Everything posted by La Dee-vina Comedia
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
RG is correct that Governments and Opposition parties will use creative language when necessary to give them subsequent wriggle room should they want to do something (or not do something) which they were to politically scared to support (or oppose) prior to an election. I'm not saying, however, that in this instance that any non-specific response should be presumed to disguise a particular position.
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Training - Wednesday 21st November, 2018
Seems like they've been listening to the ghost of Jack Dyer: "Line up alphabetically by height".
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
I suspect the lack of foresight wasn't the only problem. I presume we would have had insufficient financial resources to do anything there anyway.
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AFLX squad
As a matter of interest, and asked with genuine sensitivity, would the AFL have to get some form of legal clearance from the Human Rights Commission (or whatever it's called) whenever they want to hold an indigenous-only event or choose an indigenous-only team? It's clearly a discriminatory practice albeit well-intentioned.
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
Maybe we weren't asking for enough in the first place. Perhaps we should have added a Formula 1 track to Yarra Park and to raise the railway to a Skyrail to the plans and then agreed to a mediated compromise by removing the F1 component and the Skyrail. Isn't that the way politics is meant to work?
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Rule changes
In the 6-6-6 configuration, is there anything stopping one of the 6 "mid" players, such as a nominal wingman, from starting just outside the 50 metre line at a place which could be called CHB, even though it's 55 metres from the opponent's goal. If so, would seem to make a mockery of the rule change.
- Training - Monday 19 November, 2018
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PICKS # 26 & 31 (formerly # 23 & 28)
Could we be talking about the same Frank Anderson? Someone playing in the mid to late-1940s could be 91 years old now.
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The AFL rule that is stopped 10 clubs from live trading
I'm struggling with the story, particularly as the first sentence states "...due to the [AFL's] strict rules and regulations". Since when did the AFL ever have "strict rules and regulations"? I thought the whole idea was to have a fluid set of rules which could be bent whenever it is deemed necessary by Gil, Hocking and the whole Commission.
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Rule changes
Agree entirely with your last sentence. However, I might be basing my view on Melbourne games which were generally free-flowing. Perhaps games involving the lesser performing teams which I didn't see became unwatchable due to coaches demanding defensive tactics in an effort to minimise the size of their losses.
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Rule changes
I assume once the free kick is paid, the 6-6-6 rule no longer applies, so team b could send its players forward. But your point is valid - team b won't have enough time to get their players forward to overcome the number disadvantage. And even though I substantially agree with your premise, I'm not prepared to say you aren't nuts.
- Training - Monday 19 November, 2018
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Best of 3 Grand Final
I think you could equally mount an argument that for every home ground advantage they get, they get a disadvantage for having to travel long distances roughly every second week. Whether the disadvantage can be quantified as more or less than the advantage would seem to be difficult to assess, although I suspect Champion Data have tried.
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Best of 3 Grand Final
Or State and Federal elections. Ugh. What a thought.
- Training - Monday 19 November, 2018
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Training - Monday 19 November, 2018
Conspiracy theorists start your engines: The training tops for Neal-Bullen and KK have a huge, blank space on the back with some smaller writing which I can't decipher at the top. The training top for Steven May has iSelect in a prominent location on the back. Is this a sign of anything?
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PICKS # 26 & 31 (formerly # 23 & 28)
With that name I immediately think of someone aged 91 with short back and sides and loads of California Poppy.
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The pre-season supplemental selection period
I don't understand. How does it help the big clubs in particular? Doesn't it help everyone equally?
- Training - Monday 19 November, 2018
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Best of 3 Grand Final
I assume Sydney FC knows it won't happen. So, why are they promoting the idea? I can think of two reasons: As a diversion to distract from some other issue. I think this is unlikely. Because they actually want something else and this is just the ambit claim to get the ball rolling. So what is it they might want? I'll take a punt and say that all the interstate teams are going to (a) want a guarantee of more of their games in the home and away season played on the MCG or (b) to have more home games than away games during the home and away season to reduce the amount of times they have to travel and increase it for Melbourne-based clubs, or (c) both.
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MFCSS
I must have caught a different strain of MFCSS. I'm the eternal optimist (otherwsie known as the glass half full sort of guy) who goes to games in a positive frame of mind irrespective of when logic suggests otherwise. And even as an optimist, I still assume we'll find a way to stuff it up next year.
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Last Flag Ladder
For the kiddies out there (meaning probably anyone under about 50) these were wonderful must-have household items. It was made of a stiff piece of paper (like a birthday card) with team names each having a small cut out section which slotted into the ladder. Every Saturday night (because all games were played Saturday afternoon) you could shift the teams around to ensure you had the most up-to-date ladder.
- Training - Monday 19 November, 2018
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Andrew Brayshaw
I said he was a victim who inflicted it upon himself. I didn't say anyone had to feel sorry for him.