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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 11 2024 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Gold Coast
Last post by PaulP -
The folly of rucking BigH by default was exposed in the commentary when Brown started banging on about TDK going solo.

King rightly came in and described why solo rucking TDK is not sustainable season long, then there was a suggestion to ruck Charlie and King nearly fell out of his chair, and he described why you don't ruck Charlie ever, and the same applies to the overuse of BigH in the ruck, the risk is too high relative to the benefit.

The BigH to the ruck is an occasional pinch hit option, not a default tactic.

If our MC aren't smart enough to make use of Pitto and TDK sensibly, as required, we have an MC problem it's not the players.

Personally, I though the return of Saad and the front and square work of Williams made a huge difference yesterday, and off the back of Cripps and Walsh being dominant things might have got better if Witts had zero respite.

Williams is not scared to get at the feet of the marking contests and it makes a huge difference. I also note once his confidence was up he got a few runs through the midfield and did well, his critics should take note.

I thought it's laughable that some have suggested GC were an easy kill, Miller, Rowell, Witts, Lukosius, King, Andrew, we destroyed the GC strengths, surely whoever suggested the easy kill was joking.

Pat, whilst I generally agree, I think GC were a little spent following two weeks in the Top End, plus they do struggle in Victoria. Daniel Hoyne has noted that there are definite improvements in GC's profile (in his much loved "core four" metric), but they are probably not at the point where they can be relied upon week in week out. I was listening to the ABC broadcast, and I'm just relaying what Malthouse, Adam Ramanauskas and the other callers were saying.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 11 2024 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Gold Coast
Last post by Blue Moon -
Good  effort.  Small forward kicking goals, who would have thought. Our decision making going forward in the first half was poor.  Makes the opposition defence look good. If we could make good decisions and then deliver the ball then both Charlie and Harry would kick 100 goals. Only one bad decision coming out of defence but we got away with it. O.Hollands had a ripper of a game. Cincotta up forward was an interesting move. Didn't get a lot of the ball but probably shut down Gold Coast's attacking option coming out of defence. Williams was brought to the Club to be a defensive midfielder but kicking goals like Nick Duigan was a bonus. Big game next week.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 11 2024 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Gold Coast
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
The folly of rucking BigH by default was exposed in the commentary when Brown started banging on about TDK going solo.

King rightly came in and described why solo rucking TDK is not sustainable season long, then there was a suggestion to ruck Charlie and King nearly fell out of his chair, and he describe why you don't ruck Charlie ever, and the same applies to overuse of BigH in the ruck, the risk is too high relative to the benefit.

The BigH to the ruck is an occasional pinch hit option, not a default tactic.

If our MC aren't smart enough to make use of Pitto and TDK sensibly, as required, we have an MC problem it's not the players.

Personally, I though the return of Saad and the front and square work of Williams made a huge difference yesterday, and off the back of Cripps and Walsh being dominant things might have got better if Witts had zero respite.

Williams is not scared to get at the feet of the marking contests and it makes a a huge difference. I also note once his confidence was up he got a few runs through the midfield and did well, his critics should take note.

I thought it's laughable that some have suggested GC were an easy kill, Miller, Rowell, Witts, Lukosius, King, Andrew, we destroyed the GC strengths, surely whoever suggested the easy kill was joking.
Have a look at the GC away record.....we were on the rebound after being smashed and GC were a ideal opponent to beat up on. Williams played ok but the next games will test him out, where he has to kick goals plus prevent some of the better rebound half backs from being effective players ie Houston and Farrell next game..
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: AI and creativity.
Last post by LP -
It's interesting to read the media picking up on the stupidity of AI responses.

At first the media tried the scare tactic, AI will become our overlord, then when the fear waned it was AI will be the cure all, and that's clearly not the case.

But now the media is going down the AI is stupid route, and that's never been or ever will be the case because AI is neither smart nor dumb.

As I mentioned right from the start, AI is only as good as the data you feed it on, and the real problem is humans are liars and bullcrap artists. The volume of bullsh1t drowns out the truth, and AI is learning from all the bullcrap people speak and write and it's learning that delivering stupid responses creates more clicks. AI learns from a feedback loop.

The problem has never been AI, and the problem has never been technology, the problem is always and will always be human.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Russian Ukraine War
Last post by DJC -
check.  Right you are.

I guess jamming comms has never been done before either?  Regarding musk and being ask to turn it on, that sounds a bit basic.  His satellite service is always on, the individual connections probably subject to the same capability of taking out any other internet connection.  Depending on the method he might be able to.circumvent it, but denying it is harder.

Disrupting communications has been a thing since communication was first employed in human conflict.  The Persians would have nobbled Pheidippides given half a chance.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 11 2024 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Gold Coast
Last post by LP -
The folly of rucking BigH by default was exposed in the commentary when Brown started banging on about TDK going solo.

King rightly came in and described why solo rucking TDK is not sustainable season long, then there was a suggestion to ruck Charlie and King nearly fell out of his chair, and he describe why you don't ruck Charlie ever, and the same applies to overuse of BigH in the ruck, the risk is too high relative to the benefit.

The BigH to the ruck is an occasional pinch hit option, not a default tactic.

If our MC aren't smart enough to make use of Pitto and TDK sensibly, as required, we have an MC problem it's not the players.

Personally, I though the return of Saad and the front and square work of Williams made a huge difference yesterday, and off the back of Cripps and Walsh being dominant things might have got better if Witts had zero respite.

Williams is not scared to get at the feet of the marking contests and it makes a a huge difference. I also note once his confidence was up he got a few runs through the midfield and did well, his critics should take note.

I thought it's laughable that some have suggested GC were an easy kill, Miller, Rowell, Witts, Lukosius, King, Andrew, we destroyed the GC strengths, surely whoever suggested the easy kill was joking.