Everything posted by sue
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
That says a lot about how bad the commentary is. Too much about viewers can see for themselves interlaced with mutual ego building and irrelevant stuff.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
Who knows. But there may be an advantage to being called the Hermit Kingdom.
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16-a-Side to Fix Scoring
Scoring like soccer? We are so far off that that any talk of having to increase scoring is stupid IMO. Personally I find basketball boring because it is too high scoring. AFL has the balance about right.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
One thing is for sure - there won't be anyone throwing toilet rolls to celebrate a goal. Though if things don't turn out too bad later in the season some people may have an embarrassing number of rolls they wish to get rid of quickly.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
more likely that Fox etc will just be rubbing their hands with glee. (Does glee kill viruses?)
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Game Style Recognisable by Supporters - Goodwin
I'm not able to get to all but one match a year, so my views on game plans are based on ignorance. But was it not the case that we were the highest scoring team in 2018? We still managed to lose a lot of games, so presumably the defense wasn't up to it. With a new solid backline and wings in 2020 maybe whatever forward game plan worked in 2018 might look a lot better this year? I don't buy the line that it was easy to beat the aging cats and hawks in the finals and met reality against WCE (who we did beat a few weeks earlier, albeit not in a final.) While we may not have beaten them in any case, I suspect we were buggered physically and after a few minutes, mentally.
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OPPOSITION WATCH: Rd 1 vs West Coast
Consolation? Watch out. There are posters who would prefer him to be at the peak of his ability and doubly fired by having been injured.
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Goodwin's spiritual journey after season in hell
Sadly bad interviewing is not confined to sports journos. Very often they just read through the list of questions they or a producer has already prepared. It becomes blatanly obvious when the interviewee says 'the sky was blue' and the very next question is 'what colour was the sky?'.
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To Hell & Back: Episode 5
jest it was. And I expect supporters of any team would make the same weak jokes
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To Hell & Back: Episode 5
If his desktop is any indication thank God he doesn't organise the interchanges.
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POSTGAME: MS02 vs Hawthorn
You don't need to convince me that the MRP is wickedly inconsistent and effectively corrupt. But clearly there are some tackles very likely to cause concussion or worse and these should be banned. But the AFL needs to clearly define them and then enforce them as impartially and consistetly as it can. Not easy because there is a grey area somewhere between picking someone up and dumping them vertically on their head and a tough tackle. With Viney I don't think there was a clear secondary action to dump the player, so I think Viney should be OK. Since I think the action is more important than the result I'd have said that even if the opponent was injured. Would anyone argue there was a clear secondary action? Maybe.
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POSTGAME: MS02 vs Hawthorn
Without commenting on the specific case, I disagree that lack of injury should get a player off. If I push someone off a cliff and they happen to land in a bush which breaks their fall and they suffer no injury, surely I should pay a penalty for performing a dangerous (possibly murderous) act. The degree of injury may be relevant in determining factors relating to the level of 'badness' / intention and of punishment. It is unlikely to throw much light on whether the act itself was 'bad,' though I suppose it could in some cases, so it should be considered. But not as blindly as saying 'no injury, no problem'. By letting players off when the victim is not injured (which is usually a matter of luck) the AFL has been sending the wrong message for years. Need to discourage bad acts even if the transgressor is lucky enough not to have hurt the opponent. (Of course the MRP has been so corrupt that this has been the least of their problems.) In the current Viney case, I don't see much evidence of a bad act though I'm open to argument and need a clear definition of what is 'bad' by the AFL.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
I agree. But it does seem odd that you didn't object to the political posts that I was calling out.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
For a start, what SWYL has posted is political - see his conspircy theories. Second, I was just illustrating how easy it is to postuate one. If you read what I wrote you will see I said I didn't believe it. Do you only complain of the intrusion of politics when you sniff politics of which you don't approve? I suspect so.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
True - in which case we must have sinned badly.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
No one here is advocating that. So why do you keep banging on about it? We all know there are silly people buying toliet paper and masks. It seems as if you are trrying to prove you are more educated than everyone else. Are you?
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
By who?
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
SWYL - you can bang on endlessly about how useless masks are, but have you not noticed that no one here is saying everyone should rush out and buy one. But you see a conspiracy. Who exactly is behind that? (Personally I suspect Morrison is making a big issue about Covid-19 just to drown discussion of his blatant sportsrort corruption. Actually I don't - it just has that effect coincidentally.) Stick to football - you know more about that.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
Perhaps you could give us a lecture on virology and show us that flu=covid 19. Symptoms may be similar but they are different. Glad you are not in charge of developing a vaccine. As for China, I doubt they'd be the only country to poo-poo someone saying the wolf may be at the door. Sounds like they initially took the same attitude as you! But their response subsequently was praised by the WHO report, though they'd be riots here if any govt tried to impose the same measures. We get carried away by toilet paper. forgot to add re your first sentence. You were caught out on your stupidity about gloves, so rather than say 'oh yeah, missed that', you suddenly are the only person on the planet who never touches his face. Tut tut.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
Boy that's a good conspiracy theory! Secret illuminati stocking up of gloves but deceiving the riff raff to buy masks. When I have my gloves on I must remember to not touch my face till I take them off. More impeccable logic from SWYL.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
best to ignore him and just hope he doesn't mean it. If he does, I may have to take up a religion which believes in hell and punishment in the afterlife. Also with his inimitable grasp of logic, he should realise it's not much point in killing off the old (unless your aim is to destroy the membership base of the MFC). It's the young who are the population problem long term.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
No, the 20 times figure is indeed mortality. Current flu's are around 0.1%, this seems to be 2% but this is uncertain at this stage (and cetrainly age dependednt as if the flu).
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
I agree that the panicing is ridiculous. But it is more deadly than the flu. Numbers are still uncertain, but is seems it may be 20 times as bad.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
Now that wins the MFCSS award of the week.
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Coronavirus & Other Sports
For those interested, here is WHO's report on Covid-19. China gets vigourously applauded for its actions which will disappoint those who would rather score political points than contain a new disease. It doesn't call for the cancellation of any AFL games. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf