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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For me the problem they have is that they now have two KPF who are 70% types, it is sort of the same problem we had finding balance between H and Charlie. You really need on 24x7 type who is a grunt specialist, and the flash type as a compliment. Let's say Heeney maintains his form, he'll be No.1 ahead of both!
We kicked 4 goals in the second half to 7 of Collingwoods who were goalless at half time. Considering the gulf in class a very dissapointing end to the game.
We limp over the line, that game was there to win by 15 goals, we never do it anymore.
I think watching this will highlight one of our big problems, and that is we do not and never have taken VFL seriously, as such the development of our stocking fillers falls dramatically short.
When was the last time you can recall a Carlton player coming in cold from the VFL and doing a job, Cottrell maybe, but even he like Evans took games to settle?
We never get them cherry ripe, and even if they are showing form we tend to run it out of them and wait until they are on the slide before begrudgingly giving them a shot.
btw., This is not a coach or MC issue, because it's been happening for decades, through dozens of coaches and probably hundreds of MC.
My only conclusion today EB is that the medical staff thought it best he be out there with his team mates. Up until 3/4 time he spent 84% TOG. They rested him in the forth and ended up on 60%.
Maybe, but they have to strike a balance as Spock stated!
I know I've piled on about our headspace issues as a team, but this is just another example that there is something horribly wrong with our sports psychology and health departments.
We are a professional organisation, we probably have tens of university-trained professionals circulating among the players pre-game, and yet EH ends up out there!
I feel the chance that they all failed to notice something is negligible.
