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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Thryleon -
Quote from: PaulP – on
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
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 -
Quote from: cookie2 – on
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 -
Quote from: LP – on
Quote from: madbluboy – on
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
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: DJC – on
One thing that annoys me about our play is that we continually give up ground when there's a mark or a free.  We tend to go to "outside five" between the arcs and in our forward 50 and when we "stand", it's usually a couple of metres back from the actual mark.  Short's kick from the 50 would have struggled to make the distance if our player hadn't retreated a couple of metres.

I understand that it's about guarding territory trying to minimise passing and playing on options giving up metres within range of the goal is just dumb.
The couple metres back is an umpire directive and i cant understand it.

Forever and a day, wherever you take a mark, a player stands on the mark.
This got tricky when a player took a mark on a lead, with the player on the mark asked to come back a bit as his chasing momentum took him over the mark. Fair.

However in the modern game the umpire almost always asks the player to come back off the mark for no reason.

I commented on it in our game. A player took a Mark on the centre square line. The man in the mark was asked to stand in the 50m arc. Thats a good 3-4m back of not more. This is not an outside 5, or a stand. That's where the umpires marked the line.
Forget who it was but the player kicked a goal, just clearing the players on the goal line.

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
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.