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Forward????

Pedersen is still injured/has missed a string of games and isn't a possibility. Too early for Hulett and Weidermann (who has also missed a few through injury). Dawes had a bad day, but in the absence of a replacement ...

You're turning into a stalker. BTW, was 11 marks. Also, 5 one percenters. The only players who did better were Jetta with 6 and your other whipping boy, Oscar with 7, the most of any player out there.

I wouldn't have put Kennedy in there, he's generally handy and not a bad kick - unlike the others. For mine, don't see ANB as anything more than deck-chair-shuffling.

Oh come on. This time last year we were sitting on 4 wins with a percentage of 78% - a percentage which went down to 77% by the end of the season. We're currently sitting on 6 wins with a percentage over 100%. At this stage last year (Round 13) we'd managed a grand total of 897 points. This year, it's 1351 points. Night and day.

How anyone can not see the improvement is beyond me. Looking somewhere else?

Not sure about Casey, he must be on the cusp for sure. Just not damaging enough, and often poor with ball in hand. Still, Petracca wasn't much better today.

Casey. 11.12.78 to 11.10.76. FT Stats Disposals - Michie 31, Grimes 29, Neal-Bullen 27, Oliver 24, Brayshaw 22 Goals - Smith 5, Scott, Hulett 2, Neal-Bullen, Weideman.

Disposal, disposal, disposal. Too many poor decisions and turnovers. OK, lots of pressure, but so many times we got ourselves into trouble when we didn't need to. A few poor games today, overall looked very rusty.

At the very least, his disposal is.

Adelaide pressure v. good. We're not coping with it well for the moment.

Hard to see us getting up against Adelaide, they haven't won xx in a row for nothing, and are ticking over well.

His decision-making is also improving, because players further up the field are making better decisions.

This is now "later in the year".

Based on? Plapp gave him a good wrap on the previous match, but then, it's about a lot more than that as well, much of which we don't see or can't be aware of. In any case, it's not about "Garlett gets a game, but Grimes can't", they're completely different players, with completely different roles. Bringing Grimes in is not going to help our crumbing forward stocks. Grimes is now interchangeable with?? ... well, not sure who, which is part of the problem. He's no longer a half-back, but then not specialist enough to be either inside or outside mid. A better comparison would be between Newton and Matt Jones, but Jones has gone up a notch this year, and has done better both at Casey and in the AFL, so hard to argue with that inclusion. Then, Harmes for Olivier is fair enough. Not sure who's supposed to be covering for Wagner: perhaps the unlucky player isn't Grimes or Trengove etc., but White.

The question isn't whether they should lead or not. Given the profile of the game, they already lead. The question is whether they're prepared to take responsibility for leading.

Goodwin doesn't have input???

Now, just where did I leave that picnic hamper.

You can still take an International Membership, just to support the club, or you can take International membership which includes the rights to watch the matches online through the Watchafl site (which is what I do ...)

Of course he's a good defender, that's why Sydney are (very) interested in the first place.

er ... Brexit. Little/nothing will change in the UK itself in regards to the key Brexit claims on border controls, migration and sovereignty, as key Brexit figures are starting to acknowledge. Even the "350 million pounds a week for the NHS" has become "er, well, perhaps we shouldn't have said that". And today Nicola Sturgeon has said that Scottish MP's will not support any exit legislation, given that the country voted against it. Chaos. No-one thought this through. UKIP can make up all the easter-bunny stories they want, because they have no presence or responsibility in the UK parliament, and Boris never thought it would get up, he was just using this to boost his profile enough to give him a run at being PM.

You can "correctly state" all you want, but it's nothing more than a claim and an assumption on your part. It's a classic straw man argument, as is anything that flows from it.

This about sums up the stupidity of it all: It's from a region in Wales who voted 60% leave "to keep the migrants out", even though .. er ... they don't have any migrants. "“What’s the EU ever done for us?” Zak Kelly, 21, asks me this standing next to a brand new complex of buildings and facilities that wouldn’t look out of place in Canary Wharf. It’s not Canary Wharf, though, it’s Ebbw Vale, a former steel town of 18,000 people in the heart of the Welsh valleys, where 62% of the population – the highest proportion in Wales – voted Leave. To go there – along a new dual carriageway – and stand next to the town’s new sixth form and training college, a glass and steel architectural showpiece next to its new leisure centre, a few hundred yards away from a new train station, is to stare into the abyss of the UK’s failed Remain campaign. We’re standing on the site of the old steelworks, a toxic industrial wasteland left rotting when the plant, once the biggest in Europe, finally closed in 2002. It’s now “The Works” – a flagship £350m regeneration project funded by the EU redevelopment fund and home to the £33.5m Coleg Gwent, where some of the 29,000 Welsh apprenticeships the European Social Fund pays for help young people learn a trade. Add in a new £30m railway line and £80m improvement to the Heads of the Valley road from other pots of EU money, and the town centre has just received £12.2m for various upgrades and improvements." So now, future funding comes back to the UK, or in other words, a Conservative Government, dominated by old Etonians and Right-Wing Tories: "Even Kelly looks like he could be doubtful on this point. “David Cameron got a good kicking,” he says. So, what about Boris Johnson? Do you want him? “No way. He’s London through and through. He’ll just forget about Wales.” Or as Michael Sheen, the Welsh-born actor from Port Talbot, tweeted: “Wales votes to trust a new and more rightwing Tory leadership to invest as much money into its poorer areas as EU has been doing.”"

You've shown your ignorance on Climate Change, now your ignorance on the EU and Europe comes to the fore. The majority of the European Council and the European Parliament, the two bodies that pass laws, are right to centre right, and have been for many years. There is not a single economic body in the world who has predicted a net benefit in this for the UK. Not one. The outcome is a catastrophe and a tragedy that all of us will be living with for many years. The Leave campaign has no plan for the future, just the hollow rhetoric of a call to a mythic bygone age of tea and crumpets and giving a jolly good whipping to the Luftwaffe. It's about intolerance, bigotry and xenophobia, that at the end of the day, apart from taking the country backwards economically, will change almost nothing except for the power balance within the Tory Party. The UK will still want free access to the EU market for their goods and services, but the price to pay for that will be firstly that they'll have to accept free movement of EU nationals, a point already acknowledged by leaders of the Leave campaign (after the vote that is ...). Secondly, they'll also have to contribute to the EU budget. Norway, which is often cited as a model, contributes around half what the UK currently does on a per-head basis to the EU. So in other words, on two of the key questions, the UK will still be paying substantial amounts to the EU, and will still have to accept the rights of EU nationals to live and work in the UK - but with none of the benefits of full membership, nor anything in return. Economically deprived areas of the UK such as Cornwall are now running scared, as they well might. They receive 60 million pounds a year from the EU, where's that going to come from now, especially in an economy heading for a recession? Anyone who thinks this is a positive is just being sucked into the narrative while blindly ignoring the reality and the facts. Unfortunately, that narrative is not going to put food on the table of the people who need it most, many of whom were equally sucked into voting out because they don't want to share their public swimming pools with Romanians ... who are still going to be there anyway.

Getting tiresome. You've made your point. Numerous times.