I'm not expecting Vescio to repeat the performances of the past, in the first seasons she had a clear physical advantage over her opponents that with each pre-season evaporates a little more.
Vescio is still a very good player, but the players and opponents around her have closed the gap, it had to happen that way as they had more scope to improve relative to Vescio.
Davey is a big loss, because she is such a good player and yet ironically has plenty of room for improvement still! Our Prespakis falls in the same category.
Looking at our list and selections, our game plan must be dramatically different for 2020.
In fact, "Australians" didn't elect Pauline Hanson. Taking the 2016 election as an example, 4.3% of voters voted for One Nation and it is our voting system that enabled Hanson and others to secure Senate seats - no One Nation candidate has ever been elected to the House of Representatives.
It would be more accurate to state that it is reasonable to assume that many of the 4.3% of voters who voted for One Nation are racist. Of course, that doesn't mean that some of those voters who voted for other parties aren't racist too. However, that doesn't mean that Australia is a racist country even if many of our citizens struggle to come to terms that our nation is founded on attempted genocide.
I would say that we, as a country, are no more racist than most other countries, and probably less racist than many.
Xenophobia seems to be part of the human condition and it's great that many Australians have embraced multiculturalism and and are more willing to accept diversity.
Firstly, I'm not a Hanson booster or critic, I try to stay away from offering an opinion and just look at the numbers. But on Hanson's election it appears it could be even worse than a minority racists getting a say DJC, and somewhat ironic.
At first the following seems bogus, fake news, but apparently it's a real effect and I'm not sure where to go to verify the data.
Preliminary analysis of polling after Hanson's re-election showed in some marginal electorates her party experienced disproportionate support from recent immigrants and the indigenous. Which of course we all understand given Hanson's public statements and policies and how Hanson is lambasted in the media but various segments!
Why, apparently the voters want tougher immigration laws! I understand the Indigenous support for this, but from immigrants? It seems the polling which covered primarily European expatriates who had have moved to Australia, showed they came here to get away from the political and religious trouble, and they don't want it following them!
But isn't the act of voting that way fulfilling that fear?
Trust me, grow up with a surname ending in opoulos, and you will experience first hand just how racist Australia can be. We are just greatful the hatred is now being aimed at the Asians for a change but every so often you get a reminder that you arent fully accepted you are just the best of the "bad bunch".
Thry you wrote the above, quoted for future reference. Capcom quoted you without paraphrasing, alteration or amplification, how can Capcom be the one making a Straw Man argument!
Neither Capcom or anyone else introduce prejudice towards Balkans as an pseudo defense for Djoko in this debate, and if it's a deep seated racism that you gratefully no longer experience how can it be so specific to Australian's and how can it be persistent and current?
The bulk of Australian's have no history or experience of conflict or division from within Balkan states like those who are expatriate Balkans do!
Further, what specific relation do Australian's have in general to the disruptive entourage that travels with the player's?
Subjectively, it seems convenient to make the claims of previous and persistent racism as some sort of weird defense for Djoko's history of poor sportsmanship and bad on court behavior. But the two are not connected, and it's not going to fly with most observers, the bulk of who won't engage in the debate because of the propensity for Djoko's apologists to label critics as racist!
The accusation of racism is neither a widely valid point or an generally accurate observation, it's just become a silencing tactic used in many debates and as a tactic it's effectiveness is wearing out!
Capcom, side with whomever you like. The crowd was against Djokovic, before the match was in full swing, and were clearly not on his side and this was before any perceived rule bending which dismisses your entire argument.
The crowd does have a memory doesn't it, surely your not claiming history means nothing?
Cottrell finished the last VFL season quite strongly, playing primarily off the HBF and / or a variety of tagging roles. His aerobic capacity and overhead marking are beyond most players his size, so when they would drag him to the fall of the ball he won the contest.
Do not dismiss my experience based on real world examples of "f**k off back to where you came from" with some hyperbole.
Firstly, the is no hyperbole in what I wrote, I've exaggerated nothing just described it as it is!
If you want a critical assessment of the racism references in your earlier statements. Firstly, I never discussed race, but I'd say you've used inclusive language and grossly generalised your private and personal experiences of racism and applied them to the wider community.
You know as well as any the entourages are not monocultural, I never stated that they were monocultural, which is specifically why I used the term entourage. In fact the supporter base is mutlicultural, it's the media that narrowly focuses on and reports some specific subset usually because a small segment have a specific flag or uniform that makes a great picture!
The assertion that Djoko isn't supported here because of a race thing is rubbish, as rubbish as Williams claiming her lack of support is due to skin color and not her abhorent behavior.
Djoko's probably not supported here for multiple reasons, highly likely because culturally Australia barracks for the underdog, nothing more nothing less, Djoko hardly fits the bill! Why isn't he liked like Federer, I expect the answer truly lies in their different behaviors on court rather than where they were born or who their parents were!
Undoubtedly there is a small percentage of the supporter base who are racist, just like football, but that doesn't excuse the use of inclusive language. You even must accept that in the case of those hating Balkans heritage players it may well be a percentage are culturally indoctrinated EU expatriates! Hardly a case for use of globally inclusive language!
The players have the right to expect that the fans are quiet. Djokovic has never felt the love from the Australian supporters and frankly my experience growing up says it's a deep seeded racial thing to people who hail from the Balkan area.
Spot on.
I see, it's all about race!
Except it's been asserted fans screaming during the serve helps the server more than the receiver, it's analogous to the cheating grunters who scream to mask the sound of the serve. A few years back after the controversial revelations from some Florida based players and coaches, the ATP even conducted a study which apparently showed when hearing is removed a top end players ability to to assess the speed and direction of the serve is significantly degraded. It's one of the main reasons the grunting exists, and not at all to do with breathing or peak energy, that's just a lie the grunting cheats propagate.
The players have the right to expect that the fans are quiet. Djokovic has never felt the love from the Australian supporters and frankly my experience growing up says it's a deep seeded racial thing to people who hail from the Balkan area.
Rrrrriiiighhhtttt!
Except it was the travelling entourages of Djoko, Raf and Fed as well as some from other EU opponents that were the biggest offenders!
What Aust Open failed to do was control the crowd in a typical EU totalitarian fashion, we had no sub-machine gun armed para-military on hand, not a single flak-jacketed special force to be seen, it was completely free. The exact opposite of Wimbledon and the French Open which is like going to a tennis match at a prison!
The same travelling supporter crews do not cause much trouble in the US, because they can't get a visa to get in!
Why would we not offer Daisy Thomas a guaranteed contract on the supplemental list (rookie or alike), and have him as a playing line coach for Northern?
If the rumored reasons for Daisy sacking are true they aren't going to put him in charge of teenagers!
But I think Daisy would make an extraordinary mentor for the more senior types, just as Fev might be such a figure!
These days we tend to ignore the pressure that it applied by opposition players and teams and head straight for the 'C' word. They faulter, they lose concentration, they run out of steam, they tighten up, they are outplayed by their opponent........but they don't simply choke.
Sometimes they go and have a little nap and return stronger than ever!
Maybe Ash needs to have a look at how the big boys do it!
The discussion was about the use of medical timeouts to halt an opponents momentum, it's a fair question given that even before the Aust Open it's a major topic in tennis at the moment, that and time-wasting. The players are becoming so professional, and the time-outs appear not to be happening randomly, the allegations that they are being used strategically is stronger than ever!
Why have the medical timeouts at all, isn't taking an opponent past their physical brink a legitimate tactic? If you cannot continue the match within a typical time-frame just lose the game or set, you have all the time you need to recover!
So to cut out all this bogus stuff, I think medical time-outs should not be a "free hit", they should come with a penalty and perhaps it costs you a game or at least some points! There needs to be some checks and balances.
Survival of the fittest, except in tennis!
In another sport, cricket, look at how bouncers are now being made less effective or ineffective. Rattle some batsmen with a scrape of the grill and they get a timeout for concussion assessment. They are generally unharmed, they get to steady themselves and return to the crease. The safe play is being used beyond the scope it was intended. In the old days they had a scare and if unharmed had to continue on and face another rocket 20 seconds later!
The discussion was about the use of medical timeouts to halt an opponents momentum, it's a fair question given that even before the Aust Open it's a major topic in tennis at the moment, that and time-wasting. The players are becoming so professional, and the time-outs appear not to be happening randomly, the allegations that they are being used strategically is stronger than ever!
Why have the medical timeouts at all, isn't taking an opponent past their physical brink a legitimate tactic? If you cannot continue the match within a typical time-frame just lose the game or set, you have all the time you need to recover!
So to cut out all this bogus stuff, I think medical time-outs should not be a "free hit", they should come with a penalty and perhaps it costs you a game or at least some points!
Survival of the fittest, except in tennis!
In another sport, cricket, look at how bouncers are now being made less effective or ineffective. Rattle some batsmen with a scrape of the grill and they get a timeout for concussion assessment. They are generally unharmed, they get to steady themselves and return to the crease. The safe play is being used beyond the scope it was intended. In the old days they had a scare and if unharmed had to continue on and face another rocket 20 seconds later!
