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A week (5 days) is a long time in footy. Expect the unexpected. The NM Ess game was terrible. We have also been terrible so we are a chance.
Changes make sense, Chesser Elijah and maybe even Ollie H should consider themselves very lucky.
Didnt see Albo and crew volunteering to cut the fuel excise to help Australians or say they would return all that extra GST they will make on inflated petroleum product prices to farmers and the agriculture sector etc...Trump isnt the only one who can exploit or take advantage when it suits...It's worth reading about (and there's a few good articles) what cutting the fuel excise now would do. The net effect would be to send inflation northward at an alarming rate, and lead to far greater pain for a much longer time. Economic times now are very different to those that prevailed when the excise was cut during Covid.
Of course, that doesn't stop opportunistic populist w***ers like Hanson, Joyce et al who claim that it shows the Government doesn't care about struggling Australians. Cheap punchlines with little or no credibility in terms of actual decision-making.
They'll be fragmented with nutters having a controlling vote!
Yep Kennett wants the Libs/Nats teaming up with One Nation to oust Labor if that happens and it works then I reckon it's a forgone conclusion it will happen at Federal level .
I make and sell tools so this is what I know.
Just to get an "Australian made" sticker takes a vetting process and ain't cheap.
Buying local sounds great in principle but the reality is...if the local hardware store sells a locally made shovel for $70 and Asian made rubbish for $50, people buy the cheaper option everytime. Price wins out every time.
Bunnings has the ultimate business model....sell Asian-made junk at multiple, still cheap price points....makes that rubbish 50 shovel look like a premium product over the $20 one. Both are still cheaper than locally made. Meanwhile local industry continues to be outsourced under free trade agreements.
Price always wins. Simple consumer economics.
So why do i buy milwaukee tools if ozito is cheaper?
It is NOT always about price.
Educate people as to what short term benefits ultimately end up looking like.
It will be interesting to follow the Liberals' response. On election night there was talk of reclaiming the centre, doing more to counter the rejection by female voters, and reducing the influence of non-parliamentary powerbrokers. Again, time will tell.The Vic problem will be the Liberals selling their soul as is already being touted by the likes of Kennett, they will burn Vic to try and benefit the NSW dominated Feds..
Last 4
Id expect to win well given Melbourne are in a bit of a rebuild, Freo who are a very good team bullied them and exposed their midfield where they have a lot of kids and they managed to neutralize Gawn and K.Pickett. My only issue would be the latter two probably dont play too many bad ones in a row and we dont have any matchup for Pickett.
Blues by 8, 1, 2, 4. I think we will win by much more this time.
I am surprised the primary vote held up as well as it did for One Nation
But it hasn't translated into many seats.
And there is the problem for people who aren't real fond of Labor Governments at the moment.
One Nation are pulling votes from the LNP in big numbers...minor numbers for the ALP
Labor actually increase their majorities in the Parliaments because the LNP and One Nation are fighting with each other for votes.
Voting One Nation is further empowering the very governments they have an issue with.
We will smash Melbourne
Ben gave me the impression late in then year that he was best as a clearance type player, not as a winger like his brother and old man.Yep
The old man left as he had had enough of the coach.
Ben would have played.
Most VFL watchers had him as 'next in line' before he got suspended.
The first half of this season is pretty important for both the Camporeale boys.
I saw a couple of clips through the off season of "Who is looking good at training as judged by the players" and both the brothers got a mention or two.
They are different. Ben is more a 'coalface' player.
Hopefully they can push for selection but the issue they have is that their postitions are mostly the ones where we have the greater depth.
Voss showed he hadn't and get left behind with an outdated game plan. Unlike others, I think our list isn't too bad but not the right person to to drive it. For years our attitude hasn't been consistently good, generally poor. We can tend to give up pretty easily. When all that happens people everywhere tend to revert to "poor list" when it's not always the case. We've generally been a bad club inside and out for 25 years, bar some odd years, especially under Ratten. Doesn't matter how good your list is, that situation means you do no good.
We started with a rebuild then they gave us Bolton, Teague and Voss to take charge of it. A Hardwick-type may have been different. He got 2 sides with ordinary attitudes too fire brilliantly.