Pressure is not off as the last few weeks we have pushed a wildcard, and now in that position. There's plenty of pressure in that regard. Depends those if the players feel it is more the point
Pressure is a time and result dependant variable, it can be off yesterday and red lining tomorrow!
It's amazing how the political position of many is so plastic, take the case of the data-centers.
Most of these developments come with 24x7 noise and emissions pollution, but they are sold as green, claiming solar and other renewable energy sources. The current round is even being supported by the Green parties.
But every data center makes use of gas turbine generators with Uninterpretable UPS for full online standby. These centers are not like the backup / hosting facilities people are familiar with, the proposed centers are in fact Server / GPU farms built for AI. In effect they use small jet engines that can ramp up and shut off at short notice. The developers will tell you the turbines only really ever run during an outage, that is a partial truth, they only all run to supply full power as part of an outage whether it is planned or unplanned. The reality is in combination with the full online UPS, the gas turbines will be cycled on and off around the clock 24x7. A big data center might have more than a dozen turbines, sometimes with duplicate or triplicate redundancy. That can mean at least one gas turbine will cycle on and off every 20 or 30 minutes somewhere at the facility, such that each generator is run for a small period of time once a day, sometimes more than once a day, and in any given hour there is a generator running for some significant portion of the available time slot.
Hardy green, certainly not environmentally friendly, and nearly always situated in remote locations because of the reasons above!
Now I'm all for super computers and R&D resources, give the scientists and engineers what they need to solve the next pandemic or environmental crisis. But this is not what the modern data-centers are really for, the bulk of the resource is being targeted at 'gaming' the financial sector, shares, crypto and targeted investments.
I'm not at all happy about having our tax dollars fund tools designed to the grow the personal wealth of billionaires. And it's truly ironic that some are all for this type of investment but openly protest a new train line, desalination plant, airport, freeway or power station!
It's completely bogus claim, that can only be swallowed by either those who wish to believe or those who haven't been bothered to watch. I'm not even sure where the idea comes from, the power of suggestion maybe?
Our game plan is unchanged, we've been slowly getting better at executing it all season, perforated by some various roadblocks like injuries and form lines. We probably went very close to defeating the Lions in Brisbane, if not for 5 or 10 minutes of lapse, even Fagan claimed they were lucky. Cripps busted his guts trying to get the team to lift, but the problems never really been Cripps or Walsh, it's been those around them leaving the heavy lifting to too few. We had a team built on contested ball winners running around like accumulators.
If looks to me like Voss getting the flick was just enough of a rocket to motivate the players to put in 24x7. After all, given Fraser won't be coach they are almost all 100% insecure at this very moment, nobody is locked in as far as I can tell, realistic offers will be considered for all, and then we'll be into the rebuild Mk: VI. I wonder who'll be saved?
On the media videos, cherry-picking the best and worst case scenarios to suit an agenda or assertions is nothing more or less than deliberately misleading. In reality for most games this season we'd breakdown on the 3rd or 4th disposal / contest because our execution in either disposal or tackling sucked. How many times did you see an opponent stroll through a Carlton tackle in the first half of this season? They could have shown a hundred of those videos, instead they show the video that is contest free. That was disheartening, and players would drop their head and wouldn't commit, they started guarding grass which makes it even worse under the current rules, they aren't brain surgeons.
Just a bit later in the season, the errors start to diminish and the players persist, all of a sudden the media moguls claim it's a miracle, a miracle of eliminating the error every 3rd or 4th disposal / contest. We can call it "The miracle of the skills!" or "The miracle of the effort!"
btw., How much of the dropping of Hewett contributed to that new found player motivation, did someone pull just the right lever?
Battle may or may not get up after appendix removal surgery. Blues by 7 points
Doubt they'd risk it, the risk far far outweighs the reward.
I'm sure they would think they can win without such a desperate measure, and whether you are up against the best of the best or the competition spuds, an accidental collision, a pointy knee or elbow, could be devastating, lifelong devastating!
America is now kyboshed from the World Cup, the MAGA nutters are out in force slamming RedTrump for organising that "illegal alien's" red card pardon.
According to the nutters, Folarin Balogun(despite being born in Brooklyn), or "Birthright Belogun" as some call him, should not even be playing for the Good Old US of A!
The irony being if there is a Ex.Pat Russian representing the USA winning at Wimbledon they'll claim her/him without hesitation!
Riley in, Pitto to float D50 in the absence of Weiters and Young?
Quite a few Dawks also under injury clouds, and Weddle is still out suspended, not sure if Reeves will be back. Little push in the lower back for Watson and that hammy will snap again like a rubber band.
MAGA, Make America Grifters Again, if you can't win fair and square, ................... then cheat, lie, con and steal!
The best thing about beating America, is when they change the rules trying to cheat and you still beat them, Winged Keel, Super Swim and Sprint Suit, etc., etc., etc.!
Waaambulance to the Whitehouse Waaambulance to the Whitehouse!
@Shakin77 Hoyne reported positive shifts in many of the metrics started 2 or 3 weeks before Voss finished, take the opinions offered by the media with a grain of salt.
I can't see a major change in our game plan other than the fact we now stick to it for 4-Qtrs, and that would be a 33% uptick.
Except over the last two weeks I've noticed us starting to slide back a little bit in a couple of metrics. Someone mentioned it here, we seem to be better against the better sides, and we've just played two craps teams in the last 3 rounds.
Which makes any Fox Footy report weird, they must be 2 weeks behind in the stats, or maybe the rest of the competition is on the slide and we are holding stable as I don't look at every club.
Fraser has put Hewett back into the middle and Cerra (53% CBA's) on the Wing (0 CBA's). Credit too him I didn't think that Cerra could play Wing. Jagga is up 15% CBA's. McKay into the middle has turned his season around and Fraser has used Ainsworth in the middle to pinch hit up to 15%.
And be careful repeating this rubbish, Hewett was back in the midfield the week before Voss left, McKay had been relief rucking at times most of the season but barely got a tap before his week off, and Cerra was in the Midfield because Hewett was in the maggos, leaving Lord and Smith to share the wing in the Mid rotation.
The commentators happily rewrite history, but they watch our games far less than we do!
Have to learn to take the chances that are offered and bury teams, and do so from the first bounce.
Absolutely, until we see this mentality we have no real hope of success.
We have to hate surrendering even a point!
I thought the other thing that hurt us last weekend was Young getting injured, he was doing OK on the sniper, and Gov was a mobile focus in F50, then it all got turned over and things headed south.
I suppose Young is a compulsory out this week, so hopefully Weiters is an in.
The game has changed a lot under the current rules, the need for system and the allowable margin of error is much tighter.
All this frantic forward disposal needs blokes tuned into playing with each other 24x7, fill ins become a fish out of water because a millisecond of hesitation makes them look like bystanders.
If you are thinking about what to do next, it's already too late!
