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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2026 Fixture
Last post by crashlander -
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If we go by last time we met we will be 2-9 after 11 rounds.
Fortunately, things tend to change alot year by year. What seems like a hard draw for clubs can end up and easy draw and vice versa.
We can hope.
I hate Thursday night football; I can never get to those games. And yet we still seem to have more than out share. :(
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by DJC -
Taco has backflipped and removed tariffs on food items such as beef, tea, fruit juice, cocoa, bananas, tropical fruit and tomatoes.

I wonder if it finally sunk into his thick skull that his tariffs were biting with food prices rising faster than the US 20-year historical average rate.  Perhaps it's a panic response to the collapse of Taco's coalition of voters at the 05 November elections.

Ironically, some of the food items that were subject to tariffs weren't produced in the US or, like beef, couldn't meet local demand.

It probably doesn't really matter how Karoline Leavitt tries to spin this, the diehard MAGA supporters will believe anything  ::)
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by LP -
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And his lawyers, be they personal or DoJ (which is much the same) are incompetent and out of their depth 🙄
I think the lawyers know the risks very well, but he surrounds himself with sycophants that he pays very well.

So they end up with sh1t on their nose and a fat wallet, at least until he fires them. ;D

Although if the rumours are true he is burning those bridges as well, it seems yet again in this term his list of indirect debtors is growing faster than his ego, all of them fearing retribution if they speak out.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Last post by LP -
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Webster is more of a bowl a bit and bat a bit all-rounder but, in form, his ability to bowl off spin and medium pace gives him an edge of Green.
Excluding the Wicketkeeper / Batsmen, Webster is as close to a genuine All-Rounder that we have had in decades, 1st Class tons, 1st Class 5 wicket hauls.

Plus to me he has a toughness about how he plays the game, he can easily be as brutal with bat as Green or Marsh, and he won't waste over bowling half-track rubbish or no-spin pies like some of the alternatives.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Last post by DJC -
My old man was a cricket tragic.  He played one season with Carlton before the politics got to much and he went back to Coburg RSL.

Anyway, he was dead against all-rounders who could bowl a bit and bat a bit.  He always maintained that an all-rounder should win his place because he was the best batsman or the best bowler for that spot in the team.  For example, Richie Benaud was in the Test team because he was the best leg spinner.  His ability with the bat was a bonus.  Doug Walters was in the Test team because he was the best middle order batsman.  His bowling was a bonus.  Selectors these days seem to favour all-rounders who can bowl a bit and bat a bit.

I would call Green a batsman who can bowl but I don't think he deserves a Test spot on the strength of his batting.  Webster is more of a bowl a bit and bat a bit all-rounder but, in form, his ability to bowl off spin and medium pace gives him an edge over Green.

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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Last post by Milhanna13 -
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Mark Wood bowled 8 overs in the lilac hill game and has been sent for scans on his hamstring after experiencing tightness.
Can't see him playing in the 1st test ,and if he does then he won't see out the game.

Stokes took 6 wickets...............  every single one of them a slog caught on the fence!!!    The B Team, with only 4 specialist batsmen in the line up made 370odd at 5 an over, against the test attack.    this is their only warm up game

having said that - they will probably all be on fire for the 1st test