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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by LP -
The asymmetry of modern warfare is a big deal, any country can knock up dozens or even hundreds of drones a day, in fact Australia has been a leader in this teaching Ukraine to manufacture cardboard drones that are virtually radar invisible and can be built for a few dollars each while delivering astounding lethality. All the fancy design and sleek carbon fibre lines are actually a hinderance.

In the meantime active defence systems are complicated and need calibration and tuning to be effective, if operated without calibration the defences become like deploying fly swatters versus a swarming hive.

Phalanx and such systems even need calibrated munitions to perform effectively, you just can't make enough of the good munitions fast enough to sustain long term battles, so they put troops on the ground.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
It has been reported that Israel has told the USA that it is running dangerously low on anti-ballistic missile munitions.

That's despite Taco claiming that Iran is "essentially defeated".

Taco stated that he made the decision to attack Iran "based on what Steve [Witkoff] and Jared [Kushner], and Pete [Hegseth] and others were telling me ... Marco [Rubio] so involved, and that I thought they were going to attack us."

Apart from Iran not having the capacity to attack the USA, what makes Witkoff, Kushner, Hegseth and Rubio experts on military strategy and threat assessments?  It now seems clear that JD Vance advised against attacking Iran, as did the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine.

And then there's Chris Wright, the Administration's Energy Secretary, who announced that he was not concerned that the war might disrupt oil supplies in the Middle East and wreak havoc in energy markets.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by Thryleon -
Quote from: kruddler – on
Quote from: Lods – on
I recall Gawn speaking post match about the challenge of facing DeKoning and Pittonet and the physical effort it took.
St Kilda were behind the eight ball in that department yesterday once Marshall went into the concussion protocols.

We'll need two rucks against him
The question for us...O'Keefe or Reidy.

Put 2 players against any 1 player and they will find it difficult.

THe other side of that coin is that you have less players to play on other players....and thats where the damage gets done.

We've had many a debate about our chances this season and you've tried to convince me we'll be ok because of the spread of talent we got in vs losing elite talent.
This is the same argument but coming from the opposite direction. Forget about trying to cover the elite Gawn and use your spread of talent to win other areas of the ground.....and thus the game.

Rucks are overated.
Gawn is elite.
Gawn vs 1 ruck, he might get 30 touches and kick 2 goals.
Gawn vs 2 rucks, he might get 20 touches and kick 1 goal.

Is it worth adding an extra player to save 10 touches and a goal?
Do we go down a midfield rotation as a result? A midfielder that might get you 20 touches and a goal themselves.....as well as ease the load on the other midfielders, allowing them to benefit as well.

Now, more than ever, our team can afford to play 2 'ruck types' given one of them is basically our FF.
But even then, the output of HOK (or Reidy) in that role is not really seeing us get much of a benefit.

Stick with 1 ruck, and run them off their feet.
.....or at least limit the damage we do to ourselves when we fall in a hole after half time unable to run anymore.
Yep, let lewis young do the relief work currently.  even if he breaks we might end up better off... 
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: Lods – on
I recall Gawn speaking post match about the challenge of facing DeKoning and Pittonet and the physical effort it took.
St Kilda were behind the eight ball in that department yesterday once Marshall went into the concussion protocols.

We'll need two rucks against him
The question for us...O'Keefe or Reidy.

Put 2 players against any 1 player and they will find it difficult.

THe other side of that coin is that you have less players to play on other players....and thats where the damage gets done.

We've had many a debate about our chances this season and you've tried to convince me we'll be ok because of the spread of talent we got in vs losing elite talent.
This is the same argument but coming from the opposite direction. Forget about trying to cover the elite Gawn and use your spread of talent to win other areas of the ground.....and thus the game.

Rucks are overated.
Gawn is elite.
Gawn vs 1 ruck, he might get 30 touches and kick 2 goals.
Gawn vs 2 rucks, he might get 20 touches and kick 1 goal.

Is it worth adding an extra player to save 10 touches and a goal?
Do we go down a midfield rotation as a result? A midfielder that might get you 20 touches and a goal themselves.....as well as ease the load on the other midfielders, allowing them to benefit as well.

Now, more than ever, our team can afford to play 2 'ruck types' given one of them is basically our FF.
But even then, the output of HOK (or Reidy) in that role is not really seeing us get much of a benefit.

Stick with 1 ruck, and run them off their feet.
.....or at least limit the damage we do to ourselves when we fall in a hole after half time unable to run anymore.