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It's all fugazi.

If you are calling your opposition "crap", surely you are diminishing your win?

I doubt they'll change it. Corporate advertising is a lot more important to them than crowd comfort.

My view is it was accidental. If you look at the replay in slo-mo, May actually pulled Hawkins towards himself by the jumper at the same moment Hawkins handballed. That exacerbated the close contact and brought his swinging arm from the handball closer to May's face. I don't see how you could possibly charge Hawkins with an offence, let alone think he did it in any way deliberately.

Just a note that the AFL abolished all affiliation fees for country football leagues in 2018. Maybe too late, but at least it was done.

I think there's a tendency when examining the forward set up to just divide them into "talls and smalls" and go by the old "two and four" maxim, as if talls have the turning circle of the Titanic and the smalls are the only nimble crumbers and pressure players. Rather than just height, mobility is a consideration as well as ability on the ground. TMac (since trimming down and getting fitter), Jackson and Weideman are all very mobile. Jackson is also very athletic, good below his knees and with development has the ability to play like a midfielder. I think the two and four "tradition" could get thrown out the window.

Gawn took a number of intercept marks in the backline last night, all of which could have saved a goal to the opposition. Saying that a 208cm ruckman who can reach higher than anyone else on the ground "should stay out of the backline" is silly.

Yep, Chandler would be good relieving in the ruck. ?

Trained today. Maybe he was visiting Aaron Neitschke in hospital?

Neville Jetta took a few years to become an overnight success.

Yes, by the sound of it. ?

Be careful in deleting that you don't lose data you want, or that sites you log in to using Facebook don't then lock you out. "Deactivation" might be a better option than "Deletion", because your data is kept. If you want to delete, there are also ways of transferring information like photos to other sites before you do so. I agree that Facebook's nuclear-option response is terrible. An alternative method of protest is to send a Spam Report to Facebook for every sponsored advert you see.

All very well, but what level he aspires to is something for Paddy to make, and some club to accept.

As is usually the case, it's not simply a matter of "yes", "no" or "take a punt". It's a matter of his fitness for football, his personal motivation and wellbeing, the likely length and risk for his future in football, what it would cost the club in terms of his contract conditions and length, and whether those factors outweigh any health risk. McCartin was a #1 draft pick after all. There's a big difference between offering, say, a 2-3 year contract and offering a rookie position on basically match payments. The club would consider all that in a decision. My feeling is "no", but there would be a lot to consider.

Trump said it. It must be true.

I thought a smart observer like you might recognise the reference. It's Trumpian mathematics. Like a "non-zero number of observers" at the vote count, or Kayleigh McEnany's "one in quadrillion chance" of votes being cast for Biden. He still lost by 7 million votes, however they spin it.

He increased his non-zero vote differential. Or did he decrease his negative vote? Maybe he increased his non-zero difference? Or was it a non-quadrillion difference? Whatever it was, he lost by 7 million votes.

Workers packed votes away because they'd been told to finish their shift. Then they were told (in the early hours of the morning) to keep going so, they unpacked them again. It was at this point that the video was filmed supposedly showing "massive vote substitution".

Moving B52 bombers into the Middle East today as a threat to Iran. He's trying hard. Still 40 days of his Presidency to go.

Never trust a billionaire who says they can make things better for you.

And two games of golf. Gates is going to control the world when all those microchips go in. We'll all be his menial droids!

Out west that would be the Choir of Hard Knocks wouldn't it?

Trump, the Murdoch media (specifically the New York Post) and a whole lot of right-leaning social media, didn't "sweep it under the rug". They went all out for Hunter Biden. But just like the "rigged and fraudulent election", it's just another lie and conspiracy theory believed only by Trump and his supporters. It had nowhere to go. There's not one scintilla of evidence that any of it was true, not even the mythical laptop and the blind repairer. That's why the rest of the media ignored it. Hunter is a good man like his father and late brother, and the pathetic vendetta against him was deplorable. You are just repeating the lies. Everyone has underestimated Biden so far. I love the way Trump scored an own goal by saying "imagine losing to him". And everyone has underestimated Harris. She is very popular ... just look at the reception she got after the result. As usual, as a woman, she'll be held to a much higher standard than anyone else. She'll most likely be pilloried by the Republicans and Murdoch for things they'd ignore with a man. Biden has one big thing going for him ... the pandemic. He just has to reduce the numbers reasonably significantly, and then next year the Pfizer vaccine (at least) will come through. By his second or third year the pandemic will be almost gone. Trump can claim all he likes about it "disappearing", but it will be in Biden's and Harris' term that it does.

They voted Trump from a fear of "Socialism" and "Communism". It takes priority over Trump's racism.

Trump is like a football team that's a point up halfway through the last quarter, the fresher opposition is coming home with the wind, and they want to stop the match now so they win.