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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
I’d love to know what the selectors’ are thinking; it can’t be about rewarding good technique, form and effort.
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I’d love to know what the selectors’ are thinking; it can’t be about rewarding good technique, form and effort.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Victoria has now banned the upper house group voting tickets so there won't be any miraculous fringe party victories. Morgan research has the Legislative Council going:
L-NP 12
ALP 10
Greens 8
PHON 6
Undecided 4
There's still a way to go but, at this stage, a minority government with a hostile upper house could be likely.
Plenty of campaigning happening down here on the Bellarine but no sign of PHON so far.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Half the squad will continuously pick and choose when it makes an effort, effectively throwing games away on a whim, and they are the ones being rewarded!
I think that is crediting players with much more ability than they actually have.
I would say that they always play to the best of their ability but flaws in technique, limited toolkit and inability to respond to the game situation are exposed far too often. Then there’s the additional pressure created by underperforming teammates.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The New Joke Thread
After just one week I was made the spokes person.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Rd 11 Carlton vs GWS at Carlton
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
I watched the highlights of Rabada, and he's bowling with a gale behind him at one stage but even then he's not express. The thing he does very well is vary pace without a big change of action, and it looks like the bulk of our lot have NFI how to deal with it. But then again, most of them play cross bat everything.
Rabada's probably not back to his best after his Grade 3 hammy, but he was generally in the 140-150kph range with one delivery clocked at 154.5kph. That's express!
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Head, Boland and Carey didn’t want to lose the Test. The rest of the team? Not so much 🙄
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Not exactly new, but as the date for the mid terms draws closer, concerns and discourse are mounting that the Reps and particularly DJT, will refuse to accept any results he doesn't like, and has been planning for a long time for all manner of tactics to interfere as he deems necessary, including canceling the election altogether.
It's really quite something to watch the major superpower become a 3rd world, corrupt, strife-ridden, shambolic state, in real time.
The alarming thing is that Hegseth has effectively removed all senior miltary personnel with the courage to stand up to Taco.
The courts, and even Taco's appointees, are a different kettle of worms and are generally even-handed in their applyication of the law, much to Taco's dismay and displeasure. It remains to be seen whether the civil powers will line up with Taco or the courts.
While it seems easier to amend the US constitution that it is to change ours, the fact remains that it is an 18th century document and the founding fathers couldn't foresee the complexities of the 21st century or the emergence of a cult following a malignant narcissistic megalomanic. It's unfortunate that some of the founding fathers weren't founding mothers.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Latest update on Helen Haines is pretty bad : she's lost one leg and surgeons are fighting to save the other leg. She remains in a critical condition.She has indeed lost her second leg, just reported on the news. Awful, just awful.
Absolutely terrible ... and she's still in a critical condition
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Any number of factors may be motivating those making threats but I can't help but think that the language politicians use about each other, and the language that public figures use about politicians, plays a significant role. For example, Lib MP Angie Bell recently said that Anne Aly and Anthony Albanese "should be shamed and stoned in the square.” Anne Aly subsequently revealed that she has had 19 death threats this week. Then there's Alan Jones advocating for Julia Gillard and Bob Brown to be placed in a "chaff bag" and dumped "as far out to sea as they can". All sides of politics are guilty of inappropriate language and threatening, demeaning language against female politicians is being used all around the world.
It's time that our politicians took a stand and eliminated violent, threatening and demeaning language from political discourse.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
An awful situation. Hope she pulls through.
Its beyond awful and never thought our once safe country would ever see crimes like this.
Hopefully we can turn it around.
This is just the latest blow in the war against women that has been a part of our culture since the arrival of the first fleet. If you don’t understand that, you must have your head in the sand 🙁
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Some people cannot learn by watching other people make mistakes, they need to make those same mistakes themselves.
Thats us, with ON. Sure, we could learn from Trump and USA, but no.....we 'know' better.
Labour and Liberals.....both have their flaws....and numerous ones at that.
However, it won't be until one nation get in, that we realise how bad things can actually get....and by then we'll be begging for labour or liberal to come back into power.
I think that's pretty close to the mark but, hopefully, we'll never get to find out how Pauline "workers are lazy" Hanson's party would govern ... and I use "govern" lightly.
You can probably say something similar about the Greens. Although they do have actual policies and costings, they're relying on never being in a position to implement those policies, many of which could have disastrous consequences.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
There's already too many of these Hanson types on the world stage, and they are taking an already struggling, teetering planet and making it worse. The track records of Orban, Milei, Erdoğan, Trump and others are appalling.
But I have been given assurances that if elected, she will close all borders and deport many brown people, which will see crime rates plummet to basically zero.
The problem is that, regardless of the flavour of government, the rich get richer and ordinary folk slip further behind. They are ripe for the picking by populist politicians with slogans rather than policies. Ignorance and xenophobia don’t help 🙁
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Lambie might be a loose cannon but she’s a veteran who served her country. All Hanson has done is spend 30 years getting paid for hardly ever turning up for work.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
By all accounts, Ms Haines is a serious, decent and grounded regional MP who is genuinely admired both within and beyond her electorate and by people who wouldn't normally vote for independents.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed that counter-terrorism police are investigating the attack.
Information is still sketchy at this stage but, if the reports are accurate, it is an appalling act by a person who doesn't deserve to live in our country.