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From what I heard, they are just stripping Melbourne of the 2 grand finals and the 3 minor premierships and leaving it at that. Sucks that it had to happen to Melbourne, if some disaster was going to happen to an ex-super league/news funded club I would have hoped for the Sharks.

Ah cool thanks. Not too bad.

How did Brighton do this season? I've had a soft spot for them, ever since the Demo of the original USM only let you manage Brighton.

I still cannot kick out of a pin to save my life. Eventually gave up altogether after the 40th time trying to win a tag match with me and Eric Young against AJ and someone else.

I'm still getting over Sharp not being on United's kit anymore

Agreed. The Storm are a fantastic team and have been so for a number of years. Maybe they've ridden their luck a bit so far this season but they've done well. A lot of New South Welshmen and women are determined to hate them, because they aren't of this state but I always admire good quality teams, in any sport, regardless of whether tradition/other factors dictate that I should hate them instead.

Well if there's an AFL thread...... WARNING CONTAINS RESULTS FOR GAMES PLAYED TODAY Round 1 Results Brisbane Broncos 30 def North Queesland Cowboys 24 St George-Illawarra Dragons 18 def Parramatta Eels 12 Newcastle Knights 20 def Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 16 Penrith Panthers 34 def Canberra Raiders 16 Melbourne Storm 16 def Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 10 Gold Coast Titans 24 def New Zealand Warriors 18 Sydney Roosters 36 def South Sydney Rabbitohs 10 Wests Tigers 26 def Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 22 Round 2 Results St George-Illawarra Dragons 26 def Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 6 Gold Coast Titans 19 def South Sydney Rabbitohs 18 North Queesland Cowboys 28 def Penrith Panthers 20 Melbourne Storm 20 def Newcastle Knights 14 New Zealand Warriors 30 def Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 16 Parramatta Eels 24 def Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 20 Sydney Roosters 44 def Wests Tigers 32 Canberra Raiders 22 def Brisbane Broncos 14 Round 3 Results Wests Tigers 23 def Parramatta Eels 12 St George-Illawarra Dragons 33 def North Queesland Cowboys 8 Melbourne Storm 16 def Penrith Panthers 10 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 36 def Newcastle Knights 12 Gold Coast Titans 24 def Canberra Raiders 4 New Zealand Warriors 48 def Brisbane Broncos 16 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 60 def Sydney Roosters 14 South Sydney Rabbitohs 30 def Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 8 Round 4 Melbourne Storm 17 def St George-Illawarra Dragons 4 Sydney Roosters 25 def Brisbane Broncos 6 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 11 def Parramatta Eels 0 North Queesland Cowboys 32 def Gold Coast Titans 18 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 14 def New Zealand Warriors 6 West Tigers 35 def Canberra Raiders 22 Round 4 games to be played tomorrow Newcastle Knights vs Penrith Panthers 4:00pm South Sydney Rabbitohs vs Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 7:00pm Not too happy with the way the season has progressed for my beloved Rabbitohs thus far but the win(albeit an ugly one)over Cronulla in round 3 will do wonders for the team's confidence and I'm hopeful of a good showing against the Bulldogs.

I hate that it's out of United's hands again but such is life. Now the team needs to regroup and refocus for the tough run home.

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I like the way the ownership of my favorite rugby league club is set up. Club is divided, with the owners having control of 75% % to the fans 25% The 25% have rights to veto any attempt at relocation, merging and any attempt to change the colours or name of the club. Works out quite well.

It should have been a red carpet event. When just one British cinema was given exclusive permission to launch Uma Thurman's new film earlier this month, the film's producers presumably hoped that exclusivity would create a buzz around the movie. Though limiting the release would obviously limit takings, they must have hoped word of mouth could make it a slow-burning success. But the tactic backfired catastrophically. Instead of audiences queueing round the block of the Apollo West End in Piccadilly Circus, London, to see the star of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, they stayed away in record-breaking numbers. Over its opening weekend, no more than a dozen people went to see Motherhood, a semi-autobiographical account of stressed-out Manhattan parenting written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann. The film made just £88 on the weekend of Friday 5 March. On its debut Sunday, box office takings were £9, meaning one person bought a ticket. The disaster has now degenerated into a bitter confrontation between Metrodrome, responsible for marketing the film in the UK, and producer Jana Edelbaum, who blames the company for Motherhood's atrocious performance. The film, thought to have cost $5m to make, earned just over £40,000 when it opened in the US last October, but Edelbaum had no idea quite how badly it had performed in the UK until contacted this week by the Guardian. "You're kidding?" she said. "We must have broken a new record for grosses." Edelbaum is adamant that Metrodome must be to blame, and insisted that she would demand a full explanation. "Think how much crap succeeds at the cinema," she said. "Motherhood is not bad. It's a very decent movie. I've seen movies that are not half as good." In fact, Motherhood, which also features Minnie Driver, Anthony Edwards and a cameo by Jodie Foster, cannot lay claim to the dubious title of Britain's lowest-ever grossing film on its opening weekend: that honour is taken by My Nikifor, the 2007 film about Polish artist Nikifor Krynicki, which took just £7 on its launch. But it has, according to the veteran film critic Barry Norman, confounded expectations of quite how resounding a flop a mainstream film featuring a bona fide star can be. "Good God. I have never heard of anything like this before," he said. "This is not some small, independent movie. It's astonishing that only about 11 people could be bothered to go and see Uma Thurman. The reviews were very poor indeed but that alone isn't enough to explain this. It's a reasonable assumption that there was a marketing and advertising catastrophe, and people didn't know it was showing. But it should have attracted more than 11 people in passing trade alone. Apollo cinemas, after all, aren't in tucked-away places. They're all prominently located. I'm baffled." The Apollo cinema chain – which later briefly screened the film in Burnley, Fareham, Redditch, Stroud and Altrincham – failed to return calls from the Guardian. But Metrodrome, which has manoeuvred films including Monster, Donnie Darko and The Counterfeiters to financial and critical success, defended its approach in the week after the launch. "Over the course of the week leading up to Mother's Day we also released the film on DVD, video on demand, and pay per view so customers could choose how to watch the film," the company said. "Inevitably some films will work better on some platforms than others. In this particular case the DVD was stronger than the theatrical result. It is important that experimentation is encouraged at a time when the entire film industry is in transition," the statement continued. "We all need to adapt to new models of distribution in the future and discover new opportunities." There were, however, signs that Metrodrome had already begun to suffer a lack of confidence in Motherhood before it was premiered. At the beginning of the month, 70 tickets were given away to members of the website Mumsnet for a special screening at which they were asked to give detailed responses. "Interested to know why the company wanted opinion on the film so close to its general release?" queried one after the screening, to which fewer than 20 of the winners went. "It is proper pants. In fact it's one of the rare movies I didn't stay until the end for." But Edelbaum defended the film. "Our effort was noble. It's a love letter about how difficult it is to be a mum and an individual, and have an identity outside of that. I think we have proved that mothers are too busy to have fun. That they are overstretched and overburdened by the difficulties of their job." Others, however, disagreed. "It's a yummy-mummy newspaper column splurged onto celluloid, like baby sick on your best cashmere sweater," said Ellen E Jones on film review website, Total Films. "This whiny drivel makes me ashamed to be a woman," said Wendy Ide on the website Rotten Tomatoes – which gave the film a rock-bottom 20% Tomatometer success rating. Edelbaum admitted she dreaded telling Dieckmann, who also directed the 2006 comedy drama Diggers, how badly Motherhood had gone down in the UK. The film was, she said, a labour of love that had "taken up many years" of Dieckmann's life. "I can't bear to ring her and tell her," Edelbaum admitted . "I'm a producer; I've got a thick skin but, well, she's a creative." The film is no longer being shown at a single cinema across Britain. Indeed, it has sunk so quickly and untraceably that, back at the Apollo West End, it has not even left a ripple. The woman behind the popcorn counter in Piccadilly Circus didn't remember the screening at all. "It's very strange," she admitted. "Even if I'm not paying attention to what's being screened here, I can usually tell you every film because customers talk to each other and the names just stick in your head. But I'm sure I've never heard that one being mentioned." The man selling tickets also had no memory. "Have you got the right cinema?" he asked, looking puzzled. "There's another cinema down the road – perhaps it was on there instead?"

I've always said UFC doesn't hold much interest for me, beyond any fighters with pro-wrestling connections and any Aussies involved but I've really been getting into it lately. Mainly thanks to the One Digitial sports channel. I've seen highlights, retro stuff, previews and the full UFC 110 and Vera vs Jones. It's all been rather exciting.

I'm a mere 7 hours up the road.

I still can't believe there's a Geelong fan that's down on their team. With the exception of Grand Final 2008 you've ruled the aflverse and I see that not changing this year. Perhaps you'll be even closer to the pack but you'll still take the flag and possibly the minor premiership as well.

I'm a Hawks fan. No way in hell are the cats finishing below us.

I hope now we can get a Scrubs complete collection with dozens's of extras now that it's over. My season 1 disc 1 is really jumpy and I'd love an excuse to replace it.

Was I one of the only people that liked Cole more than pretty much any other new/newish character? Some of the most memorable Season 9 scenes, that weren't heavily featuring the original cast, were centered around Cole either making fun of /being made fun of by someone. Well in my opinion anyway.

Nowhere near over for Chelsea yet. Perfect game coming up for them, to get them back on their feet.

From my faded memories of that show,(Boy meets World I'm refering to) I saw it very early on its lifetime and then didn't see it again until it was almost over. I don't think it was a concious decision to stop watching on my part. I think it was either taken off air down here, or the rights were given to a network i didn't have access to at the time.

At least from my perspective, I'd argue that Keenan & Kel did stand up to the test of time. I started watching it, a good while after it was over and also I was well out of the age range of the show and I bloody well loved it.