Adam The God

Sounds like an evolution of 2025, only now the shackles are off with a different mindset framing from King. It was a bold move to sack Goody, but it was definitely the right one. The appointment of King looks good at this stage, but a week is a long time in football, and I expect us to yo-yo a bit this year.

I actually thought there was growth with Lever within the game. I've been critical of his ability to move the ball on quickly and aggressively and questioned his ability within this system. I watched the replay this afternoon and there was a moment very early in the second quarter where he moved it on quickly, but went wide instead of corridor. Now maybe that was the plan, but it seemed too safe and counter-intuitive. By the end of the game he was playing real direct, slingshot stuff. I loved it. As soon as he intercepted, he looked to see if we had outnumbers forward of the ball, and we often did and moved it that way aggressively. It was a great game from Jake, and we need more of it, especially without Turner for a few weeks. Gold Coast will be a big test.

There's been a fair bit of discussion on this thread about the eventual make up of our future midfield. What I'm hoping is that we basically have the bones of it there already and that King can extract maximum value from a group that isn't necessarily 7-8 A graders, but that they can play as a team of A graders if that makes sense. That's one thing I've admired about Geelong over the last decade. Often pretty ordinary list with a few stars, but together as a team these guys like Guthrie and Close etc become valuable cogs in ball movement. I also think we're another two young guns away from being able to start targeting FAs for list demographics and needs (ala May, Lever and Langdon). But in the meantime, if King can maximise output from the current group, we'll be very well set. And importantly, we'll be able to attract these FAs because we'll be a sexy outfit.

They're pretty soft aren't they? Both won the most flags in the competition and they've had two decades of hopelessness. Try 35-40 years of it.

Has very little hurt at this stage. And I was a big fan of his.

Tom was brilliant. His best game ever. Am I right in saying he and Kozzy both had PB disposal counts? It's huge that Rivers is dropped and Tom plays like that. So he had more room to show what he can do. He was still rock solid defensively, but got involved in transition and scoring chains. His DE was up and down, but hopefully this game gives him the confidence to push on now. In the second half Carlton stopped, but we started winning centre clearance. We had 1 for the entire first half, a quick kick from Max in the second quarter. We also fumbled less, won key contests and exploited their lack of speed around the ball. Catching Cripps twice in the third really set the tone and we were looking dangerous even just prior to 3/4 time. Super impressive mental effort to chip into that deficit too. Particularly, as they got back out to 20 points again after being only a goal up. Well done, redlegs, and congratulations to Maxy and TMac. I'm glad we got the win for them. And against Carlton. So sweet.

Haha, Goody's still copping it. This is King's team now. Time to stop the excuses and wait until we have enough experience in the midfield and Bowey back in defence. Viney back into this midfield would be very helpful.

Yes, inflation imposes limit. It is the limit! Not government debt. And in case you hadn't noticed, Australia and most of the world have been operating in a floating exchange rate environment for almost 50 years. Again, multiple central banks have done papers on exchange rate pass through being small to non existent, mostly because most import items are actually priced for the domestic market they're sold into. As it stands, we have next to no financial stability because nuffies like Chalmers and the RBA refuse to use fiscal policy to reduce inflation and they use NAIRU, a mythical, imagined number to manufacture enough unemployment to hopefully reduce inflation. That is not price stability. That is hitting and hoping, and crushing working people in the process. They could do what Japan has done for the last 5-6 years and provide oil importers the excess import margin in exchange for price caps. An anti inflationary fiscal expansion. I won't hold my breath that Chalmers and co will use any sort of fiscal policy to reduce inflation. Instead, what we've seen since 2022 is inflation driven in part by interest rate rises, which feed through the rental component of the CPI. And back to your original thesis, no, government debt does not matter. It only matters politically, while we let it. Because foreigners have the choice between non interest bearing AUDs they accumulate in trade with us or interest bearing AUDs in the form of debt. Which one would you take? And again, Australia hasn't issued foreign denominated debt since 2004. So all its liabilities are in AUD, and Treasury is the only source of the AUD currency. Banks are allowed to create credit in AUD (the vast majority of the money supply), because they have exchange settlement accounts with the RBA in order to do business in this country. They use the reserves/AUDs in those accounts to carry out daily interbank transactions to ensure the functioning of the private banking system. But given you've mentioned exchange rates as a limit, it's pretty clear your thinking is still fixed in the Bretton Woods era, like most mainstream economists.

Michelle Bullock - "we actually have the ability to create money, if you like. We can continue to meet debts and we can continue to pay... ultimately the Reserve Bank is guaranteed by the government". I don't think you read what I wrote. I said it will fall to zero if debt isn't issued or the RBA doesn't pay an interest rate on Exchange Settlement balances... Where are these dollars then if they're not private savings? Floating about at the local park, I suppose?

You realise that Commonwealth debt is issued after spending (it doesn't fund the Commonwealth) and is issued voluntarily to manage interest rates. Higher interest rate environments lead to higher bank profitability - multiple central banks have conducted studies on this. Treasury ran a Debt Management Review in 2002 to end the debt market altogether but because it's corporate welfare to the banks and shadow banks, they complained and government agreed to keep it in operation. So those trillion dollars are private savings. If there was no debt issued after government spending, the inrerest rate would fall to zero/nothing or whatever rate the RBA had agreed to pay on Exchange Settlement balances. And private banks would lose profitability. And of course, then neoliberal politicians would have nothing to scare people like you with.

Seems like a really lovely bloke. Glad to have you Steeley. ❤️💙

Also, how was Lyon's patronising and arrogant press conference. "They played off side a lot, and we knew they would, but we let them do it too often". You mean we managed to move the ball quickly and efficiently, getting the ball out into space. It was not like we had a bunch of Joe the Gooses. He's a dill.

They had a lot of cheap possessions behind the footy. Their defenders and half backs use a lot of dinky little possessions that have very little incisiveness.

We only had one player over 20 disposals (Windsor). That's efficiency given the scoreline.

Lots of brilliant lowering of the eyes wasn't there? Really great to see. What King has been able to do in a very short time is McCrae-esque.