@kruddler Unlike that libellous Cripps, spreading his destabilising disinformation!
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Speaking exclusively to news.com.au, Kayo SPORTS ambassador Cripps said: “A lot of the stuff we worked on in the pre-season and at the start of the year is starting to come out into our game now. There hasn’t been any massive, drastic shift but we’ve made a few little marginal tweaks.
“But I think the other thing you can’t underestimate is the confidence of the players as well. That has a big impact and sometimes you need a win or two to feel that.”
I can only assume he's got it in for Fraser!
But then again, Fraser has it in for Fraser apparently!
Riley is our best bet for the future - may as well find out now before we need to decide on his re-contract situation.
I have actually liked his VFL form - he's a jumper, unlike Pitto - and with Cripps/Walsh/Hewitt alongside him, he may be a revelation
I thought his ruck technique was average, he got first hands to the ball a lot but scattered the distribution randomly. I think his best feature was his around the ground marking, if used well he'll be offering a useful chop out option for McKay, Dean, Derksen and McGovern. Even if he doesn't clunk it we should assume the pill will be hitting the deck.
Our Mids should work on the premise that they might not know where Riley is heading, but hopefully at least Meek won't get a free run.
Ukraine who are the drone experts offered Trump cheap drones as well as trained operators to teach how to use them effectively but Trump refused because he said the mighty USA were the leaders in Drone technology and didnt want to feel obligated to help Zelensky back and its costing the US every day and well into the future....
Wasn't it the case that it later surfaced the mighty USA was already buying some of it's kit off the Ukraine anyway?
PS; The Ukraine are now considered global leaders in drone technology, much of it was originally donated to them by Australia! ( Our friendly Pratt family could gear up to become Australia's biggest drone Mnf, Bibi would love it if that happened! )
I'm guessing most, if not all of those that have spoken in support of Voss were genuine in their comments and there is a certain consistency of message.
On this, I'm not so much a Voss booster but a bullsh1t debunker, and some people take that debunking as Voss boosting because it doesn't fit their beliefs. But beliefs need not be founded in reality.
No matter what the players are advised or instructed to say, it has to retain integrity because insiders know and are not guessing. Much like this forum, there will be those for and against on the inside as well, but a more informed for and against, and that is normal for any footy club suburban or AFL. If you broadcast bullsh1zen, your enemies within have you cornered.
It's probably fortunate that Hawthorn are without Reeves and it will be Riley and Harry against Meek and Chol.
A war of attrition.
It's an opportunity for Riley, and perhaps not as bad as fans think. Pitto is a known known to many Dawks staffers and opponents, while Riley is a relative unknown. As a newbie you always have an advantage, it's just that many newbies do not have the confidence to take it.
And the idiot followers lap it up whilst they’re paying !
Ironically, a lot(most probably) of this comes at the expense of the US tax payer, they seem to be missing the fact the USA is going to pay for this war eventually, at least in the short term. If the Maga Nutters read this statement they probably think my use of the term pay refers to paying for the military, that's how stupid they are! They are going to pay for the rebuild, not Iran, not Israel, certainly not NATO!
As I wrote earlier, they all have to pay Iran to rebuild, and I bet a bunch of Trump, Bibi or stooge connected companies get the contracts! The bill was estimated at US$1000 per US man, woman or child, that was weeks ago and it goes up by the day!
@Shakin77 Being respectful is too simplistic, there are many perspectives in this debate, people with widely varied belief systems that influence personal perception.
The players involved can't just "be respectful" at any cost, they have to be referentially consistent and grounded in reality with peers and associates. Sometimes that reality doesn't agree with 3rd party external observations, and it's too easy for 3rd parties to just write off the information shared because it doesn't fit a personal belief or persepctive.
The people directly involved have to have integrity and respect, to themselves, and to those around them, they can't just state whatever the like publicly it must be consistent with the group experience. If they don't, to peers they be categorised like Trump and nothing they say will ever be trusted.
I'm guessing that Unca Donald, his family and minions have progressed their personal wealth considerably on some of the flip flop policy decisions...not just on the 'war'.
The people of France have a solution for abusers like that, and they have enacted it more than once!
Often the movement of one player depends on the form of another, just one player rising or falling can have a cascading effect.
Fans tend to look at the end result and identify it as the cause, but often the cause is something that happened much earlier in the background. An example hypothesis, maybe it was shifts in the form of McGovern, Kemp, Dean and Newman, and maybe Kemp and McGovern improving in F50, is caused by the contribution and eventual integration of Hayward, Florent, Evans and Ainsworth. That ultimately enable McKay to spend more time in the ruck, a cascade of small steps leads to a better overall outcome. I'd assert my hypothesis is much closer to reality than the "Fraser did it!" crew!
It's not lost on me that earlier in the season a lot of fans on here declared Hayward, Ainsworth and Florent a bust, many of the same critics are now Fraser boosters. Fans that cited poor disposal, bad decision making, errors, etc., etc., etc. as the reason for a bust. But it was obvious to anyone watching they were all winning plenty of footy, doing so surrounded by what at AFL standard was effectively a crew of strangers, a new team! Halfway through the season, it's all changed, and apparently "Fraser did it!"
It's not the single big miracle move that fans cling to, they see that after the fact, it's a bunch of small incremental changes over weeks that leads to the ultimate outcome.
There was a bit of talk in other places earlier tonight, before the teams were announced, that Flynn Riley may play. He's named as a emergency so we still might see a late change....but it may be for Pittonet.
I was surprised Dean was back so soon, you never know.
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!
