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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Trump is a draft dodger and referred to dead American soldiers on a 2018 trip to Paris as suckers and losers. Apart from phony rhetoric, he has no issue sending more Americans to their deaths for another pointless war.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 12 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
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When we see the impact of just one or two players we've missed, it clearly shows how a little change can have a huge impact, Keep in mind when we change a player we aren't adding or subtracting a whole, it's the difference between the two that we are considering.

At AFL level that very small difference is amplified because teams are so well drilled to take the advantage when it presents.

This is why I tend to concur with @Thryleon‍ and @PaulP‍ that we are not as far away from a good outcome as the AFL Media and some fans tend to portray, we definitely do not need to "Sell the Farm!"

Looking at various data points (ladder position, percentage, analysis from Daniel Hoyne et al), it seems pretty clear that a few aspects of our game are in pretty good shape. That's obviously not enough to compete week in week out, but the club needs to defy its own history and its self cultivated pedigree, and act judiciously and carefully, and make the minimal changes that are required to address the negatives, without compromising the positives.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 12 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
The glass half full version :
- we won by nearly 6 goals, similar to Geelong who beat WC by 7 goals
- traveling, away from Melbourne
- no Walsh, no McKay, Curnow out early, Cripps and Weitering down on form for various reasons
- a few players with a handful of games
- a few in game injuries

The glass half empty version :
- we played 2 quarters of good footy, against a team with one win, sitting last on the ladder.

Let the reader choose.