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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Under 23 players
Cottrell and Hollands are elite aerobic runners, marathon athletes, but not the combination of pace and deep running that Binns is capable of, however both of them have Binns comfortably covered because when they get to the contest they compete, Binns tends to move / run to receive.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
I don't get why the MAGA media post this stuff and think it's a positive for RedTrump, or how anybody can read it and think he some sort of righteous clarion.
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The Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown, probably the foremost reporter on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, has revealed what Donald Trump told police all the way back in July of 2006, back when the first charges of sexual misconduct against Epstein became public knowledge.

Mr Trump told Palm Beach police commissioner Michael Reiter “everyone has known” about Epstein’s activities. He also called Epstein’s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, “evil” and advised law enforcement to “focus on her”. He described her as Epstein’s “operative”.
I read that paragraph and think, this heavily resourced and connected Kent new what was going or in a global paedophile ring back in 2006 and chose to do feck all about it!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Under 23 players
Quote from: kruddler – on
Too many similar types and he didn't have any tricks, disposal was average.

O. Hollands, L. Camporeale....even Cottrell play the same role and better.
Certainly, competing for the same roles, but Binns' running was well above the others.

Although I think his physicality was well below those he competed with, and that might not be acceptable for a coach with Voss' history!

Anyway, it's just another speculation, I think the real question is not why he was delisted, but why he wasn't picked up because his running is elite at any level.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: DJC – on
Divided?  One audience was around 3% of the other!
Are you confusing this with a RedTrump rally?

I've a business associate in Chicago, he tells me that region is generally a red state but even so it has started to call out the sh1zen and grow tired of the rhetoric. At a recent RedTrump rally the organisers packed almost everybody in the venue into the stage behind him and he spoke to camera with a mostly empty auditorium behind them. You can apparently tell which events this happens because RedTrump can't stop himself from involuntarily trying to turn around and face the live audience behind him, he apparently looks quite awkward speaking at funny head twisted angles. GOP blamed the weather.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Under 23 players
Moir has an upside, and obvious AFL level tricks, we shouldn't be burdening him with too many negatives so early in his career.

This time next year would be the time to be more critical.

The U23 category is interesting, because it basically sits on the boundary of who will and who won't.

At 21 it's too early to write many players off, and by the time players are 25 you know if they are going to make it or not. I realise there will be some claim they told us so, "they knew" back when a player was 18 or 20, but that news always arrives retrospectively.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
I like Darcy's boy in terms of his attack on the footy, the aggression he shows, but AFL is full of big bodies and eventually that style of play is going to take it's toll and that could be in Rnd 1 or in years from now, but it'll happen.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Gee-long will slide a little I reckon.
Handbaggers will always be in and about given they have the experience and are well managed through the season, they just need to find a way to get the big names into a GF in a fresh state, at the moment they keep burning them in Prelims or early finals.

Having said that, I heard that Scott has gone MiA, or LoA, whatever it is it could be a sign he grows weary.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Victoria now has its smallest full-time police force in close to seven years despite soaring crime and government promises to boost frontline officers...think I read in the HS we are 1700 officers down on where we need to be.
A family member was a Detective but has gone back to being in Uniform for the massive overtime that is being offered...
Not just a recruiting issue, but I've heard that hundreds of Vicpol members are being poached by Qld and NSW offering better pay deals. However, from what I've heard a lot regret making that move, as much as we talk a lot about crime here in a Vic it turns out it's far worse in Brisbane or Sindney, who'd have thunk it, the grass isn't greener!

Really, from what I've read Vicpol aren't doing a bad job, the problem is the courts, crooks are out on bail before the report is even written!

I know of several who came back to Vic not re-entering the force but leaving it, one couple I know were both in Vicpol and went to Qld, then returned to Victoria to become Fireys. Talk about out of the frypan and into the fire!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
If you want to see how to ruin the pinnacle sporting event of any sporting code, watch the Superbowl. It's basically everything bad about the USA, the internet, and social media rolled into hours and hours of broadcast!

They took a premier sporting evert and turned it into a clown show.

But in fairness, it's not just NFL, they are doing the same with US based F1 races, and I suspect aspects of the World Cup will be turned into something similar. The US can't help itself, it must submit to corporate greed, or it loses it's American grifter identity!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
AFL is a different competition now, you can play OK for 2/3rds of the season and win a flag, you just need to get the timing right.

To me this is a fundamental change in the way you have to go about measuring yourself against the competition, you can flirt with form nursing the squad through the season, and just get it ripe and loaded for 2 or 3 games at the end.

What you can't do anymore is the MM type full season grind, you'll run out of legs, you have to find ways to lighten the load periodically and still be in a position to win. I don't care that we've Cripps and Walsh, until I can see an alternative to the heavily contested style my jury is out on Voss, our MC needs to find a way to win without those guys or without the heavy contest week in and week out. Playing that game style relentlessly just because they are the best at it is dumb!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
I spent time on this forum and others listening to fans spend most of the last couple of seasons complaining about the lack of performance and consistency from the likes of Curnow and TDK, punctuated by glimpses of genuine capability, now that they are gone they are all of a sudden irreplaceable.

Weathervanes come to mind!

Both players come to mind as examples of huge potential and capability, but I'm not going to sell anybody on their consistency, the players we've lost are about as far away from the 24x7 level of a fit Cripps or Walsh, as Cliffy Young is from Phar Lap in a sprint!

We don't have enough 24x7 types to be carrying too many part-timers, and they are big dollar part-timers. If Curnow, TDK and SoJ were 24x7 types, on the park week after week delivering at a consistent level, even consistent at a good ordinary level like a Hewett or an Evans, I'd be more upset. But they weren't, and that is probably a big reason why we didn't stand in their way!

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat
A mate of mine made a comment the other day about our list management decisions, and how we seem to rotate certain utility types far more frequently than others.

He said, "It's like Carlton has a leaky sink full of holes, and we keep blaming the plug!"
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: DJC – on
If wealthy families won’t invest, it’s dead in the water because most families won’t be able to afford to.
The RedTrump scheme is not really targeted at the wealthy, it's intended for Mum & Dad investor types.

It seems innocuous on the surface, but I suspect the devil is in the detail and you can't trust RedTrump. He appears to have a long history of building a cash reserve based on defaulting creditors. My understanding is that the only thing saving him at the moment is his political position, with creditors are in no doubt he'll use his position to strike against those he owes money to, it's a house of cards that somebody will end up paying for and history says it won't be RedTrump.

I'd almost guarantee once enough people are signed up he'll have RedTrump coin added to the certified safe investment list.