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Ladies Lounge / AFLW 2025 Rd 6: Carlton vs North Melbourne at Arden Street
Last post by kruddler -
Huge match this week at the traditional time slot of Saturday 20 September 2025 • 2:35 PM

AFLW Kangaroos team are on one of the best winning streaks of all time including VFL/AFL. In fact one more win and they match our dominant 1995 GF winning run.
We are huge underdogs (as are everyone who comes up against them).
"A league of their own"


What better time to come out and end their run.
https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/1421277/they-should-be-in-their-own-league-all-time-unbeaten-record-within-reach-of-north-melbourne-kangaroos
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by DJC -
Perhaps I went too early with my praise of Utah Governor Spencer Cox.

What on earth was he thinking when he said, "For the last 33 hours, I had been praying that this person was from another country. That he was not one of us. But it was one of us."

Was he referring to a person like FBI Director Kash Patel, who was standing behind Cox and looking decidedly uncomfortable as Cox delivered his monologue. Of course, the FBI hasn't covered itself in glory and that may have been the cause of Patel's unease.

Robinson is the archetypal school shooter and I would have thought that Cox's thought processes would have quickly led him to the conclusion that the shooter was "one of us."
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Rd 5: Carlton vs Gold Coast at Carlton
Last post by LoveNavy -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Glad the girls are showing the way.

Post covid they did the "if you don't want to be here you can feck off" and seem to be benefitting from it now.

Hopefully our men's team have a similar reversal of fortunes.

Another convincing performance once we cleaned up that goalkicking. They are an energetic, team focused, cohesive crew who look like they love their jobs (memo to men's side).

We have backed in a crop of talented youngsters and supported them with quality seniors. It's coming together nicely. Well done 👏

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The Sports Desk / Re: Melbourne Storm
Last post by LP -
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Perth and Adelaide fans believe there's a huge Victorian bias in the AFL.
I don't think there is a systematic bias for or against any one specific club, but the problem is the inconsistent way the rules are applied. If there is favouritism it's probably subconscious.

But I don't think anybody can claim the judiciaries are consistent, and I think that is all fans really want, the judiciary should be fundamentally consistent at least in it's own frame of reference.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Melbourne Storm
Last post by LP -
Well maybe we can take some solace out of the fact that it is not just the AFL Judiciary that is bogus and / or corrupt.

But as a Storm fan it's hard to swallow. Earlier in the season players were warned and being pinged for hip drop tackles, a hip drop tackle is when you tackle from behind or the side and drop your body weight onto the back of an opponents lower leg. It is considered very dangerous, it wrecks knees and ankles, and it happened twice against Storm players at the weekend. Both incidents were not even penalised and were cleared by the post match judiciary. No wonder Bellamy went feral post match, I can't blame him, as if by accident it just happened to be two of Storms prime movers in Munster and Coates who were the victims.

Then yesterday, Broncos star Reece Walsh blatantly and deliberately headbutts an opponent, is sin binned on the spot, and yet post match is cleared by the NRL judiciary.

The couple of weeks before, the Bulldogs captain Crichton rakes the eyes of Storm player Papenhuyzen, an event caught on video and reported, and is cleared to play. Some might say karma got even in that case, Crichton was injured the final against Storm last Friday night and is now apparently likely out for the season barring a miracle recovery.

In the last few weeks the Storm have had Solomona and Grant both suspended for what was effectively accidental high contact, Solomona is basically out for the season from opponents throwing themselves at Solomona's 6ft high shoulder to claiming a high contact penalty. The last event for which Solomona received a three week suspension wasn't even penalised by the on field referee, for good reason, the opponent was dropping his knees in the tackle, which is the NRL equivalent of ducking into a tackle.

I don't mind this if the rules are applied uniformly, and the same applies to the AFL, but it's clear that is not the case.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by dodge -
I've been grappling with Kirk's shooting over the last bit.  It is abhorrent that anyone thinks it is OK to kill someone like that - I don't think many disagree on that.

I have seen a few You-tube videos of Kirk debating uni students.  They are on Kirk's channel, so (cynically) probably edited, but show Kirk respectably listening to the opposite point of view, while the uni students interupt and shout more.  While I think he probably was respectful, he was never there to really understand an opposite point of view or sympathise with it - he was there to try to change their mind - shown by his views on the 'big' topics - guns, abortion, sexuality.

Personally I am about 180 degrees from his views that I have heard.  But how did this come to this sort of violence, which is not new, but the scale is relatively recent?

US Republican v Democrat arguments are much stronger and heated than our politics.  It really matters in a lot of circles who you vote for.  It matters who can convince the most to vote.  The lack of wanting to be in the middle, making the country better for everyone (yes, very hard to do, but a worthwhile goal) means that the rhetoric and vitriol increases.  There is a lot that comes from Trump, however, I recall Biden made derogatory remarks about Republican voters in the last election.  Trump has zero interest in making the US a better place - shown by his appointments and pulling apart of many institutions and departments, total disrespect of the political protections that have traditionally been in place.  It is ramped up compared to previous administrations (they all make political appointments that are questionable).

This allows division to fester and grow, which brings the extremes more into play as they are emboldened.  It breaks society down.  I struggle to see how this can be brought back.

The odd thing personally for me, is that I haven't taken any notice about US politics except when Trump has been president or running for it.  Partly through coverage, but mainly there was more statemanship (as someone mentioned) but for the most part, there wasn't anything too radical and the political systems saw the process/laws through. It was a lot more stable and not nearly as many were threatened by 'politics' or decisions made and implemented.  US Politics was just news, and not really affecting our day to day life.  (There are obviously things that did for many - including WMD - but for me, what the US did was pretty irrelevant to my life).

I hope that there is a strong middle ground candidate that will be able to mend bridges, however, there doesn't appear to be.



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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Rd 5: Carlton vs Gold Coast at Carlton
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Glad the girls are showing the way.

Post covid they did the "if you don't want to be here you can feck off" and seem to be benefitting from it now.

Hopefully our men's team have a similar reversal of fortunes.

They certainly did move players on, and some high profile players left for what they thought were greener pastures.  That really did cause short term pain but I think that it will be to our advantage in the long term.

We seem to have put together a very competitive list that really wants to play for the club and each other.