ADAM Goodes, it seems, is pretty happy with how the Swans are traveling at the moment.
Sensational, outstanding, stellar and tremendous are just some of the superlatives he applied to his sensational, outstanding, stellar and tremendous teammates. And the way the Swans are rolling along at the moment, who could argue with him?
But Adam also let us in on a little secret. While praising the form of Collingwood, the dual Brownlow medalist noted that it was "good" to see them playing such attractive footy as he supported the Pies as a child.
The Four Points believes it was Saint and reformed tax collector Paul that once wrote: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things.
But Collingwood supporters should take heart, embrace the inner-child and daub some black and white non-toxic on the old dial. The Four Points found another entry in the same helpful book we got the St Paul stuff from: suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Of such is the kingdom of heaven.
2. Spruiking and Miscellaneous Amendment Act 2006
GOODESY might be talking it up but fellow Swan and reformed banana-bender Craig Bolton wants to keep the lid on -- just like that tin of braised steak and onions that's been sitting in your pantry since '92.
Bolton says it is only "people on the outside spruiking” that are creating the hype around the Swans, and despite The Four Points thinking recent legislation had outlawed such practices, it seems the same microphone-wielding gabblers are troubling Bomber Thompson too.
Bomber would like the rest of the football world to hose down their expectations of the Cats to the level normally greeting a tour by the new Little River Band or a maiden speech in Parliament.
To illustrate his point, the premiership coach noted that while their recent win over Carlton was pleasing, the last quarter saw Geelong "go to bed".
Now while The Four Points commends the discipline being enforced at the Cattery, perhaps the curfew could be extended a few hours, at least for night games.
3. This thing all things devours
"TIME and Mother Nature" are the only things that will heal Scott West's troublesome knee. So says coach and reformed wingman Rodney Eade.
As keen observers of footballers' lower halves will note, Eade's comments are bucking the contemporary trend. Several players, Four Points favourite Tiger Mark Coughlan among them, have recently undergone "radical" treatments that spit in the face of Time and flip the bird at Mother Nature.
Coughlan's treatment was of course performed in Germany, a country that has been weaned off Mother Nature since Otto Von Bismarck last wore lederhosen.
The Germanic influence on world sport is not just limited to Aussie Rules, though. Just ask Motor Sport supremo and unreformed multi-millionaire Max Mosley.
4. Miracle in the west
ROCKET Eade wasn't just tipping the lid to Time and Mother Nature on Wednesday, as this was the day that saw the opening of the Elite Learning Centre at Whitten Oval, a top-level training facility that Bulldogs president David Smorgon says will keep the club in Melbourne forever.
Eade noted that future improvements in the ELC will see a theatrette, a players rec room and hot and cold baths. Yesiree, hot AND cold. And you thought only the Max Mosleys of this world could enjoy such opulence.
One man who has had to endure the tepid waters of yesteryear is Bulldogs champion and reformed Essendon supporter Scott West. Apart from a penchant for machines that froth automatically, Westy has revealed the three things he couldn't do without on a desert island: "Matches so I could build a fire, a fishing rod so I could catch things to eat (although I'd need my wife to cook) and someone to talk to".
Um . . . it's a stretch but The Four Points reckons that "someone" could perhaps be Scotty's wife. You know, two birds with one stone and all that.
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