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The Sports Desk / Re: Formula 1
Quote from: kruddler – on
Oscar has been pushed to #2 driver and would do best to go elsewhere. There is 1 huge problem though......where could he go that is an improvement?
That is a problem for him, but he certainly can't win while remaining there unless Norris suffers some unforeseen fate, and as long as Brown keeps getting uber "performance" bonusses the Norris favouritism is assured.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Formula 1
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Zac Brown made his bed, now he can lie in it. If he is happy being the CEO of Company that is run by one of his drivers and said driver's dad, good luck to the sack of crap.
If he'd done the right thing Lando's dad would have had him sacked, instead they paid him an $80M bonus, more than either driver, but of course Lando never has and never will need the money!

That's why Oscar cannot win, it's not about the team being the best, it's about Lando having an advantage.

btw. The Sky crew talk about Piastri like he's a novice, and they talk about Norris and Russell like they are veterans, but before the final few races of last season Oscar had more F1 wins than either of the Brits, he still has more wins than Russell!
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
How many years have we been persisting with some of these highlight reel spuds while others can't get a run?

It's so good to see a bloke grafting a ton in challenging conditions for a change, not just a flat T20 track bully like some other nameless spuds, but a proper test innings on a proper test pitch that offers a bit for everyone!
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Rd 9: Carlton vs Sydney at Henson Park
Quote from: DJC – on
Yes, Gab would have been one of the first selected throughout her career and she didn’t do much wrong last game. 

Amelia Velardo has been outstanding all season and her ability to play on tall opponents gives her an edge over Pound.

Bad luck for Gab but promising signs when a player of her ability and commitment is forced out of the team.
I suppose this comes down to a team balance issue, Velardo has to come in, but we can't just create roles to keep a player in the squad. I think Pound is very stiff though, I thought she was a bit unlucky the first time she found herself on the outer, I had assumed it was really injury related but maybe not!

The thing I think is this, in a straight up best 22 players, Pound would be comfortably in the squad, but we'd be overloaded with players capable of that role and left weaker in some other role.

That is why the best 22 is not always the best 22 players, reminds me of Brock McLean toiling away in the VFL.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Formula 1
No hope for Oscar while he stays in that team, the commentary and McLaren team were making excuses for Norris before anyone even crossed the line. The team might go public with some tiché tiché Lando, but it's meaningless and Piastri is stuck in purgatory while he stays there.

We know why of course, money, and a pending $80M bonus for a certain manager.

The billionaire's boy rules without question, if he's challenged he cries for help and the team come running.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
If you had not yet settled on accepting a complete and utter lack of morality, accountability and integrity from the modern professional news media, then know this, Karoline Leavitt has now been employed by News Ltd!
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The Sports Desk / Re: NRL / Origin
Money talks, and it also walks, the Roosters are / were overloaded with high priced talent, a few of them are leaving for greener pastures after the GF, a tad mercenary, and Knights were mostly working class other than perhaps Ponga who is the real deal.

I'm bit over the NRL Sydney centric focus, Knights are a NSW club too, but the broadcast commentary was still heavily biased towards the Roosters.

The Roosters are in situation a bit like the Swans were before they flew the coop for NSW, they are an old world club but with a relatively small supporter base, fading at the grass roots level, and remaining heavily reliant on a handful of big dollar benefactors.

News Ltd tried it's best to pump up the pre-game, they have flogged the Jai Arrow thing to the limit, sad for the lad I feel for him, it felt like they want to make him the NRL version of Daniher. But despite that the event was soulless, the performers looked to be just going through the motions, the sound system was ordinary and crowd just weren't engaged, it was all a bit too forced, probably a sign of the last minute arrangements. It won't be missed by performers that after the controversy a month or so back the NRL took a cheap shot at Tones and I by using the Dance Monkey track after the first score.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
The anthropomorphising that surrounds AI is such a joke, social media and media discussions about the morality of AI have already lost the debate and the plot the moment they started a discussion on morality.

An AI does not know the difference between morally right or wrong, between legal and illegal, there is no empathy, no pain, no guilt and no emotion.

AI is given a problem to solve, or a target to achieve, and intrinsically the AI contains no knowledge of how to go about it legally or morally, only a known Starting point and an end goal. Any apparent or perceived limits are externally supplied by those who create it, and even then the AI is a black box mystery to the creator.

If stealing your life savings or exposing your private information is part of the solution, AI won't be hesitating, won't have doubt, won't delay while waiting for a social clearance to proceed and won't feel bad or guilty about events later.

What privacy you cherish, the secrets you keep personal, the wealth you have built, is just a building block in the AI attempt to find a solution to the current problem whatever that problem might be.

An associate mentioned the other day, the big existential crisis AI is about to face is raising to funds to continue development, e-commerce and financial markets will be destroyed in the process of dining a solution, whole economies might suffer, so keep a little cash on hand because the one thing AI cannot do is physically reach into your pocket.
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The Sports Desk / Re: NRL / Origin
We can easily find ways to pot the AFL, but the V'landys bucket of crap is on full display with the NRL GF entertainment.

There are a few long standing issues that the NRL apparently conceal.

They burn bookings by overbooking and double booking, like an airline oversells seats, which leads to acts being bumped at the last minute leaving some out of pocket for lead up expenses. This seems to only happen to local acts, the ones who can least afford it.

Another allegation is an interesting one, and part of the NRL News Ltd foundation. When you watch an NRL game much of the crowd and game play noise is fake, it's piped in by the broadcast team, like a comedy laugh track. At the ground the cheering, the gasps from big hits, the actual sound of the collision itself, just isn't there. Now for the game it's not such a big deal, but allegedly the rumour goes after a couple of lack lustre events they took to doing the same for the entertainment, piping in fake crowd cheers and applause, making the broadcast look like the joint was jumping when it was in fact a mortuary of knuckle draggers who had no idea who was on stage. Now this largely went unnoticed by the fans and media, but the performers didn't take kindly to it at all, some of them took the position that the atmosphere was a deadset failure of the NRL to provide adequate resourcing, the NRL cheaped out. choosing to spend the cash on ads and not the event.

So this weekend we see acts denying the "leaks" that they are performing at the NRL GF, some of them in support of Tones and I who was basically announced as the headline act without so much as a discussion and certainly without a contract. Since that fallout, a swath of leaks (allegedly from NRL insiders) have occurred, one after the other all denied by the performers.

It seems the thing V'landys is good at is impersonating Trump!
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Rd 8 Carlton vs Hawthorn at home
Quote from: kruddler – on

I think Gab relishes those conditions. Not sure what was up with Velardo, but to have Gab as an option to come in to the side is a luxury most don't have.
I had to wonder if she had been carrying an injury, I was a bit shocked to see her omitted, but sometimes it's a safer bet to report an omission rather than to let opponents know about an injury.

For me she might be our ultimate bench rotation, she can come and have an impact just about anywhere on the surface.

Defends depth in D50 as well as anybody, and can hit up F50 targets or even take the shot herself as well as anybody, actually I think it's only a lack of opportunity that has seen her not have more impact forward of centre, but she is so good in D50 it's almost to her detriment.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Quote from: DJC – on

It's a good thing the wallopers didn't patrol our street in the 1950s and 1960s when we spent hours kicking newspaper footies and those abominable plastic jobs.  The bitumen wore the ends of Sherrins and Ross Faulkners in no time.
Modern kids miss out on all the fun of toeing the casting lug on the end of those brown plastic footies.

Maybe that is why some think some of the kicking skills have degraded, as it was sure a deterrent for getting it wrong!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
It's amazing how events expose bullsh1t.

The NRL has always claimed it outrates the AFL, gets bigger crowds, more viewers, earn bigger dollars, bigger sponsors, etc., etc.. in particular Vlandys has been a champion in the best style of Trump. FWIW, he's done much the same with NSW horse racing trying to go head to head with the VRC.

Tonight the NRL will play a prelim, broadcast on Channel 9, Sunday afternoon they play another prelim, broadcast on Channel 9. Vlandys had the golden opportunity to go head to head with the AFL on the AFL's marquee day and he blinked.

It's always best to never ask a question unless you know the answer, but it might be even better to never ask a question when you do!

Vlandys is about as genuine as a boxing match between Paul Gallen and Nelson Asofa-Solomona!