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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Blues v Pies Scratch Match - Thursday 20th, 4pm
Glimmers of hope here and there, but caution needs to be taken when viewing anything that is labelled as pre-season!

Only concern for me is Weiters.

If he plays again before the real deal I'll be happy, if we do not see him again in the pre-season I'll be very concerned as I won't know what to make of his not serious injury.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: Making Failure a Living
Quote from: capcom – on
Entirely depends on the circumstances and the individual IMO, but I can certainly see your point.  Part and parcel of the human condition.  Is this in the context of football, or something more general?
It was prompted by some recent commentary in the media, a few spurious quotes that to some degree seem to be re-writing history.

If someone fails, it's not always somebody else's fault!
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Ladies Lounge / Making Failure a Living
I'm sympathetic to those exposed to the taunts of cruel members of the general public, and how they can clearly hurt some individuals. But I'm also very skeptical about some people who seemingly turn repeated failures in a lucrative career like a Greek Tragedy!

Is it just me that worries about individuals blaming the Universe for all their problems, and being heartily supported both socially and financially for their sufferance?

It seems we can see the difference between some events, even if we are prepared to make some excuses, collectively we just sort of let the reality filter slide and bunch them all together.
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The Sports Desk / Day/Night Test vs India
Politics?

Big deal, India agree to play a night test at the Gabba, a match they normally lose anyway!

Australia should throw the game and forever more strip India of all it's excuses and opposition to Day/Night tests!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: GM to dump Holden
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Had my say on Jeep/Dodge/Fiat etc....just a laughable company group......RAM's🤣 a post ww2 trabi would be more reliable and have less bits falling of it due to failed welds etc.
About 10-12 decent car brands in Aus, the rest are rubbish...
btw., Anyone buying 2nd hand at the moment be very careful, especially in the Southern states. They are flooding the market with what seems to be greats deals, but they are write-offs from Qld/NT floods a year or two back. They look great after dipping and painting, but inside the skin and sub-frame they'll be rusting faster than cheese can grow mold. You won't have to take a colander when you go camping in a year or so, you can just strain the veges through the tray! If you have a side impact collision they'll be able to pile the pieces into a small box and courier them home for you!

Get on the Gov website and check out the VIN history before handing over a single cent, if it states "Write-off - Water" run away, run far away!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: GM to dump Holden
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Holden finally axed in Aus, been a disgraceful car dealer for a while now offering woeful service/backup and their management is about as bad as it gets. Pity anyone who has bought a new Holden recently because its going to be worth peanuts, feel for their workers but their management like I said is terrible and they have been dishing up re-badged rubbish product for years now and its no surprise since I started this thread a while back that they have pulled the plug.
Ford will be next......another shocker for service and backup and like Holden have a large list of complaints with the ACCC every year.
Yes, I try hard to discourage people considering Ford or Holden, at the office we switched over to the Japanese a few years back, trucks, light commercials and cars, we won't be going back to the GM or Ford rubbish. I use to like them because you could fix-em yourself, a bit of a hobby since the days of EH straight motors, but then I realised you had to keep fixing-em yourself because they were always forken broken!

If you want even worse than GM or Ford buy a RAM or Jeep! I can't believe how shoddy some of their stuff is, God Bless America! I've mates who bought RAM just in recent times, mostly to tow big boats or floats, all have off-loaded them, so many weird electrical problems, like they were designed with a CAN Bus by a guy who knows nothing about CAN Bus! One of them had such a weird problem, his day job is running a small excavator that he tows about behind a truck, had the trailer for years. The truck was being serviced so he hooked it up to the RAM, and the cars indicators and electronics went into backwards overdrive, left was right and right was left! The RAM people blamed the trailer! In the end he discovered some weird wiring loom work, apparently something they had done during the LHD/RHD conversion(Not even required just a feck up), and he thought enough was enough!

My son joked about buying one of the new Corvettes, I had to slap some sense into him! These things rattle themselves to bits on the smooth concrete highways of the Southern USA, they've no forking chance here on a corrugated back-road! It'd be like a scene from Looney Tunes with the car disintegrating around you as you slowly ground to a halt!
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2020 - Votes - R2 vs Collingwood
3 - Egan
2 - Dalton
1 - J.Hosking

Thought Egan played well before her head knock, after that she kept cracking in but wasn't as effective using the footy, early she was very very good.

Not sure why we pushed Prespakis forward off the ball as she probably was the main midfield driver, I'm assuming Harf thought the heavy attention was starting to take it's toll.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2020 Rd 2: Carlton vs Collingwood at Ikon on Sunday
Quote from: Mantis – on
The key to the game that I have watched in the first 3 quarters is Presparkis. Her application and efforts are a blessing. Never a lazy moment from her. Her team could just attempt her efforts and swing momentum in a heartbeat. How about running harder and creating some space.
I don't know if she can keep that up week in and week out, the opposition are smashing her and they do it penalty free! The Filth today basically charge at her off the square with someone running through her whichever way she turned.