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The Sports Desk / Re: Djokovic v TJ / Ch9

Yep it's amazing how it's been played down and treated as a minor indiscretion almost which given his history of offences just shows how insipid and corrupt the game of professional Tennis is imo.

Not just Tennis EB.

Our own comp makes decisions at times that leaves many scratching their head.


Shawny, no doubt we have the professional discount for elite players like a lot of other pro sports.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Djokovic v TJ / Ch9
Australian tennis player-turned-commentator Rennae Stubbs has made the shock declaration she thinks Jannik Sinner is "guaranteed" to cop a ban when he fronts the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in April. Sinner won his second Australian Open and third grand slam title last week, but his immediate future in the sport is under a cloud.

The World No.1 will face a CAS hearing and could be facing a maximum two-year ban after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed a decision by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) to clear him. Sinner twice tested positive to banned steroid Clostebol last March, but the ITIA allowed him to keep playing after he claimed he was inadvertently contaminated by his physio.

I dont watch Tennis but its interesting to me how Sinner has escaped punishment and sold the old contaminated by another story and got away with it but that rarely works in other sports and id pose the question that if he was ranked 150 in the world instead of No 1 would he have been suspended/banned?
Djokovic has copped plenty of heat for withdrawing but the aptly named Sinner who has been caught twice for steroid use gets away with zero heat coming his way...

Suspended but will be back just in time for the French open. How fortunate.
Yep it's amazing how it's been played down and treated as a minor indiscretion almost which given his history of offences just shows how insipid and corrupt the game of professional Tennis is imo.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Pick your best 22 of 2025 - Part 1 - Pre-season

Agree he will start forward, thats the only spot where we have been able to get a return out of him, he is a player who needs to be looked after imo as his biggest problem is being able to stay on the park and remain injury free.
If he is wandering around half back or in the middle where he has to cover more ground and do more running then I could only see him aggravating his achilles and being back on the injury list.

Not sure that holds up EB.  Like almost all forwards these days, Zac is continually running the length of the ground and he is definitely spending time in the midfield in the match sims.  He is also involved in plenty of chains of possessions from halfback.

 You can’t really “hide” an injury prone player in the modern game.  Zac will either get through the season doing what’s expected of every other player … or he won’t 🤞
I think his history speaks for itself, he is injury prone and came to us with the expectation that we would see him play as a midfielder .
That hasnt happened and match sims, preseason games don't prove anything as we need to see how he stands up in the regular season week to week vs real opposition and until he does that I consider him unreliable.
We played Charlie Curnow injured for weeks so I don't agree with the theory the modern game doesn't allow that to happen..
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Pick your best 22 of 2025 - Part 1 - Pre-season
Do we make anything of Z Williams playing across half back for the all-stars?

The all-stars always have a larger than normal number of small forward options available to them.

Not as many wise heads who have done their time at half back by comparison.

Zac is no spring chicken. He is holding a spot in the forward line until the new breed come through.
We don't need him to do the same at half back because we have a few old heads there already, as well as some new kids coming through.

IMO Zac will still start forward with us.
Injuries, form and circumstances may change that though.
Agree he will start forward, thats the only spot where we have been able to get a return out of him, he is a player who needs to be looked after imo as his biggest problem is being able to stay on the park and remain injury free.
If he is wandering around half back or in the middle where he has to cover more ground and do more running then I could only see him aggravating his achilles and being back on the injury list.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
With chucking back on the agenda looks like Bumrah's action is getting some attention again, hyperextension or flexion, its all about angles but I cant see Bumrah being investigated given his importance to cricket and who he plays for.
The Indian public and cricket board would go into meltdown if he was investigated and found to be chucking, much easier to go hard on a no name like Kuhnemann.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)


It was kinda 'great' when it helped us out with a little Japanese problem we had a while back.
I suspect I wouldn't be here otherwise. ;)

“Kinda great” is right.

1940s USA was isolationist, segregated and firmly committed to staying out of the conflict until Pearl Harbour.  It’s military might and manufacturing industry was certainly very handy from Dec 1941.

Interestingly, the WW2 Tuskegee airmen are in the news again but for the wrong reasons.  You can’t talk about how a group of African-American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest United States fighter groups because it’s pro Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
The USA were happy to stay out of the war while it suited them and they could sell truck parts and other items to the Germans and their big companies who were embedded in Germany still continued to get their profits ie Ford.. Werke and SAF (Ford's subsidiaries in Germany and France, respectively) produced military vehicles and other equipment for Nazi Germany's war effort. Some of Ford's operations in Germany at the time were run using forced labor.
Doesnt matter who is running America if there is a dollar to be made they are happy to leave their morals and principles at the door and collect the money from both sides and play the field. Henry Ford was pro Hitler, no fan of the Jews and a lot of American companies operating out of Germany had fascist inclinations.
They will sell Zelesnky down the Danube if Putin can make it worth their while and its unfortunate we have to rely on the USA for military cover and in turn support their aims as they are no better than Putin or Xi and would sell us out too if it came to saving their own necks.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Pick your best 22 of 2025 - Part 1 - Pre-season
You have to have your own game style and not try and emulate or compete with other teams perfected game style.
Trying to load up on too many quick players won't be any use if they can't get the ball or deliver it properly.
Our game is a heavily congested style where our big coalface mids bully the opposition and dominate the clearances and get the ball to our two key forwards.
I don't want to weaken that in favour of a outside running game and we need to set the agenda and game style not be forced into a high speed running game that suits other teams and who do it better anyway.
We waste a lot of forward entries and should be concentrating on better finishing when we have momentum.
Often those wasted opportunities lead to opposition rebound footy where they run the ball quickly forward and score and if we can tidy up our forward work then those pacy rebounds won't be so much of a problem.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
HS Reporting:
Australian cricket officials have been shocked by having the bowling action of their series-star in Sri Lanka Matthew Kuhnemann queried by match officials.


not sure why they would be shocked - his action does look a little iffy at first glance
Agree....but if he took one wicket instead of 16 wickets in the Sri Lankan series would anyone be that interested in reporting him?
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour

I have a stent as a reminder of my covid vaccine and boosters era, I did heart rehab and the group I was in were all under 30, all had the vaccine 3-4 weeks earlier. There was another evening group and again it was all young people, the nursing staff and physio's said they had never seen anything like it before, doctors didnt want to comment and just said they couldnt explain it.
My specialist sat on the fence too but said your profile and results didnt indicate I was a candidate for a blockage and subsequent stent. When I asked should I have the next booster though it was a clear No.
Im not an Anti Vaxer as I believe in the value of vaccines or CoVid denier but to me its clear those vaccines were/are not safe for everyone and there needs to be more pre-testing  before you have them especially when you get a series of shots.
My SIL had a lump on his collarbone and his BIL who is a police officer had an issue with his heart which left him unable to work for 12 months all after having the vaccine and boosters.
The normal vaccine development and testing timeline takes 5-10 years if I read right on Google and clearly the CoVid vaccines never had had that period of time when developed due to the urgency to protect people which is understandable, that then leaves the recipients as part of a lab experiment with little recourse as the big Pharma drug companies had indemnity agreements with the Aus Government to prevent any litigation.
I get it was protect the main Herd mentality but it was also a big feck you to the rest if you got sick or worse and you were expendable under the experiment rules and thats why when I hear people say the Vaccines were safe then I get annoyed.
With the greatest of respect EB, is there a definitive direct cause of your stent, your SIL's lump, his BILs heart issue with the vaccines or is it coincidence? Plenty of people prior to covid and its vaccines were perfectly fine heart/cancer/lump wise until they weren't. They weren't candidates for blockages and then they were.
My understanding was that the AZ vaccine probably needed more testing than what the safer, older tech mRNA vaccines did (I think it was explained in an earlier post by someone). In any case, for what its worth, I get your angst and frustration.
When you do rehab and nearly everyone is under 30 and all had heart attacks 3-4 weeks after boosters and the staff say they have never seen numbers in that age group  like that before then I don't see it as a coincidence.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
What are you on about?
COVID is far from over or beaten.
Vaccines are as safe and effective as reasonably possible.
Health workers are taking sensible precautions, read the room.
Social media COVID deniers and anti-vaxers are full of sh1t, they should stand by their convictions.
There is still a price to pay, it's not over.
I have a stent as a reminder of my covid vaccine and boosters era, I did heart rehab and the group I was in were all under 30, all had the vaccine 3-4 weeks earlier. There was another evening group and again it was all young people, the nursing staff and physio's said they had never seen anything like it before, doctors didnt want to comment and just said they couldnt explain it.
My specialist sat on the fence too but said your profile and results didnt indicate I was a candidate for a blockage and subsequent stent. When I asked should I have the next booster though it was a clear No.
Im not an Anti Vaxer as I believe in the value of vaccines or CoVid denier but to me its clear those vaccines were/are not safe for everyone and there needs to be more pre-testing  before you have them especially when you get a series of shots.
My SIL had a lump on his collarbone and his BIL who is a police officer had an issue with his heart which left him unable to work for 12 months all after having the vaccine and boosters.
The normal vaccine development and testing timeline takes 5-10 years if I read right on Google and clearly the CoVid vaccines never had had that period of time when developed due to the urgency to protect people which is understandable, that then leaves the recipients as part of a lab experiment with little recourse as the big Pharma drug companies had indemnity agreements with the Aus Government to prevent any litigation.
I get it was protect the main Herd mentality but it was also a big feck you to the rest if you got sick or worse and you were expendable under the experiment rules and thats why when I hear people say the Vaccines were safe then I get annoyed.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Australia has a trade deficit with the USA and both Alcoa(Aluminium) and Bluescope(Steel) operate out of the USA and employ a
 significant amount of American citizens. I'll be interested how it all works and Id expect Trump to change his thinking remembering in his first term he did exempt Australia from these tariffs given we had/have the deficit with them.
Id be looking to sell my steel and aluminium elsewhere if Trump follows through with this stupid tariff mania he seems to have...
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)


The guardian must be smoking too....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/donald-trump-executive-orders-signed-list

No president has come in with such a bang.

And its why he sh1te in getting into power too. And the same will happen here as the rank and file have had enough of all the woke lefties nutters.

Enough is enough. 



Libs have won Prahran off the Greens, Werribee too close to call but Labour is in danger there. As you say, everyone has had a gut full of spend spend spend but all in the wrong places. Albo makes Allan look like Hawke.
Labor are finished in Victoria and it will be the same in the Federal Election. Not expecting anything from the Liberals either and the Greens are not a serious alternative with zero economic  policies.
I don't blame Jacinta Allan, she inherited a sinking ship from that clown Andrews and Victoria won't recover for a long time regardless of who is running the State.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Trump got in because of poor economic conditions, increasing homeless numbers etc. The average American wouldn't be able to tell you where Ukraine or Gaza was or what tariff's were.
When people are doing it tough they want anything else but the incumbent government. That's how Dutton will get in here and how you sell to the average man in the street is keep it simple which Trump does well unlike Biden who babbled and Kamala who giggled their way through the election.
When the candidates are so poor people have to lower their expectations of the outcome and it's the same here.
Albanese, Dutton, Bandt, Palmer....does anyone think any of that lot will be making Australia great again..