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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
I guess if you surveyed the wealthy inner trendy Melbourne suburbs about the nightlife, arts , food, culture etc they would give it a big tick. I reckon if it was Melton, Caroline Springs, Dandenong, Franga etc you might get a different set of results.
Bit like surveying Queensland in places like Maryborough, Lockyer, Ipswich West, Tablelands,  for the preferred Prime Minister of Australia and Pauline being the clear winner....
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: kruddler – on
The couple metres back is an umpire directive and i cant understand it.

Forever and a day, wherever you take a mark, a player stands on the mark.
This got tricky when a player took a mark on a lead, with the player on the mark asked to come back a bit as his chasing momentum took him over the mark. Fair.

However in the modern game the umpire almost always asks the player to come back off the mark for no reason.

I commented on it in our game. A player took a Mark on the centre square line. The man in the mark was wanted to stand in the 50m arc. Thats a good 3-4m back of not more. This is not an outside 5, or a stand. That's where the umpires marked the line.
Forget who it was but the player kicked a goal, just clearing the players on the goal line.

I think that was the Short goal I mentioned.

Yes, umpires call players back.  Ollie Hollands cribbed about 2m over the mark and the umpire was, "2m back Ollie."  But that's different to when our players scuttle backwards of their own volition.  I think it must be something they're coached to do, and that's fine, as long as they don't give up a cm when an opponent is around the 50m line.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by LP -
In reality if we focus on crime it is as high or even higher in most other locations, crime is a focus of some / many locals but it would be only a part of the assessment, and compared to most competing international locations we have almost no crime. And we certainly have next to nothing compared to New York, London, Edinburgh and Shanghai.

I've spent a lot of time in Shanghai, and the only people killing more individuals than the crooks would have been the authorities, it a demonstrative case that arbitrary capital punishment fixes nothing. If anything, it just makes the crooks more reactive.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Lapses- Physical or Mental
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Quote from: kruddler – on


Thats half the problem though isn't it.
Players edging into an area past their prime and not enough young talent coming in to bridge the gap.
It is not necessarily about ins vs outs player by player.

This has been a big criticism from me over the journey. Each individual player recruitment in itself is not necessarily a bad idea. You can build a good case for every player recruited vs what they cost us.

However, list building is not about getting a clump of individuals together, instead its about building a fully fleshed out list that is not easily defeated by some injuries.
This is why i've been banging on about our 37 small forward recruits over the journey.
All can play football to different degrees. But they do not make our team/list better when half of them are forced to play 2's because we have too many in the 1's already.
At the same time having only 1 AFL capable KPF on the list, and only somewhat better at the other end.
Agree, but the point was our strong list depth wasn't really strong as soon as the game went to a more precise skilful kicking style.

We lived and died by our good players playing well and our form is coinciding with the top dropping off not the bottom.

Our list was not fully formed, sure, but nobody said it was.
It is more 'out of shape' now than it was though, which is MBBs point.