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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2025 Post-Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Quote from: Micky0 – on
I missed the first quarter too - apparently we missed two goals right in front and not far? How does that happen? Sure crap happens but the same crap seems to happen with us every week.
It's all headspace issues @Micky0 , I'd be sacking the club psychologist Monday morning because our lot isn't coping, they aren't resilient. I've stated this before, it's like we have a play safe mentality in the middle of a war zone. Under pressure limbs turn to jelly, disposal skills suffer, it was fully on show with that post siren kick from McGovern last season.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2025 Post-Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Quote from: Micky0 – on
On that why was Motlop the sub? And why did we sub Lord for him?
Lord had a shocker, barely touched the pill for 1/2 a game.

That's the problem with fans calling for us to play the kids, they get better through learning but they aren't going to help the squad get better, and the same people that call for the kids to be played will be calling for them to be axed a minute after the final siren.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2025 Post-Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Think I lip read what Voss was saying and it was along the lines of play your effing role.
100% on the money, he went off at players being individuals, and we all know what individuals are!

Proper c@#$heads!

Maybe Voss needs to have a weekly "JACKO" award, the footy equivalent of a NAGA or Freedman's PINEAPPLE! I'm not sure this generation responds to that sort of stuff well, but it would at least expose those who can cope and those who can't!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2025 Post-Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
I fear time is up for Doc and Saad, it's not that they don't compete or give their all, it's they just don't have time or space to use it anymore.

Too many hot potato disposals and often from standing dead still, the basics are gone, not even a small sidestep from standing from either of them, just slow flat footed disposals that either miss a target or broadcast the intended target to the opposition. Disposals that do not hurt opposition.

If we are going to make hard calls, these are the calls that must be made, the tail won't like it but the tail can't be wagging the dog!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2025 Post-Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Media blaming Voss, but nobody can fix our TDK, Pitto, Cripps, Cerra, Hewett, lead midfield gets it's ar5e handed to it by babies, we barely touched the footy for 1-1/2 quarters. That is despite being delivered the footy to advantage multiple times more than Norp, which in the negative might be the most useful measure of midfield performance?

Anyone reading the stats a year or two from now will think today's game was evenly matched, which is just a pure demonstration of how sh1t some stats really are!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2025 Post-Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
I don't get why we looked so shocked at the physical nature of a Clarkson coached opponent!

btw., Clarkson will be peeling paint off the walls after that game, he's not one for leaving a chance of recovery from a shallow grave, from the position they started the last quarter in. He would have wanted his kids burying us 9m deep and as a result he'll be absolutely filthy because they finished the game like us.

I know I harp on this, but until I see us burying teams we aren't likely to be consistent or successful, we need to show that we can hurt opponents by leaving them in the dust not limping over the line.

AFL is brutal, if you can't be cold and brutal you've almost zero chance of success. FFS, I saw Motlop pickup and give Xerri his helmet back. If you did that in a Sheedy, Walls, Barassi, Matthews or Malthouse coached squad you might not make it out of your own change rooms alive!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
This isn't a debate about whether something is good or bad, it's a debate / discussion I made about relative risk.

For example; Smoke detectors commonly use americium 241, it's present in the amount of a microgram or so and has a half life of only 432 years. Most have many such devices in their home, and the occupants get more radioactive isotope exposure from those detectors than all the nuclear testing ever conducted collectively.

Uranium used for weapons has a half life of 700 million to 4.3 billion of years dependant on the 235 or 238 split isotope, that determines how long it takes for half of any quantity to emit decay via an alpha particle(typically a helium nucleus). Suspensions in water are typically measured in picograms.

While you wouldn't swallow a small amount of any such material deliberately, the chance of direct harm by accidentally consuming some is vastly overstated relative to exposure to other natural sources of radioactive elements or toxic chemicals.