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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Election 2025 (Poll added)
Last post by DJC -
We voted today and had to run the gauntlet of party workers handing out “how to vote” leaflets.  They were all quite respectful and backed off when I announced that I had been voting for 50 years and didn’t need instructions on how to vote … that even got a few laughs.

I find the hardest part is deciding who to put last on the Senate ballot paper; several parties/individuals deserve that honour. The best solution was to stop numbering boxes when I got to 40 but that’s not as satisfying as when there’s a standout drop kick.

Interestingly, I know two of our local candidates quite well and they’re both good people. 

I don’t think that I’ll go back to voting on election day but I do miss the democracy sausages 😢

As for party folk trying to stand over voters, that’s always been an occasional issue.  I remember a mate’s father getting into a punch on when a couple of DLP goons went too far in their efforts to get him to vote for their bloke.  However, in my experience everyone is respectful and good humoured, as they should be.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Election 2025 (Poll added)
Last post by PaulP -
I'm just passing on what I've read on socials. There are a couple of stories that have already made the news. The rest are just ordinary people describing their experiences at various electorates around the country. The stories are either true or they're not. That's for others to decide.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Election 2025 (Poll added)
Last post by Baggers -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
^^ Seems to be a tactic to make the Liberals look bad.

They left in tears... 

Words are violence these days I suppose.

What has happened to the world we live in?

Confused, 3 Leos. Not sure what you're asserting here and don't want to jump to conclusions. Crying after being bullied is not an unreasonable reaction, or unusual response/reaction... or is that not what you're saying?
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Election 2025 (Poll added)
Last post by Thryleon -
^^ Seems to be a tactic to make the Liberals look bad.

They left in tears... 

Words are violence these days I suppose.

What has happened to the world we live in?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong
Last post by Milhanna13 -
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
After watching that again on TV, what stood out to me was our handball game. No more hack kicks straight to the opposition, chains of HBs to players running by (not stationary players like the first 4 weeks). Every possession had some thought to it. Also, players barking instructions to the person with the ball were all consistent as opposed to 5 different players pointing to 5 different options.
These are the little things I noticed.

Seemed to be able to thread handballs out the front of the contest, to a teammates advantage a lot of the time.  Not backwards to someone standing still or to someone under the hamme
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
After watching that again on TV, what stood out to me was our handball game. No more hack kicks straight to the opposition, chains of HBs to players running by (not stationary players like the first 4 weeks). Every possession had some thought to it. Also, players barking instructions to the person with the ball were all consistent as opposed to 5 different players pointing to 5 different options.
These are the little things I noticed.

I may be getting my wires crossed, but i believe it was an Adam Simpson interview that said he couldn't work out how the cats always got an extra number behind the ball and basically gave up on trying to work it out. Crediting Scott as a coaching genius.

Fast forward to our game, commentators stated something along the lines of cats are giving up on their +1 and moving the extra into the contest.

Now to me, that says vossy and co outsmarted a coaching genius by forcing them to change from what was a successful game plan.

Now how did we do that?
Exactly as described here. Running, handballing, linking up.

The +1 always sits a kick behind the play. So if you want to avoid the mismatch, run at him with linking handballs (which is faster than he can run back) and kick it over his head.

You take them out of the game as the ball movement is quicker than the +1 movement.

Credit to our coaching panel.