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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Thryleon -
Quote from: kruddler – on
Cant remember if it was in this thread or not,

But SA votes are going on and it appears one nation is getting a 20% swing in votes which is unheard of.
Looking at maybe 4 seats.

Most of those votes are coming from the libs who have a swing away of 16-17%, Labour 2-3%

I reckon Victoria will be similar.

I expect this to be a lot worse when the nothern states vote.

I think Labour and Libs need to take note of this now because Australia has clearly had enough.
The Australian public has simply had enough.

Between the teals and one nation getting ascendency, its becoming pretty clear, that our political parties are lacking credibility, and invariably are a different flavour of the same time of leadership.

This leaves people looking for disruptors which is the whole point of voting, but we need to be careful.

The only disruptor I can think of who came to power as being supposedly an "up yours" to politicians, was Donald Trump and look at how that is going...
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Quote from: Lods – on
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.
I think the obvious will happen and that One Nation will hook up with the Liberals/Nats at some stage, One Nation are popular not because they have any policies but because the major parties are so unpopular and incompetent.
Labor have proved fortunate with some very competent operators in Peter Malinauskas and Chris Minns at State level wall papering the cracks in Labor at Federal Level and giving Labor some credibility in the Media and with the voters.
No love for Albo even at Lakemba Mosque where he would have thought he was amongst friends after his lack of action regarding anti semitism and support for ISIS brides returning but he knows he still has a massive lead in held seats and the Libs are a rabble with little hope of bridging the gap unless they do something weird and team up with Pauline.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Award 2026
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: kruddler – on
Quote from: Lods – on
I had a look at the Saintsational voting for the games so far.
Tom had the second most votes in the Collingwood game-45 under their system
Nothing against Melbourne
and only a handful against GWS to this stage, but they haven't finished voting yet.

But that first game gained him enough that he's probably in the top 4-5 at the moment on their voting.
Hall, Sinclair and Wilkie are ahead of him, Windhager and NWM around the same

So, basically 1 game gets you top 4-5 after 3 games??
Wow, they are worse than i thought.

It's a bit like percentage
A big win in the first three rounds and a couple of close results, gives you an unrealistic percentage.
As the year goes on and more games are played it evens itself out and it's the consistent performers who end up at the top.

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Lods -
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.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by kruddler -
Cant remember if it was in this thread or not,

But SA votes are going on and it appears one nation is getting a 20% swing in votes which is unheard of.
Looking at maybe 4 seats.

Most of those votes are coming from the libs who have a swing away of 16-17%, Labour 2-3%

I reckon Victoria will be similar.

I expect this to be a lot worse when the nothern states vote.

I think Labour and Libs need to take note of this now because Australia has clearly had enough.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Award 2026
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: Lods – on
I had a look at the Saintsational voting for the games so far.
Tom had the second most votes in the Collingwood game-45 under their system
Nothing against Melbourne
and only a handful against GWS to this stage, but they haven't finished voting yet.

But that first game gained him enough that he's probably in the top 4-5 at the moment on their voting.
Hall, Sinclair and Wilkie are ahead of him, Windhager and NWM around the same

So, basically 1 game gets you top 4-5 after 3 games??
Wow, they are worse than i thought.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
We will smash Melbourne

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.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Award 2026
Last post by Lods -
I had a look at the Saintsational voting for the games so far.
Tom had the second most votes in the Collingwood game-45 under their system
Nothing against Melbourne
and only a handful against GWS to this stage, but they haven't finished voting yet.

But that first game gained him enough that he's probably in the top 4-5 at the moment on their voting.
Hall, Sinclair and Wilkie are ahead of him, Windhager and NWM around the same
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Award 2026
Last post by Thryleon -
Quote from: kruddler – on
Quote from: crashlander – on
Pitto in 3rd says something.

I wonder if TDK is 3rd in the saints count at this stage?
Or even in the top 10!

 :-[  :D
He probably will be, will get a pass because the rest of the team is more why they lost than him.   Gawn did play better than him, but he put in a shift at least, just not one worth 1.8 million worth.