellie Explosion did all the hard

work.

Thanks for the comments mate.

Explosion

Comment by Explosion</a>  -  May 14, 2007

that was an absolute pleasure..

can we get mrs explosion on for special comments throught the year..

Comment by pete  -  May 16, 2007

No Probs Pete.  Thanks for your kind words. I will pass them on to Ellie at the earliest possible convenience.

I don’t know if she will get the chance to get online again

throughout the year – or if she would really want to after that but we

can always ask. The difficulty is that she lives in country Vic and

Studio 2 doesn’t travel very well.

Still, we can only try.

Comment by Explosion  -  May 16, 2007