Are you ready to laugh boys and girls?

Tomorrow is the day of the annual Clarendon Corner vs Original Melbourne 21 supporters match, which raises funds for our supporters group to make banners, fund gimmicks and help the club out where we can - this year that fund has already helped supplement the cost of the legendary Canberra trip, as well as buy the club a folding machine, amangst many worthy pursuits. Your correspondent will be playing in the shitkicker opening game tomorrow for the Whites against those evil Blues. There'll be food and drink as well, opening game starts at 1:00, main game at 3:15. Alas Cliff won't be there to sign autographs, but hopefully his mates decide to turn up.

Fold that baby up!

Ever had to sit around for hours, folding paper up into three equal parts rectangularly, so that correspondence fits inside envelopes all nice and neat? Nah, me neither. But every time you get mail from the club and it's all nice and neatly folded, with you perhaps thinking it happens oh so naturally like the paper somehow managed to fold itself, it was actually painstakingly folded by hand by dedicated volunteers. Until now.

Meet the club's new Ledah folding machine, which took up residence at the club's office last Tuesday evening. It can fold up to 4 sheets at once, virtually in the blink of an eye. Just to be smart we tried it out with 5 sheets and it seemed to pass that test with flying colours. And best of all, it was donated by the supporters group, which will now enable both the staff and volunteers to accomplish that mind numbing task much faster, and also be able to put their time towards more useful pursuits. If only they came in blue.