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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Lapses- Physical or Mental
Last post by kruddler -
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The list was stronger a couple of years ago.
that might be true but our maturing elderly were in their prime.  We've not exactly see our list flourish elsewhere with the exception of Kennedy.

Everyone else is gone from the afl or spare parts player.  The wheels had fallen off by the time Charlie, jsos and tdk moved on.  Every other player who left us is retired, or cant get a game.

Thats half the problem though isn't it.
Players edging into an area past their prime and not enough young talent coming in to bridge the gap.
It is not necessarily about ins vs outs player by player.

This has been a big criticism from me over the journey. Each individual player recruitment in itself is not necessarily a bad idea. You can build a good case for every player recruited vs what they cost us.

However, list building is not about getting a clump of individuals together, instead its about building a fully fleshed out list that is not easily defeated by some injuries.
This is why i've been banging on about our 37 small forward recruits over the journey.
All can play football to different degrees. But they do not make our team/list better when half of them are forced to play 2's because we have too many in the 1's already.
At the same time having only 1 AFL capable KPF on the list, and only somewhat better at the other end.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by kruddler -
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I saw that a couple of days ago.

It seems as though the methodology of that survey is not, shall we say, particularly robust. Possible more for sh1ts and giggles than anything else. What is important IMO, is that across a range of different surveys / analyses from different institutions, Melbourne is constantly ranked near the top, as the 2nd half of this article shows.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/11/time-out-melbourne-best-city-world
living off past glories IMHO.

Perhaps these lists arent what they're cracked up to be.

Yep....hard to get up to the minute information on every city around the world and collate it in a meaningful way.
A lot of the data is reused from days past.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by Thryleon -
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Operation Epic Fury, or perhaps that should be Epic Foolishness, is a classic clusterf*ck.

No defined justification, no clear objectives, no exit strategy, no consideration of the vulnerability of the Strait of Hormuz, underestimating the capacity and doggedness of the Iranians, taking the pressure off the Russians, weakening South Korea's air defences, screwing the economy ...

Then there's the human toll.  Apart from death and injury, it's estimated that between 25% and 75% of military personnel serving in the Middle East will suffer from PTSD - and that includes our Wedgetail crew and support staff.

Yes.

I have a view that isnt gully formed and isnt well fleshed out.

I get the idea that this war had started in earnest a long time ago.

The Russian operation in Ukraine is part of it.  That move never really made a lot of sense to me, but we all know whats happening now.  Without that move, Iran couldnt simply close the straight of Hormuz.  There was an alternate path.  This is the cold war.  What started in Libya had progressed to the right on the map, pretty much in a straight line.  Its the war without war, more skirmishes and positioning.

The power balance was flipping so Iran has simply become the next battle line.  One that is proving too difficult an obstacle.  The nuclear thing is rubbish.  Regime change, also rubbish.  That could have been insighted differently without the open aggression.

There is a scenario of perhaps the Israelis were poking the bear to tune their defenses.  I reckon everyone wants to see the drone capabilities, the cluster missiles and how better to get access to the tech than provoking use of them.

Now you get to see it in the field before someone truly goes on the offensive with it. 

Like I said not well fleshed out, and definitely in theory, but I dont think America is too phased by whats happening and israels palestine, hamas, Lebanon thing is just the continuation of what was going on. That attack in Bondi, was simply a message being sent.  You can hit us anywhere we can hit you from your own populace.

Worrying times, but at the same time likely to fizzle out by design.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Thryleon -
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According to Time Out, Shanghai, Edinburgh, London and New York are in the top five for the world's best cites, but the champion of the Best Cities list for 2026 is Melbourne.

Who'da thunk it!

I saw that a couple of days ago.

It seems as though the methodology of that survey is not, shall we say, particularly robust. Possible more for sh1ts and giggles than anything else. What is important IMO, is that across a range of different surveys / analyses from different institutions, Melbourne is constantly ranked near the top, as the 2nd half of this article shows.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/11/time-out-melbourne-best-city-world
living off past glories IMHO.

Perhaps these lists arent what they're cracked up to be.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Lapses- Physical or Mental
Last post by Thryleon -
Quote from: madbluboy – on
The list was stronger a couple of years ago.
that might be true but our maturing elderly were in their prime.  We've not exactly see our list flourish elsewhere with the exception of Kennedy.

Everyone else is gone from the afl or spare parts player.  The wheels had fallen off by the time Charlie, jsos and tdk moved on.  Every other player who left us is retired, or cant get a game. 
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Lapses- Physical or Mental
Last post by Milhanna13 -
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We miss far too many goal scoring opportunities when we have the pressure on and are using up our petrol tickets.
Then we ease up and oppositions reel us in relatively easily. Nothing more soul destroying and we go to water.
We either have to build massive leads early or pace ourselves more evenly.

yep.  how often do we dominate, and you look at the scoreboard and we are only 3 or 4 goals up?  need to convert when we are dominating
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Lapses- Physical or Mental
Last post by Milhanna13 -
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Every side loses the stoppages and clearances at some point but find other ways to win.
@madbluboy‍ Is part of our problem we are trying to win everything, instead of just focussing on maximising what we are best at?

Have we spent too much time focussed on our weaknesses, and that is having a negative effect on what we are good at?

i always thought that - when we were flying a couple of years back, the knock on us was that the oppo could score to easily on us (when it happenned).  so, voss spent the entire off season focussing on defending and defensive structures.   it seemed to knock all the attacking flair out of the players.   we have never got it back.  
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Lapses- Physical or Mental
Last post by cookie2 -
We miss far too many goal scoring opportunities when we have the pressure on and are using up our petrol tickets.
Then we ease up and oppositions reel us in relatively easily. Nothing more soul destroying and we go to water.
We either have to build massive leads early or pace ourselves more evenly.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by PaulP -
Quote from: DJC – on
According to Time Out, Shanghai, Edinburgh, London and New York are in the top five for the world's best cites, but the champion of the Best Cities list for 2026 is Melbourne.

Who'da thunk it!

I saw that a couple of days ago.

It seems as though the methodology of that survey is not, shall we say, particularly robust. Possible more for sh1ts and giggles than anything else. What is important IMO, is that across a range of different surveys / analyses from different institutions, Melbourne is constantly ranked near the top, as the 2nd half of this article shows.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/11/time-out-melbourne-best-city-world