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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by LP -
There is a lot of chest beating and bravado going around the MAGA ecosphere at the moment, but in any extended contest or conflict there is nothing surer than eventually your opponent will have a win, somewhere somehow, and it usually occurs due to an excess of hubris.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Pre-game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney in Sydney
Last post by tex -
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We’ve lost it at the selection table IMO

I think Young and Weitering are as mistake, Derkson should've got a gig.

Weitering i don't think is fit and i think he should've been rested until he is 100%.
Young i think is lucky to get a game, and i think Derkson has been better in the pre-season games.

I'm not sure what Chesser has done to get a game either.
Moir and Fog would be a bit lucky too.

Pretty much agree. Think Moir is an X factor so don’t mind carrying him a bit so long as he puts in effort.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Pre-game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney in Sydney
Last post by kruddler -
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Mocked about the sky is falling all summer now the moment of truth has arrived and no one is backing us to win lol.

For those like minded...
We're not Mick Malthouse who couldn't see where we'll lose a game.
Most can see where we'll lose a few.
For me, this is one that will challenge us.
But it's one game in many.

What we dont see is a dramatic fall in our ladder position.
If we win as many as we lose we'll have improved.

Thats a bit cheeky Lods.

Mick was just saying that every game you are a chance of winning (and losing) so going into a game saying you can't win is not something he would do. Which i challenge anyone to show a coach who thinks otherwise and throws in the towel before the game is played.

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by LP -
Quote from: PaulP – on
It's grievance politics all the way down.
When you look at the grievances in detail, they are as diverse as the rainbow, the only commonality is that everybody has one!

Look at the commentary in today's right wing media and political coverage, the Hanson boosters are conflating the funding of Islamic infrastructure with those mourning the fall of Tehran's tyrant. The media and some political commentary paints the usual "They are all the same" picture. Of course if questioned they deny deny deny, but they are happy to make the inference, as is Hanson.

That is not democracy, never was, and never will be!

The end does not justify any means, and the end may not be what is implied by the speaker or inferred by the audience, they are frequently weasel words that get exposed by actions.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Pre-game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney in Sydney
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Mocked about the sky is falling all summer now the moment of truth has arrived and no one is backing us to win lol.

For those like minded...
We're not Mick Malthouse who couldn't see where we'll lose a game.
Most can see where we'll lose a few.
For me, this is one that will challenge us.
But it's one game in many.

What we dont see is a dramatic fall in our ladder position.
If we win as many as we lose we'll have improved.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Pre-game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney in Sydney
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: tex – on
We’ve lost it at the selection table IMO

I think Young and Weitering are as mistake, Derkson should've got a gig.

Weitering i don't think is fit and i think he should've been rested until he is 100%.
Young i think is lucky to get a game, and i think Derkson has been better in the pre-season games.

I'm not sure what Chesser has done to get a game either.
Moir and Fog would be a bit lucky too.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Vale Dennis Cometti
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
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There is little I can say that hasn't already been said. We are the poorer from his passing.

When I think of Channel 7's present commentators, I truly hope someone like him comes again, because the ones there aren't fit for purpose.
I remember Clinton Grybas, I thought he had the makings of a legendary caller and I thought he would eventually take over the mantle from DC. Alas he is also no longer with us, taken far too soon.
On radio there is no better callers than Whately and Hudson IMO. There are no more annoying callers than Taylor and Brayshaw.
Clinton was very professional and a big supporter of his local basketball club and has his name on the wall in the stadium, nice down to earth bloke and agree he would have been a long time legendary caller.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Pre-game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney in Sydney
Last post by Thryleon -
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Sydney had one off year and were grand finalists the year before.  They havent gone too far backwards is my only logic.  Its possible we both rise this season, and they experience a greater rise than we do, which is the result of head to head perhaps a win for them.

Personally, im tipping us to win in a narrow affair, as there wasnt much between us last year, and there isnt much between us this year.  They likely have more continuity, and we likely have more newness.  Both are factors that could tip it either way imho.
@MBB

Not sure where that comes from.