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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs Tasmania in Hobart
Quote from: kruddler – on

Ditch the prior opportunity and there is consistency across all contests.  ;)
Well, I'm afraid they've already gone halfway to that, and for the simple reason the imbalance in the decision making combined with variability of the stand rule has made things worse than ever before.

You can lay a perfect tackle in the goal square and umpires are afraid to pay the free, even after moments of clear play, that's nothing to do with prior opportunity.

Further to that, when those calls go the exact wrong way, and you've already pressed forward, you're basically screwed by the stand rule going the other way.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs Tasmania in Hobart
There is something I just do not understand about AFL 2026 style, blokes take the footy in clear space and just stone cold drop it when tackled, often after taking a couple of steps, and it's play on.

How is that ruling rational when in the same game you see a bloke like Cripps pinged for holding on the inside of a stoppage, often when tackled and being held before he even takes the footy?
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The Sports Desk / Re: Barry Cable Learns his fate
Quote from: PaulP – on
Other women also gave evidence at the trial, alleging similar abuse. The chances of unrelated women coming out of the woodwork making allegations against some old guy nobody outside football really knows, is pretty slim.
I don't want to pose any question about the people involved, but that thinking is a bit pre-internet and pre-social media.

By the time stuff gets to court in modern times it's already been fully discussed, pictures painted and conclusions made, the rumour mill is rife.

This makes the burden of proof higher than ever before in history, opinion and perspectives now are meaningless because they are all poisoned, a random claim or spurious tale can be coloured by a million followers in minutes.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Fremantle in Perth
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
I can understand moving on from Acres, his shoulders are shot and his disposal is diabolical.
He had two shocking disposal attempts last weekend, I'm mean they were so bad I'm surprised he even made contact with the footy!

What is the golfing term, shanked, chunked?

In both cases I think he was 5m clear of anybody else, they are coach killing moments, so I could understand the hesitance. As I mentioned in the VFL thread, we should have won that game by 15 goals, but instead we limped over the line looking very average.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
It's not a recent development, Paul Keating went through the public health system while still on the political front line!

FWIW, I think the 20 - 30 year old segment needs incentives to again take politics seriously, if not they all end up voting for Hanson and that will be even worse for Australia than Brexit or MAGA. Australia does not have the economic scale or inertia to withstand that sort of destructive politics.

All this media commentary about "Draining the swamp" is utter garbage, they post that because they are overpaid fatties who think the consequences of provoking turmoil won't affect them. They are a bunch of mini-Kyles who have opinions bigger than their ar5e!

But you know the media will be the front-line bleaters when the economic consequences of political turmoil hit their wallet.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Quote from: laj – on
the game has evolved but Vossy hasn't.
Let's be straight about this, our 2026 game plan is radically different, and every other clubs, forced on clubs by the AFL and it's fiddling with the rules and umpiring.

Only a handful of clubs have lists suited to the current rules and game style, and even those clubs are going to be in a race of attrition.

Fans rallying against the loses are blamming a lack of change but it's a false premise. If people want to argue against a coach, player or management, at least use some facts.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Chalmers buying votes by allowing workers to claim $1,000 in deductions without any receipts needed. Labor just cant stop spending and adding to inflation and high debt levels.
True, but clinging onto that stuff when it's really just a drop in the ocean excuses the absence of any real opposition.

Economies work on 3 or even 4 orders of magnitude higher as the bare minimum.

A $1000 sounds great to those struggling, but it's not even covering the fuel rises for the average worker.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Barry Cable Learns his fate
The problem here is that a lack of evidence presents a multiplicity of outcomes, it's really a p1ssweak decision that is sort of "Yeah, I think so, but just in case I'm wrong ..........!"

For the benefit of victims the legal process tends towards errors in one direction, because binary would be the accusation are true, or the accusations are fake. But without certainty it's a coin toss.

The problem I have with the process is that lawyers have become highly proficient at creating doubt on either side of such a case.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
It's not going to fix anything, the current generation doesn't want to wait for anything, they hurt their own prospects by too many expecting fully furnished designer styling from day one.

In our first homes, pretty much everything came from the secondhand shop, and in modern times "secondhand shops" won't even accept the stuff we were buying back then, they want labels and collectables.

Even shops like The Salvos and Savers are full of designer labels cheap, because that is the only stuff modern kids will buy.

btw., I have to correct a misnomer here, people(knuckleheads) think The Salvos and Savers are for "poor people to shop at", that's completely wrong! The people those charity shops raise money for are living in cardboard boxes and under bridges and don't shop at The Salvos or Savers, they eat out of bins. The Salvos and Savers outlets need you to shop for recycled or secondhand goods in store so they can raise cash to fund the purchase of stuff they really need, medical supplies, food, accommodation, etc., etc... If you want some old clothes to wear gardening, concreting, fishing, painting, pretty much anything, or if you'd like a kettle for the shed, a jobsite microwave, or a spare corded power tool for when the battery dies, shop at The Salvos or Savers, don't shop secondhand at joints like Cash Converters.