AFL is a different competition now, you can play OK for 2/3rds of the season and win a flag, you just need to get the timing right.
To me this is a fundamental change in the way you have to go about measuring yourself against the competition, you can flirt with form nursing the squad through the season, and just get it ripe and loaded for 2 or 3 games at the end.
What you can't do anymore is the MM type full season grind, you'll run out of legs, you have to find ways to lighten the load periodically and still be in a position to win. I don't care that we've Cripps and Walsh, until I can see an alternative to the heavily contested style my jury is out on Voss, our MC needs to find a way to win without those guys or without the heavy contest week in and week out. Playing that game style relentlessly just because they are the best at it is dumb!
I spent time on this forum and others listening to fans spend most of the last couple of seasons complaining about the lack of performance and consistency from the likes of Curnow and TDK, punctuated by glimpses of genuine capability, now that they are gone they are all of a sudden irreplaceable.
Weathervanes come to mind!
Both players come to mind as examples of huge potential and capability, but I'm not going to sell anybody on their consistency, the players we've lost are about as far away from the 24x7 level of a fit Cripps or Walsh, as Cliffy Young is from Phar Lap in a sprint!
We don't have enough 24x7 types to be carrying too many part-timers, and they are big dollar part-timers. If Curnow, TDK and SoJ were 24x7 types, on the park week after week delivering at a consistent level, even consistent at a good ordinary level like a Hewett or an Evans, I'd be more upset. But they weren't, and that is probably a big reason why we didn't stand in their way!
A mate of mine made a comment the other day about our list management decisions, and how we seem to rotate certain utility types far more frequently than others.
He said, "It's like Carlton has a leaky sink full of holes, and we keep blaming the plug!"
If wealthy families won’t invest, it’s dead in the water because most families won’t be able to afford to.
The RedTrump scheme is not really targeted at the wealthy, it's intended for Mum & Dad investor types.
It seems innocuous on the surface, but I suspect the devil is in the detail and you can't trust RedTrump. He appears to have a long history of building a cash reserve based on defaulting creditors. My understanding is that the only thing saving him at the moment is his political position, with creditors are in no doubt he'll use his position to strike against those he owes money to, it's a house of cards that somebody will end up paying for and history says it won't be RedTrump.
I'd almost guarantee once enough people are signed up he'll have RedTrump coin added to the certified safe investment list.
Reading the stories about the eBikes invading Sydney Harbour Bridge reminded me of a story form my childhood.
My uncle hired a local welder to build and install cattle grid on his farm, it was a non-standard gate so had to be made to order. We returned from a brief summer holiday to find a brand new cattle grid installed 90 Degrees out to what it should be.
There's probably a bit of interest to be collected.
I found mine when I was in my late 20s, decades back, it had increased tenfold up from $4 to $40, but they deducted fees for closing the account so I got about $16.
fwiw, I think about 20 years ago they gave everyone notice that the books were closing on that stuff and you had a cut-off date to claim the account. I bet the banks made a tidy profit from thousands of defaults, while claiming it cost them money to keep them open, money for nothing and a tax deduction!
Didn't we fundamentally have such a thing years ago in primary school with the old CBA bank books?
At least once a week we'd all have to bring in our bank books and have the teacher bundle them up with some pennies to deposit as a learned savings scheme.
I can't see how that would work now, if it's online it'll be a target scheme for hackers, millions of less secure low value accounts that banks do not give a stuff about.
RedTrump is showing his true colours, launching a legal action against the US Government over leaked Tax information.
He is claiming US$10B in damages, yet his supporters keep telling everyone he is good for Joe Average, making life less expensive by telling them not to spend money. Because they will need the cash to pay the higher taxes and costs of living that come from settling his US$10B claim!
Only morons would think this bloke is good for anybody except himself!
Either that or the average punter, needs cash, and is selling their Crypto to get it, hence the fall in value.
There has been multiple multi-million or multi-billion dollar crypto heists just last year alone, why the hell would you trust it? North Korea alone, without the influence of the professional Russian crooks like Evil Corp et. al., is alleged to have racked in nearly US$3B.
The world media is doing it's best to scare the shizen out of mum and dad investors, claiming Gold and Silver prices are in free fall, they report the drop in $ terms because the $ number is big, For gold reporting a drop of 10% / ounce isn't as dramatic as reporting a fall of $500/ounce.
As a percentage it's nothing unusual, the problem is dressed up by the media because of the record price per ounce, they'll report a record drop in $ units for sure, but as a percetnage it's nothing unusual and has happened before. Of course panic selling takes place from small investors, the price drops, and the same coorporate Clark Kents who cried wolf are the ones buying on the cheap.
Also, an ounce isn't an ounce. Put the figures into standarised units, use $/gram or $/kilogram, because metric units are the same in every market. An ounce might be a Troy Ounce or some other Ounce, and the media is known for cherry-picking the units to maginfy the effect.
I'm not sure what was wrong with the old one. Seemed pretty reliable and easy to understand.
I think the main problem with the old site was the growing cost to maintain it, the problem with all this technology is the minute you let it age it becomes expensive to keep functioning and secure. It's like a boat with a hull full of holes, keep patching and eventually you have no hull left and you're floating on a raft of patches. It's not dissimilar to our own website's problems.
The problem with the new site isn't really the design, once you get your head around the Favourite Locations concept it works pretty well. It could be a bit easier for new users to navigate, they needed a better onboarding experience. To me the main problem was that the high cost of the replacement basically gave people political ammunition to rally against change.
I have to work with a range of age groups across the technology sector, my older segment is anchored in the desktop experience, we think of web experiences in terms of a keyboard and monitor first. Pretty much everybody under 40 thinks about phone first, some of them have no interest in the desktop and will sit at a workstation reading from their phone. To the oldies it looks like the youngies are bludging, the youngies think the oldies are Luddites.
but the Makita sander was rubbish - the velcro pad kept needing to be replaced as the slightest amount of dust between the pad and the sandpaper rendered it useless. So I got a Ryobi... still going strong - can't kill it! Rest of my tools are Makita or Ryobi.
The only petrol powered tools I have are the mower, Briggs & Stratton... just won't stop and my 8kva generator.
Years ago when the orbitals first come out I had the very same problem with a B&D, the velcro was so fine it basically become blocked with dust and that caused the pad to overheat and the velco would peel off.
Most of the time I find hand tools plenty quick enough for most jobs. E.g fencing...a brace and good auger keeps smashing through Redgum posts long after all the batteries are kaputt.
I have to say, at least for smaller jobs around the home I've been going the same way myself. There is zero noise, and my joints don't feel the plain the next day!
On top of this I've regained a lot of temporarily lost skills, I can sharpen bits, knives and axes now to shaving sharp with little to no effort. Lately I've been searching for old style saws, no carbide teeth, I recently bought a secondhand sawtooth setting tool, and I already have the files needed to resharpen.
What's the point of spending 2hrs at gym to use a cordless drill for 30s, I hate gym, I'd much rather be at home and use the brace, an axe or a hand saw?
I still use my 650W corded AEG drill for masonry work, it's 20 years old and still got power the battery models only dream about, the new Bosch Bulldog Brushless goes close, by why bother when the AEG is still going strong.
