These little snapshots are interesting, they're happening just about every week at the moment.... On the surface (and it is only a snapshot) it seems the relationship between the players and each other is strong. It seems the relationship between the coach and players is strong.
You wonder then, about the disconnect on game day. But I guess it is just a minute in time.
One thing i noted at the ground last week which i'm not sure if it was captured on TV.
THere was a couple of first goal kickers - Jagga and Byrne IIRC. When each kicked their 1st goal, the entire 17 other teammates on the ground ran to congratulate them and celebrate with them. Both times.
Shows there is still a good connection (at least in part) between them.
.....or that they will get a player imposed fine if they get busted NOT celebrating with them. Which is certainly possible.
The fact there is a need for a defence lawyer at all is the problem.
They create their own oxygen and they do so for highly profitable reasons, they profit more by the lack of evidence and no definitive answer. In many cases they make evidence inadmissible, that consigns the plaintiff to the long drawn out and expensive loss.
Even so, it's unrelated to the issues of slavery, and closer to the subjugation I discussed earlier.
In this case the plaintiff is subjugated by his defense team via a mind f#$k!
3rd time lucky.
Why are there defense lawyers? They are there to defend clients.
Why do the clients need defending? Because....in part....they have been setup by corrupt police, judges, lawyers etc
THAT is my point. THAT is in relation to slavery. Need more people making stuff....time to start a 'war on drugs' and convict a whole community/race without consequences because the system is setup for them to fail.
Now, this might only be 1% of criminals in jail as a conservative figure. That translates to 20,000 in the US alone. Thats a lot of (dodgy) free labour.
Now if that number is as large as some say, 10%, thats 200,000 people.
Its suggested that 4-5% of people given the death penalty are actually innocent.
How are so many innocent people being convicted?? What might happen in order to get so many innocent people convicted?? What type of people have that kind of power and ultimately who do they work for?
Someone has got the message i've been spouting for years!
Outside of a couple of finals when TDK did ok forward I have never seen 2 rucks work at Carlton. Can't remember the last time it was successful. Fitzpatrick/and both Jones? Nicholls and Perc? Harry and Sartori gave us good value as Sartori gave us great value up forward. We just barely saw Sartori on the park.
Can't think of much since.
In the modern game where its all about run run run.....having any amount of extra talls blokes who limit that is a curse more than a blessing.
You could accept it up forward if your 2 blokes are kicking you bags of goals between them. But 2 blokes in the ruck when you can only ever use 1 ruck at a time, that is, there is only ever 1 ballup, 1 throw-in etc at a time. I've done the figures while we were using SOS as our 2nd ruck. At best, we'd get maybe 1 extra hitout to advantage a game by playing a second ruck. The flipside is that we expect our midfielders to play an extra 50% gametime between them to compensate, clearly making them more fatigued as a result. Given they are more fatigued, their output would drop. It could drop to the point where we get less hitouts to advantage as a result negating any perceived benefit.
Now we are more setup to handle a 2nd ruck.....but if that is HOK playing there and FF and he gets 3 touches a game and spends over a half on the bench.....then output wise its even worse than playing 2 rucks.......which yields no actual benefit anyway.
If you had unlimited players on the bench, 100% you play an extra ruck.....hell, play 4! But thats not how it works.
Even if they are put there illegally in a lot of cases?
Thats not a bad deal??
Next thing youll tell me is that was all instituted by the superior race.
So I suppose in the model you propose that the police are the traders, the courts are the auctioneers and the government the new owner!
Well I can't ask if that is you Dezi, because he's dead!
I'm not proposing any model, just saying if you want free (extremely cheap labour) simply start a 'war on drugs' and that problem will be solved. Now if that 'war' involves a lot of police officers planting evidence, then they would simply be a casualty of war.
Its a deep rabbit hole if you really want to investigate, so watch your step
It's not...Kemp can go back, Derksen can come in, Young can go forward and Ruck. Which is what I'd do... or Straight swap. Reidy in, HOK out.
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No 2nd ruck. Prefer a runner. No point having a slow ruck when you can have a runner in. Young or Harry can have those duties. Young forward though, yes.
Someone has got the message i've been spouting for years!
Does the government count as 'Australians'? They are in charge of prisons. Are people in prison free? Are people in prison forced into labour with repercussions if they do not?
Prisoners are incarcerated under our judicial system and they're not owned by the government. Prisoners are paid between $30 and $70 for a 30 hour week. Advocates maintain that's "slave labour" but with their board, lodging, education and training costing around $3,000 a week, it's not a bad deal.
Even if they are put there illegally in a lot of cases?
Thats not a bad deal??
Next thing youll tell me is that was all instituted by the superior race.
Youve said it, ive said it. Percentage is a better predictor of how well you are going rather than wins/losses and ladder position.
You can ignore it all you like and hope we can find clubs to beat up on to inflate our %, but ill give you the hot tip, i think we've already played 2 teams that are vying for the positions held by north and west coast last year.....and i think north and west coast have very much improved, especially relative to us.
No....its not meaningless. It very much has meaning and is displaying our form accurately. Form is fleeting (we hope) and % can and will change throughout the year.
However, nobody in their right mind would say Gold Coast are struggling. Nor would they say we are flying. So again, certainly not meaningless.
No, it means nothing at this stage of the year.
And is definitely not comparable to previous years
Different rules Different opposition
We win a couple of games by 40-50 points at this tme of the year and you shoot past the 100% Do that at the end of the year with bigger point totals and it doesn't cause the same fluctuations.
Watch Gold Coast's percentage drop, even if they keep winning.
I understand how % works Lods.
After what round does it suddenly start to matter? We can reconvene then if you'd like. I'm interested to see what your next excuse will be. I must say the head in the sand defence was not what i was expecting this time around, so next time will also be a surprise.
Ah I see, we argued an out on a different definition of slavery to argue we never had slavery even though the evidence runs contrary to that.
So we can argue semantics, you are right, and I am wrong, we never participated in slavery despite the evidence showing otherwise. Is that it?
It's not semantics, it's fact. Australians have never owned other people,
Does the government count as 'Australians'? They are in charge of prisons. Are people in prison free? Are people in prison forced into labour with repercussions if they do not?
