One of the biggest problems the AFL has is nepotism, and that leads to known knowns ruining the game. You get a bunch of Old Boys running the sport the way they learned to play it, formulaic, lacking innovation, they are stuck in the "they know best" mode of operation.
But most footballer's won't ever be useful coaches or tactical geniuses, on the whole they are gifted athletic robots who learned a repetitive task to perfection. When somebody turns up with an out of the box solution like Dimma did with Nthmond, a genuine advantage is gained and the robots try to copy it. The genius of Dimma was that he looked at the list he had and the current state of the rules and devised a game plan that suited the resource on hand, he didn't try to change the resource to fit his idea of perfection.
It's a fundamental truth that if you just copy everybody else you'll never be better than average.
On the politics and broadcasting of F1, you have to be very careful what you believe.
Sky are doing a Caro at the moment following reports that Horner could rejoin Newey, this time at Astin Martin. It wasn;t that long ago Sky claimed Newey was so appauled by Horner that they couldn't be in the same room together, blaming Horner for Newey's departure form RBR. Now with Horner tipped to get the prime Aston Martin CEO job, apparently they are all luvy again with the miracle cure claimed to be a shared Oasis concert.
Sky are full of sh1t, they see Horner and Newey as the "dynamic save UK F1 duo", so it has flipped from hangman to talent agent.
I don't think HOK will be a starting forward, he'll certainly be in a rotations though, as will Cripps.
I suspect McKay, Kemp and Moir are walk up starts in F50.
Before the draft Evans was also probably a walk up stat but I'm not so sure now, he could be collateral damage having done nothing wrong. Given our recruiting, the arrival of Jagga, I fear Motlop might be another who struggles despite previoulsy showing his flexible capability. The thing with Motlop and Williams is that they can have an impact eslewhere on the ground so that might see them in rotations, which they have in their favour.
Ainsworth brings some pace, the one common thing we've lacked, I suspect that he'll have to be horribly out of form or injured not to get a run. When I mentioend earlier I thought we were just one or two changes off a good mix, it was probably a Jagga and Ainsworth type I was thinking about.
Perhaps also the political influence of Red Bull, it brings Max back into the game.
There seems to be a lot of people at the top end of F1 very unhappy with the McLaren situation, and perhaps a few who are a bit unhappy with Zak Brown, ultimately F1 is a sport and many people want it to at least retain some semblance of being a competition fair or otherwise. Brown comes across as pure on the Sky broadcast but you have to keep in mind the Sky broadcast is as biased as any broadcasting crew you will ever find, the sophistry knows no limit.
As much as I want Oscar to do well, the situation at McLaren is so distasteful I'll probably end up barracking for Max as to me if he gets across the line at least he has deserved it. When you watch the season considering what happened to Lawson and Tsunoda, it's obvious how far ahead his compatriots Max really is. I really hope Norris' title hopes collapse in the final race.
By day 2 Archer was cooked, give him back to back tests and some long spells and he'll be bowling as fast as me. I loved what Boycott said about the prime of the English batting lineup dissolved in the time it took to make a pot of tea. Wonderful knock from Head and I'm glad I watch it.
I noticed the same thing, by his 2nd spell on day two he was walking like a 90 year old.
How much is fitness, and how much is headspace. Personally, I think T20 has made a lot them soft as butter, they get too much money for doing too little, and playing a test is like a plumber ditching the mini digger to go back to the pick and shovel at half the pay rate.
You can thank the BB and BOCC, the country that loves cricket has pretty much f0rked the traditional game!
Media trying to beat up the RTS decision controversey, but the reality is using Hawkeye at 350 frames/second each frame equals a meter of travel in the sound of a snick on an edge. That is why the distance between the edge and the RTS microphone should always cause at least a one frame delay.
If the RTS detects a sound when the ball is on the bat the sound probably occured ahead of the contact when the ball was 1 meter away ahead of the vision.
The techs do their best to calculate the delay and adjust, but it's not perfect, and they do not have infitnitely fine adjustment.
I doubt there will be much come out of this other than paranoia, the stuff they know about will be buried or is already buried, it's the stuff they imagine might exist that will bring them undone.
Paranoia will lead to someone throwing somebody else under the bus, that is when it unravels.
If there is a journo that is smart enough, brave enough, or stupid enough, they will be able to create havoc.
Then there is the issue of whistleblowers, that is how the more traditional falls occur. There is always someone on the clean up team who is parnoid or crooked enough to keep a copy of something, who find themself in a no win nothing to lose scenario.
Over the years, the very best journos I worked with never really needed access to the facts, all they really needed was a good question for the right person.
I'm not sure how those grouping tanslate to Victorian politics.
From what I have heard about the back room stuff there is some irony the media calling the factions left, moderate or right, perhaps the term "fundamental" might be a better description of the lines of division.
I suppose the fundamental problem with the Liberals even at a state level is that they are percieved as a coalition not a party, and that is because they behave like a coalition and not a party, they do not exhibit unity. And the people being offered as alternatives to the right might not be as pure as the general public is lead to believe.
There is quite a bit of irony for the anti-soclialist and anti-union LIberals to be torn apart by obvious factions even if they refuse to call them factions.
The tinder that exists within the MAGA movement was always a chance of internally combusting. Trump attracted every known breed of American Fruitcake, with no thought to anything other than power and vote buying. You have The Israel lobby in there with neo Nazi types like Fuentes, you have the tech bros who love skilled labour from overseas (especially India and China) up against the hardcore anti immigration types. It has to go up in flames sooner or later.
India, The Philippines, Bangladesh and Africa should tariff the USA for tech support, Silicone Valley would wither on the vine, showing itself up as more silicone than silicon!
The real problem with cricket is on display in Saffie land. The insiders are slamming the pitch, even players involved in the game are out throwing rocks at the curator.
But despite the pitch doing the usual things that aren't expected from a "real wicket", the true problem on display is the loss of will for players to work at the long format game. Both teams have basically give up and turned the game into a 2 x ODI, IPL, BBL, etc., etc., has turned them into sponges, too soft for the tough jobs.
The pitch is ordinary, but it's the sort of pitch a Border or Simpson would scratch out a ton at snail pace, modern players just don't have the will to accumulate big scores in 1s and 2s. The modern players don't want to do it tough, they fly 1st and stay in 5 star, no more tin sheds, wooden benches and cold showers, it's caviar and Krug for then before another early night. More money for less work, it's killing the game!
And his lawyers, be they personal or DoJ (which is much the same) are incompetent and out of their depth 🙄
I think the lawyers know the risks very well, but he surrounds himself with sycophants that he pays very well.
So they end up with sh1t on their nose and a fat wallet, at least until he fires them.
Although if the rumours are true he is burning those bridges as well, it seems yet again in this term his list of indirect debtors is growing faster than his ego, all of them fearing retribution if they speak out.
