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!
Interesting to watch the coaches, often you get a better understanding of your team's performance from the opposition coach. Dimma said it was a very high inside pressure contest, so a bit ugly on the outside with Carlton just better for longer.
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!"
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.
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!
“MAGA CANDIDATES WON EVERYTHING LAST NIGHT IN ARIZONA, A COMPLETE SWEEP!!! I WON ARIZONA 18 MONTHS AGO. THE DUMOCRATS ARE DUMBFOUNDED. AFTER DECADES, ARIZONA IS BECOMING A REPUBLICAN STATE. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!” Trump wrote.
Problem was it was a Republican Primary. Republican v Republican
One of the things that made it tough to cheat was the ability to detect it, tests could be developed to detect anomalies, sporting passports, etc., etc..
It's not going to stay like that, the genome is huge and Darwinian, you won't be able to discern a natural shift from an engineered change, and adding to that they can now identify the advantageous changes like the universe has delivered them a user manual. It's a nexus between two technologies, CRISPR and AI.
Discussing peptides with @Lods in the track and field thread reminded me of a discussion I recently had with a researcher.
Do you know the fledgling ability to vaccinate against certain strains of dementia existed almost two decades ago, about 30% of cases being potentially resolved? I had to ask why it's never been developed, the answer is the recurring stain on society, capitalism.
For the vaccine to work it has to be administered early, with Alzheimer's that means long long before symptoms appear. But children are not affected, and it seems the big profit follows fear, most won't be diagnosed with the early stages until 40 or 50 and by then it's too late for the vaccine. No disease, no fear, no profit, a vaccine kills the market for the capitalist. The real profit lies with the promise of a cure for people already having the income to spend and who have developed symptoms. So instead the capitalists develop pills that delay or stall the disease development, at thousand$ per dose, that you have to buy again next month, or next year, over and over again until your bank account runs dry!
I wish I had your confidence, but I fear Trump is likely to make someone like JKF Jr the Tsar with Hegseth his deputy, these are people who think winning cost always defeats how you win as long as you win.
Peptides a plenty!
btw., There is no high ground, only a level playing field surrounding a pit of peril.
The reason China jailed that CRISPR babies scientist was for the release of secrets, not for being immoral. (Of course the immoral stance is also a perspective, because gene modified babies resistant to AIDS might actually be the moral decision) A decade from now things are going to be very different in sport, because all the big player countries aren't that different in reality. In the USA it's just the privatised version of China's state run enterprise.
It's being accelerated right now, driven by the AI LLMs, they are providing solutions to problems that would normally take decades to resolve. Just 7 years ago we got Ozempic after a full 20 years of R&D, next year you'll be taking a tablet for the same, a development that historically would have taken decades is now a couple of years. Technically, if safety protocols are abandoned, a couple of months. Do you think the sort of people inclined to do this are going to be slowed by safety?
