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Messages - Macca37

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Hi Baggers. I've just caught up with the last few pages of this thread and read about your operation.

All the best for a speedy recovery.  Let's hope a happy ending on Saturday will let your thoughts wander into positive territory.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Lods, you mention that we dominated for a quarter.  Surely  our inability to dominate for no more than that is simply a continuation of the form that has kept us rooted to the bottom half of the ladder for so many seasons.

An excuse offered for our mediocre form over the years relates to the high number of injuries we have had each pre-season causing players to miss training and resulting in their never being able to recover their form fully during the season.  That excuse cannot be used this season.

 With the return of Silvagni and Docherty, together with new blood added to the list, supporters could be excused for expecting a performance that would give them hope for the season.

I hoped we would win, but if we did not we would at least show promise.  No wonder supporters are angry, the second half was an embarrassment.  Some of the mistakes were almost comical - what you see when people are having a kick to kick session in a park.

I know that the club is under pressure following the number of complaints from supporters. Let us hope we do not have a repeat performance this week.



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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Lods, I hope you are right, but from where I was sitting I saw fumbles, bad handballs, mis-kicks, kicking to the opposition when under pressure and not under pressure, getting in the way of a teammate when going for a mark etc, etc.

The play was of a standard that wouldn't be tolerated by the coach of a Sunday amateur team let alone an AFL club.

The players are well rewarded and it is not unreasonable for us  to expect players to deliver  a standard  of play certainly way above the rubbish we saw on Thursday night.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
The only good thing that happened to me last night was getting a train home before the Richmond mob arrived.

I agree with all the comments made so far on this thread.  After so many decades watching Carlton I knew we were in trouble half way through the second quarter.  Unlike our glory years when we would come out after half time and belt the opposition into submission by three quarter time, we once again showed the mental fragility that has been on display  every season this century.

Despite numerous coaches and hundreds of players moving through our list this century, the two things supporters can expect to happen with certainty are mental fragility and players crumbling under pressure.

I just give up.

 

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Several hours after this incident there was a call to Radio 693 from a woman who said that she lived a street or 2 away.

She said that water had been running from the top of the hill for several weeks, the volume similar to that from a fire hose.  In addition, she said that council had been advised of the problem on a number of occasions.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
If any of Trump's threats to smaller sovereign nations come to fruition under the guise of defence of the USA, then we will enter a new phase of imperialism.

I see Trump taking the States back to the Fortress America attitude of the 30s leaving China and Russia to deal with their neighbours as they wish.

On another topic, I watched a recent Malcolm Turnbull interview relating to the AUKUS agreement.  He described the contract as the worst he had ever seen entered into by any Australian government and held the view we would never see one submarine delivered.

 One clause states that a submarine may be delivered provided the president at the time is satisfied that it is surplus to USA needs.
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At present the US is making 1.2  submarines a year.  It needs to be making 2.4 a year to keep up with the US navy needs.  The current backlog is seventeen submarines.  To make enough submarines so that we get our first would require production to be boosted to 3.4 submarines a year.  I am not sure whether we have given 3 billion or 6 billion dollars to the US shipyards to boost production - whatever the amount Turnbull believes it's gone for good.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
If Trump goes ahead with his threat to take back the Panama Canal because it was a "bad deal", then sure ly it is reasonable for Russia to ask for the return of Alaska on the basis that receiving 2 cents per acre from the USA was also a "bad deal".

Also, under Trump's  "might is right" policy, it would be reasonable for China to take back Taiwan, and to take control of the South China Sea.

The upside for Australia is that we would not have to worry about trying to curb China's territorial ambitions in the future.

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread
I found a recent letter in The Age on this subject to be of interest.

"The UK has had 60 years of experience building and running nuclear power plants, which is 60 more years than Australia.  Yet it is unable to build new plants on time and on budget.  Hinkley Point C in Somerset is clear evidence.  Its original budget of 18 billion british pounds in 2017 has now blown out to 46 billion british pounds and the completion date has gone from 2025 to 2031."

Figures I have seen relating to French, British and Russian nuclear power plants show that, on average, the life of a nuclear power plant is approximately 30 years with a decomissioning life of 60 years.

Currently, from the time the first sod is turned, it takes approximately 15 years to get a nuclear plant up and running.

One of the many problems faced in the UK is the lack of skilled specialist welders.  We will have the same problem.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Paul, no American politician would dare raise any of the policies you have outlined for fear of immediately being branded a socialist and therefore doomed to political oblivion.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
When her term in parliament finishes it will be "Bye bye, Lidia".  She has a snowflakes chance in hell of being re-elected standing as an independent.