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I never take much notice of Casey reports and less so when Trengove is involved. Some posters can't reference Trengove without talking about his pace. It's just inbuilt. "I'lll mention how Trengove is going, but I must highlight his lack of pace". I no longer take any notice. We all know he's not fleet of foot and he'll probably get delisted at year's end, but if he's good enough he's quick enough. If he's not good enough he's gone.

Cultural enrichment.

Are you sure they want ?

Who is underestimating them ?

Just another moderate. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4656926/amp/Student-union-president-calls-Islamic-takeover.html

You needn't have bothered. And I shouldn't have expected more.

In view of @TGR's thread on the main board re Sam Newman's unsavoury comments I thought I'd start a thread on the appropriate Demonland platform. Newman's comments aside, which don't help anyone, the Left's current dealing with this issue doesn't help anyone according to Dr Paul McHugh, a John Hopkins Psychiatrist, least of all those with this affliction. According to Dr McHugh, transgenderism, or gender dysphoria, is a "mental disorder" and should be treated as such. He states, "transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible,” and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder. "The pro-transgender advocates do not want to know, said McHugh, that studies show between 70% and 80% of children who express transgender feelings “spontaneously lose those feelings” over time. Also, for those who had sexual reassignment surgery, most said they were “satisfied” with the operation “but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn’t have the surgery.” “’Sex change’ is biologically impossible,” said McHugh. “People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.” He also warns, "that there are “misguided doctors” who, working with very young children who seem to imitate the opposite sex, will administer “puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-change surgeries less onerous – even though the drugs stunt the children’s growth and risk causing sterility.” The pro-transgender advocates do not want to know, said McHugh, that studies show between 70% and 80% of children who express transgender feelings “spontaneously lose those feelings” over time. Also, for those who had sexual reassignment surgery, most said they were “satisfied” with the operation “but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn’t have the surgery.” The idea that one’s sexuality is a feeling and not a biological fact “is doing much damage to families, adolescents, and children and should be confronted as an opinion without biological foundation wherever it emerges,” said Dr. McHugh in his article, Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme. He goes on, “Think, for example, of the parents whom no one—not doctors, schools, nor even churches—will help to rescue their children from these strange notions of being transgendered and the problematic lives these notions herald." They rarely find therapists who are willing to help them “work out their conflicts and correct their assumptions,” said McHugh. “Rather, they and their families find only ‘gender counselors’ who encourage them in their sexual misassumptions.” In recent years, though, the notion that one’s sex is fluid has flooded the culture. It is “reflected everywhere in the media, the theater, the classroom, and in many medical clinics,” said McHugh. When “the tumult and shouting dies,” McHugh continued, “it proves not easy nor wise to live in a counterfeit sexual garb. The most thorough follow-up of sex-reassigned people—extending over 30 years and conducted in Sweden, where the culture is strongly supportive of the transgendered—documents their lifelong mental unrest.” “Ten to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of comparable peers,” said McHugh. So, my question is, is this "enlightened" thinking, this almost encouragement of transgenderism ? Does it actually help those who have these feelings. The studies in Sweden are poignant because they're conducted 10-15 years after reassignment. Are those with gender dysphoria getting the treatment they should, or are they precluded from the right treatment due to society's quest to make transgenderism appear normal and those who question it just backward bigots and intolerant of others who are different ? It appears to me that the LGBT movement has become so powerful that any debate re transgenderism has been shut down and those that could have successful treatment to help cure this disorder are now pawns in a movement and may find it difficult to have treatment that could actually heal them. Are they encouraged to get psychological treatment, or are their families merely encouraged to accept them for who they are ? Newman's comments are insensitive whichever way you look at it, but it appears to me that discussion re this topic isn't encouraged and many with this disorder are poorer for it. Btw, it's in the nature of the Left to discredit anyone who disagrees with their notions, so no doubt some will madly google Dr McHugh in order to discredit him. Dr McHugh was head psychiatrist at John Hopkins Hospital for 26 years, and he's the author of 6 books and 125 peer reviewed articles.

We'll disagree then. Obviously White doesn't deserve his own thread after his first game in 2017, but his performance can be highlighted in numerous other threads, i.e. the post-game autopsy, changes for next week, three word analysis, etc. Bumping an old thread designed to welcome a player to the club is in poor taste.

It won't be at Wagner's expense as Kennedy-Harris has been playing midfield. I'm not averse to having Kennedy-Harris back in the team, but as a mid. He's proved he's not an AFL standard forward.

You're better off reading the post after yours. You know, from the poster I was actually quoting.

I have no clue as to your point, but that's not uncommon round these parts.

What's poor is bumping threads that welcome a player to the club just to [censored] can him.

White and Wagner showed the gulf between "knocking the door down" at Casey and a highly pressurised AFL game when you have much less time to think and execute, and less margin for error within those executions. White has looked a class above in the VFL, so I'm not critical of the selection, but he was overawed. I reckon they'll give him at least another game in Salem's absence, because it takes time to get used to the speed and tempo of AFL footy. Wagner has already shown that he can play well at the level, so it was disappointing he couldn't step up on the night.

So you're saying they assess injuries on a case by case matter ? What a revelation.

I don't. A big bull inside mid like Kennedy is almost impossible to tag. I can see them tagging Hannebery or Heeney. So I think it will be one of Mills, Lloyd, Hannebery, or Heeney. My guess is one of their back-flankers.

I could be wrong. It could be Lloyd.

Melksham will play a defensive forward role on Mills.

You state the obvious. But when I see a player interviewed that I've seen interviewed dozens of times, state the very next morning that it felt so good they decided not to have a scan, I feel I've been around long enough to form a calculated view as to the veracity of the comments. Especially when a scan in and of itself is so unremarkable that players of every club have them most weeks. You, and others, can form your own conclusions. And leave me to mine.

Not necessarily, but yes, likely. That's why they're called "emergencies". And yes, "partly" an encouragement award, because it's highly likely only one would come in, so you can encourage the other two. Like Dion Johnstone, who realistically isn't going to play under any circumstances.

Hahaha If the MRP weren't so incompetent Houli would have got 3 weeks and the AFL wouldn't have bothered appealing. He's now out for 4.

You're being silly. Goody doesn't play ducks and drakes with players that clearly won't play, which is why he ruled out Watts, Garlett, and Hogan on Wednesday. And he wouldn't send an important player out with a serious injury when he wants them ripe for potential finals. Viney's collision was hardly hidden from Sydney or any other club. But they decided to not bother sending him for scans because he pulled up so well. The Russians aren't lying underneath your bed.

If they thought it was a broken collarbone do you think there's a chance they would have sent him for a scan ?

Way too much read into who the Emergencies are. They're partly an encouragement award. Every player on the list knows where they stand irrespective of named emergencies.

White is a decent player with an excellent left foot. His form has been really building at VFL level and he often looks a class above.

I know what you mean, but there was footage a day earlier on the news showing him running the boundary at a fair clip. As long as he hasn't made the injury worse, and we haven't heard he has, and as long as there's no tear or strain, and we're led to believe it's back related, then I wouldn't read too much into one training session. Especially, as he would have already been ruled out.