I am gutted.

I have got nothing. Read the link and weap.

Heart attack on a stick!

The Socceroos have come back from behind twice to go through to the final 16 of the World Cup 2006 in Germany.
I rate the win against the Croatians as one of the best wins i have ever seen. The guts to hang in there and play front foot football paid off for the team.

Read about it here ABC.

Back down to earth.

Plenty of different angles to run with after the Aus Brazil game last night. The headlines could be as follow.

1 AUSSIES PUSH BRAZIL ALL THE WAY.
2 BRAZIL ESCAPE FROM DETERMINED AUSSIES.
3 BRAZIL ASSISTED BY HOMO UMPIRE DEFEAT AUSSIES.
4 FAILURE TO TAKE OPPORTUNITIES COST AUSSIES.

Thats about it check out the online articles for further info.

The Australian.

SBS Sport.

Next up for the Aussies are the men from Hrvatska. Where the boys from Oz need a draw or win to make further history and go through to the final 16 teams, a feat i believe can be done. We are due some luck. With the missed shots by Kewel, Viduka and Bresciano in the Brazil game you would think next shots go in the net, fingers crossed. Cmooooooooooonnnnnnnnn!

Cahill pulls Aussie World Cup hopes from the fire.

Tim Cahill scored twice in the last six minutes to pull the Aussie WC hopes from the fire, John Aloisi then added a third in extra time as The Socceroos won 3-1 victory over Japan. The results came late in the seccond half after Guus Hiddink rolled the dice and boldly substituted 3 strikers on to increase the pressure on the Japps.
Little Aussie legend Cahill came off the bench to score in the 84th and 89th minutes to overhaul a one-goal deficit after Japan had taken the lead following a contraversial mistake by Mark Schwarzer in the first half at Kaiserslautern's Fritz-Walter Stadium.
Aloisi then rounded off the victory for the Aussies. The first ever at the World Cup - 32 years after the our first appearance at the finals.













Meanwhile back in Australia the fans are excited.

Dockers needs to sort Medhurst.

Dockers were outplayed out of the middle allmost allday with The Bullys sharking the Sandilands tapped balls as easilys as there own.
Paul Medhurst retarded solo game play was a killer for the hard working Docker defenders and midfield late in the day when the Dockers had there late charge to the siren thwarted by Medhurst's ego. Countles times the flaming rookie got on the ends of balls coming into the forward 50 only to blaze away for goals and go out of bounds or go through for a point. Pavlich kicked 3 goals from limited opertunities. Medhurst kicked 1 goal 4 from plenty.
James Wanker was another players whos skills let the team down. in the final quater the game was there to be won. The Dockers squandered a winable game against a Bulldog team that was dead on its feet.
There were many umpiring decissions that did not go the Dockers way that should have. This cost the Freo boys 3 goals.
I watched the game and (even when we were winning) reflected that i enjoyed the World Cup game of Trinidad and Tobago v England at 2am more.
Come on the World Cup give me more.

Bulldogs v Dockers

I have heard a wisper that the Bulldogs have had a big dose of the flu go through the team. Ten or so blokes are believed to be quite crook.
This should hurt the Dogs quite bad as they are one of the biggest running teams in the league. The game is a big one for the Dockers who i believe ar elooking like ending up 6-7th on the ladder from here. Hopefully Melbourne wil lbe smashed by the Woodsman (sorry Mark) and Sydney will belt St Kilda.

UPDATE>>>>>>>

Looks like the rumours were true.

"We've got the bug going through," Eade said during training on Friday.

"'Johnno' and 'Gia' are crook, and Hargrave and Smith missed on Wednesday. They're just going to train lightly today.

"Lucky we're playing on Sunday," Eade said.

"I'm not a medical expert but they've had the runs and have been throwing up a bit."

You bloody beauty! Says Docker Rob.

AUSTRALIA draw with The NETHERLANDS.

Australia has drawn with The Netherlands 1 all in a game that was a bit of a mix of good and bad.

The 1 all draw was mainly due to the magnificiant work of Mark Schwarzer in front of the goals, who was peppered by Ned attacks, otherwise it could have been 3 nill. The two goal scorers were van Nistelrooy at the 9th minute for The Netherlands and Tim Cahill for Australia at the 59th minute of the game after a missed penalty by Viduka when he was dragged down in the box. In a classic heart attack moment the Duke hit the post (as in Sydney), but luckily Cahill who had just been subbed on slotted it home.

The first half was a dominant display by The Neds where they controlled much of the play. The Australians were often on the chase. At half time this was turned round by some strong words from Guus Hiddink.

In the seccond half Australia upped the anti and took it right up to The Ned players attacking more aggresively and limiting the Ned's space ( 2 Ned players were taken off the ground injured). Australia were down to 10 men in the last 30 mins due to a crude tackle by Luke Wilkshire who was Red carded possibly overdoing it in an effort to impress teh coach.
The Aussie players owe Schwarzer a beer after his work, he has shown he has still got it with a bloody good display and a statement to Hiddink that he is the number one Aussie keeper for the upcomming World Cup.

At the end of the day it was a good result for the Aussies who now have a friendly against Liechtenstein on Wednesday (Thursday AET) in Ulm, Germany before opening their World Cup finals campaign against the Japs on June 12 in Kaiserslautern.

Arnold talks about Australias first round World Cup aponents Japan.

Socceroos assistant coach Graham Arnold is convinced Japan's weakness in the air.

Would you like to know more?

AUSTRALIA v NETHERLANDS

Socceroos take on Netherland in Holland tonight 8:30pm Perth time. This match comes after the friendly with the dutch amateur team VV Kloetinge which the Socceroos won 8 -1 on Friday.
The big supprise was Harry Kewel played the whole game and scored 3 goals. The worry was Tim Cahill may have aggrevated his injured knee.

Socceroo coaching staff were happy with Kewell's return. Assistant coach Graham Arnold said that Kewell had only played at his own insistence because he wanted to boost his fitness. "It was good to see Harry back on the field. He got through 80-odd minutes with no repercussions. Timmy (Cahill) just felt a little bit. It's not a problem at all," Arnold said.

Some interesting news ahead of the game against Holland tonight in Rotterdam. It is being touted that Luke Wilkshire will in fact start tonights game, and take on a role similar to that of Cahill’s. With Cahill not being 100% match fit, it is likely he wont get game time until the second half.
Schwarzer is almost certain to get the nod ahead of Kalac in goal, while Sterjovski looks like keeping in Harry Kewell’s left wing position. As mentioned before, we are likely to see Aloisi partner Viduka up front in a new look attack.

Probable team for tonights game:

Schwarzer

Emerton Neill Moore Chipperfield

Bresciano Grella Culina Wilkshire Sterjovski

Aloisi Viduka.

This is gonna be a very tough game. Cmon Aussie!

Nockine Brook : Klendathu "It's an ugly planet; a bug planet. A planet hostile to life as we know it."

Well Nockine Brook is a casualty of the CALM prescribed burn system. By the look it was burnt last spring. Pretty fried out bush walking. We followed the creekline and found minimal moisture. With some winter rain and a couple of years growth it could look pretty good. Mainly Wandoo woodland with some sections of Jarrah Banksia.
Mark should post some pics of the reptiles that we observed on The South West.

Windows Vista Beta 2

An interesting read about Vista Beta 2 for the uninitiated.

Night guy v Day guy and the peace accord.

I find that quite often i am my own worst enemy. One of the longest running battles that have been waged between the men within (there are many) is the battle of night and day. I refer to night guy versus day guy.
My wife is well aware of the struggle within and being an interested party is oft to try and remidy the situation with some costructive observations. However not being someone whom recieves critisism well, her attempts at a peace accord get as far as the US with Israel and the Palestinians.
I think the whole thing started from having older brothers whom were able to stay up longer because they were the "big boys" where as myself and Paul were the "little boys" and in bed by 9pm. The thought that i was missing out on something allways kills me, and i am sure i missed heaps from not watching Alas Smith and Jones and other late night BBC TV programs.
I digress.Fast worward to today where a blog post by a bloke called Steve Pavlina has roused interest in the struggle again.
I am gonna have a crack at getting my shit together (thoughts Bolto?). I will use the Blog as a log of the attempt.
Could be boring as batshit reading, however the time is now. I am looking for a two state solution to the turmoil.

www.Inetd.info

Echo seven to base? Cmon its a beutifull morning.

The Dogs in the game.

Well, well! Mark has started his own Blog and raised the bar. Nice work Dog. Come on Dameon get is started.
http://the-south-west.blogspot.com/
See below for my thoughts on Post production.