I'm glad Tayla is challenging this. The charge says 'high contact' and it is dubious as to whether there is any high contact. 'Medium impact' seems fair, if not a whisker generous. If the victim of Tayla's bump says that there was no contact to her head, just her body then the charge would have to be thrown out. If she says Tayla got her in the bonce then we could only plead that she got straight back up and played on without an issue, so the impact would have to be downgraded.
But then this is a Mighty BlueBagger contesting... so I wouldn't hold my breath, but as the Spotted One said, at least we're having a dip and not curling up and sucking our thumbs like the 'old Carlton'.
I seldom comment on umpiring out of respect for those doing a very difficult job... but... I found some of yesterday's decisions perplexing at least and at times just down right wrong, generally favouring GWS.
An example would be the last qtr (I think) when a GWS defender had 'in the back' paid when it was blatantly obvious that there was no push and a little acting. Then a few minutes later on the wing, Vescio clearly copped, in a marking contest, head and neck contact from an outstretched arm... tumbleweeds and crickets. Same umpire as well.
What a star Prespakis is, great interview after the game as well... thanks Sam.
A lot of girls knackered in the last qtr but the effort didn't wane. G.Gee is still my fave, nothing of her but courage personified. Glad she got the last goal, richly deserved.
I don't get the willingness to accept mediocrity as a price for being a good citizen.
I realise things like mental health are now a big issue with players, but if you want to be a good citizen forget chasing success, it's the Kents who will dominate the top of the ladder in both AFL and AFLW.
Anyway, no matter how well we behave the Kents and the AFL media still point the finger at us and laugh doing so, so why bother? We might as well get in, get dirty, feck up their day and get back to winning ugly!
I reckon that if there is a semblance of that in our AFL playing group that The Terrier will tear it to pieces. Good.
I'd trust Harf to know what to do with our AFLW group to get them back on track.
I don't think there is any correlation between mental health issues and being a 'good citizen'. Plenty of folks dealing with anxiety disorders, depression and so on who are ruthless in their craft. I get your point but let's no confuse good management of a mental illness with mollycoddling.
Well that was just sad. Sheesh, the Wallaroos looked bigger and stronger around the ball and our forward defensive pressure was woeful... got it in there enough, in fact, more often than the Kangabies but couldn't keep it there. And such was the lack of pressure that opponents waltzed it out of their defense with ease to set up another attack.
Just heard Daniel Harford talk on SEN, gee he's a very positive speaker. He sounds like he is invested in the programme. Hope all goes well for the girls this Sunday against that blue and white team. Is Waite playing for them?
He's a very positive, and smart, person. A quality acquisition for us. After the debacle of last year, and the coaching dog's breakfast, we were very fortunate to get Harf into the place, he's pulled it all together which is no mean feat considering some quality gals were all but gone.
It sure has reinvigorated my interest and I will be parked in front of the teev tomorrow for the season opener. Go Mighty BlueBagger Gals!!
Couldn't believe how embarrassing Tony Jones was with some of the dumbest questions you could imagine to Osaka. Fortunately Sam and Jim were there to rescue the situation. I am at a complete loss to understand why Jones gets any gig in front of a microphone. As my grandfather would say, '...a cabbagehead.'
Best wishes for Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Hogmanay, Modraniht, the solstice, Saturnalia, Pancha Ganapati or whatever else you choose to celebrate at this time of year!
What DJC said plus a very special wish from moi to everyone on this forum, I hope your football team excels in every way imaginable next year!!
Wow, this is good reading. I’m actually finding much info that is educational, if not somewhat bamboozling resulting in feeling a little uninformed or even dense at times, thank the gods for Google (gods... Google... is there a little correlation there?). There are some highbrow words and expressions going down here that sound so impressive, a little alienating perhaps but none-the-less impressive. Although I wouldn’t call myself a scientist I do find myself, in the main, admiring of their work and efforts.
Mrs Baggers sometimes expresses serious frustration at one area of her job… she is the HR Chief at a major (can’t reveal the nature of the foundation as it may give it away which will result in Mrs Baggers beating me with the blunt end of the dog) research foundation which funds the work of many, many scientists. This organisation is the biggest of his kind in the Southern Hemisphere. She says that working with scientists is difficult, eye-opening and very rewarding.
The difficulty is in the perceived arrogance/stubbornness and at times down right rudeness of the scientists (and they come from all ‘round the world, so little cultural bias) BUT it takes a certain kind of individual who can research and experiment for years with little ‘material’ success, so their problematic attitude/bedside manner has to be understood, not tolerated but understood. Years of being confined to labs etc and running very disciplined, repetitive tasks/tests takes a rare personality type. It’d be easy to see these folks as dogmatic and arrogant (and hence dismiss them on behaviour alone) when they insist on another squillion bucks to continue a research which is yielding little if any tangible results to date, yet, when and if successful the impact on humanity can be significant and profound – this is why they attract huge and consistent grants.
History is littered with mongrel persistent scientists who’ve laboured with myopic passion on an idea, alienated all around them and then come up with something that alters human history – Edison, Testla, Pasteur, Einstein, Dirac, Freud, Maslow… how many times did each fail or whose progress was painfully slow before the 100th or 1000th or 10000th monkey fell in place?
Think of any discovery/invention and it is likely there was an obsessed scientist (or team of scientists and assistants) hardly sleeping seeing it through. Scientists often experience greater scrutiny than any other profession, and if they fail then their funding is withdrawn and they’re in trouble (unlike politicians who can fail daily yet keep their jobs). So any wonder scientists become defensive, annoyed and obstropolous at anything else that claims instant success or unscientific criticism of their field of endeavour or claims to have all the answers!
However, without doubt, there are some who take the arrogance too far and become worlds unto themselves where anything that dares differ or not be supportive will be rejected out-of-hand. But to judge all for the errors of a few would be unfair or even stupid.
