I see hope in countries starting to work together without the US - we'll see how it all goes!
This is the key right now.
You have those who are 'under the wing' of the US (australia included) but are more frequently finding themselves disagreeing with their views. But they are the big brother, so better to be on their right side.
Problem is their right side changes with the breeze as denmark (greenland) are finding out. So what is the benefit of staying aligned with them?
They bully the rest of the world into doing what they want....and we just go along with it.
I was listening to a podcast on 'appeasing Hitler' and giving into his demands (pre-war) and how the rest of the world essentially said, "Ok, lets just give him that and THEN he'll go away". But he would ask for something else.....and something else...Countries found it easier to go along with it rather than stand up to it....and eventually it was too late, and he got too powerful and then it was on.
Right now there is a lot of that going on with the US, but less obvious. Countries continue to turn a blind eye to their 'tactics' as its easier to not rock the boat. Eventually it may be too late to stand up to them. As bad as Trump is, there could always be someone worse.
The more we band against the US now, the better off the rest of the world may be later.
Writing an article about scientific papers BEFORE they are peer reviewed should be banned.
Someone makes a bold claim to cure cancer, invents teleportation, solves world hunger and finds proof of intelligent life oustide our own little rock.......it gets talked about, everyone goes crazy!
Then....it gets peer reviewed and found that all is bunk.
......but you never get an article saying as much so people continue to believe those things.
How many pages are we up to for the 'Red Trump' who runs a country on the other side of the world? Sorry DJC i know you get quite annoyed at any reference of the man but the irony is too much to ignore.
Off topic posts are the bane of a moderator's existence Shawny, but I'll let that one slide
@Shawny, you are very anti-labour, which is your right. However, do you think liberals are all squeeky clean with no skeletons in the closet?
Everyone is corrupt
Not at all.
i never once said the Libs will right every wrong and are honest true blah blah blah. i know very well they are generally all liars that dont follow through on promises and both sides blame one another whenever the sh1te hits the fan however regardless of which side of the fence you sit on we cant keep re electing a corrupt government simply because the alternative’may’ be just as bad. You cannot allow this sort of governance rewarded with re electing.
This very situation should be enough to remove a government imo.
if the same corrupt culture was found on a board of any private company would the board not be stood down immediately?
come on mate this can not be defended in any shape or form.
I'm not defending anything.
Its just like asking someone which way they prefer to die, thrown off a big building or shot in the head. The method varies, but the end result is the same. The party varies, but the end result is the same.
Not sure how you can leave Kemp out of that side, 'potential injury' or not, he's named 1st emergency, so either he is right or he isn't......and i'm thinking he'll be right.
Put him in place of Lewis Young.
Have Dean and Weitering as starting KPDs and if Dean struggles, swing Kemp back. Otherwise, have Kemp as KPF with Harry and Moir as 3rd tall. Have a resting ruck deep forward when required and have the other ruck setting up shop across CHB to help out Dean.
As DJC just stated, Cottrell and Hollands are elite runners, and have been for years now. Maybe Binns' beat them in a race here or there, but at best he was on a par with them in that area (i disagree) but was behind in every other area IMO, hence the delisting.
Moving quickly on foot? 😇
Binns got a contract extension on the back of excellent VFL form … and I’ve defended that decision in the past. Tearing that contract up was a major u-turn and I’d love to know what the thinking behind it was.
Perhaps the bake from Vossy in his 8th and final game is the key - although Binnsy reckons his delisting was unexpected.
2 wrongs dont make a right. Original decision to extend was wrong. Decision to sack early was right.
Too many similar types and he didn't have any tricks, disposal was average.
O. Hollands, L. Camporeale....even Cottrell play the same role and better.
Certainly, competing for the same roles, but Binns' running was well above the others.
Although I think his physicality was well below those he competed with, and that might not be acceptable for a coach with Voss' history!
Anyway, it's just another speculation, I think the real question is not why he was delisted, but why he wasn't picked up because his running is elite at any level.
Define 'running'.
As DJC just stated, Cottrell and Hollands are elite runners, and have been for years now. Maybe Binns' beat them in a race here or there, but at best he was on a par with them in that area (i disagree) but was behind in every other area IMO, hence the delisting.
Moir has an upside, and obvious AFL level tricks, we shouldn't be burdening him with too many negatives so early in his career.
This time next year would be the time to be more critical.
The U23 category is interesting, because it basically sits on the boundary of who will and who won't.
At 21 it's too early to write many players off, and by the time players are 25 you know if they are going to make it or not. I realise there will be some claim they told us so, "they knew" back when a player was 18 or 20, but that news always arrives retrospectively.
Agreed. It's why I don't understand Binns' delisting.
Too many similar types and he didn't have any tricks, disposal was average.
O. Hollands, L. Camporeale....even Cottrell play the same role and better.
I like Darcy's boy in terms of his attack on the footy, the aggression he shows, but AFL is full of big bodies and eventually that style of play is going to take it's toll and that could be in Rnd 1 or in years from now, but it'll happen.
8 goals in a practice match. He will do plenty of damage now.
If you want to see how to ruin the pinnacle sporting event of any sporting code, watch the Superbowl. It's basically everything bad about the USA, the internet, and social media rolled into hours and hours of broadcast!
They took a premier sporting evert and turned it into a clown show.
But in fairness, it's not just NFL, they are doing the same with US based F1 races, and I suspect aspects of the World Cup will be turned into something similar. The US can't help itself, it must submit to corporate greed, or it loses it's American grifter identity!
Sponsorship was rdiculous. Every minute there was another sponsor being plugged.
there are enough teams that are terrible that even at our worst we wont fall that far.
West Coast will struggle to win games. Melbourne will absolutely slide further. Richmond arent getting good yet, and im pegging another club will slide perhaps on purpose this season, and it wouldn't shock me if it were Collingwood.
Last year we finished 11th with 7 teams below us We lost to 3 of them - Port, Kangas and Tigers We only just beat 2 more of them by 8 points - Bombers and Dees St. Kilda was a 15 point win West Coast was 34 points.
Of those 7, i expect 4 to improve, with just eagles, dees and bombers to stay crap or go backwards.
I'm not expected the 4 above us to get worse - Dogs, Suns, Hawks and Swans, which means you're hoping for a top 6 to go bottom 4, which is a big ask, more likely to be us than them.
BUT......this is why we play the season because we simply don't know.
Sorry im a fence sitter. My range is, wheels fall off as low as 14th. Things go swimmingly premiership from 2nd to 4th. Things go average, and results not going our way, probably around 8th.
Its also a little about the ranges highlighted. Many a person, myself including, are over a couple ranges.
Its all guesswork anyway so hardly the end of thw world, but one thing i should add is that doesnt take into accoubt the carlton bias. You coukd almost shift down half a step/a full step of each vote to take that into account.
Bias will impact everyone's predictions If you've convinced yourself and argued for a good or bad season you'll tend to gravitate and give weight to a range that fits your forecast.
Individually, perhaps, as a group, no. It will all average it as favourable towards the club you support, for all 18 teams.
Sorry DJC i know you get quite annoyed at any reference of the man but the irony is too much to ignore.
