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Which is the beauty and the truth of existence. Our evolution, and it’s so exciting to see it play out transformatively in my lifetime, is that we’re changing to see it as a cause for celebration, not division. By definition, there is no ceiling to our evolution.

Tassie Momas? Tassie two-heads? Maybe not.

And isn’t the growth of them working brilliantly…. Wow. Which is subject to a thing we call evolution. Oddly enough, change happens, and human nature along with it. Any ideas that behaviour is fixed and uninfluencable (particularly for a species that has conscious self-awareness) serves the status quo perfectly of course, but it’s delusional.

Yep, and that’s of course a commercially driven decision, rather than a longer vision for the game. I’m not concerned about diluting the talent pool either, so I wouldn’t force a relocation, as much as you’re spot on about Covid offering cover for the idea. Improving the ‘pathway’ in Tassie would create its own solution to talent pool diminution, not to mention Australia’s growing population (COVID notwithstanding).

Definitely part of it, and indicative of a lack of investment in making the game better. So many of the changes are reactive.

He’s gotta be an eventual onballer, doesn’t he?

Quality journalism and commentary in footy has been sidelined, MR. The days of Greg Baum, Martin Flanagan, Rohan Connolly et al have been surpassed by clickbait AFL-sanctioned twaddle, which is precisely what feeds the MRO populist-driven inconsistency, not to mention a lack of scrutiny on the game’s even bigger failing - umpiring standards.

That they haven’t been ‘given’ a team already is kind of shameful. They are an Australian Football heartland whose grass roots have been allowed to whither. That commercial motivations have been put ahead of the game’s legacy is, for mine, unacceptable, and the AFL as an organisation is responsible. If the state itself can’t bankroll a team, then this multi-billion dollar behemoth should, simply out of a duty to the game’s future down there. That they’ve done so with GWS and GCS sets the all too obvious precedent, as do financial splashes like the multi millions spent on upgrading GMHBA. We have no game without we protect its roots, and Tassie footy is currently dying, year by year. I couldn’t care less whether it’s a relocation, or about spurious Hobart-Launceston divisions. The whole state would go nutty for their own team, and of course games would be shared between Launceston and Hobart. The AFL needs to be the game’s true benefactor that we want it to be, and get it done.

‘tis in New Zealand.

Selfless and sensible, CYB.

Agree rpfc, but the govt have no stomach for this at the moment. Despite other countries doing it, the outcry from the unvaccinated (particularly those who’ve actively chosen not to) will be too noisy.

Didn’t David King say we had to win the flag this year, because the Dogs have the oncoming talent to wrap it up for the next 3 or 4? He really has no idea.

Just a sneaky wonder if Joel Smith might get the Hunt gig. If Tmac doesn’t get up, and Weid is played for Sunday’s drier day, who comes out? Melksham? Not likely. Sparrow?

I reckon too, deever. He was showing very good signs up forward in 2019. Will be our next back to forward conversion, à la David Neitz. And Tmac of course.

No need faulty.

And murdered, consistently and systematically.

Great point Lord Nev. I’m a white Anglo male, none more identifiably privileged as part of a powerful majority. The only ‘racism’ I’ve ever encountered, and I use the word with a certain irony, was in my first week living in London in the 90’s and going into a ‘corner shop’ in the heart of Brixton (where I ultimately ended up living for 5 years). To say I was given the cold shoulder by its Caribbean proprietors - no eye contact, no direct address, and very frosty (there were maybe 6 people in the shop) is an understatement. It was very awkwardly apparent I wasn’t welcome. The odd thing was that my immediate reaction, beyond discomfort, was not to be offended, just chastened. It was the only experience I’ve had of being in minority and made to feel bad about it. And of course I could immediately leave, resume my place in the privileged majority, and nor was I threatened, in danger or belittled, not even a whiff of the offenses that real minorities are consistently subject to. The idea that ‘racism doesn’t just happen to minorities’ and that the majority (who have all the power) can feel or claim any understanding is not them just missing the point, as you say, it’s deliberately obfuscating from the real problem in order to justify their active bigotry.

That would be the leopard having to change its spots, deanox.

And why would that alter my opinion on your use of labelling as an identity pejorative?

Which are really interesting, and clearly exceptionally informed.

More labelling.

Made of tough stuff were those post war arrivals, JCB.

Perfectly summarised.

Wow, you just don’t get it. I was not in any way personalising it, merely suggesting that he may have seen it happen. You and I have no idea about his experiences, but nor was I claiming to know them. Anyway, you’ve gone and misrepresented me…..I’ll leave you happy in the fact.

And there’s the wonderful truth, WCW.