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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
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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.
Scott has been given extra leave because he is coaching the Vic side. Good management, no issues.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
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For what its worth, my ladder is:
1   Gold Coast
2   Brisbane
3   GWS
4   Western Bulldogs
5   Sydney
6   Hawthorn
7   Adelaide
8   Collingwood
9   St Kilda
10   Geelong
11   Fremantle
12   Carlton
13   Port Adelaide
14   Essendon
15   Melbourne
16   North Melbourne
17   Richmond
18   West Coast
Id have Fremantle and Geelong in the eight with Collingwood and the WB's just missing...Pies are doing a midfield and forward line rebuild plus have a injury prone backline and the Dogs while having a talented list suffer with Beveridge trying to be over inventive.
12th will see us a with a new coach and rebuild too imho..
Apart from their defence which leaks alot, I rate the Bullies and if Darcy gets up ad going, look out.
Ditto Freo, midfield is scary good and probably warrants a spot as you say.
Gee-long will slide a little I reckon.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
For what its worth, my ladder is:
1   Gold Coast
2   Brisbane
3   GWS
4   Western Bulldogs
5   Sydney
6   Hawthorn
7   Adelaide
8   Collingwood
9   St Kilda
10   Geelong
11   Fremantle
12   Carlton
13   Port Adelaide
14   Essendon
15   Melbourne
16   North Melbourne
17   Richmond
18   West Coast
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
@ Lods and @ PaulP
You make excellent, logical points. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Carlton supporters don't see it this way, they only things they see are:
1. The fact that we haven't won a premiership in 31 years.
2. Playing finals every year.
3. Ladder Position (improvement year on year).
The above are all fine as expectations for fans and the club, the problem with our club has been that the same person has copped the blame for it every time they have been met (by fans and the club), the coach.
There are a host of reasons for the above three key objectives being met/not met. What's important is that those administering the club properly analyse those reasons and act on rectifying them in a measured way. Whether it's the coach, high performance, injuries, players not adhering to club mandates etc, I care not, as long as it's dealt with properly and professionally.
Over the years, I have felt that the club as acted on the of whim the supporter base and the media. I'd like to think with the recent appointments of those in charge, that has now changed.

I'll just add this on coaching, IMO there isn't a hell of lot of difference between all the coaches and games styles these days, I personally think the key to success is the right mix of talent, experience, workmanlike role players, the cohesion of the all the above and consistent availability of the above.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
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Sorry but burning the Australian flag at a protest disgusts me and loses all my respect. The Rent-a-crowd mobs stooped to new lows this year IMO.

Happy Australia to those who love this country and what it is, we are still very fortunate by comparison.

To those who live in constant anger and hate for the place, well you all know my lingo, its class and the eloquence with which I deliver my messages.


Excellent restraint there, GTC. Would your message to those who choose to harm and denigrate our country and its people be something like, FO?  ;D
About as close as fark is to swearing Baggers.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Sorry but burning the Australian flag at a protest disgusts me and loses all my respect. The Rent-a-crowd mobs stooped to new lows this year IMO.

Happy Australia to those who love this country and what it is, we are still very fortunate by comparison.

To those who live in constant anger and hate for the place, well you all know my lingo, its class and the eloquence with which I deliver my messages.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
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Quote from: Professer E – on
Most of the time I find hand tools plenty quick enough for most jobs. E.g fencing...a brace and good auger keeps smashing through Redgum posts long after all the batteries are kaputt.
I have to say, at least for smaller jobs around the home I've been going the same way myself. There is zero noise, and my joints don't feel the plain the next day!

On top of this I've regained a lot of temporarily lost skills, I can sharpen bits, knives and axes now to shaving sharp with little to no effort. Lately I've been searching for old style saws, no carbide teeth, I recently bought a secondhand sawtooth setting tool, and I already have the files needed to resharpen.

What's the point of spending 2hrs at gym to use a cordless drill for 30s, I hate gym, I'd much rather be at home and use the brace, an axe or a hand saw?

I still use my 650W corded AEG drill for masonry work, it's 20 years old and still got power the battery models only dream about, the new Bosch Bulldog Brushless goes close, by why bother when the AEG is still going strong.
I have my Dad's old corded AEG, I reckon its close to 40 years old. Heavy and long as hell but still works.
Years ago I bought a bag set of Ryobi 1 tools (drill, impact driver, saw, sabre saw, grinder etc) for work around the house and beach house. I have thrashed the living hell out of them and I cant kill them.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
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You would think with Albo on the ropes with regards the economy, migration, anti semitism etc that the Libs would be soaring in the polls and climbing back into poll position for the next election but alas the nationals have bailed on them again and Party Leader David Littleproud has said they cant and wont be working with Susan Ley. Right Wing Fish and Chip purveyor Pauline Hanson's popularity on the other hand has gone through the parliamentary roof and its Susan Ley looking like she is yesterday's fish and chip paper and on the way out. Libs will do their usual next dud up mentality and pick Hastie or Taylor when they should looking at some of their younger better performers...
Albo might get in again by doing a Bradbury and staying off the pace while the others trip themselves up..

Ley was the wrong choice, I said it at the time and it will come home to roost. The Libs should be renamed the No Opposition party, with leaders like Ley they provide zero alternative to a Government who must be pissing themselves laughing. Albo and Wong couldn't fark things up any worse if they tried and would get re-elected in a canter if an election was held tomorrow.
Jacinta on the other hand has a real fight on her hands here in Vic.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
As a person who know SFA about cricket, I have always wondered why a T20 or One Day Style of go the tonk is never applied in Test cricket. Or why players who are guns (bowling and batting) in the short forms are no good in the longer form. I guess the English team demonstrated it but I still cant work out the "differences" in skill set. Can the aficionados (Proff or EB) provide some simple dot points for me explaining or pin pointing the nuances (apart from the obvious length of the games) of Test and Short form Cricket.