Higgins and Owens are the usual suspects. Wanganeen-Millera, Hill, Sinclair and Butler if he plays usually save their best for us too.
Rowan Marshall can thank dominating against our rucks for an AFL career.
Luckily Stocker doesnt play too well against us and hes usually quite important for them.
The saints are the most annoying side in the AFL to watch, and there is 0 heat on them after their dismantling of Freo last week. We are not going well though, and look as broken as we did at the tail end of last year.
The other usual suspect from them who gives us a bath is Steele, he normally beats Cripps who skipper should push fwd at every opportunity and exploit him.
I don't want to see a mis-matched, unbalanced side run out. The named side is ? How many games do you back a bloke in to come good? Docherty is clearly at the broken patience stage. In out in out. Are they going to let the "usual suspects" do their thing- Steele owning Cripps for example. At least one of our bugbears has left to Collingwood, thankfully. Just watch some craptruck pop up and kick a bag.
Higgins and Owens are the usual suspects.
Wanganeen-Millera, Hill, Sinclair and Butler if he plays usually save their best for us too.
Rowan Marshall can thank dominating against our rucks for an AFL career.
Luckily Stocker doesnt play too well against us and hes usually quite important for them.
The saints are the most annoying side in the AFL to watch, and there is 0 heat on them after their dismantling of Freo last week. We are not going well though, and look as broken as we did at the tail end of last year.
Higgins is no slouch, currently 2nd in the Coleman I think so he will need close attention.
It is disappointing that Wannon MP Dan Tehan has ruled himself out of the Liberal leadership contest. Apart from the fact that he is a Victorian, Tehan is a genuine, hard working, thoughtful person who isn't involved in the culture wars and is always respectful of others while vigorously pursuing genuine liberal ideals.
The Taylor-Price team seems likely to prevail and I don't think that's good news for anyone.
What's wrong with Jacinta Price DJ? I don't know a heck of a lot about her but I thought she was excellent during the referendum.
Collective test for this club tonight - players, MC and coaching.
There's one thing about Voss IMO, he never singles out players, lines coaches, list, he always implies "we need to get better", "we need to go to work on...", he implies whole of club. He doesnt drop players at the first sign of poor form, he backs them in to fight through tough times. Many will see this as weakness, I see this as a strong quality.
Need to be careful with our matchups on Wanganeen Milera and Sinclair in particular. We have a bad habit of repeating previous mistakes and getting burnt by the same players doing the same things..
Spot on, I think its common knowledge our top end group of players all have to play well for us to win and the rank and file types are really just making up the numbers and and dont contribute enough week to week. We havent been able to recruit well enough to get those Mihocek, Crisp, Cameron type players that say Collingwood do for nothing, who can fill gaps on your list and be influential in games. The clock is on this group of players and I really dont want to see us go back to a ground zero rebuild again and we need recruiters who can get us a few cheap readymades who can work with what we have. Nic Newman was one of those bargain types but we need a few more in different areas of the ground to give that quality support to our elite players, its just unrealistic to expect our elite to be all be playing well every week and to remain injury free.
Based on how things have played out last year and this year (so far), it would seem 2023 might be as good as it gets for the bulk of this group.
Greens leader Adam Bandt has finally conceded his seat to the ALP but not before giving the Liberals a clip for giving their preferences to the ALP, of course Mr Bandt won his seat previously on the back of LNP preferences but he failed to acknowledge that in his concession speech. Given the Greens will be the sole handbrake on the ALP in the upper house it will be interesting to see who they elect as leader and if they are up the responsibility they have been given.
Bandt is a grub, they will elect another just like him.
I'd go even further with your thinking. If we don't beat the sniffers convincingly, our season is gone. I'd be tempted to blow it up and start again because if what we have can't beat the sniffers (and their dominant recent record over us is eembarassing) how can we ever hope to challenge against real teams? And that means yep, Charlie would be up for trade well and truly.
If you believe the rumour mill, Walsh is the one who will be traded. Word is he has told people that if Voss is coaching in 2026, he wont be there. So if that's true, ta ta Sam I say, we dont need prima donna's holding our club to ransom.
My son's colorectal clinic at the RCH just got shut down because we're broke. The spin doctors (not the real doctors) say it won't effect their care but my son was born before they established the clinic and it was a nightmare I wouldn't wish upon anyone.
The State and Local Govs have no money. I was doing a little stint in local gov and got laid off because there are cutting costs and projects. The situation at that council is dire (and its not a small one).
According to poster on BF, Charlie hurt his knee at training and is going in for scans. Anyone heard anything similar?
The thing about BigFooty is that you get a fair bit of speculative nonsense. The trick is to check the credibility of the poster. There are a couple of ways to do this. 1) Have a look at the previous history of the poster and see whether the things he's passed on have come to pass. 2) See if Brett Temple has gone with the rumour on his Facebook site.
The poster involved seems to have good credibility....and Temple has just posted it on Facebook
Now at this stage he's only 'gone for scans' according to the source so he's not a definite out.
That poster was on the money about E Hollands months ago. I dont read anything Temple posts, he posts so called scoops hours sometime days after they are public knowledge.
Victoria's credit rating has dropped meaning higher rates for any future borrowings and the net debt will continue to increase. Victoria is now the fourth-most-indebted state government from advanced economies outside the US in absolute dollar terms, you can dress the accounting up anyway you like but the only measure that matters is debt as a proportion of government operating revenues. By 2027, Standard and Poors estimates Victoria’s debt will have climbed to a scary 214 per cent of operating revenues. Not that other States are travelling great either with only WA doing ok and Australia is only seen as reasonable as European Sovereign countries are doing worse than our States and countries like Canada are even worse although they are all still trotting out CoVid as the excuse. I cant see any way out for Victoria and even NSW unless the Federal Government foot the ballooning very large infrastructure projects bill and take over more of the States operating costs. In some other countries like the UK and France the Central Government pays up to 80% of the budget to run the country unlike Australia where the States have to chip in a lot more but get the opportunity to set their own taxes, borrow from who they like etc, maybe that system has to change.
What the federal gov (fed police) have to assist with is get rid of the CFMEU influence on those big build projects. Then they need to take those projects off the state Govs hands as they are simply inept. Victoria is the cesspit of Australia on so many levels, we are a laughing stock.
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