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.
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.
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..
Leave the right and wrongs of the situation out of it.
I still don't understand how by moving across town to a non-hotspot makes it Ok to travel. Your home address will still show up as a hotspot when you try to enter another state.
Just a bit confused... How can players, officials etc who live in some of the 'hotspots' just move to alternate accommodation in non-hotspot suburbs and then be free to travel?
Reminds me of Lonergan taking Carazzo out of a game, you can't rely on the AFL. Sometimes you just have to take things in your own hands and make the opposition understand you won't put up with cheap snipes and Merrett needed a lesson during the game so he didn't apply that type of tackle again..
'Sliding doors' moment' A tackle that changed the course of history. There's a chance Brett Ratten would still be our coach if not for that tackle.
We'd started the season like a house on fire. Beaten Richmond and Brisbane and demolished Collingwood. Carrazzo had been arguably our best player.
Ratten got a 'bee in his bonnet' about the size and strength of the Bombers (little did we know) that led to a falling out with Justin Cordy.
Carrazzo's injury was one of the first in a string that would seriously weaken the side to the extent they were a shadow of the Round1-3 side by the end of the year and Ratten was history.
It's kind of ironic that if the Dem's had been successful in having Trump removed in that impeachment process a few months back there's a fair possibility they would have wrecked their chances of winning the presidency. Pence wouldn't have been the candidate.. Who would have been the Republican candidate and how would they have shaped up differently against Biden? Would Biden still have been the Democratic candidate in that scenario? How would that impeachment vote have gone today?
No problem if they apply that rule consistently....But I suspect the player moving forward of the mark before the player kicking out has left the square happens regularly.
What that shows is that this thing and the handling of it is full of contradictions. I don't think anyone has a real handle on it and the various manifestations.
I'm happier now that the game goes ahead without some players missing...but I really don't think we have a clue as to what's going on and that means that it could turn on us pretty quickly. Nothing would surprise.
