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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread
Last post by LP -
Has the reality of Green Energy is been exposed by various federal budget announcements?

For years I've been hearing claims, Green is no cheaper, cut oil subsidies, kick out the dirty polluters, let Green compete fair and square, then the budget cuts, and it's Green Energy can't survive without help!

How can that be, it seems both positions cannot be true, is it really cheaper, if so why then why is it now being claimed that diminished subsidies will signal a Green Energy death?

Isn't the ultimate target reduce CO2 emissions by any means, not just through monopolised funding?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by LP -
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These mind games can go either way. It could give us a mental edge, and simultaneously prey on the Swans' minds. Or it could  make us complacent and simultaneously make the Swans go harder to buck the trend. Hoping of course for the former.
I suspect the Swans will feel duded after our last encounter, that has already been voiced and you could see it in faces post match, Blakey in particular. In the media following that game the focus was on the Swans bad kicking, under 40% accuracy with some relatively easy set shots being missed. They basically thought they won the battle but lost the game, I tend to agree.

Looks like light showers Friday night, how does that work for us playing the SCG?

I think this week we must keep BigH one out in the square, with a corridor between him and the CHF to lead into Plugger style. He's quick enough, there is no need for him to make everything a marking contest, just push off and go then rinse and repeat. He covers enough ground, he can do the repeat sprints no problem, he has the aerobic capacity. If they use a number to float into the zone, hit up Charlie instead. Just make sure we can deliver on the midfield wins when we get them.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by LP -
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https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/05/15/the-fremantle-curse-that-would-give-carlton-plenty-of-hope-against-sydney/

I'm not really a believer in the supernatural, but if it works, I'll take it.
You might recall teams in recent seasons often fell the week after playing us also, I think it's a statement about the game style, mindset and tactics rather than a curse.

Teams are so accustomed to defeating us that when we hit the front they are almost shocked into action, games go to the death, they never give up, how dare Carlton think it might defeat us! The whole current generation of AFL senior players seems to have this attitude / midnset, even the media barrack against us, sows seeds of doubt, how long can Carlton keep it up, the tone is unmistakeable, it sounds familiar because you are always hearing it. For what it is worth, I'm not even sure when things get tight that we still do not have doubts, we are Pavlov's Dogs!

It's why I bang on about our fan base needing to learn to barrack loudly unconditionally, go quiet and the "Silence like a cancer grows!" Last week, we must have outnumbered the Melbourne fans base 3:1, yet in the dying minutes they sounded 3 times louder, it should never happen. Be like the Filth fans, scream "Ball", cheer "Marks" in anticipation before they are paid, and when umpire confirms the favourable decision cheer them as well, don't sit there schtum with faces of dread, get involved. The fan base can set Pavlov's Dog free!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: fitness
Last post by LP -
About half or more of the current injury list probably results from collisions.

We have to consider if we want to play a certain contested game style, we will have a list that suffers more corkies and bruise type injuries, which then lead to the dreaded "soft tissue" problems.

Fan reaction is a little ironic, because if we play bruise free footy brand to avoid collisions fans also react poorly. I'd rather we play the way we currently do, and just accept at stages we will suffer injuries.

I've been banging on about the season long cost of our game style and continual living on the edge results, a situation that is inherently bad for soft tissue type injuries. We need to find a way to generate some easy wins or spates of soft tissue problems will be our never ending fate!

There is a cost for every choice that gets made, ours might be that our strong inside footy contested brand and edge of the seat tactics come with higher soft tissue injury rates.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: fitness
Last post by Thryleon -
I dont know what the story is, but I remember being a young tacker, and wanting to really progress my training and working hard to my own detriment.

With experience, came maturity, and with maturity came the understanding that even though I am impatient to play, and gain and re-gain, the experience taught me that rushing back too soon, can often cause more grief.

The coach can only select you, if you are declared fit.  The fitness staff can give you advise, a clean bill of health, build you a program, but they cant feel how each athlete is feeling.  If the athlete thinks they will be ok, but is not certain, the onus on them is to how risky it is for them to play.  You will notice that someone like Walshy, who is the consumate professional, comes back and stars knowing he is right to play.  I reckon Weiters is 50-50 and plays a bit hurt, but he might play within those limitations understanding his body, and another who seems good at picking this is Cripps.  Now Key position players have the benefit, of being present, and not having to compete to provide value, but running players, who we rely on getting up and down the ground need to have a good understanding of their body to declare themselves ok.  If they push that little bit harder, and they arent ready then all of a sudden go ping, that has to be partly on themselves.  We can externalise this to Russell, but IMHO, do so at our own peril.  Last fitness bloke who copped grief about our strength and conditioning was replaced by someone who arguably was worse until we got him.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: fitness
Last post by DJC -
One of my brothers did middle distance with East Melbourne Harriers around Cerutty’s time and never missed an opportunity to run up a dune, often with me floundering in his wake 🙄

I suspect that our conditioning is more controlled than dune running … and that may be a problem and something to be discussed in another thread 🙂
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: fitness
Last post by Lods -
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We could reincarnate Percy Cerutty and appoint him as our fitness guru and we’d still have Cuningham, Marchbank, Martin, Williams and Docherty injured more often than not, as well as the usual, run of the mill, soft tissue injuries and fractures.

I doubt they’d last 5 minutes under Cerutty before their legs blew off.

An interesting point though…
We all know Percy was a bit eccentric, but in amongst the ‘crazy’ there was also some very good practices. My own athletic coach knew Cerutty. I’m not sure how strong the connection was as I wasn’t with her at the time, but I do know she used some of his methods, and some of her athletes trained at Portsea, despite being NSW based, There was definitely some sharing of ideas, despite the fact that Percy’s focus was middle and long distance, and my coach was more concerned with sprinter, hurdler, jumper events.
One of the things she was ‘big on’, was laying a foundation fitness base during the Winter before attacking the more explosive work in the Spring/Summer. We trained as middle distance runners during that off-season. I think it stood us in pretty good stead because I don’t remember too many soft tissue injuries amongst our group.
One of the key features of this foundation period was the time we spent running up ‘bloody’ sand dunes and in soft sand along the beach. I’ve seen pictures of the Giants training in the dunes at Wanda Beach. I wonder whether we incorporate it in our conditioning period.