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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 2 2025 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Hawthorn
Unfortunately, we have no elite ball users in our midfield.  They send hack kicks into the forward line and more often than not it suits the opposition rather than our side.

Jagga Smith was going to help fix that.  Well, not this year......

Also, we had 65 inside 50s on Thursday for 9 goals.  And I lost count of the number of marks Richmond took in their defensive 50.

Some things for this week.

(1) Tell Harry to stop wrestling, he is no good at it - instead just put his arms in the air.  He'll either mark it, get a free kick, or at least create a crumb.
(2) Bring Moir in immediately.  We have tried 3 crap small forwards a lot, and it just does not work.
(3) Put Doc behind the ball.  They need another cool head back there to support Weiters.
(4) Our half-forward line is all wrong, it is too small.  The ball gets whipped out of there far too easily.  McKay CHF so he can get some grabs on the wings, Curnow lurking in the forward 50, and Moir supplying leads.
(5) See if we can hit a handball and a kick at training this week.  Skill level in the second half was about U16 standard.
(6) Matt Carroll in for Haynes.  Apart from Saad, our back 6 are slower than statues, and the Hawks can whip that in spades (And where's Boyd?)

Unfortunately, I just don't think we are ready for the Hollywood Hawks at the minute.  We are honestly staring at a 0-4 start......



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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
We are simply not ruthless enough to be a premiership contender.

As soon as the heat notch went up a couple of degrees, most of the team started playing scared.  The Haynes/McGovern thing near the boundary was the just about most pathetic thing I have ever seen. 

It is time to start picking some of the younger brigade like Moir, Wilson, and Carroll, and get the VFL spuds back where they belong.

We had more passengers than the 10.34 to Glen Waverley.......  
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Right now, Trump's Billionaire Buddies are losing money hand over fist.  If they tumble into recession, and unemployment and inflation take off, business will get ugly, prices will get higher, and the average punter will start becoming very restless.

Trump himself is saying things will get harder before they get better.  If he is saying that, the USA is in for a world of pain.  Trump and his billionaire mates will be slightly less richer, while Joe Average will lose his job, maybe his house, and everything he buys will be 20% dearer.  What a good deal for the American people.

Moral is, be very careful who you vote for, especially when they can blame all their sh*t decisions on the mob they took over from. Especially if they say 'it's gonna make us great again (eventually.....)'
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: shawny – on
trumpstar implementing mandatory death sentence for murder of a officer.

geez i wish our politicians had his balls.
There's no way Capital Punishment ever gets reinstated in this country.  It never serves as a deterrent (in fact, it often attracts the type who want to go out in a blaze of glory).  It only serves to satisfy the need for revenge.

Perhaps most importantly, there are many cases where the person who has been executed has subsequently been proven innocent.

Civilised nations removed it long ago......
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: shawny – on
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I don't reckon it's that simple.  I think Zelensky may have had a crash course in Trump-wrangling from his European buddies over the weekend.

"Blow some smoke up his ass and make it look like he's the boss"........

Do you really think hes that smart?

He tried to bluff and was called on it.

24 hours ago he said the war is far from over then backflipped and said he wants to do a deal.

Its pretty obvious what occured.
He spent the whole weekend with the European contingent, then comes back with a different play.   I have no doubt they would have circled the wagons around him and agreed to a new strategy.

All of Europe has a massive stake in how the Ukraine thing pans out, so there is no way known that the other European leaders would just sit back and see whether or not Trump and Zelensky can play nicely with one another.    They will definitely have a hand on the Ukraine rudder, especially if they intend to send in a peace-keeping force.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Looks like Zelensky has rolled over after the USA pulled the plug on further aid, conceded to Trump and is willing to work under him, he wants to call a ceasefire and in return Trump has said he appreciates Zelensky's comments and said he has been talking to Russia who also want to work towards peace. If I was a Ukranian Id be moving be moving next door to Poland which is about the best place to live in Europe because you are about to be sold out...

I don't reckon it's that simple.  I think Zelensky may have had a crash course in Trump-wrangling from his European buddies over the weekend.

"Blow some smoke up his ass and make it look like he's the boss"........
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Hmmm Ukraine minerals deal is cooked after Trump and JD Vance thought Zelensky disrespected USA in the Oval and should be 'more grateful'.  They dressed him down like a naughty boy.  Putin will be grinning from ear to ear.

These guys are absolute cowboys.  It looked like a scene from The Apprentice.....
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Practice match vs St Kilda lineup
3 observations....

I hope we have a plan to man-up on half-back flankers in the real season.  Wanganeen-Milera and Hill had an absolute picnic.

Motlop is ready to have a big year.

Need TDK's signature - we he got out of second gear, he was playing a different game to everyone else out there.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: shawny – on
Quote from: shawny – on


EB whats your thoughts on Zelensky? Media paint this war as good vs evil but i personally know a few guys from Ukraine and still have family back home and they tell me this is not the case and he is no saint and was not democratically elected so by those terms is a dictator as well. Curious to hear your thoughts.

EB - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspends-11-political-parties-with-links-to-russia

Is this bogus or has merit?



Russia has regularly interfered with elections in neighbouring states so they can install puppets that jump to the Kremlin's call (try Belarus.....)

That's the Russian way - anyone in opposition to them is overthrown, left to rot in a Siberian jail, or has an unfortunate fall from a 6th floor carpark.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
There is a deep-seated rumour that Mr Putin has some 'dirt' on dear Donald that might surface if things don't go to Vlad's liking (perhaps it's info on how the 2016 election went so well for a clear outsider in the betting odds...?)

Certainly, the POTUS seems only too keen to parrot the Russian line about the Ukraine war, and all of his envoys seem very buddy-buddy with their Russian counterparts while hanging Ukraine out to dry.  Added to that, the new Director of National Security in the USA is known to be a Russian sympathiser.

So when they depict the Republican states with a 'Red' colour on the electoral college maps, perhaps that is more appropriate than most people imagine?

It appears we are fast approaching troubled waters......