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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by Professer E -
Yea the Cartel fair dinkum stank.  Cummins captained, bowled and batted like he didn't give a f.... Hazelwood was as weak as p1$$ - own up or f off.
Smudge throwing his wicket away in the fashion he did was particularly insulting. Nup, NSW let us down this test in a massive way, isn't the first time either.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by DJC -
Disappointing, weak, pathetic, soft, capitulated and rudderless are all words that spring to mind.

Head, Boland and Carey didn’t want to lose the Test.  The rest of the team? Not so much 🙄
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Lods -
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Not exactly new, but as the date for the mid terms draws closer, concerns and discourse are mounting that the Reps and particularly DJT, will refuse to accept any results he doesn't like, and has been planning for a long time for all manner of tactics to interfere as he deems necessary, including canceling the election altogether.

It's really quite something to watch the major superpower become a 3rd world, corrupt, strife-ridden, shambolic state, in real time.

Its like the fall of the Roman empire.

The problem for us is we're one of the 'provinces' and it will have an impact on us in terms of things like defence.
USA and reliablity don't really go together at the moment....and it's not something we can rely on.
I'm not sure we ever could, but there was a degree of comfort in the idea that we had an ally who would have our backs.

I'm not sure where we fit when the 'Three Amigos'  meet to divide up the World.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Thryleon -
Quote from: PaulP – on
Not exactly new, but as the date for the mid terms draws closer, concerns and discourse are mounting that the Reps and particularly DJT, will refuse to accept any results he doesn't like, and has been planning for a long time for all manner of tactics to interfere as he deems necessary, including canceling the election altogether.

It's really quite something to watch the major superpower become a 3rd world, corrupt, strife-ridden, shambolic state, in real time.

Its like the fall of the Roman empire.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: PaulP – on
Not exactly new, but as the date for the mid terms draws closer, concerns and discourse are mounting that the Reps and particularly DJT, will refuse to accept any results he doesn't like, and has been planning for a long time for all manner of tactics to interfere as he deems necessary, including canceling the election altogether.

It's really quite something to watch the major superpower become a 3rd world, corrupt, strife-ridden, shambolic state, in real time.

The alarming thing is that Hegseth has effectively removed all senior miltary personnel with the courage to stand up to Taco.

The courts, and even Taco's appointees, are a different kettle of worms and are generally even-handed in their applyication of the law, much to Taco's dismay and displeasure.  It remains to be seen whether the civil powers will line up with Taco or the courts.

While it seems easier to amend the US constitution that it is to change ours, the fact remains that it is an 18th century document and the founding fathers couldn't foresee the complexities of the 21st century or the emergence of a cult following a malignant narcissistic megalomanic.  It's unfortunate that some of the founding fathers weren't founding mothers.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: Changes to F/D for 2028
Last post by kruddler -
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Like the men, male players will need to have played 100 games for their offspring to be eligible for F/S or F/D status.

Not at all what the Mother/son or daughter criterion might be.

We have a top pick available for F/D next year: Sophia Green.

Makes sense....i guess.

The tricky one will be going the other way.
How many games can a mother have played before their offspring becomes eligible.....and would it vary depending on AFLW or AFL.
Given the shorter seasons, i would like to think that 50 would be about the max games required by an AFLW player.

.....and because i like to look for loopholes and ways around things......could you combine games played if both your parents happen to have played the game? Say, your dad played 70 games, and your mum played 30 games for the same team, does that make you eligible as they combined for 100. It probably should!
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Ladies Lounge / Changes to F/D for 2028
Last post by crashlander -
Like the men, male players will need to have played 100 games for their offspring to be eligible for F/S or F/D status.

Not at all what the Mother/son or daughter criterion might be.

We have a top pick available for F/D next year: Sophia Green.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by PaulP -
Not exactly new, but as the date for the mid terms draws closer, concerns and discourse are mounting that the Reps and particularly DJT, will refuse to accept any results he doesn't like, and has been planning for a long time for all manner of tactics to interfere as he deems necessary, including canceling the election altogether.

It's really quite something to watch the major superpower become a 3rd world, corrupt, strife-ridden, shambolic state, in real time.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by Milhanna13 -
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As for "pace", the Saffies have made a joke of needing it on this pitch, it shows you how predictable and pedestrian our blokes look when the pitch or conditions aren't assisting, excluding Boland who has the hunger the rest basically go through the motions! They don't want to be there, they can earn 10x playing for 1/20th the time in India!

yep - that "dead" track and "flat" ball sure seemed to fire up a bit, when Rabada and Jansen were steaming in.