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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Post Game Postulations: AFL Rd 7: Carlton vs Port Adelaide
Quote from: laj on
They hurt more when you're becoming a good side with a chance.

Our percentage is still, over 100. You don't need a huge win in these low scoring times to bump it up by 10%. GC percentage rose 8% on the back of a 32pt win. We need a couple more thumping wins to get right up there.

Little wins...
We took 11% points off their percentage and only lost 1% from ours. ;)
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Post Game Participation: AFL Rd 6: Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Came to play last night.
Pressure was great, and led in part by young Eddie. Even if we only get the one year out of him ( I suspect it will be more) the example he'll provide going forward was more than worth the effort.
It was nice to be able to sit back halfway through the last quarter knowing the game was pretty much done and dusted.
100 points  on a 'foreign field' in the wet, with shortened game time was easily a 20+ goal performance under regular match conditions.
The most satisfying thing was that we had few passengers and lots of strong contributors especially amongst some of our more maligned. These guys just have to find some consistency and the critics will soon drop off.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
As an old Albury-Wodonga boy (I lived on both sides of the river many years ago) I'm wondering why they didn't start the restrictions/crossing/'border' north of Albury. The cross border traffic is considerable but most folks are just going from Albury to Wodonga or back the other way.

(Edit: Sounds like they're on to it.) :D




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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Post Game Analysis: AFL 2020 Rd 5: Carlton vs St. Kilda
Quote from: Gointocarlton on
As painful as it may sound, I was thinking last night it may be time to move Jones fwd again. At least he attacks the contest these days. I'd drop Mackay in a heartbeat, he was pathetic last night.

Funnily enough I was thinking exactly the same thing myself last night when he took a good mark up the field a bit.
He'd provide a contest that we now have the small forwards to exploit and his pack marking is solid.

Of  course the problem would be that we really don't have anyone to take his place down back. :(
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
It’s useful to look at History because it provides a background to subsequent events.
The Australian indigenous culture is one of the oldest (if not the oldest) continuing ‘unaffected’ cultures in the world. Unaffected, that is until European settlement. Some aspects of this are that (from all evidence) tribal groups were relatively small. They were mostly nomadic. There is some evidence of permanent settlement but things like houses, strong fortified walls, castles and cities weren’t part of the landscape. As a result there were also no large armies, kings or emperors. There was no great battles involving armies of tens or hundreds of thousands of ‘soldiers’. There appears to have been no strong unifying figure who ‘united the tribes’ and built an empire as occurred in other parts of the world. No doubt there would have been tribal conflicts but that would usually have resulted in the losing side simply moving to another area. The ‘unity’ of the Indigenous Australian is a relatively modern idea but that unity has given a voice and strength to fighting for recognition of past injustices and improvements.
If we look at other areas of colonization we see a similarity. In the USA the most obvious similarity occurs not with the African Americans, whose ancestors were forcibly brought to the country, but with the native American. It’s the same with the native South Americans ‘invaded’ by the Spanish and Portuguese. Conflict, domination and particularly disease had a devastating effect on all these populations. The indigenous population of Australia dropped by about 80-90% in the first 100 years of European settlement.
A significant difference between the Australian/North American experience and colonization elsewhere in the world is that in places like Africa and India/South East Asia the colonist population never grew to the extent where they greatly outnumbered the indigenous population. As a result these countries have mostly now reverted to control by original inhabitants, albeit still with some ‘tribal’ conflict in places.
So we have a situation in Australia where for tens of thousands of years the population was pretty much unaffected by a large invader impacting greatly on their culture. Contrast that with Britain who over a period of around 1500 years were under constant threat. Romans, Vikings, Saxons, Normans all invaded and imposed changes to the native population. Even in subsequent years there was always the threat of invasion. Around the early 1800s when our young colony was finding its feet, ‘back home’ there was a threat from Napoleonic France. Communication was slow. The next ship coming into Port Jackson may have been a French warship or a ship carrying news that the ‘home country’ had fallen.
It wasn’t just a British thing. The borders of Europe were constantly shifting. It may not excuse the attitude of conquest and colonization but it does explain why these things happened (Conquer or be conquered) and it’s not just a White European thing either. Invasion, domination (and associated atrocities) were committed across the Middle and Far East. Religion played a huge part and the damage done in the name of a ‘God or Gods of choice’ is profound.
The point of all this…World history is exactly that raw. Every racial group has probably at some time experienced invasion and damage to their culture. Take the Irish for example…Racism, massacres dispossession and transported half-way around the world in great numbers.
For some nations ‘invasion’ has been a factor in the development of their own bias, hatreds and the way they operated as time went on, yet for some it’s also resulted in an enrichment, modernization and an improved way of life. For the European it’s old history but it’s history that shapes the various nationalities. For the indigenous Australian the injustices all seem relatively ‘new’ especially as they’ve found a unity and voice over the last 50 years or so and there are prejudices that still need to be fought. The important thing is we all learn from the past, acknowledge past mistakes and injustices but give greater emphasis to a future of advancement, fairness and equality of opportunity for all.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: In Game Perspiration: AFL Rd 5: Carlton vs St. Kilda
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It reminds me of THAT game vs the Cheats when Carazzo got taken out. Men v boys.
These Saints guys are too tall and too fast.

re Cripps
Quote from: laj on
Slimming down has made him lose his point of difference.

If you look around the field we have a lot of skinny guys.
Not all of them are youngun's still developing.

Have we sacrificed size and strength for a greater aerobic capacity.
We can put in the good finishes but many of our players get brushed aside pretty easily when it becomes a strength contest..