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Blah-Blah Bar / Embarrassing Edelsten
WTF was this bloke thinking, bringing this at Tom Haffey's funeral?



I am embarrassed to think he is a Carlton supporter!
152
Robert Heatley Stand / Stand by Tuohy
I have no idea why but this bloke Tuohy has something that can potentially unite, I find it intangible.

When you listen to him speak he just seems to say the right things!

I think Tuohy in conjunction with Simpson and and the other Irish compatriots might be the key to uniting our club.

They have a perception of durability, fight, endurance and defiance that others don't!

The don't have to become leaders, just a symbol of defiance, rebels even, highwaymen, bush rangers!

The concept feels right, even Daisey fits the bill!
154
The Sports Desk / Did Webber retire too soon?
Well, I look at the variability of Vettel versus the early form of Ricciardo and it makes me wonder, was Webber too rash in pulling the pin?

We have had the heads of RBR complaining about the new regulations, they are virtually crying over what they perceive as changes specifically targeted to reign them in. Paranoid as that may be, Ricciardo seems to be doing OK.

This makes me think Vettel seems unable to adjust to the refinements and requirements of driving a turbo to the limit, he has made statements about the new power plants, while Ricciardo in the same machine seems to do fine. Most of the other drivers I regard as turbo experienced seem to have adapted to the change better than Vettel.

How would MW go with the return of the turbo, they are cars that need a driver not just a reckless bloody minded lead foot?

Multi 21 Seb, get out of Ricciardo's way you are slowing him down!
155
Robert Heatley Stand / Bring back the torp, outside F50!
We have this problem in our F50, it is jam packed with defenders 90% of the game and our talls don't mark!

We need a tactic that thins out the opposition defense, make them cover more ground.

Bring back the torp I say, let Jammo, Watson and Tuohy patrol the HFF at kick ins and when we press up the ground. If we turn it over on the F50 at a kick in, or if there is no way forward  off the flank even consider kick it backwards to them.

Sure the accuracy might be rubbish, but once defenders stand watching kicks sail over their head a few times you see a significant shift in the attitude to opposition flooding. You only have to get one goal and they will not be so keen to leave you unattended. I do not know a coach or defender who is happy to leave the scoring of a goal by the opposition up to chance, they are more about eliminating those chances all together.  Draw them out and the likes of Garlett, Murphy, Ellard and Yarran have much more room to play in!

PS: At the moment Tuohy averages 0.4 goals, Watson 0.1 goals and Jamison 0.0, anything they score is a plus!
156
The Sports Desk / Vertonghen's dive, why soccer is the world's most overated sport!
Well anyone who has seen this must be gob-smacked.

A sport worth trillions of dollars, players worth millions and influencing trillions more in gambling dollars can tolerate such a blatant fraud without penalty or consequence.

[flash=480,270]http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/iFC3lq_-c-s?[/flash]
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Blah-Blah Bar / Whinger Olympics
Winter Olympics hardly, Whinger Olympics definitely!

I have to laugh today about the debate going on in the media about the poor snow bunnies blaming a shortness  of funds for the lack of results in their sports. Just struggler's they are, hardly a quid between them!

Yes you guessed it I am being just a tad factitious.

Individually a lot of this winter Olympics team even shadow Andrew Bogut for personnel wealth. This isn't your everyday budget sports team, many of those kids are the children or grandchildren of the double, maybe even triple, filthy rich!

Dale Begg-Smith, allegedly more money than Israel hidden in offshore accounts. Could allegedly buy the team and run it as a private party enterprise. Rumors he had Sochi snow shipped to the Caribbean to get in some early pre-olympics practice on the right stuff!  ;D

Belle Brockhoff, that is Belle of the Biscuits Brockhoff, family allegedly richer than God but apparently short of some sugar!  :(

Tora Bright, allegedly the snowy fields female equivalent of Tony Hawk, could not afford to stop singing paid autographs and endorsements for long enough to get in some practice!  >:(

FFS taxpayers please empty your pockets this is urgent, without your help those poor bastards will have to drink plain old Bollinger instead of Cristal on the flight home!  :-[
158
Blah-Blah Bar / Poluting the Moon
Well, well, and there it is!

Like most to the cheap crap copies of quality Western goods that China frequently dumps in our domestic market, killing Australian jobs in the process, even the high end space vehicle "Jade Rabbit" has bit the dust.

It lasted a mere fraction of the life of it's NASA competitors, surprise surprise, and now is doomed to be yet more industrial waste.

When will we in "The West" learn, you get what you pay for? We better remember this as we wait patiently in the dole queues, before returning home to our faltering 155cm TVs and noisy refrigerator in our self disassembling car!
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Robert Heatley Stand / 2014 - Strugglers
OK, we have had the positive threads about the best 22 for 2014. Lets look at the flip side for some balance. Not just a who is on the slide or who isn't good enough, but players who might have external reasons to struggle as well.

Who do you think is going to struggle in 2014?

I will open up with what I think is a safe bet, but I think SpecialK cannot be expected to deliver much in 2014. It's almost Feb and over this pre-season the lad has been in a moon boot for months and still has not resumed full training.

He is a ruckmen who plays his best when the he gets significant game time in the engine room. Without a full fitness base I suspect he won't ever catch enough up by the time the season starts, and that will leave him struggling for 2014. I suspect that is why they recruited Wood.

I hope I am wrong!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Skywhale or Skyboob?
Down south we are due to experience the glory of the Canberra Skywhale.

In all it's majesty, forty meters jug dangling glory!

I am all for public art, I support breast feeding and I fully sympathise with feminists and the GLBTI lobby.

But is a 40m high giant floating whale boob some sort of weird feminist lesbian artist protest, or am I just a lost cause???

I think I am too old for this world!
162
Blah-Blah Bar / ABC Wages - Revenge is Sweet
I notice that the News Ltd rag The Australian has allegedly made public the salaries of a number of high profile ABC people.

Is this a "tit for tat' exercise by the friends of Abbott in regards to the Indonesian story?

If nothing else it highlights this;

 - If Leigh Sales is worth ~$250K and Jon Fayne ~$300K then the likes of Alan Jones, Neil Mitchell and Steve Price are way, way, way over-paid!

It seems to me that their is plenty of scope for some wage "rationalization" in the private sector!
163
The Sports Desk / Real-time Snicko
Here ends many batting careers!

The use of Real-Time Snicko will quickly lead to the realisation that most top level batsmen are out many times an innings and that goes almost unnoticed on a regular basis. The Indians know this, BCCI has had local eggheads go over the technology with a fine tooth comb and have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to have it "de-tuned" through the bureaucracy of the ICC. They have quickly come to the conclusion that with an accurate sensor technology batting on normal wickets would be almost impossible. But they cannot stop the broadcasters doing what they like with it even it the umpires get a watered down version.

Pessimists will say this can only result in two things, the production of dead flat boring wickets to maximise the favor to the batsmen, and the end of five days of test cricket excluding when weather interruptions.

Optimists will say the era of cricket being dominated by the bat is over and dead, long live 20/20.
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Blah-Blah Bar / RButR, ( ReBUTteR )
RButR pronounced "ReBUTteR".

I thought some of you might like to take a look at this new website. www.rbutr.com  It is basically a new website that is being floated as a way to rebut information posted on the web.

The site is only in it's infancy but it appears to be a very good concept in how the web might be able to provided a forum that is difficult to hijack with private agendas.

I gather the shock jocks and editors are going to hate it for starters. If it catches any media or political spin will find it much harder to gain traction on the web. I can also see it being used by entities like sporting clubs to debunk media propagated rumors and innuendo, because you can link to specific articles as well as a published rebuttal and evidence.

People can post rebuttals of websites as per the example linked here, http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/mail-fake-cover

Viewers then get to read the rebuttals and place a vote.
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The Sports Desk / Formula 1
Well, the rumors have been rife for some time about disparity between RBR's Vettel car and the rest of the grid. Now it appears some retired F1 drivers and engineers have managed to expose something truly odd going on at RBR only with the Vettel car.

A lot of people claimed Webber had sour grapes when he complained of the playing field not being level in seasons gone by. Several race teams who had examine race telemetry could not explain the performance RBR was able to get out of Vettel's car, especially exiting corners. Now it seems they have stumbled over a big clue, exposed by Vettel's huge Singapore race win margin.

Traction control has been banned for several years, to ensure that it isn't an issue all race teams use a F1 control package for the engine management. During the F1 traction control years cars had a very similar sound, especially when power was applied as a car exits a corner. F1 enthusiasts will recall that sound, that deep rattle gun like reverberation as the traction control took care of managing the engine power. Now it appears, for Vettel's cars and for Vettel's car alone, that sound is back!

The speculation is that RBR engineers have found away around the F1 control package to offer Vettel a traction control advantage over the rest of the field. Ironically for Webber, only the Vettel car exhibits the alleged behavior!

Some F1 engineers speculate RBR is using some smart mechanical design so that KERS gets feedback from the suspension loading. Giving Vettel the equivalent of a hybrid electromechanical traction control system. They have offered track audio recordings as evidence.

[flash=420,315]http://www.youtube.com/v/8DwXOPN7ZIM[/flash]

Ironically, a week or so after the rumor surfaced, Webber has ended up on pole and the early reports from Japan are that the Vettel sound has disappeared!

In defense engineers from RBR are rumored to have linked the unusual sound to Vettel short shifting due to gear box problems. But in the last few races Webber has also been required to short shift and his car did not exhibit that sound.

A fleet of media and F1 connected engineers are now scouring footage and audio from past races and seasons to see if they can find a pattern of audio that will either support or dismiss the speculation.

But there is one thing that is confirmed, if RBR has found to have fiddled with KERS or traction control Vettel's car is illegal.