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Ladies Lounge / AFLW 2025 Rd 5: Carlton vs Gold Coast at Carlton
Last post by crashlander -We will go in as favourites; GC has struggled somewhat.
However, we do have a couple of significant injuries.
Our Line-up:
B: 3 Darcy Vescio 36 Ciara Fitzgerald
HB: 49 Madeline Hendrie 7 Poppy Scholz 21 Harriet Cordner
C: 13 Aisling Reidy 25 Keeley Sherar 17 Dayna Finn
HF: 19 Erone Fitzpatrick 55 Sophie McKay 18 Madeleine Guerin
F: 42 Tara Bohanna 16 Breann Harrington
R: 37 Maddison Torpey 10 Mimi Hill 20 Lily Goss
Int: 1 Amelia Velardo 4 Keeley Skepper 14 Siofra O'Connell 23 Lila Keck 24 Brooke Vickers
Em: 22 Mia Austin 33 Lou-Lou Field 15 Meg Robertson
Abbie McKay is a huge out, as is Jess Good, who missed last week. Yasmin Duursma is also missing, and also would be challenging for a spot in our best line-up with her reasonable form this year. the last one missing is Gab Pound, who is still maybe a month away from playing her first game of the season.
With the limited lists at AFLW level, we don't have many warm bodies left!
Note: Brooke Vickers will be playing her first game in almost 2 years (670 days according to the Carlton website). And our 3rd Irish lass, Aisling Reidy, is debuting this round. Congratulations on their persistence!
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Last post by Thryleon -The cops actively chased a perpetrator over their fence and down the driveway for a seperate incident about 10 years ago. They felt less safe as a result.
When stuff like this happens on your doorstep its a human reaction.
Again not to paint us as victims maybe im just unlucky but the suburbs I grew up around were deemed safe. I've moved to greensboroough about 14 years ago. Neighbours said someone got stabbed in their home 2 streets away. They built their home here. So maybe im a magnet but arguably things arent that bad.
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Last post by Lods -A kid gets attacked walking home from school, the perpetrators, accomplices or bystanders film it on their phones and wack it up on a social media platform.
Someone's security camera is activated and all of sudden it's all over the facebook community page saying "look at these low-lifes checking out our house."
A couple of kids walk out of Woolies with handful of lollies, without paying and it illicits a hundred responses about how the suburb is 'going to the dogs'.
If these things had happened in the past the only ones who would know about it were those directly involved and those they told.
Nowadays the 'world' knows.
Is it happening more. Crime figures will no doubt indicate it is , but is it just more visible, recordable and able to be passed on to the community.
Offenders are under increased scrutiny
In reality it's probably raised awareness and information regarding offending activity, making those responsible more easily traced.
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Last post by kruddler -Thry is right though. People were mushrooms previously - kept in the dark.I don't think it's right to claim we were kept in the dark, it's just that the structures weren't in place to report this stuff, there was no network.
Directly or indirectly, there was no coverage like there is now. Whether there was no light to turn on, or they just refused to turn it on. Point remains.
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Last post by LP -If you want to point blame, there it is right there and it is unequivocal, normalised violence by RedTrump.
RedTrump is that dumb he thinks it's only going to happen in one direction.
It happens here to, perhaps not to the same extreme, but for example volunteers at the Shrine of Remembrance being bashed by protestors. Luckily when that happened nobody died, but here the perpetrators didn't get pardoned by the politicians.
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Last post by LP -I’m sorry for your experiences Thry but they are alien to me.
I know the world is becoming more forked but it doesn’t really touch my life.
Petty crime might be on the rise, driven by drug related issues, but it's not a new phenomenon. Crooks have always patrolled building sites and pinched stuff like tradies tools, the motivations were largely the same, debt, addiction, greed, etc., etc., it's just that it wasn't reported.
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Last post by LP -Thry is right though. People were mushrooms previously - kept in the dark.
I worked for the newspapers for almost 15 years, News Ltd, Fairfax, etc., despite being massive organisations with thousands of employees they typically had just a couple of court reporters covering all of what would now be routinely reported via social media. They probably reported on just two or three stories a day selected by an editor as the most valid or relevant.
Like @DJC, I have a number of relatives working in law, bureaucracy and politics, I'm not sure the real traditional physical crime has changed all that much, but the fake coverage is clearly different and that influences society. The valid / invalid filter no longer exists.
The modern equivalent of court reporters are not reporters, they are nothing more than bloggers publishing for clicks, and everything that is valid or invalid gets published in some form often with AI scripted commentary. The media use an A/B system, posting multiple variants until one becomes dominant to get promoted to the front page / lead. It's the same system the big search engines use to keep you hooked on platforms like Youtube or Instagram.
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