Its funny you said that about the run and pick up as a NM player did it in the 4th quarter and it really stood out to me that her skillset was higher than most of our girls!
I don't think they lack the skill, this might be more about the overall physicality of Norp versus other teams.
Norp tackle to hurt more so than any other AFLW team.
We seem well below our best recently, and our structural issues have been more obvious. Hopefully, we can put it together.
Agreed, is it just a form issue or have we started coming back to the field?
To me it's quite similar to our AFL side, when our AFL mids are hot they plaster over a lot of short-comings, but stifle the mids and the structural defects get amplified.
I think it's pretty clear that recent events show RedTrump's style of "alternative leading" is nothing more than a lack of leading altogether, now they are self-destructing from the inside!
I suppose RedTrump will claim his GOP associates are Demo plants!
It looks like the first people to strike back when you become "a loser" are the ones on your own side you stepped on along the way!
The world is going to pot when you get a 2 year ban for clicking your fingers, sandpaper experts get banned, but you can put half a metre of glass fibre reinforced self-adhesive tape on your favourite bat and it's all OK!
On the Usman issues, I think the lad has gone a bit above and beyond looking for promotional controversies, he stepped right across promo into outright alienation.
Things are looking ugly for Australian cricket at the moment. The sandpaper thing refuses to go away, even 8 years on. I wonder if ANY of the players from that team will survive.
We've been at the top of the tree for a long time, there is a big desire globally to give us a kicking, but it's fueled by hypocrisy.
I honestly do not know how the loudest critics of the qualified mob manage to keep a straight face when launching jibes.
Boiled lollies, bottlecaps, scotch bright, zinc cream, lip balm, brylcreem, none of them were Aussie inventions, most of them were brought back domestically after tours of county cricket. That's not to say we didn't have domestic equivalents, just that we were not alone.
I generally agree DJC. If the Government doesn't have enough money, then those services are either reduced or cut altogether, or the Government borrows the money, and essentially kicks the can down the road. And when services are reduced, it's always the poor who are most affected.
If the government had some cohunes they would legislate to prevent selling the farm on resources, because that's what the likes of Rinehart want to do.
For example, you hear the old tune repeated that manufacturing is dead, but it's not a carte blanche argument for value adding being dead, and manufacturing is dead it's not even an accurate argument anymore especially when discussing labour costs. Advanced manufacturing is almost on equal ground globally, the labour cost differential ins miniscule. the main differences relate to legislation and governance, and all that is in control of the government. Government spending doesn't need to be a sink hole, and privatisation is not always the answer.
Call the bluff, if the likes of Hancock and Fortescue won't add value, auction off the capability internationally to those who will, of course enforced by legislation, and you'll be shocked how quickly the locals change their tune when they are no longer a monopoly!
In Victoria for example, the state signed over 100 year leases to Hancock on huge swathes of land, stretching from Leongatha to Warrnambool, without a single enforcement case that Hancock does anything with it. The resources sit there in the ground becoming more valuable with every passing day, making Rinehart richer and richer on the books, and she does nothing for that increased wealth and doesn't need to. The state can't even borrow against it! It's the same crapty deal Qld gave Palmer years ago making him billion$!
Billionaires increased holdings by orders of magnitude and then issued redundancies, that is what PHON offers!
I'll never understand how people see what is offered by the alternatives as vastly better, when the options are basically the same, or even worse! It's why I think the liberals are the only viable alternative at the moment, at least they have some history of governance to trade on,
Anyone who genuinely thinks billionaire funded political parties like PHON are going to be better for Joe Average and society in general is mind-numbingly naivé.
Whether the billionaire happens to be an individual, co-operative or a union makes no difference.
Agreed, success in politics has now become a reward for skilled misdirection, as opposed to good fiscal and social management.
But it's not really the politicians or bureaucrats who are ultimately at fault, they are just working in the theatre modern media has created, until media and social is made accountable for publishing deception and misdirection nothing can possibly change.
The hypocrisy in cricket circles surrounding allegations of ball tampering is astounding.
England had it's own brand of boiled lollies selected by the team because it delivered a superior shine. The business that made them grew off the back of the legend to the point it began exporting. If I recall they even had a TV Ad in the 60s or 70s extolling the use of their lollies!
Zinc cream and sunblock are the mainstay of pretty much any non-spin bowler.
Teams weak in pace or swing bowling would practise drills throwing the ball into the pitch from the outfield to accelerate the ageing and benefit the spinners.
One international team even practised the side arm throw to ensure the rough side would be facing down, which is ironic if you consider which team that was in regarding the allegations being made.
In the old days, back when soft drinks or beer came in bottles with press fit caps, some suburban clubrooms would have a deposit tin somewhere to collect the bottle caps as part of a "fundraiser!"
Suburban cricketers, where teams supply their own match balls for play, some would store new balls in zip locked in bags it the deep freezer.
One international team for a period of time had scourer pad material sewn into the official club whites, "For the purposes of hand cleaning!"
The modern lip balm industry would have collapsed without cricket, in the post war 60s and 70s it was domain of Brylcreem, fighter pilot one day, fast bowler the next!
If one is to believe the polls, we here in Victoria might finally rid ourselves of these corrupt and incompetent bunch of buffoons.
It's not surprising though is it, there are really only two viable alternatives, the rest are just stains to add to existing stains. I suspect the young liberal basically has the victory to lose.
In my opinion the likes of PHON are even worse than what we already have, not a genuine alternative, because they exhibit the traits of both the left and the right in one condensed package, all the good and all the bad without any real substance. They want to cut costs but by targeting basics like health, they promise to look after little guy but laud freeing the billionaires from regulation, and they give us no detail about how they will actually deliver the promises other than another promise for more information later. Promises are not policies.
