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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Quote from: madbluboy – on
In the last two weeks we have appeared to have almost put the game away half way through the final term. What is Voss supposed to do from there? Surely that's on the leaders on the field?
We have a few who are yet to get their head around the new rules, under pressure they can revert to the old ways.

I don't get the pile on OH, I think fans remember the turnover at the end of a chain of otherwise unrewarded efforts, or even when he turns it over after being illegally tackled, I think it happened to him twice, otherwise he went at pretty good efficiency by AFL standards.

But the real contrast for me in that game was Walsh being pinged for holding in the last quarter. 50 tackles a game must happen like that, when a player takes the footy and drops it stone cold as they are tackled, and it's play on every time. If anything the error should be the other way, they should be pinged for incorrect disposal. Don't tell me they "didn't take control of the footy", it's just the modern version of Bartlett's throw. These blokes can swoop in onehanded at full tilt and scoop the footy up to dispose of it before they are upright, and fans and officials argue they fumbled a pill that hit them in the belly.

Dropping the footy when tackled has become a plague, a plague of the AFL's own making with stupid rules and stupid rule interpretations!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
I'm think fans are deluded if they think these guys will arrive as match winners from day one, they weren't match winners at the club they came from and at our club in a new team and environment they'll need at least 1/2 a season to settle.

In the long term they won't be bad, but they won't be any better than they were, they aren't going to turn into Judd just because the switched clubs.

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Watching the replay, if you ignore all the late pressure induced errors and the obvious umpiring blunders, we still missed multiple shots at goal from within a 25m range and ultimately that was a big contributor to the events that cost us the game.

Fundamental errors, like missing because they ultimately kicked in the direction they were heading but they weren't heading for goal.

On a separate issue, I watch Kemp and think what a waste. This bloke rolled up to our club as a player who was capable of forward play and midfield rotations, and we basically burnt him by wasting his capabilities on the HBF. Now towards the end we want him to learn the F50, it's like resetting to day one and he seriously looks out of his depth.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Back to the Moon
The "high cost" of this or that which is the typical media message is really a drop in the ocean. Media always talk total$ because the big number seems alarming or scary, but the reality is it's something like $0.05 per person per annum and the payback is many times that.

I've heard on the radio the other day RedTrump dropped the equivalent of one full year of a NASA budget in the first week of the assault on Iran and got nothing to show for it other than debt!

btw., When the US media bang on about waste and how much the US spends, and why aren't others helping, they ignore to inform the US audience that about half of the bill is being footed for the Artimis project comes from foreign governments or investment. Yet when a foreign government or entity uses inclusive language about "us" or "we" the US media will claim it's all America.

Did you know if you want to sell IP into the USA, the IP must conform to US law, meaning no matter who holds that IP it has to be in a single name and they have to effectively sign over right of access to the US government, and they have the gall to assert China are crooks! If the IP has any use at all to the US military they will develop local capability and chop out foreign supply, and they have done on items as wide ranging as food packaging and CAD software. I know a person in Melbourne who developed CAD software used in advanced manufacturing, he held the IP globally but the US used it's law to develop a local capability with a contract handed out to a big US company. The Melbournian still made good money out of it, tens of million, but the US company made billion$.

The same thing with the US assault on Iran, some significant percentage of the US munitions come from other countries including Israel, ironic isn't it that Israel profits by dragging others into the fight, the US media just claim it's all America. Some of the air defence systems they use cost US$20M per round fired, and they spray them around like air freshener! Keep that in mind when you hear RedTrump begging for assistance!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
I don't get what is happening with tripping, has the rule changed, why are players now allowed to dive at the footy and take out the opponent's legs?

Did we miss the memo?

And it appears if you tackle someone and that tackle slips down below the knees it's play on. Kosi did twice in our game against the Dees and wasn't penalised, it happened multiple times to us as a team today and that specific non-decision cost us at least 2 goals just in the last quarter.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Quote from: northernblue – on
Harry needs to raise his knee when someone is backing into the pack to intercept.
Harry is not that type of player, it's never going to happen, not him and not Weiters, certainly not Young. I have to wonder watching Young today, could some of today's decisions push him over the edge, make him a bit more aggressive?

That aggression issue is why I posed the May question in the list management thread, I think we need a player who is, I bet if he returns to the AFL he ends up at the Filth. I've overheard McRae has returned early to go and watch him play again!

As an aside, I watched the Norp players take Newman out of the contest metres off the footy multiple time today. He wasn't really in a position to contest but it's still an illegal action that normally results in a down field free kick, in one case the Norp player had his back to the contest and basically shoved Newman in the throat.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Back to the Moon
Quote from: northernblue – on
Hydrogen for trucks and cars is laughable.
I hear that coming from the EV industry and it's investors, I don't blame them for making hay while the sun shines(sorry) but it's not likely to last without political interference.

Several WA mining operations are now converting to hydrogen fueled vehicles because it works in remote locations and can perform in ways that EV cannot, they did try EV but the recharging delays and battery degradation became an issue. When you need to go you need to go, and they go around the clock and a long long way. In some operations a 20 minute delay can cost them more than the price of the vehicle!

To me batteries remain the big issue, unfortunately a lot of the battery R&D and manufacturing has occurred in cool climate locations, places it snows and regions that think 25°C is a hot day. The most up to date research has exposed the degradation of some batteries in moderate or hot climates is 300% greater than reported in cool climates, as yet they do not know why it's unexplained, but it's confirmed by the findings in the mines. The irony for Australia is that the batteries are chock full of technology to warm them up correctly, but here the problem is cooling.

As an aside, mining has a project to convert iron ore trains to hydrogen fuel cell, I believe a prototype is already in service.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Back to the Moon
Quote from: northernblue – on
Are you worried about the amount of 91 ron required to achieve the mission ?
The boosters are solid rocket motors, the main vehicles is fueled by hydrogen and liquid oxygen with water vapour as the exhaust gas.

Hydrogen is the same technology we should really be using for transport, fast to refill, long range, conventional delivery, water vapour is the exhaust.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Back to the Moon
Quote from: Thryleon – on
1.  What are its goals?

The progression of science i can see space x doing regarding a take of and landing.  Artemis 2 is going up, orbiting the moon and coming back.  We've done that before, sure they might be testing something.  Not sure, I genuinely dont know the goals.
It's not quite the same as before, in that previously Collins and others in the Command Capsule orbited the moon while colleagues rode the LEM.

It's part of the schedule to establish a long term base on the moon, in which case this route will be repeated many many times as part of a re-supply delivery run. They are also testing equipment and technology designed to be used in extended missions.

Long term, they need moon bases to obtain heavy helium, Helium-3, to power future fusion reactors. Because despite the rhetoric no serious physicist or resource scientist believes renewables can deliver the energy we are going to need.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Quote from: Baggers – on
Yes, there were some dubious frees paid and some obvious ones missed.
Cut it out @Baggers, blokes do 9 good things and get crucified on the 10th by the umpires, and fans want the player strung up!

Clarkson is a dead set Clark Kent who hates our guts and even he looked embarrassed after the game, I've never seen him look sheepish in a victory over us before!

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Quote from: Baggers – on
Kangabies kick 7 goals to 3/4 time... then kick 7 in the last qtr. 'nuff said.
How many of them were from dodgy frees or non-decisions?

Twice in the last a bloke has his legs taken out and isn't protected, both result in goals, another goal a player cops front on contact in a 2 on 1 and no free is paid, and the player gets a sling tackle in a one on one in full free view with no other players blocking the view and it's play on.

It's a f@#$ing joke!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 In game Angst Carlton vs North Melbourne
Quote from: kruddler – on
No sling tackle on Jagga? Just about had his neck broken!
You can't defeat that sh1zen @Kruddler, and if you don't make a scene about it you are screwed because the umpires now have the anticipation to defeat us, the same mindset that is bringing our players undone affects adjudication.

It's OK to bang on about what we do and don't do, but you can't let that rubbish slide.