daisycutter

nz closes travel bubble "for nixt sux wiks, whun ut wull bi riassistid"

i am trying hard now to defocus from the minutiae of day to day covid and all the experts and "noise". it's too much hard work, impossibly subjective and ultimately too depressing, pragmatically i increasingly look at the 20,000' view and we are comparatively doing quite well here in the antipodes.... the press, the pollies and the public servants can do what they are paid for and take all the heat, bickering and frustration on my behalf.... it will all work out in good time (as long as it's by the start of next season, that is).....cheers

c'mon rab, that's just fear mongering anyone can easily hypothesize a myriad of doomsday scenarios, all with a modicum of logic behind them

fixed it for ya

can't help you there

maybe, maybe not, rjay the blues have had many false dawns.......i'd put my money on another

never ass_u_me......?

i see katie hopkins got booted off a reality show and back to albium just got me thinking, how can someone be that bad and controversial they don't even qualify for an aussie reality show!

fair enough, psd, your choice the current system of 17 games plus 5 (seemingly) random games is the root of the current unfairness and lack of transparency. the conference system was just a way to make the fixture predictable and transparent. it's by no means perfect either. i go back a long way. in the '60s (12 teams 18 rounds) at least i'm pretty sure, there were 11 games against all the other teams, followed by 7 games against 7 of the other 11 teams. this 7 games was on a fixed rolling sequence. e.g. one year play team 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 then next year 8,9,10,11,1,2.3, then next year 4,5,6,7,8,9,10 etc etc. fixed and predictable, no afl fiddling, but of course still a bit of a lottery depending on the year, but as "fair" as could be made. (n.b. games didn't have to be played in same sequence each year) anyway, somewhere along the way this all got changed due to marketing, club power politics and stakeholder interests, and no-one in the public knows exactly how the extra 5 games are chosen. of course we can guess and have our own theories. at least this is how i remember things , it certainly wasn't always the way it is now.

an alternative approach: 3 conferences each of 6 sides play each team in conference twice plus once against all other conference teams i.e. (2 x 5) + (1 x12) = 22 games total conferences initially decided by ranking all teams over say 20 years (or 10 or 25 or 30 or whatever). conf1 - 1,4,7,10,13,16 conf2 - 2,5,8,11,14.17 conf3 - 3,6,9,12,15,18 Final 8 = top 2 from each conference plus next best performing 2 teams

n.b. note combined scoring 21.11...........i wish

whole giants team coming down with covid mid game? swans kick 9 un-answered goals after being down 34 pts..................wtf

richmond might ask for the premiers challenge?

here;'s the afl tearing their hair trying to keep a fixture alive...... .....and the sooky entitled jeelong karens are sobbing for favours

bugle boy reminds me of nicky winmar

what are all those papyrus bushes doing on top of the stands?

all tradesmen?

gawd, imagine how bad that game would have been if they weren't indoors.....mind boggles

aints should snatch a loss here out of the jaws of victory

now watch the aints [censored] it up

a truly forgettable game both teams with plenty on the line......and they dish up this rubbish

seems he's only talking of victorians though

i think the health 'experts' acting as advisors had a big say too

from now on the cats name is to be dropped they will now be called the jilong karens let's make it stick

the opposite of a logophobe