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Ladies Lounge / Welcome Lily Baxter Pick 16 ... um, 24
Last post by crashlander -
Lily Baxter
South Adelaide
172cm   04-01-2007

STRENGTHS:
+ Kicking
+ Decision making
+ Positioning
+ Footy IQ
+ Versatility
+ Big-game player
+ Scoreboard impact

IMPROVEMENTS:
- Defensive pressure
- Contested work
- Opposite foot
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Ladies Lounge / Re: 2025 AFLW Draft
Last post by crashlander -
Pick 12. Alannah Welsh to Gold Coast. GC matched the Western Bulldogs' bid.
Pick 13. Mikayla Nurse to Gold Coast. GC matched the Western Bulldogs' bid. Nothing like a repeat.
Pick 14. Mizuki Brothwell to Western Bulldogs
Pick 15. Dekota Baron to Gold Coast GC matched Melbourne's bid.
Pick 16. Jordyn Allen to Melbourne
Pick 17. Sophie Eaton to Port Adelaide
Pick 18. Madeleine Quinn to Sydney. Sydney matched Brisbane's bid.
Pick 19. Asher Fearn-Wannan to Brisbane
Pick 20. Mia Russo to West Coast
Pick 21. Lucy Waye to Adelaide
Pick 22. Chloe Baker-West to Melbourne
Pick 23. Amy Smith to Collingwood
Pick 24. Lily Baxter to Carlton   Pick 16 became pick 24!
Pick 25. Olivia Gorman to Adelaide
Pick 26. Jade McLay to St Kilda
Pick 27. Priya Bowering to Geelong
Pick 28. Mischa Barwin to Collingwood

8 bids in the 1st round! And we think the men's draft was dubious!
6 to Gold Coast!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Gointocarlton -
Quote from: crashlander – on
Gun laws might need a tweak, but it is the enforcing that appears to be lacking. If laws get ignored or not followed because it is too hard, then things like this will happen.
Laws are being followed by 99.99% of the population. I recently had to take ownership of my brothers firearms because his licence lapsed and he had to go through the whole process as his "grace" period elapsed.
1. The district firearms officer contacted him and advised his to dispose of them that day or else.
2. Within a week of acquiring them, I had the local police contacting me to do a compliance inspection of the storage of all my firearms.
The bloke who committed the murders yesterday probably had his firearms stored legally also. If its not firearms, it's something else. Evil people will always find a means of inflicting carnage on others, it's the evil people you need to focus on getting rid of.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: 2025 AFLW Draft
Last post by crashlander -
Pick 8: Imogen Trengove to Collingwood.
Pick 9: Georja Davies to Gold Coast. GC matched a bid from the Drug Cheats.
Pick 10: Maggie Johnstone to Essendon.
Pick 11: Evie Cowcher to Geelong.

Don't know that I can last until our picks, not at this pace.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Gointocarlton -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Quote from: Thryleon – on


I havent been following.  Whats happened now?

Was it in relation to the Bondi thing?

I think we need to treat those situations a little differently.  Activism, violence, and potential co-ordination between extremists groups.  Hard to pin this on a local government for anything here.


Governments have been pandering to protesters/activists and allowing a underlying anti semitic tone to develop in the community.
States and the Federal Government have been weak in cracking down on this political unrest between these opposing factions, its got nothing to do with Australian Politics and those pursuing their agendas through terrorism need dealing with more severely and made an example of to deter future attacks. Albanese needs to stop making policy to get re-elected and start protecting the community and make the country secure from these nutcase radicals bringing their politics and problems to Australia.

Albanese and the like will take the piss weak option of changing gun laws penalising law abiding citizens like me who pose zero threat to anyone. He and all the agency leaders should admit to yet more failures in:
- Identifying people who should not be in the country let alone on the streets.
- Dealing with the organisations in this country who spread and preach hate, who's sole purpose is to nurture and promote animals like the two perpetrators of yesterdays atrocity. The agencies know who they are, where they are and what they are up to and do nothing about it.
They've dropped the ball and they know it. They will back peddle, deflect and bring in bullcrap laws that will make not one iota of difference.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: 2025 AFLW Draft
Last post by crashlander -
Pick 4: Sunny Lappin to Gold Coast. GC matched Adelaide's bid.
Pick 5: Chloe Bown  to Adelaide. Bown was the favourite for pick #1 for most of the year, having won just about everything you could win as a junior.
Pick 6: Alex Neyland to Sydney. Sydney matched Collingwood's bid. And here I was wondering about Yerbury, and the answer appears!
Pick 7: Ava Usher to Gold Coast. GC matched Collingwood's 2nd bid,

Gold Coast have 5 Academy girls they want. 5! that could come in the first round!
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Ladies Lounge / Re: 2025 AFLW Draft
Last post by crashlander -
Going slowly. Not a lot of info coming out.
Pick 1: Olivia Wolmarans to Richmond
Pick 2: Scarlett Johnson to GWS
Pick 3: Kiera Yerbury to GWS. She was a Sydney Academy girl, but Sydney decided not to match.

Interesting about Yerbury with Sydney not matching. They can match with any pick within 18 selections. So, do they have their preference for another lass? Looks probable.
Things are going pretty slowly.
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Ladies Lounge / 2025 AFLW Draft
Last post by crashlander -
The Draft is being held tonight. Not sure where it is being broadcast.
We have 3 list places, so I expect us to draft 3 kids. It would have been nice of Sunny Lappin had been one of them, but she chose otherwise.
We have pick 16, but that should move back with Gold Coast's 5 Academy selections.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Thryleon -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Quote from: Thryleon – on


I havent been following.  Whats happened now?

Was it in relation to the Bondi thing?

I think we need to treat those situations a little differently.  Activism, violence, and potential co-ordination between extremists groups.  Hard to pin this on a local government for anything here.


Governments have been pandering to protesters/activists and allowing a underlying anti semitic tone to develop in the community.
States and the Federal Government have been weak in cracking down on this political unrest between these opposing factions, its got nothing to do with Australian Politics and those pursuing their agendas through terrorism need dealing with more severely and made an example of to deter future attacks. Albanese needs to stop making policy to get re-elected and start protecting the community and make the country secure from these nutcase radicals bringing their politics and problems to Australia.


You just described the sole function of a politician.  Get elected and stay elected.

I don't condone extremists, but this action of "condoning anti semitism tone and developing" is not a product of anything to do with Australia, but its more about the war in the west bank and the events of the last 500 odd days there, along with the last 2000 years of history (and possibly beyond).

At no step along the way, has Australia condoned any of the anti semitism that has occurred, but the reason why I state Bondi and its events cant be tied to government and anti semitism, is because its not the same game as simply targetting minorities for the sake of a sick and twisted hate crime.  Its a more politically motivated effort with a goal to change a status quo (not that this makes it much better) but what Im trying to articulate, is that this isnt the same as some spray paint on a temple, or hate speech etc.  Its activism.  The sort that sends the message to the nation state that Jews belong to, and that is a non Australian consequence of mixed society.  We will see more of the same as a result. 

Would any government policy change this?  No.  I dont think so.

The label "anti semitism" in this context does it a disservice.  This was not a simple anti Jewish event.  It was a political statement to fuel the continuing middle eastern conflict.  This was not a neo nazi scenario, and any attempt to paint it as such is an over simplification of what is going on.  Likewise it minimises the why behind the action.  Its not just anti Jewish.  You need to review it in context with happenings over in Palestine/Israel and that ongoing conflict.  It also appears to have been co-ordinated with another event.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/13/live-storm-byron-passes-misery-remains-in-gaza-after-14-killed


No one deserves to lose their life at a cultural event particularly half a world away.  Its not soley about semitism, or anti semitism in this regard.  This was a political statement that has arrived on our shores vicariously.  It is not the first of its kind, and it wont be the last, and whilst that conflict occurs in the middle east, any discussion of "anti semitism" should be shelved, because its not anti arabian or muslim to label the Palestinians or other nation states in the middle east terrorists or harbingers of doom.  WE need to stop that, because that fuels the same violence.   I put 2 and 2 together instantly last night as soon as the shootings occurred in Bondi and figured, something to do with Channukah makes sense, and immediately thought it would come to light that this was a terrorism event.

It is simply another part of the greater under current of war that is occurring over there. 


This is not to say its ok, nor make it ok.

War is war.  When people stop looking at each conflict in isolation, and tie them back to history and all goings on, it changes the context of every event.  Those conflicts in the middle east are as much a power vaccuum situation after Rome fell, and then the Ottoman empire as any thing else.  All the events are intrinsically linked, and just like the Jews were expelled from Israel thousands of years ago, only to return in the 20th century, simply reignites the old feuds.