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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Rd 8 Carlton vs Hawthorn at home
The conditions didn’t help but it was still an entertaining game.  I think that we found it hard to adapt our style of play to the conditions and that created opportunities for Hawthorn … and they seemed to get more than their fair share of luck.

Both defences were on top but ours had to work a lot harder … in part because we struggled to get the pill past the centre.

A good win in the end with lots of even contributions. I thought that Erone, Abbie and Keeley were our best and with Harriet marshalling the defence.  And, speaking of defence, Bucky must be thankful that he’s got Poppy to throw behind the ball.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
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Isn't there a rule that if you survive a death penalty method you get set free? Or is that a myth?

I think it's a myth. Apparently it's an old idea that if you survived a hanging, it was a sign of divine intervention. The current thinking / law is that if you are sentenced to death, you pretty much have to end up dead.

Yes, standard procedure in the USA is to provide appropriate medical treatment so that the person can regain their health for a rescheduled execution.  Botching the execution doesn't cancel the death sentence.

The other off thing about this case is that the crime was committed 31 years ago and it's 30 years since the the woman was sentenced to death.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
They were tough on crime back in 1902; Charles Pickering was charged with "playing football in the street" in Prahran and was fined five shillings - the equivalent of around $40 in today's money. 

It's a good thing the wallopers didn't patrol our street in the 1950s and 1960s when we spent hours kicking newspaper footies and those abominable plastic jobs.  The bitumen wore the ends of Sherrins and Ross Faulkners in no time.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Rd 7 Carlton vs Richmond at home
Great win by the girls 👏

Erone Fitzpatrick seems to get better with every game.  It’s hard to believe that she’s a cross-coder.

Interestingly Dayna Finn still retains an awkward Gaelic footy kicking style but it’s very effective and, apart from that, she plays like she’s grown up with the game too.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
The AFL and the ARL have an agreement not to go head to head.  To do so would be to invite lowered audiences for both codes.
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The Sports Desk / Re: NFL Crapfest
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Sorry LP, but I'm going with Dr David Cunnington on this.  After all, he is a sleep physician with over 20 years' experience in clinical practice.

For the record, he maintains that, for the approaches taken by the 49ers and the Rams, "Each has a rationale, and either strategy is valid."  Furthermore, Allen Sills, the NFL's chief medical officer, confirmed that both teams had engaged sleep experts to formulate their approach.  The Rams' followed the same strategy last year when they flew to London on the day of their game, thrashed  against the Jaguars 35-7, and returned home without needing to stay in a hotel.  Of course, flying to Melbourne is a different kettle of worms than flying to London.
he sounds like a fence sitter.

To be honest different strokes for different folks is likely better.  Personally travelling east is always more exhausting than travelling west, and I would write off the first 24 hours than expect anyone to be at their best after 17 hours in the air.

Cunnington was quite firmly of the opinion that the Rams' strategy was high risk and less likely to succeed because of the significant difference in daylight times.  What he was pointing out was that both approaches were based on sleep science and expert advice.  The 49ers' expert took the points this time.
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The Sports Desk / Re: NFL Crapfest
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The theory is sound, really? I've been travelling the globe for decades and I've never heard such rubbish, daylight hours rule not holding the time zone you exist in.

In my experience, the people who know what to do are the airlines, if you eat when they offer you food, if you sleep when they dim the lights, you'll be in about the best possible condition you can get. It's the Norbit's who push back and watch movies or News all night long that suffer!

As an aside, NASA have been trying this stuff for decades, the Mars lander crew live on a 25hr day so that every week is like a shift change and they operate like zombies. They do it because a Mars day is close to 24.7hrs.

When I was with News Ltd, we worked Newspaper hours, which can be anything from around the clock to 4am starts. You had to have a room setup with blockout everything just to survive, and the best time of day to play or practise sport was dawn. Most of us slept in two sessions, which before the invention of electric lighting was apparently the normal way to exist, with a 1st and 2nd sleep.

Sorry LP, but I'm going with Dr David Cunnington on this.  After all, he is a sleep physician with over 20 years' experience in clinical practice.

For the record, he maintains that, for the approaches taken by the 49ers and the Rams, "Each has a rationale, and either strategy is valid."  Furthermore, Allen Sills, the NFL's chief medical officer, confirmed that both teams had engaged sleep experts to formulate their approach.  The Rams' followed the same strategy last year when they flew to London on the day of their game, thrashed  against the Jaguars 35-7, and returned home without needing to stay in a hotel.  Of course, flying to Melbourne is a different kettle of worms than flying to London.
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The Sports Desk / Re: NFL Crapfest
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Agree with the Rams, GTC - they didn't want to know about. Bit odd considering Australia is part of their assigned international territory.

49ers embraced it - be good to have them here again. One of their media pack has you tube of trying Australian foods - he didn't like tomato sauce,  but liked Vegemite.

Apparently, there are quite a few international games - my son was saying London (3), Germany amongst other places.
The idiots chose to come a day or so before and stuffed up. Now they are looking about it.

I heard an interesting discussion on the wireless with a jet lag expert (who knew there was such a career?).  The theory behind their decision to stick with their usual routine and their local timezone is sound, but the different daylight hours will get you.  Of course, that meant that they weren't involved in promoting their franchise and the NFL and that was the point of the exercise.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Is Lewis Young showing more than ever before?
Lewis Young is not an instinctive or quick thinking footballer and his usual hesitation before disposing of the footy slowed down our transition and gave the opposition time to take away options.  On top of that, his short kicks tended to hang in the air for too long.  The less said about his kicking for goal the better.

As I said in another thread, you don’t get to play 90 AFL games without some talent and the right attitude.  Lewis is a good mark and generally kills the ball when he spoils.  What’s not so good is his tendency to be wrong-footed, fumble and get out-bodied.  He reminds me of Sam Rowe in that my heart is in my mouth when the footy is heading in his direction but I’m often pleasantly surprised at the outcome.

I don’t think that confidence, or the presence of Weiters, is a factor.  Lewis can play, but he isn’t best suited to our game style.

The return of O’Farrell, Dean living up to expectations, Derksen exceeding expectations (it was EB who suggested Wade) and Haynes turning back the clock all mean limited opportunities for Lewis in defence.  As a KPF, he is clearly a defender and, although his ruckwork has improved, it’s still break glass standard.

Basically, Lewis has been squeezed out by younger, better options and the way our footy has evolved.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs North Melbourne @ North
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How much of this is officials, and how much of it is a coach?

I'm sure there are coaches who will happily burn the sport to secure a win, I suspect Norp AFLW is doing just that, while many of the other teams are doing the best they can to play a more attractive style. Norp will play attractive when the game is on the terms they accept, but when it isn't going to plan they turn it into a pile of sludge.

Think of the comments over the last season of so from both Voss and Fraser about not just wanting success but also to play an attractive brand. That is what gets +95K to the MCG, not just the chance of a win!

See, Clarkson Sacked!

Which do you think is the AFL and AFL Club priority, 95K watching a potential win or 50k watching a certainty?

Watch the game. You'll get your answer. Its got nothing to do with the coach

Yes, it was poor and inconsistent umpiring that I'm sure both teams found frustrating.

There seemed to be little communication between the umpires ... except when they had a pow wow to determine a lasso free.  Something as inconsequential as an out of bounds seems to be more important than whether a player gets taken out of a marking contest or ducks into a tackle  ::)
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs North Melbourne @ North
While a loss is always unacceptable, the positive out of that game is that we were always in with a chance, unlike our recent losses to North.

I think that we can improve with Darcy and Sophie back in the team ... and the umpiring has to be better next time.