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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL First Wildcard Final 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Melbourne at the G
It will be interesting tomorrow night, it looks like the Dees are going hard at our smalls, and our selection looks to be quite the opposite. Success might hinge on someone like Evans and Byrne being able to keep their direct opponents occupied.

I suspect we'll be hitting up a variety of marking targets, and I back Evans in particular to better similar sized and agile opponents in any overhead contest. It's a pity Hayward wasn't able to get up. Gawn can't be everywhere, and by being unpredictable entering F50 we can have him chasing the footy all across our HF line. Our breadth of goal kickers could become a real strength.

I predict Cottrell and Wilson could be a bit more dynamic tomorrow night, and dry conditions could be perfect for Acres.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
I suppose there is a bit of difference between a destructive hack and our soon to be robot overlords.

I work with robots all day everyday, it's a full-time job just keeping them moving, despite being fully engineered for hazardous environments we have to keep them positively pressured with air or nitrogen just to stop them seizing. A handful of fine grit is like cyanide to them!
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 2 2026 Carlton vs Adelaide at Carlton
I didn't see the game, but Vescio is in that sort of career stage that gives her maximum influence when correctly managed.

She can do the boring job better than most, or if needed light a spark, and using her experience she can seamlessly switch between those two modes of play. Her experience let's her switch on and off, step into the front line or out to the fringes, as required, not unlike Cripps. Half the trick is knowing the "when" and that's the thing experience delivers.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Formula 1
I feel for Piastri, but Blind Freddy could see this coming.

A lot of fans thought Oscar just needed to bide his time, get his chance "next year", but that opinion comes from a position of ignorance, it's not at all how F1 works.

Once Lando got the chocolates Oscar was eternally consigned to a McLaren support gig, that's why Lando begged so heavily for team help late last season, he didn't want to suffer that fate! Oscar will be dwelling in 2nd place for everything except experiments, the rest goes preferentially to Lando, marketing, modifications, beneficial upgrades, new engines, tactics, support, benefits, etc., etc..

Even worse Oscar gets the guineapig treatment that Hamilton was recently complaining about. If they want to experiment Oscar wears it, if it's beneficial Norris gets the upgrade immediately, if it's detrimental Norris doesn't suffer it. If resources are thin Norris gets first access, Oscar might never get them, which is similar to the current situation with car / engine upgrades.

Media talk of Norris having the edge, but he's effectively in the different car at the moment, the playing field isn't level which is what Coulthard begged for, but really Coulthard was just stating the obvious to the ignorant!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 24 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle at Marvel
Quote from: Baggers – on
Good to see Weiters making obvious efforts to adapt his usual game to the offensive nuances required in how our defense operates now.
Short memory @Baggers‍.

Forgive me if I am wrong, but wasn't it about this time last year Weiters was lauded for an attacking kick out of D50 that secured us a late win? I think at the time the media describe it as either a kick nobody else was prepared to take on, or nobody else in D50 was capable of executing.

He is often the person who distributes the footy from the HBF, the one of a few with the responsibility for that type of kick, now in addition to Newman he has someone like Florent to share it with!

What stuns me is how people manage to see things so differently subject to the outcome, a win versus a loss. The most important type of analysis in sport is the analysis delivered cold!
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Similar story with clay target shooting glasses. Pilla glasses are upwards of $500.
In trap shooting you swivel your head with the barrel and gun sights, you are always looking down the same line exactly as I describe. For non-prescription types the most important feature is polarisation, as this improves contrast between the target and background.

For any elite sport, if you use glasses (prescription or not) you have to use them all the time through practise and competition, 24x7, day or night, indoor or outdoor, because they change your vision, whether they are prescription or not. Your eyes and vision become the default with the glasses on, sunglasses or prescription.

If you swap them for fashion you are continually adjusting your eyesight, if you are continually being told to upgrade to the latest, usually by some spud connected to the team or sport, you are being duded by associate marketing strategy. Pick a pair, look after them, keep them for as long as you do not need a specific prescription.

So called shooting glasses, trap glasses, are used in a number of sports to permit clear vision over a larger vertical field of view. Which is why they sit high on the bridge of the nose and the lens usually extends above the eyebrow. Also used in a variety of cues sports, curling and bowling, etc. etc., but these are prescription types, not just protective.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 24 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle at Marvel
Quote from: shawny – on

Saad is so predictable and when his ball use dropped off he become a liability.
He is predictable, but that can work both ways, against him from a opposition perspective and for him from the perspective of our forwards.

I'd assert that when he is / was fit, agile and confident his ball use was efficient enough that any benefit to the opposition of being predictable was diminished. Knowing what he is going to do but not stopping it is embarrassing. He could run and spread, create space, just as Daicos, Pendles, Butters and now Smith can run, spread and create space. Either through injury or age he's lost a bit, we saw a VFL game a couple of weeks back that was him at his best, but it's few and far between now.

If had one criticism, it was too many long bombs, they are good to buy the defense time to setup, but not much use for scoring. It's like the soccer goalkeeper who always launches the pill to the other end of the ground, it almost never results in a score, it's a defensive move not an attacking move.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Quote from: Professer E – on
Sorry but you're talking rubbish. The Oakley glasses are specifically designed for cricket and they have an aspheric lens to prevent distortion.
See the word "lens", any lens is functional only on a specific optical axis, curved sunglasses are not a field lens and even a field lens has a specific functional focal length.

In laser optics "windows" are the term used for flat optics, optics that do not impart any refraction or diffraction at a certain bandwidth, but the key term is "flat" and they must be very flat! If they are slightly wedge shaped or slightly curved they distort the image, and that is a separate issue to being aspherical. The normal unit is angstrom, which is a measure of flatness relative to a wavelength of light, because any optical measurement is wavelength dependant.

As for being aspheric, that is the term used to describe optics minimising optical aberrations, common folk read aberration and think fuzzy distorted, an aspherical lens tries to bring all the colours of the spectrum to the same focal length. A perfect optic would be diffraction limited. The non-technical explanation is the amount of refraction from the lens is similar for a wide range of colours, refraction is that thing that means the fish isn't where you think it is! If a lens isn't aspheric the fish looks blurry, but it's still not where you think it is. You get a clear sharp image, like those fancy fishing googles, but it doesn't mean the image isn't refracted, so you see a sharp image but it doesn't mean the fish you see is really in that position. Whether it's water, air or the plastic of the lens causing the distortion makes no difference, refraction is still present, the lens can't magically remove the effects of the water.

btw., Your next argue will be that the lens is only thin, like the thickness of the water makes a difference, as opposed to the relative positions of the object and observer relative to the focal plane. The medium doing the refraction could be a plane 1 atom thick, and it would have the same effect.

The best lens money can buy with a flat field typically have a flat field measured in just a few degrees, the ones industry make use daily typically start at about $4500 and go up from there, for interferometry that requires a flat reference field, they start at $7500 and go up from there. They only have functional apertures measured in a few millimetres(or a few degrees either side of the prime axis). $450 isn't going to cut it!

For those fancy glasses to be accurate you have to turn your whole head so that you are looking through the same aperture of the lens, if you don't, if you move your eyes instead, the observed object will be move across the field of view non-linear fashion, not much but enough to cause what you saw Webster do yesterday. My suggestion is once you've chosen a type of lens stick with it, train with it, because it affects how you see the world!