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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Domestic violence and why the government will struggle to attention the problem.
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Horrendous story Mantis and brave of you to share it with us, as others have said I hope you have had some professional help later in life and are coping ok. My wifes family had a similar issue with her father who was of Italian/Croatian heritage but nothing like the extreme violence you have been through. Unfortunately I dont see there being an easy fix other than providing more safe places where mothers, children can flee to avoid the violence and with the lack of housing etc I cant see Governments being able to solve the problem or even being able to put a dent in it. Education at the junior level may reduce the amount of incidents later but its going to take a while to see much change sadly...take care of yourself and hopefully a premiership isnt too far away to bring you some small joy.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Domestic violence and why the government will struggle to attention the problem.
Last post by Thryleon -
Yep really sorry you went through it.  No excusing any of it.  Wondering how it started so well and then seemingly flipped.  Wondering what else occurred to cause some grief there but being small it was harder to understand.  I dont know but there's no condoning that action.  Was he too of Croatian descent?  I know in the Balkans it's common for wives to stand by their husbands even when they shouldn't.  In this case sounds like that happened with your mum (or a lack of options once the girl arrived).

Hopefully you have a good relationship with your half sister and I mean no blame or shame with this at all.  I just can't understand it which speaks for why I won't perpetuate the cycle of this behaviour more than anything else.

We are all here for you mate.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: madbluboy on
I was surprised at how many here had Acres in their votes, I thought he made a lot of mistakes.

I think that there'd be no-one to vote for if mistakes meant disqualification. 

I gave Acres a vote because I thought that his hard work far outweighed the times he was caught out ... and some of those were the result of teammates not doing their bit.

We play a fairly high risk, high reward game style and it's inevitable that we'll be caught out and punished.  That's OK, provided we can limit how many times it happens. 
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by PaulP -
Quote from: madbluboy on
I was surprised at how many here had Acres in their votes, I thought he made a lot of mistakes.

I can appreciate his inclusion in the votes would be questionable. He did make errors, but he also works his ar$e off. 32 disposals, 6 tackles, 2 clearances, 415 m gained, 89% on ground. I probably overcooked the Jim Park giving him 3 votes, but he deserved votes for the effort and good things he did.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: madbluboy on
Martin needs to play VFL.

I’ll pass on the “to get injured” comment
🙂

We have few players who can walk straight back into the firsts.  Cerra was clearly underdone last week and may have been better off having a run in the Magoos or as the sub.

Martin is one player who I would bring straight back in.  He doesn’t need to get a lot of the ball to have an impact and we do need to get more out of our small forwards.

At the very least, the opposition defenders have to put work into him.