Arguably 5 could be addressed by a good system/coach but we’re a mess. A good side would have smashed Collingwood tonight.
What we saw tonight it typical of the broader AFL standard for 2026, it's a consequence of the continuous play and fatigue being caused by the new rules and interpretations.
All the teams are exhibiting shocking skill levels, the game is being dragged into a new low.
The key difference between the top and the bottom is not the amount of errors they make, it's that those at the top are much better at making opponents pay for those mistakes.
It's been a huge mistake leaving the rules of the game and the implementation of those rules in the hands of the AFL. If anything is needed, it's for amateur footy to wrestle back control of the sports rules and bring footy back.
I'm having to sell an investment property courtesy of years of interest rate rises and cost of living going through the roof, fuel prices etc.
Yes, that just sucks.
But the mum and dad investors are not the problem. It's the kids who have two dozen properties with three dozen mortgages that are screwing you over by driving up interest rates primarily due to inflated risk and demand.
Oddly millennials often blame the baby boomers, but again the person with an investment property as part of a self-managed superfund isn't really the problem because they exert almost no pressure on the market, they are in it for the long term.
At the moment my area is crazily inflated courtesy of the inner-city millennials who moved out during COVID. The bought high renovated and fecked off back to the city the moment restrictions were lifted leaving Toorak price tags on everything. They don't live around here anymore, very few of them rent or AirBnB the properties, so the whole region is effectively diminished for traders that sends small business broke. Then they roll up at the weekend and complain about the lack of the retail services that they helped break.
@Thryleon I agree with you 100%, there is way too many using debt to increase capital, it forces them to bump rental rates and increase reserve prices because they will drown otherwise. So it's not real wealth but it's very real debt. If a recession genuinely hits, like the one that Thatcher experienced in the UK, they are screwed and I think it's only when not if.
You aren't a millionaire or billionaire if the bank owns 90%, you're just living at the expense of others.
Something needs to be done to slow the market down so that it grows at the same rate as wealth, of course the estate agents will cry poor, you know the ones driving the new Porsche Cayenne 12 months into a realty career!
Also, on the big end of town. We must stop people like Reinhart outbidding the competition for mining / land rights, then just sitting on the resource gaining value while they have no intent of ever developing. No local jobs, no new infrastructure, no paying tax, just shuffling paper and buying investment properties.
Either that or we've gone taller and slower in the wet because the Filth are up to their old bribery tricks and we've taken the bait to throw Daics 100th!
Would Carlton billionaires really sell the farm for a quick profit?
I can't name specific models, but you see his influence in bodies. It was after he left BMW to join Ford. Ford supported lots of companies through the auto industry crisis in the early 2000s. One of those efforts was the Ford Design Centre headed by Fisker, effectively a gun for hire for anybody up until he launched the Karma prototypes. Fiat(Ferrari and Maserati), Mercedes, Chrysler, Tesla, etc, etc, all took assistance donated and funded by Ford.
Primarily his design influence kicked of with the BMW Z8, which gained so much popularity they could no longer just build them exclusively in the USA with leadtimes exceeding 18 months. So they built a second factory in China, that is when BMW quality started sliding. The US site was a quality and automation benchmark, China a low cost labor high volume knockoff. Now the U.S. factories are closing, and the public happily accepts cheap rubbish in the TEMU version.
There is that specific Fisker front end look you can follow, if there are denials about his involvement and influence that's pride speaking.
It would be truly ironic for Italian built anything to label a U.S. competitors crap trucks, that's the pot calling the kettle. Italy's biggest manufacturing boat anchor is inconsistent quality and finish. It's A-grade for design and innovation, but craphouse at manufacturing, cars would be falling apart as they left the dealership car park. That's part of the romance of Italian marques.
Having said that, if you collect get a Alfa Romeo Gulia Quadrafolio, they will probably be the last and best ICE sedan like sports car ever built in the class. Uses a V6 version of the Ferrari V8, the V6 turned out to be a better engine than it's V8 parent. Only problem for secondhand can be owners tend to be brats who flog the life out of them.
I would be gobsmacked if Ferrari copied any American crapheap that ever existed.
Fisker is the coachbuilder / designer involved in multiple classics from BMW, Astin Martin, Tesla, Bentley, Mercedes and Maserati just to name a few. His designs are copied mercilessly, and his efforts to establish his own brand were basically crushed by the world of old money.
My interest in cars is minimal at best, but the new Ferrari EV really caught my eye. The interiors and interfaces are stunning, designed by Jony Ive, ex Apple SVP of Industrial Design.
You can google "Ferrari EV" or "Jony Ive Ferrari" or similar. There's plenty of links on the web.
Hmmm, I suspect it exists because Fisker Automotive went broke, in some of the prototype imagery the resemblance to the Fisker Karma is striking!
The major culprit for the issues in the middle, when Cripps was off, were the umpires - in my opinion!! 2nd quarter we gave up 6 centre clearances in a row, and 4 of them were free kicks (all of which were dubious). wouldnt have matterred if diesel, kouta and ratts were in there, we would have struggled
Interesting, I've heard that some past players(not Carlton) were talking along similar lines on one of the post game streams, not questioning the decisions because that happens, but questioning how they all seemed go one way!
For me that is confirmation of bias which I've talked about on other threads, it happens because umpires are human and they subconsciously anticipate Carlton having "a moment". It's not deliberate but an effect of having an expectation.
In fairness to Pitto I think he could have done even better, he got into the right spot inside F50 a couple of times only to be spoiled marking by his own team-mates.
It's actually a bad habit we have as a team, we've not yet learned to create space rather than take it from each other, part of being a bunch of F50 newbies.
Others being asked to develop their leadership skills? Weaning off Crippa?
Agreed, and possibly an opportunity to send a message.
The media will claim it was sending a message to Cripps on the bench, because there hides the controversy and the clicks.
But for me it was more than likely a message from the coach to the blokes in the centre square, and perhaps in conjunction Hewett's absence is more about a lack of fault rather than disciplining or punishment.
The coach showed them what it's like when you haven't got someone sacrificing for your benefit! So I'd be having a close look at the replay to see who was the middle in their absence! Was there a Judas?
If Harry had marked everything he got his hands to last night he would have just about set league marking record.
He didn't and they didn't mark it either, and not a Carlton crumber is sight.
I wonder what Rod Ashman would think, or further up on the wing Diesel? Diesel would end up with 50 possessions for 30 score assists with half of them starting at Harry's feet!
