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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Best 18 - AFL
Quote from: Bennyboy on
B:             Patfull    Thompson      H Shaw   
HB:           Hibberd   Taylor           McVeigh
C:             Jones       Ablett           Steven       
HF:          Wingard   Kennedy       Dangerfield
FF:            Walters   Roughead       Betts
   
Foll: Minson Cotchin Pendlebury

I know it's tough to get your head around, but Betts is no longer a Carlton boy...so you've got 2 crows in that side and 0 carlton.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Yarran to jog in GF Sprint
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Quote from: Gozza on
Russell wasn't elite. Elite is a status earned over a number of years of consistently performing to the highest standards, especially when it matters most. Russell did it for one season.

No it's not, you can most certainly be elite one year and not the next. He was certainly elite in the second half of 2009 (most B & F votes) and for the entire 2010 season.

I disagree. I don't think you can be elite 1 year and below average for a large chunk of your career.

Can you be elite for half a year? A month? 1 game? 1 quarter?? Where is the boundary.

No doubt JR played well and was very valuable to our side in that year. Was woewodin an elite footballer? No. Did he have a good year? Yes. Ditto JR.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Best 18 - AFL
FB  Frawley    Lake       Enright
HB Goddard Henderson Deledio
C   Griffen    Ablett        Wells
HF   Boak  N. Riewoldt    Fyfe
FF   Betts    Cameron    Rockliff
R    Cox    Pendlebury  J.Kennedy

I tried picking this almost on reverse ladder order.

Pick the best players from the crap teams, and then fill the blanks with the best teams. Seems to have worked well.

Here is the order i worked with, and associated player.
GWS - Cameron
GC - Ablett
STK - Riewoldt
MELB - Frawley
WB - Griffen
NM - Wells
PA - Boak
ADE - Betts
BRIS - Rockliff
WC - Cox
FREO - Fyfe
SYD - J.Kennedy
RICH - Deledio
ESS - Goddard
CARL - Henderson
GEEL - Enright
COLL - Pendlebury
HAW - Lake
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Foxtel Problem
Quote from: Gozza on
;D

Ringed them up before and they're sending a bloke out tomorrow. Might try the half price trick later.  ;D 

And thank you everyone for the comforting words during such a time of crisis.

If it is the box that has blown up they should replace it for free.

Also tell them that you were without foxtel for a few days...a week and they will credit your account too.

I had a box crap itself on me. Lost all my saved stuff. Replaced it for free, with a box with a bigger hard drive, and credited me a weeks worth for the down time.
:D
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: The 2014 Fixture
Quote from: madbluboy on
Hilarious how even under the new system to do the draw we still manage to play the pies and bombers twice.

The new 'system' is nothing more than a half-arsed change to an actual fair system.
This one has riders in it that allow them to have a 'fair system' that they can manipulate to gt what they want.

FWIW, if they took out their ability to manipulate the draw so that we could play bombers/pies twice this year they would end up with EXACTLY what i suggested they do....except i said it 5 years ago. The old site is playing up, but i'd link the thread i started.

Meh.

AFL is still dodgy.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: The 2014 Fixture
Quote from: Jofo on
It appears we play the Tigers only once in 2014 on Grand Prix weekend. There are 3 groups of 6 teams based on finishing order last season. We are in the top 6 group and must play the Cats and Power twice. We have Bombers and Pies twice also.

Wrong.

R1 is grand prix weekend. We play Port Adelaide at Etihad on Sunday (race day).
We play Tigers round 2 on the Thursday.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Yarran over a fit of the blues: The Age
Quote from: PassIt2Carrots on
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Quote from: kruddler on
Seems Mick did the right thing...who would've thought!
Carrots??? Carrrots where are youuuuuuuu :P :-*

OMG you guys must be seriously dumb to even suggest those comments mean anything. LMAO he was asked the question, can you imagine if he'd come out and said "Yeah fk Mick he's an absolute tosswad knows nothing about player management". Towing the party line.

Lets look at the facts.

1. Mick is a premiership coach.
2. Yarran is still a Carlton player
3. Both Yarran and Mick have said there was an issue, its been resolved and we move on. No harm no foul.

Alternatively...
1. Carrots disliked what Mick said.

Hmmm...I'm happy with my position. ;)
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: No Richmond Rivalry for Round 1
Quote from: Gozza on
The round one game has been skating on thin ice for years anyway. With a couple of exceptions, usually the game gets built up all Summer long by Tigers fans, KB, and the media, and the game, along with Richmond's hopes for the new year, are usually over by half time.

Bollocks.

The best R1 game between us 2 has actually been this year. Albeit we had a loss, but in terms of it actually being a good exciting game with an incredible ending, 2013 is far in advance of the other games, Juddy and Cousins debuts also had a great atmosphere, but crap game.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Formula 1
Yes it does sound like traction control.

Although it also sounds like a very low engine rev, which you'd get from short shifting.

I've been to over a dozen race weekends over the years, including in Austin, and the cars have changed dramatically over that time.

It would've been around 9 years ago when there was a wet qualifying day and i was on turn 5 ? as listening to the cars coming around. It was very clear to me then that the best cars had the best traction control...and they did sound a lot like that. It was also very clear that some stragglers (jordon/jaguar) had some absolutely rediculous traction control systems. It was so bad and sounded so different that the crowd were actually laughing everytime one of their cars came around. It sounded very sick.

Anyway, over the journey you pick up sounds like that and the other time you hear that is when cars are doing their in laps after qualifying, keeping low revs and short shifting on their way back to the pits to conserve their tires and potentially fuel. It is certainly not a sound you hear often on race day, but one you'll here every qualifying day.

So as for Vettel and the traction control...it isn't proof he has it, but it isn't proof he doesn't.

In short the video is very much inconclusive.