Little Goffy

The complete story as told in Mary Poppins; And they all lived happily ever after.

Personally, I'm not going to take australopithecus as a role model for social organisation in a post-industrial society. On the bright side, we're following the path biology was already moving us along; sexual dimorphism in humans and human ancestors has been erratic but clearly trending downwards over time. Another million years or so, the CWA will have no reason to reject Bitters except for Bitters being, you know, Bitters - and that's even before you factor things like tool use.

Lol. It's your text.

I found myself curious about where exactly on the spread of this discussion one finds people blowing this thing out of proportion, seeing gender conspiracies everywhere, contriving outrage, fantasizing about slippery slope catastrophes and just generally being bizarrely passive-aggressive?

Humming supercalafragiliciousexpialidocious as he went, I presume?

A system of redoubts perpendicular to the main defensive line, which; - force opposition advances into predictable paths ending in kill-boxes, and - provide an advanced rallying point for swift counter-offensives.

There's a subtle difference between a 'Coterie focused on x part of the community' and a supposedly 'all' event held at a place that specifically excludes women because they aren't considered proper parts of the business community. I wonder, how many women will be encouraged to contribute more to the club by holding events at places where they are not permitted to be members? "Not for a lack of invite," you say, but something tells me it's a little more complex than that, hey? But wait... women DO contribute a lot to the club. Both as cash donors and in all manner of active contribution. In fact, I could've sworn that grassroots football was heavily volunteer reliant and that the various controversies aroud volunteering (the insurance costs debacle and then of course covid restrictions) have caused terrible problems for many clubs from the most basic Auskick right through to the AFL levels. When you say 'probably 100 to 1' you're just making stuff up, right? Like, completely, wildly, no-connection-to-reality making stuff up? The actual event planning by the club is just a silly out of date blunder that is not that big a deal provided it is (so very easily) corrected. If anything, it is the sheer ease with which this could be updated that is the reason the error is annoying. But the confected outrage-outrage is not edifying. What's that? You found offended people on Twitter? Congratulations.

Disappointed that we didn't grab Baldwin. Could be a gun if he eats enough bananas in the preseason. Essendon seem to be going for a lot of high-risk high-reward types and plenty of low-possession high-impact types. Anyone else quietly hoping that they finally do the full house of cards collapse that has been waiting to happen for years? All they need now is for Hurley's illness to be found to be related to a certain program of medically unsound... hmm... out of respect to Demonland, I won't even use full sentences in case some clutz (looking at you, Jon Ralph, yeah, we all see you there.) is trawling supporter forums for rumours to present as scoops.

It's a bit awkward, there's only really meta-outrage so far.

Well, that's just a dopey little error. How could any executive or event manager of any public-facing organisation not think to check the venue's reputation. And it is the reputation that counts - while that club has made some 'hey we really like women, some of my best mistresses are women' efforts in recent years, it is symbolically not a good association to have. Unfortunately it also speaks as a little reminder of the snooty upper class conservative side of MFC's own heritage. I wonder how many of the board that sacked Norm Smith for not being a proper pukka sahib were members? It's not smart. It should be tidied up. But football clubs rely on personal connections and networking to drive donations and sponsors and extract favourtism from public offices. The Australian Club is a a club for rich [censored] to hang out at and decide what vanity project they want to use their power for... I mean, ah, discuss their philanthropic contribution to the community. "Sponsor m' footbool club, guv'nor?"

I added a thank you but now I've got My Sharona stuck in my head right before trying to go to sleep. To prevent this spreading any further I'm going to stay home, wear a mask, wear earmuffs, get vaccinated. Whatever it takes. Sharona 2021 would just be too much. (Parov Stelar youtube search saved the day) Also, many thanks for another quality report, Trooper Picket.

If he can hold onto his 'better habits' version and use space from stoppages a bit smarter to get more effective clearances, that puts him in the absolute top bracket of midfielders. Just need a bit more of what was in the 'video of the week' from the practice match! Either way, Oliver easily led the competition for clearances last year. He is surely in the same mix as Cripps, Macrae, Steele, Wines and Boak.

Some curiousities there. Three tip Petracca for the Brownlow while also tipping no Melbourne in finals. How often does the brownlow go to a player not in a top-8 team? Also interesting to see two tips of Goodwin out but even they can't agree on who replaces him. Oh, I know just the guy!

Oh for... yeah, not good enough. The moment we try to be cautious we bugger it up. We have a lot of players out there who are a lot better than this and I've lost confidence in Stinear.

Well, that was a better quarter. McNamara stood out. A proper little fighter there for sure. But the shots... the shots...

Awful.

Ouch. When Daisy gives away two panic turnovers in a row you know there's trouble.

They've got swagger, they've got synergy, they got a bit of sumthin' sumthin'.

I'm feeling a bit of pre-game hunt-kill-destroy rage but won't jinx it by making any predictions. I'll focus on the fact that both Goldrick and Hore make the game more fun to watch as well as being top quality inclusions.

It gets worse. Soon your constant bleating will have to be because you are the "JessMary of everything" - Vic and Tim are both masculine names. Anyway, back to the topic; It's interesting to me that different organisations can have such dramatically different apparent hierarchies. I've worked in government departments that had swollen out to having more than half of all staff be managers on 100k+ because absolutely everything that happened there was 'project thing thing' or 'stakeholder relations this and that'. Plus, with the outsourcing wave after the late 90s all the research and expert advice had to be done through a procurement manager who would negotiate the contracts with the manager from the consultancy (who had been an internal research manager until a month before) and then the actual research and investigation would be done by some uni students and interns. In the case of football clubs and their commercial relationships, I guess the need for having executive level status is because you are dealing with often very large companies with big corporate egos and in a position of strength to pick and choose. They're going to want to believe that they are dealing at the top even if the whole deal is as simple as 'for this much sponsorship, you get this placement of logos, this much direct marketing to members, and this many club media products proudly presented by you.' Funny to think that if not for the egos and tax-deductible lunches, the whole thing could be done like an online shopping cart. The political economist side of me is writhing with the reminder that automation of the workforce advances based on relative power of the people who lose their jobs, rather than the actual efficiency gained.

Could do with a bit of the other recent(ish) appearance of unobtainium, from The Core. Is almost completely indestructible and converts external pressure into focused energy.

Biff, just... really... get your hand off it.

Suddenly I feel like Goodwin's position is safe. Just to clarify the suggestion: As our ruck, we're going to play a 195cm key position defender and occasional forward who has only had four games in his career with more than 20 hitouts, has only played more than 10 games in a season once, and (while giving full credit to his recovery effort) has serious injury history in parts of the body that are particularly vulnerable when playing in ruck. So that a multiple-All-Australian ruckman with super fitness and field positioning awareness for around-the-ground marking that is frequently crucial to the play can be moved to full forward to make the most possible use of his iffy set shots.

When it's not your day, it's not your day, but youch, it was not our day.

Dogs have come out in the second on a mission to rough us up but it isn't doing them a lot of good. On the other hand, we're putting legitimate chase and pressure on. Lily Mithen will have a lovely collection of well earned bruises, too.