Fan commentary is blind to long term decisions about who will be at the club in 2026. We often assume that decision will be made only after seeing more of a player at senior level, we demand opportunities for the unknowns(unknown to us) but in most cases and for many players, a career starts and ends at training.
If players compete head to head at training for limited spots, and continually lose that contest, you'll never see them at AFL level short of a circumstance where there is no contest, like when injuries abound.
Like F1, the first person you have to better is your own teammate!
Well, based on his current actions, you'd now have to assume RedTrump is a guilty as sin in regards to Epstein and Maxwell. He's basically taking preemptive revenge on anyone who has a chance of investigating the case in any detail, he's even sacked some of his own people for failing to have the case shutdown.
Making things opaque are not the actions of the innocent man!
The current state of test cricket is awful....bowlers still with test standard skills showing up batsmen with new age short form skills. Don't move your feet - can't trust your defence - equals no chance of survival let alone lasting long enough to make runs.
It wasn't the worst pitch but it wasn't a test or a ODI pitch either.
Following the pandemic these associations are effectively bankrupt and understaffed, they can't pay for the work to be done to deliver test standard surfaces, they struggle to deliver a wicket that is good for 1 day let alone 5.
Cricket needs to stop making India's administrators millionaires and start ploughing some of the ludicrous bounty back into grass roots like soccer and union.
Neale if anything used the umpire to break the tag. Not enough being said about that.
Neale did exactly the same thing last time we played them, and if I recall correctly Neale has been cited for pushing an opponent into an umpire previously but got off.
This is a situation the AFL has created, because it's sanctioned Neale's behaviour by letting him off, now he's rehearsed it enough he can implement the scenario on demand.
I think it's time the ICC (Read BCCI by Proxy) started ploughing money into venue management rather than using it to line the pockets of independent Mumbai billionaires.
If they don't cricket could be dead as a global sport by 2050.
I went the watching the Kayo Mini this morning and there was barely enough content for a Micro!
Not sure how B.Camporeale gets four weeks for simply pushing off his opponent.
It's quite different to a push in the back to a bloke who jumping at the football, the Lions player was facing Ben and already pushing him to hold him back before they arrived at the contest.
In fairness to our club, Stocker later said he was about to pull up stumps due to the impact of the pandemic on the AFL season. I believe our club advised him he needed to get away from football for the sake of his own sanity.
After deciding he did not want to give it away yet, he stayed in football through the pre-season supplemental pick.
If EH pulls the pin, it's his right to do so and we should respect it, if he wants to continue we'd be hypocrites to pull the rug.
e hollands no way make him earn his spot not like last time
EH is a walk up start I suspect, a class above most on our list.
Not overly blessed with pace, but knows how to get where the footy is, compete for it then use it reliably.
In my version of the world, footballers are footballers, if they are convicted of something they do the time, if they aren't they are free to continue, just like the rest of us! I'm not having this role model bullsh1t or special rules for special people.
Well, it looks like Boland's selection might have been forced upon the team / captain, in conditions ideal for Boland, a ball swinging about under lights on a seaming pitch, the Victorian wasn't given an opportunity by the captain until the last over of the day, with the embedded trio of NSW compatriots Starc, Hazelwood and Cummins the primary bowlers.
The thing I've noticed about Motlop is, unlike a few of our others he gets to where the ball 'is'...and not where it "aint". That doesn't mean he always takes possession. He's not clean...yet. But he's often at the contest.
He definitely looks much better around the ball, it gets him up and running.
As much as I dont like the prick, Horner is exactly the man Ferrari need.
Possibly true, but Ferrari might be too big of a change, geographically and culturally. Ignoring what they list as their "home track", the UK based teams basically live and work within a 10km radius of each other, Ferrari is a huge change of venue and an even bigger change in culture.
Earlier we had some discussion about not trusting the advice or reports of billionaires, when they portray themselves as the cure to bureaucracy's ills.
When big big money is involved do not trust politics, opinion or the people who profit from either, just trust the numbers but not necessarily how the numbers are presented, be skeptical. Sometimes the most basic cursory investigation exposes the folly or deception.
Right on queue, although not specific to energy but analogous to the concept above, we have a billionaire telling us he can do the SRL better, cheaper, faster and with more certainty. I doubt it, I gravely doubt it, and unless great liability and risk is built into the contracts with certain penalties for failure, it would be a grave mistake to change the management.
Privatisation of too many major infrastructures just creates a tenancy that delivers great profit to the landlord, we all pay. Infrastructure and essential services should not be "for profit"!
The same critical risk structure should be applied to energy debate, make providers liable for not delivering on promises, do not let them profit at your risk!
Such is F1 politics, it looks like Horner called out Verstappen's old man for brokering a move to Mercedes, backdooring RB Racing. Max was asking too much to remain at RB. and Horner told Jos Verstappen as much. But Jos is a friend of the RB Executive had his revenge, and now it looks like Max will get his way, the ultimate spoilt child, despite also being a very good driver in a car exclusively configured to his preference.
In F1, money talks, always has and always will.
I think it's a mistake, RB have now kyboshed the two people who could actually technically deliver on Max's requests, Newey and Horner.
I won't be surprised to hear that Max will get a big deal, and yet still be gone from RB within a season or two, they won't be able to deliver, it will break the team, and he'll blame everyone else for the lack of success. This is why Zac Brown said he'd rather see Max stay at RB than head to Mercedes, he doesn't want Max at a team that can deliver a car to his liking, he'd rather Max stays at RB and destroys the joint.
btw., None of this is new to F1, you've seen it all before with "Seb the Breaker"
I'm not surprised Cowan is an in, but I'm a bit surprised Durdin gets a gig.
In my opinion Durdin and Evans both have the same fundamental problem, at AFL level they aren't more agile or pacey than opposition who are 10kg heavier and 10cm taller, this leaves them without a trick. To make use of them we can't have such a predictable game plan, they will never get the same opportunities at the AFL level fall of the ball that they get in VFL, if the opposition know where the ball is going.
In my opinion in the future we should avoid recruiting small forwards who haven't an elite trick. Either they must be bilateral and effectively indistinguishable left or right, have elite pace, elite agility or be elite overhead. If they haven't got one of those four traits they'll never get enough footy at AFL level to have an impact, no matter how hard they try or how good they look at VFL level.
