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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2027 fixture revealed.
Last post by kruddler -
Quick breakdown....

24 Rounds.
23 games
1 bye

17 teams including 6 double ups.

Teams we play twice....
North Melbourne - R2 + R16
Melbourne - R4 + R18
Collingwood - R5 + R21
Port Adelaide - R6 + R23
Geelong - R8 + R19
Giants - R17 + R24

Only 16 rounds (15 games) have days/times allocated so far.

From that 15 we have....
2 - Thursday night games
1 - Friday day game - (good friday vs North)
2 - Friday night games
2 - Saturday day games
2 - Saturday night games
6 - Sunday games....
     2x - 3:15
     1x - 5:40
     2x - 6:10
     1x - 7:45 - (kings birthday eve vs bombers)
    

We travel interstate 6 times....
R4 - vs Melbourne (Adelaide - gather round)
R6 - vs Port
R10 - vs Gold Coast (Darwin)
R12 - vs West Coast
R17 - vs Giants
R22 - vs Sydney

We also travel down to GMHBA (R19) for the first time since Covid in 2020.

Worst Scheduling quirk...
R4 - We are in Adelaide playing the demons on the Saturday for gather round.
R5 - We fly back to melbourne and play Pies after a 5 day break
R6 - We fly back to Adelaide to play Port on the Sunday, a 9-day break.

Surely they could've done that better??
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2027 fixture revealed.
Last post by Thryleon -
By the time the BYE rolls around we will have a fair idea of how well we are going to go.  Looks like our run home is harder than the first 14 rounds (using this seasons performances by other teams as a guide).
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 12: Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane
Last post by kruddler -
There's plenty of permutations and what ifs on where we can finish on the ladder after this last round is played out.

But to cut through all the unlikelies....
We need to beat Brisbane by 1 point more than Gold Coast beat GWS.

Unfortunately, the other game is played after ours, so we have no real control over that.

We just need to win and win well, and then hope its a close game between the other 2, who play on Sunday.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by LP -
Quote from: Professer E – on
Funny pitch, a lot of people making runs then getting over confident and getting out when in complete control.
@Professer E You mean not a T20 pitch, just a normal pitch!

Despite the failure of the team selectors and management I have to say this is the most enjoyable test cricket I've watched for ages, proper Test cricket with players rewarded for concentration and effort and punished for indifference.

But you can still see that players are no longer conditioned for the 5-day game, they are all struggling to maintain a test level intensity. I noted your cartel friends making excuses for that aspect during the lunch break, claiming our lack of "new blood" is due to poor development of youth, then offering more NSWelshmen as the solution. All the while, it's 30 somethings like Starc, Smith and Hazelwood that look the most indifferent, and 30 somethings like Boland and Inglis who appear to be the most motivated if they could regularly get a game!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by LP -
Quote from: DJC – on
It is really worth listening to Richard Willingham on ABC radio.  He provides an objective analysis of each party's policy releases, why they've chosen that tack, and whether they're getting any traction.

Jess Wilson is campaigning well and the most recent polls give her the lead.  However, it seems that there's no uniform swing to the L-NP from the ALP and we should see a patchwork of results with some electorates sticking with the ALP, some being won by the L-NP and a couple going to PHON.  I'm sticking with my prediction of a minority government, probably L-NP, and a hostile upper house.
Too many people get sucked in by social media A/B Bucket testing, it's an echo chamber that leads them to believe everybody thinks along the same lines. Then when the result isn't as expected they'll claim it's rigged by the deep state.

The genuine non-aligned pro commentators use anonymity methods to survey the market, they aren't marooned swallowing the usual crap that Faceplant, InstaTwaddle or XtremoNet tell them.

The simple test we can do is use a browser Incognito / Private mode without using your usual logins to survey the news media and social media, and then actually take note of how very different the report and search results become.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by DJC -
That's one of the most even batting performances I've seen in recent times; Head's 41 was the lowest score (by a batsman  ::) ) and he was a bit stiff to play on.  I'd rather see lots of 50s than one big hundred but I hope Inglis can carry on where he left off.

Watching Labuschagne bat is excruciating.  His over reactions to balls he misjudges are like a bad pantomime performer.  It was a relief that he only lasted five balls.