Brazilian striker Neymar has become a global joke, a somersaulting clown, a diver and a prima donna.
In a sport where being in the vertical should be a distinct advantage, Neymar, sometimes Neymar Junior (full name, Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior), has accumulated a reported 14 minutes in the World Cup competition thus far, writhing about on the deck in horrible pain, before getting lightly to his feet, sprinting off and scoring yet another goal.
Certainly, if Neymar, was an AFL player, he’d be dragged, forced to sit on the pine and think about what he did. In rugby, he’d be stomped mercilessly at the breakdown. In NRL, he’d almost certainly be killed. In soccer, or football at the insistence of my editor, he’s a gun and may one day become the greatest of all time.
SBS commentator, Craig Foster, declared him “a genius”, albeit a flawed one. Mozart was a genius. Michelangelo, too. No doubt. Unless Neymar is scribbling down a piano concerto in A Major or resolving the intrinsic paradox of transcendental bijection in the spacetime continuum before banging the ball into the back of the net, I suspect he comes up short in the genius stakes.
Full column here.
this will make no sense, trying to get past a botter
You’re in and so are the four above test comments I’ve deleted.
This is wraith I havent been able to hit the blog for days now under my own email, so I’ll use this.
meanwhile
cheers
Check your email, Wraith. I’ve amended your comment to show your ID and email. It’s not the fault of the other person. They didn’t hack you. It is a glitch in the WordPress software that has randomly thrown up their details. Anyway, check your email, clear your history and cache and come back on. I’ve deleted your subsequent comments but you are coming through on your own ID and email.
Yes!! Im not net smart and this has been driving me a bit more mental than usual. Thanks Jack!
Glad to hear it.
We like you mental wraith!
Hope things are going well old girl.
Anybody use Optus?
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/%E2%80%98it-made-me-feel-sick%E2%80%99-how-optus-is-monetising-your-web-browsing-history/ar-AAzM0fa?ocid=NL_ENAU_A3_20180713_4
I do and they are history when the NBN comes along in a few months,
Clear your history and cache anyway. What the failed plug in was doing was incorrectly storing other people’s IDs and emails who also comment on WordPress forums and they would appear on yours. It’s pretty shoddy frankly but these other IDs will get into your cache so you need to clear it. Drop me a line here once you’ve done it to let me know how you’ve got on.
Hi
I’m not a bot but do you mind removing my email details from JackSprats above email.
As you’ve worked out I posted on word press (quite a while ago (6 months??) and for some reason it appears to be causing problems on your forum
Apologies if it’s causing dramas to your posters but nothing malicious intended
Thanks
Not your fault and I will remove it. Thanks.
A good deal of analysis of the ACCC report now highlighting it will further entrench the cartels power. No surprises.
coalition continues to appoint ideological warriors to positions in the Public Service. this is the most corrupt government in nations history in every sense.
Is the soccer final a night game back in Russia?
The French will need to have the day’s TDF done and dusted so they can settle back and watch their team.
Big day in France.
Meanwhile the Poms can stop stressing about a conflict with Wimbledon
oh he just kicked one. He will be hailed now as bog. that is usually what happens when he gets more than 3 touches in a quarter.
Crows Captain Taylor Walker 10 minutes into the last quarter has had 9 disposals at 55% efficiency. this bloke is the most over rated player in the game.
388 dead in trucking accidents since 2016 when the coalition decided to protect its big business mates and not allow truckers to be paid Safe rates. this coalition called a purely political royal commission when dodgy businesses killed 4 untrained people by putting them into roof spaces and tried to blame Labor for the greed and apathy of the businesses. This coalition chose to stop truck drivers getting a Safer workplace. these deaths are on the hands of the coalition and its supporters. FN disgrace. No surprises.
Good work Dismayed.
What a load of tosh. No attempt to make a balanced comment (again). There are multiple reasons why trucking accidents (as well as other road user casualities) occur, including speed, fatigue, drug use and wool-gathering.
cotc- this has to be one of your most ridiculous comments and man you make some doozies. Speed, fatigue, drug use all these were highlighted as reason to ensure safe rates ( just like NSW has had for decades) and a safer work structure was put in place for truck drivers so they would not have to take drugs to stay awake and drive day after day on a couple of hours sleep and speed and endanger themselves and other road users to make unrealistic deadlines. You continue to highlight you will always put your false fixed ideology ahead of facts and the lives of Australians just to continue your sycophantic ways. You clearly have forgotten about the Federal government hysterical reaction and intervention to Truck drivers wanting a secure work environment. you never fail to not fail this Nation.
Dismayed, I must say that one may conclude from your comments, inter alia …”have to take drugs to stay awake …”, you appear to be inferring that transport drivers are required, as part of their present working/employment conditions, to commit motor traffic offences that carry a serious criminal driving record. If this is what you are in fact suggesting, then your comment is utterly absurd.
We all have choices mate.
Hmm yet Abbott expected Rudd to be in every roof supervising the batts. It was greedy batt installers who used cheap untrained labor that didn gthe damage and they were state laws that were contravened, not Federal
That episode (pink batts) was one of the biggest beat ups of all time Bassy
Think it through. You are agreeing with Dismayed.
Carl, there is no point jumping in to disagree with Dismayed just for the sake of it. His post about safe rates and a safe workplace are absolutely correct. We’ve met a lot of truck drivers over the last few months and listened to their chatter over the UHF and their lot is not a happy one. I have the utmost respect for truck drivers considering the fact that they have to deal with cars, caravaners etc. who seem to go out of their way to endanger the truck drivers lives. The only thing that confuses me is why on earth state governments ditched the freight rail system in favour of the road system. Thousands of kilometers of unused rail lines and road works taking place all over the major highways in this country because of the damage caused by heavy vehicular traffic. Somebody is making a big profit at the expense of sensible and safe alternatives.
Penny, given that perception is widely considered to be reality, the thing that confuses me is why would cars, caravaners etc go out of their way to endanger the truck drivers lives??
Since we are doubtless referring to the plague of grey nomads Carl, I’ll back Penny up. No, they aren’t going out of their way to endanger truck drivers’ lives – they aren’t that picky, anyone will do!
Seriously, some of them don’t have the experience to be out on those roads with equipment bigger than anything they’ve ever driven before. And if they think it’s ok to dawdle along in a dream-world, well they’re wrong. There should probably be some sort of training course and license endorsement required to drive some of these caravan combinations.
“They would seem to” not “they do.” Do you see the difference? It’s a figure of speech.
You obviously have not studied Plato me old mate.
Don’t try that on Carl . Plato knew SFA about the trucking industry. Trucks weren’t even invented in Plato’s time.
What are you smoking?
Similarly suss are the objections of the inland rail link that is being put in – those seem to becoming from the Labor side of politics,
Awful lot of freight is sent by rail Penny – the problem is the distribution points in the capital cities.
What should be happening is a truck should be able to roll into a distribution center, put its container on to a rail freight car and be gone within 15 mins with a similar pick up time at the other end. I have not seen any recent data but the wait times are considerable.
One big one was going to be put in in Sydney but never got past the planning stages.
There are problems all over the place. Unless a pipeline is put in from Botany Bay to the new airport at Badgery’s Creek, the truck movements to supply aviation fuel will be in the thousands.
I know he is a mate but there is no point in replying to Dismayed – period.
JS the inland rail does not stack economically. The cost to build will never be recouped it will remain a debt off budget for ever and it will only just break even when transporting freight if industry is compelled to use it. Very simple. Guess whose land it runs next too? Barnaby’s guess who was pushing hard for it even though all the data showed it will Never pay for itself. Man you seriously do not know what is going on this country do you.
Follow the money. It will usually lead to Big Oil! Think diesel, synthetic rubber tyres.
Correct. If the Inland Rail doesn’t stack up (Barnaby notwithstanding), they might not be asking the right questions.
The ‘independent’ (what a joke) ACCC report, as expected, has been hijacked by the zealots of the far right because Turncoat hasn’t got the intestinal fortitude to back in his belief in renewable energy.
The fossils will do anything, say anything, to get more dirty coal mines.