Agree M4L, and I'm surprised Peter Dutton isn't making a pause in immigration it the centrepiece of his opposition.
Now he might be accused of xenophobia, but it's not a racial discussion - it's an economic one.
Agree M4L, and I'm surprised Peter Dutton isn't making a pause in immigration it the centrepiece of his opposition.
Now he might be accused of xenophobia, but it's not a racial discussion - it's an economic one.
I don't think there's the same level of negative feeling about GWS that there was in 2019.
Their bulk draft picks have come and gone (to other clubs, in many cases) and this team has ridden out a very brief down cycle and emerged better. They've recruited smartly with guys like Jesse Hogan and developed later round picks like Tom Green.
I recall before the GF in 2019 there was plenty of talk about a hollow win if they got up, but I can't imagine any of that would be replicated this year. They are seen as gritty underdogs now.
Yeah that was pretty rank from the Lions. GWS were good but not that good.
In other news the Collingwood/Essendon game was a belter. Ended in a draw which felt like the right result.
Falcons are an embarrassment of a franchise. Just egregious behavior.
Oh well if Bruce Daisley said it then it must be right.
And what a great system they have now, where blue ticks only seem to adorn the most unhinged accounts and you don't know who anyone is. Yet another 4D chess move by Elon.
Well that understanding was flawed. Generally indicated a notable person whose identity had been verified - an athlete, musician, politician, journalist, publication etc.
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
Same, I have curated lists and have high quality feeds. The old twitter blue checks were not trustworthy, and the discussions people miss are largely responsible for the mess we are in these days.
I think this is just Musk-esque garbage, to be honest.
Blue checks were 'not trustworthy'? Spare me. When news is breaking I want an easy way to distinguish journalists. When I look at an athlete I want to know it's actually that athlete, not just some random imposter. Likewise if it's an elected official. The blue check system was an easy way to make this distinction.
If you wanted to ignore them or think they are untrustworthy that's fine, but at least you could make that decision.
Replacing it with the current system has resulted in an ungodly mess where blue checks now broadly indicate the last people who you actually want to pay attention to. And you don't know who is who.
Not to mention a particularly heartless and dare I say irresponsible use of a time machine
And not to mention the system is stacked against the top guys, as they are more often than not drafted into failing franchises without the support to actually help them develop.
So they end up succeeding in spite of those around them.
Would be an interesting experiment to get in the time machine and see what happens if Mahomes was drafted by the Jets.
@Dodge I agree with this.
It's also feeling less relevant. I loved how easy Twitter made it to follow news, especially breaking news. Blue ticks actually really helped with that, to establish who you could take seriously (when it came to news) and who you might be able to ignore.
But with a lot of people leaving, and the overhaul of the blue tick model, it's all a bit of a mess right now. And that's before you even get started on the bots.
Hard not to think that it's all just a sad bid for attention/love by a hyper-sensitive billionaire.
I love it. I think having a historically good #1 is great for the sport. Scheffler isn't exactly a showman, but when he's this good I don't think it matters.
Watching him play the back 9 on Sunday at Augusta was art. I normally lose focus if a player is 3-4 up and running away, but I couldn't take my eyes off it. It was an absolute masterclass.
I also tuned in to the Chevron purely to watch Korda. I wouldn't have known it was on otherwise.
It's another reason that the Presidents Cup needs to be mixed gender. A Korda/Scheffler pairing would be unmissable.
I think the school thing tends to be hyper local, especially when you are talking about the public system. Voodoo is right, some are great, some are ordinary, it's very up and down.
I don't know MR, I think it's pretty good here. Harmonious and safe, by global standards. Weather is great.
Always issues to deal with, but I'd put it up against most places.
@mariner4life said in AFL 2024:
@barbarian said in AFL 2024:
to some extent cricket
i don't trust hawkeye
No, neither. But I trust hotspot, snicko and side cameras to adjudicate on runouts.
@mariner4life said in AFL 2024:
AFL Fans: That touched goal ruined our season!!! that should never happen in the modern age with all the available technology!! this is an absolut disgrace and further proof AFL House hates my club
Also AFL fans: The goal reviews are out of control and destroying the flow of the game. Why do we have so many? AFL House hates the game.
This is what you get when you listen to the whingers
I'm consistent. Across all sports. Video replay technology has done nothing for any of the games i like that it has been brought in for. And it hasn't decreased whinging, cries of conspiracy or bias, all its done is shift it from the guy on the field to the guy in the booth.
Fuck all of it off.
With you here. 100%. Perfection in officiating is unattainable*, and any attempt to try and move closer has been unsuccessful.
AFL is a chaotic sport that is almost impossible to officiate. The rules are greyer than grey (none moreso than holding the ball), and umpires have to watch a million things going at warp speed. I don't blame the goal umpires for being gun shy after what happened in Adelaide.
One minute Richo is saying 'if you've got the technology, use it', and the next he's asking umpires to 'just get on with the game'. They can't win.
*Unless your sport involves black-and-white, in-or-out calls like tennis and to some extent cricket.
Adelaide were fantastic against Carlton. You could feel the desperation, and they couldn't miss. Carlton actually played pretty well and bottled it in the last six minutes, but the Crows also came home like a freight train.
Nailed it Mariner - more than happy to swan around Europe and soak up the plaudits when the announcement was made, but it's not so easy now the chickens are coming home to roost.
Miles now standing behind John Coates, who was happy with the option they ran with. The IOC are fixated on not being seen to force Governments into constructing white elephant facilities (burned by multiple examples of disused stadiums in Rio, Athens etc).
But what the IOC don't take into account is that a new oval stadium would be far from a white elephant, and receive year round use from cricket, AFL, concerts. So their perspective isn't entirely valid here.
Hard to believe the Olympics are going from Tokyo, to Paris, to LA to... Brisbane doing it on the cheap. What an embarrassment it's going to be.
Ultimately the Olympics is for grown-up world cities. It never fit in Brisbane and the actions of Miles only shows why.
As a dad of two young boys, I have already got a bit of heat from the in-laws about contact sport. "You're not going to let them play rugby, are you?".
Now there's a bit of pearl clutching there, in particular from MIL. They had two daughters and contact sport was never really on the table for them back when they were growing up. That said if they end up with a concussion or two in the first few years I can only imagine the response.
It's been a tough road to hoe, and like Dan's grandson I'm trying very hard not to wrap them in cotton wool.
They will play rugby if they want to play rugby, but there's clearly much greater headwinds now than when I was growing up and contact sport was a very routine part of life.
Blues should have won by 30, but just kept shooting themselves in the foot. Richmond hung on admirably given their injury toll. Vlaustin is a menace.
Great win from Carlton, nobody saw it coming. Not least when they were down 46 points. So important for their self belief going forward.
A lot of focus on McKay but I thought Acres was excellent and they looked a lot more polished coming off half back, with Williams and Saad starting movement much better than previous years.