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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
There is going to be some interesting side-effects with many regional voters apparently flocking to One Nation, or to Nationals deserters, whatever it may be. Many of the voters live regional to escape what Hanson represents which is ironic, but if One Nation gets any traction I fully expect Gina and Clive will be digging up their backyard in a blink.

Talk about selling the farm! o:
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: How does Crippa rank among the panoply of Carlton greats?
Doull should have left footy with far more industry wide honours, I think his problem was that he was too boring for the media, the footy equivalent of a metronome, 100% reliable perfect timing, terrific ball use, game after game, rarely if ever genuinely beaten, the standard by which you measure everybody else, that's the tell for me.

 No fanfare, no histrionics, just go out do the job and then get ready for next week.

The media would rave about Southby, similar mould, so reliable, no waste, played on the glamours and usually beat them, terrific player, but 7 out of 10 times the pill never got that far forward because Doull had already killed it.

We've been lucky over the years, we had a swagger back then but it wasn't hubris, it was a confidence, we copped a lot in the media because the media was dominated by Filth and Feral loud mouths. But we never really boasted, we just got on with the job, for example Walls was the antithesis of Sheedy.

To me a lot of this started when Barassi arrived, he set a culture that lasted decades, admirably extended by Parkin.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
I disagree, I think she would have been re-elected. No logic, just my gut feel.
Yes tend to agree, I think the media hype over One Nation is vastly over-stated, pretty much everybody I ask states they won't vote for Hansen to the degree I can't work out who the media are polling! I'm not sure the coalition can gather enough support to be a genuine threat.

Hansen won't drain the swamp, she's a pile of steaming "nemure" as Dougy would say!

It's not lost on me that a lot of Hansen support comes from the dole queue, and if she gets in with her billionaire friend support the unemployed benefits might well be the first thing she cuts because it's a favourite whipping target for her ageing support base.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Gold Coast at Marvel
Quote from: crashlander – on
We outmarked Gold Coast: we had 133 marks compared to 77. We had 11 contested marks to 5! And we barely had a tall on the ground! In perfect conditions.
I thought we hit more targets, the main reason for the differential.

I had to laugh when GC burst off the HBF, and kicked it to Dean standing in the middle of four opponents, it was like watching us!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Gold Coast at Marvel
Quote from: PaulP – on
Acres would have the coaches singing his praises out of one side of their mouths and hissing disparaging abuse out the other. The most frustrating player on our list IMO.
To me he's a player that has performance inverse of the available time and space, the more time he has the more ways he finds to trip over his own foot.

I think he needs the old "Stop thinking, just do something!"

Taking the first option could be a good start.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Gold Coast at Marvel
Quote from: PaulP – on
Great win, average footy.

A very good weekend for the club. All three teams won. Great effort by all the gals and guys.
It's sort of the way of modern AFL, the balance between having a crack and execution seems to have gone out the window.

Every game seems like a roll of the dice!

Couple of good things for me, Derksen and Young greatly improved, they now offer genuine KPP support, Byrne starting to look comfortable at AFL level.

Lord, Akers or Cotters might struggle to keep a spot, could be time to give one of the Campo's a run. As great as Akers is at winning a contest, his disposal and some of his decisions are equally bad, he must be a real point of contention for the MC.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The classic/fave car thread
Quote from: Thryleon – on
The yank tank is annoying. 

Particularly when the car companies are making options limited.

A car park full of these things is frustrating too.
I agree, unnecessary for most domestic purposes, and rarely chosen by tradies due to the high price and high running cost.

If you have to tow up in the GCM +3500kg range, then the cheaper option to buy and run option is a small truck. The tradie packs are dirt cheaper c/w towing rig, and often you can buy both the truck and a 4x2 twin cab for less than the cost of something like a Toyota Tundra or converted yank tank.

Across the sites I visit, lately the Sprinter, Transit and Trafic vans seem to have become very popular, they are moving away from twin cabs. Partly because they carry more, but also because the fitout kits have become drastically cheaper with more options and less weight penalty. I saw one sparky who effectively had a better workshop in his Renault van than most have in a house!