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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Votes - Round 4 vs Western Bulldogs
Quote from: kruddler on
Which hosking LP?

I'm assuming Sarah as that is who everyone else voted for. Personally i didn't give either votes, but both would've been in the top 6.

Sorry, S. Hosking.

It's a big problem, you can see one of them in play but if you don't see the numbers you can easily attribute good segments to the other. I think this leaves viewers thinking one is better than the other, thankfully the shoulder tape and hairstyles are a giveaway if you have time to go back to a replay. I've noticed that callers have just started calling "Hosking"!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Another School Shooting in the US
Quote from: madbluboy on
People will start arming themselves here with all the crime we have had in the last couple of years.

Really???

Are they going to buy them legitimately on the black-market, because it's not so easy to be a licensed shooter anymore?

Legitimately you have to have gun safes separating firing mechanisms and ammunition from the barrel. You also have to submit to regular inspections from the police, not that I've heard anyone getting inspected but once you have weapons on-site they are permitted to do so.

Illegitimately I've heard that the typical black-market price of a gun started beyond $50k, and you basically have to unambiguously identify yourself to very undesirable types who trade in such weapons! That's a very high price to pay, and I've also heard some of those recent home invasions are to get hold of weapons(legit or illegal) for use in crime! :o

So getting rid of guns might discourage some of those home invasions, and if they are robbers it would be cheaper just to get robbed!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: SpecialK the new Rowe!
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
Why would we mess with Kruezer who had a great season in the ruck and was in the AA squad......?
Going to be a very slow lineup with three ruckman in your starting 22, one of Lobbes problems at Port was he couldnt play other positions
and Trengove was preferred to him....

Really makes you wonder why we drafted Lobbe doesn't it, on top of De Koning and McKay, if Lobbe is not being set for the 1st ruck in the short term then what is he good for?

If we assume Lobbe is not a KPP of sorts, and he is being set for the 1st ruck, then Kreuzer..............?

Is all this SpecialK to push forward for more goals just a smokescreen, because it seems we've tried it all before!

Anyway, it's just an interesting rumor that seems worthwhile discussing.

PS; Could we find that experiences in the backline will eventually make Jones a much better KPF? What we had hoped for Weitering, or could we be again looking at Weitering spending more time forward. I see either as a potential Harry Taylor type, capable of pinch hitting up forward.
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Robert Heatley Stand / SpecialK the new Rowe!
Interesting rumors floating around that we are looking at a starting line-up with Kreuzer, Lobbe and Casboult all playing.

Add Jones and McKay to that mix as all of a sudden we look like a basketball team, even with out the other KPPs.

Could the club be setting up to play SpecialK as the CHB alone side Jones?

We know SpecialK has the endurance and strength, does he still have the mobility and speed he needs to close in on marking contests?
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Votes - Round 4 vs Western Bulldogs
Team E

3 Arnell
2 S. Hosking
1 Gay

I suppose a night like that highlights when the 3,2,1 doesn't work, although it's really the only option for the AFLW.

It probably would have been Arnell 15 in the AFL season.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Aussies aren't into meat!
Interesting to read comments from Woolworths claiming Australian's are eating less red meat.

I'd gather pretty comprehensive research before an executive would make such a sweeping statement.

But I wonder how many other families are like my family, and have stopped buying cheap carbon monoxide, nitrogenated and water filled supermarket meats and fish because they are rubbish!

We've gone back to the local specialist for most of our protein needs, meat from the butcher and fish from the monger. We have taken a position of quality over quantity, the stuff is just too expensive to be served rubbish. The quality difference, flavour and texture improvement was immediately noticeable, I must admit to my embarrassment I had become accustomed to the flavourless meat coming from the supermarket!  :-[

The irony is, the local supermarkets have recently "heavily encourage" food standards Australia to give all the local competing butchers and fishmongers utter buggery!

I wonder who pays for the inspector's groceries? ;)

Anyway, we'll continue supporting the local traders, bacon that is smoked and not chemically cured, wrapped around scallops that are shucked and not cookie cut!

There is something incredibly satisfying about have a small quantity, just enough not too much, of something that is really good! ;D
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Another School Shooting in the US
Quote from: Lods on
Just a personal opinion with no real figures to back it up but....

I don't know whether there are any figures for "gun ownership by profession in the USA" floating around but I would hazard a guess that "teachers" would figure at the lower end of any such chart.

In terms of gun control advocates they would probably figure prominently and most would vote or favour Democrat candidates.

They wouldn't want guns.

The NRA logic is so flawed. Giving School Teachers guns should work well until a crazed teacher shoots all the kids dead on a hateful Monday!

They think people doing the shootings are "The Bad People" that can be identified and weeded out of gun ownership by some multiple choice questions. Most of the shooters though are just Joe Average who lost their crap for some otherwise unknown reason.

The FBI and NSA can find the real crazy people so easily, most of them are on the TV or speaking at NRA rallies! But they are not the ones doing the shooting.

I'm not anti-gun, in fact in years gone by I was a sporting shooter which I gave up when I had kids. Kids and guns in the house do not mix. But there is no natural need or right that states people need assault rifles or concealable semi-automatic pistols.

The rights the NRA refer to are not God given, they are man made! When an NRA nutter stands up and states it's his God given right to own a weapon, he's technically blaspheming!

America is quickly becoming the worlds most powerful moron! They've got the bomb, as the keep reminding us, but even that they got it with the help of a bunch of communist double agents! ;D
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Ladies Lounge / Re: Blues v Doggies - R4
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the alternate strips, but if we are going to have one make it completely different like the one the girls launched earlier in the season.

I don't want us(The Club) playing around with the traditional jumper and logo. We've waited long enough for the traditional embossed design to return after a couple of decades stuffing around with modernisation themes.

How good did it look when the more traditional logo was re-launched?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: JLT Series - 5 days away
Quote from: jeza on
I don't understand why we play night games at our ground without proper lights. The QEO in Bendigo has better lights.

Are the AFL serious about women's footy or not.

I was talking about the JLT not the AFLW.

I don't think QEO has better lights, I've been to two night games there and it's about the same and our home.

The main complaints were coming from people sitting behind tinted glass, the media didn't complain, the players didn't complain.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: JLT Series - 5 days away
I think we are highly unlikely to field a team with SoJ, Charlie, Cripps, McKay, Casboult, Kreuzer, Jones, Marchbank and Weitering.

One or two of them won't be making the cut, as a group there are too many slow players.

Further to that, we have Phillips, Rowe and Lobbe on the sidelines with De Koning and Kerr making up senior list numbers.

If we add O'Shea and Macreadie to the list of KPP options, they are over 193cm, it's quite hard to see a balanced list taking the field with any more than 8 or 9 of the slower tall players.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: JLT Series - 5 days away
I see that The Aints are angling to have the JLT game moved based on "Poor Lighting!

We should play at Moorabbin, the surface there is pretty schmick, especially after they've left the sprinklers on overnight! ;D