ERIC: Here we go, here we go, Horrie, Sydney FC is the bees knees, and Melbourne Victory has gone down the drain. Mate, I haven't stopped celebrating since Saturday night after our great A-League grand final victory; how did you celebrate, were there a few corks from some French Vintage bubbly bottles laying around the Haigh household on Sunday morning?
PAUL: Now, Eric, as you know I am tee-totaller but there were some empty mineral water bottles in the Greenacre mansion after Sydney FC's penalty shootout win. Great to see the Victorians lose on their home soil.
ERIC: What, no special meatballs dinner for you and the old man? C'mon, Haighy, stop being so bloody coy, tell the world how excited you got after our penalty shootout win, surely more excited than when you got the Foxtel rigged up a month ago?
PAUL: I was as nervous as a fish on Good Friday watching the game. There were no meatballs, but fat barbecue chickens and No Frills mineral water to wash the meal down. Go Sydney FC not KFC.
ERIC: If it wasn't for that awful news on Sunday night, that Blacktown's going to steal our World Cup stadium, I wouldn't have stopped my celebrating, but there you go. What a dreadful decision, and nothing against the good people of Blacktown but it's just not fair. There's already heaps of facilities between Blacktown and Penrith. And, the worst part is who's going to use the stadium after the 2018 or 2022 World Cup? Penrith Panthers and Parramatta Eels already have their own stadiums, so the whole thing will be a big, fat, white elephant. Had they decided on Liverpool on the other hand, it would given us something we desperately need, but after the World Cup it could have been used by the Tigers, the Eels, the Bulldogs and the new soccer club, the Rovers, for at least one or 2 matches during their seasons. Bugger.
PAUL: In the eyes of the Federal Government and the NSW Government, Liverpool doesn't exist. The west of Sydney has been spoilt and favored again. The Victorians got a soft run when the AFL approached Blacktown Council and had the stadium built for GWS or GPS team, whatever they call them, for when they enter the national competition in 2012. I am worried Liverpool will never get the first class sporting stadium its people deserve.
ERIC: Christ! You took 14 minutes to write that dribble! My seven year old grandson could have done better. The problem in Liverpool is that it has nobody to champion its cause. It has the worst local member you could imagine, so it's just up to you and me, buddy, and maybe our other soccer buddy, Rale Rasic. Here's my plan: we threaten to go on a hunger strike unless Liverpool gets this stadium. Notice I said threaten, so we can still pig out on Pete's fish and chips until we get what we want, then we double pig out and go for some Big Macs after the healthy grilled lunch.
PAUL: I am backing you up, we will go on a hunger strike and turn up at the Ruddster's premises, The Lodge, and sit out the front and drink water only, and no food, absolutely none will pass our lips and we will demand to see the PM and ask why Liverpool gets a rough deal with sporting facilities. And what about the announcement Pim Verbeek is pulling the pin as World Cup Socceroos coach after South Africa. That's two Dutchmen who have taken us to consecutive world cups and then departed. What price we get another Dutch coach for the 2014 World Cup. But I must say, Pim needs a new barber.
ERIC: Your soccer education may be getting better but you're still a rugby league dill: I said THREATEN to have a hunger strike. And threaten everywhere we go, Cucina105, Dougie's Grill or Maccas, we will sit there stuffing our faces and threatening to go on a hunger strike. What a strategy, it can't miss, even tough you completely missed the point, but no surprises there. If you ever move from Greenacre to Liverpool it will increase the average IQ of both places, so please don't move. Not to Kentlyn, anyway, please, dumbo. St George supporter, are you not?
PAUL: I have decided to stay put in Greenacre and maintain the low IQ level there. Best of all I am going on a hunger strike between breakfast, lunch and tea, no more morning coffees and fat cakes or the arvo snacks. I am starving just thinking about all this. Time for some NRL round three tips and what about your mob the Tigers they wouldn't tackle a meat pie in a famine, they didn't get against the Roosters.
ERIC: Let's get the Tigers to join our threat to have a hunger strike, they should be good at that, plus you wouldn't feed them after how they played on Sunday, the jokes. Parra will put 80 points on them Friday night; me, I will be stuffing my face at dinner with the future member for Macarthur, Nick Bleasdale and his good wife. Venue is Macquarie Links clubhouse and I am hoping they have a TV screen on the wall. Anyway, more tips, for what they are worth: Dragons over Cows, Storm to finally lose one this year at Penrith on Saturday night, and finally, Manly to concede 32 points, get a few dodgy refreeing decisions and go on to beat the naughty Knights by 6. See ya next week, I'm off to Hungry Jacks for some fuel for the body.
PAUL: Okay, before I go and have a thick shake, my four selections are Titans to trounce the Raiders, the Broncos to gallop over the Warriors, the Roosters to crow against the Bulldogs and yes, the Sharks to finally win one and beat Souths on Monday night.
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