The Dropkicks - 2007 - Episode 26

More analysis of the Air NZ Cup (NZ's provincial rugby competition); Australia's late-night pre-World Cup training; French rugby coach Laporte insinuates All Blacks and English are on drugs; Jake Brown's 30ft skateboard fall; Alex Rodriguez gets to 500 baseball homers in record time; Swede Stefan ... something ... wins the 100m freestyle in sub-48 seconds; ex All Black Ofisa Tonu'u sorts out someone suffering from air-rage; NRL player Sonny Bill Williams loses his BMW; EA Sports annoy gamers by only releasing Rugby 2007 on PS2/PC; another NRL player - Brad Morrin - gets a citing for biting; and rugby player Rico Gear abandons Tasman...

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The Dropkicks - 2007 - Episode 25

The Dropkicks get into the swing of the 2007 Air NZ Cup; the Tour de France (aka Tour de Farce); Good deeds done by Curtis Martin; Iraq's win in the Asian Cup; bad 'fan' behaviour in the NRL (league) and NFL (american football); NFL player impersonations; and NRL players other than Willie Mason that the Dropkicks hate.

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More relevant dropkicks banter

Che - Do you remember a certain conversation with Dom's bro in Concrete? (This is regarding a concussion that I possibly suffered in a football match about two months ago – My brother plays in the same team and the big mouth had to go and tell everybody)

Hadyn - Ha! That's right. How black is the kettle Mr Pot?

Dom - Yes but I wasn’t going out to run at 120 kg brick walls and have them run at me. Oh and my concussion didn’t come courtesy of me head-butting a Mack truck called Tonie.
And the opposition had no way of knowing I’d been possibly concussed the week before. Unlike the 17 NSW players who had witnessed... as he tackled Blues prop Brent Kite, and was clearly concussed as he was assisted from the field by the Maroons' training staff.
Everyone witnessed it. Including the Queensland medical staff. My "doctor" diagnosed me based entirely on my testimony. I could go describe all the symptoms of a broken leg right now and he'd chuck me in a cast no x-ray needed.

I stand by my disdain of the Qld medical officials and Dallas Johnson. (and now im backed up by 'professionals')

Che - Dude. We saw you after that head-smack. In fact, *days* after that head-smack. And you were clearly concussed. So… your justification for playing soccer with that concussion is that the doctor believed you when you described your obvious discussion. You need to send that law degree back to Sanitarium.

Dom - Oh was I clearly concussed was I?
And how exactly would you know that, Tibby? Was it because I told you? Or were you drawing on a lifetime of patients coming to you and telling you they had a headache and didn’t think they could/should go to work?

Maybe you should watch a bit more ER and less Grey’s Anatomy.

And what’s wrong with Sanitarium University? It has a great alumni programme. And clearly you’ve put your Sanitarium Uni degree in medicine to good use.
:-P

Hadyn - "And how exactly would you know that". How bout the minute long pauses between sentences, the blabbing on nonsensically, the slight drooling, forgetting things you'd just said... actually how did we know?

Dom - I rest my case. No wait... case closed.

Darwin awards nomination

This story comes from last nights dead rubber State of Origin rugby league match played last night. NSW won 18-4.

The Maroons' performance will be remembered as one of their bravest, not least because of the performance of lock Dallas Johnson, who returned to the field after being concussed in the first tackle of the game.

This isnt brave, its bloody stupid. One more heavy knock and he could have died. The meidcal people who let him back out need to be sacked. It was negligent and irresponsible. To put the other players on the field in that position is unfair. Would you want to be the guy who delivered the tackle that killed him?

Johnson's head appeared to hit teammate Tonie Carroll as he tackled Blues prop Brent Kite, and was clearly concussed as he was assisted from the field by the Maroons' training staff.

But he returned early in the second half and tackled heroically. Of Johnson's effort, Meninga said: "It was pretty hard to keep him off the field. As you could see, he wanted to stay on after it happened. They all want to play for the Maroon jersey."

Use a gun. Shoot him in the leg and tell him that either way he might DIE. He's just not asking one of his team mates or opponents to deliver the killer blow.