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I don't disagree, but one area where I think incrementalism has worked has been if it is driven by unions. When it is bottom-up and has a genuine mass of people behind it, I think it can lead to sustained improvements over time. Wages and working conditions in Australia really did improve, at...

The answer is to play everyone ONCE = 17 games (current) Play 1 rivalry game a second time = 18 games and an equal number of home and away. Then: - Teams who cannot mathematically make the top 8 are eliminated - season ends immediately. In round 19 use Swiss Pairings (1v2, 3v4, 5v6, etc)...

NT is just silly. Total population of Darwin is just 130,000 and that is in the greater region which is far too spread out. A better partnership IMO would be for the Western Bulldogs to retain their name and colours but to establish a new home ground in Ballarat (with a Geelong style upgrade to...

Whoever would have thought the decision to play games in Queensland in early March might hit weather issues?

What 'AFL help' have Carlton had? Aside from some priority picks that were awarded as part of the draft system at the time, we've had nothing? If anything, we've had the opposite: When we were first at the bottom of the ladder they changed the priority pick rules to prevent us getting two picks...

Wizard Cup looks in the bag here.

Very anxiously, from underneath a pile of blankets on the couch, while burning incense as an offering to the injury gods in the hope they show mercy on us 🙏 🍀 🙏

How do you figure? Durdin has played 48 matches and never kicked more than 2 goals per game. He has only had 4 shots at goal once ever. Once in his career has he reached 15 disposals. Last year he managed 1.6 tackles per game. He has 4 contested marks for his career. As a comparison, Motlop...

I don't think this is the case. My perception is that the working class (and underclass) in the USA know that the economic system is stacked against them. It always has been, always will be. That's capitalism, right? And it's all they have ever known... But what do people want more than...

Isn't the similarity more to Collingwood 2021? Collingwood finished top 4 in 2019 and lost a preliminary final that they probably could have won. In 2020, they snuck into 8th spot with a decent percentage, but were miles off the pace and got belted by Geelong by 10+ goals. In 2021 Collingwood...

The loss of depth does relate somewhat to poor lost management, and ending up with too much cap tied up at the top end. It's also just attrition - good backup players hitting age 24-25 and wanting a full time gig at a team that needs them more (Kennedy, Stocker, Setter field, etc). We started...

Muscular fatigue IS considered a risk factor in ACL injuries. The thinking is that when fatigued the muscles don't respond as quickly and you end up with different angles on landing (and take-off). If enough stress goes through the wrong angle = ACL snaps Interestingly, ACL injuries seem...

I think this season is very much a retooling year for us. Plenty of teams at their peak do this, it's hard to stay up but right now we are in all sorts of trouble. We started out having lost a lot of depth over the past few years - since the 2023 prelim final it's Dow, Stocker, Fisher, Kennedy...

Definitely time for a bump. Let's consider: - Our forward line is an utter shambles. Curnow is out... indefinitely (last time that meant 2.5 years). Owies (3rd on the goal-kicking last year) is playing for West Coast. Hollands (5th last year) is out... indefinitely. Kennedy (6th last year) is...

I think it is more the latter and it is stupid. The main October issues are spring racing (Melbourne only, and hardly competitive with footy at this point) and domestic cricket (which is ripe for a schedule change of its own given it now has a massive big bash hiatus anyway). Would make much...

I hate to say it but I think we have a genuine Docherty problem. Doch is such a battler and to come back from all he has... But he dropped so much weight after his cancer treatment and knee injuries taken 18 months to really get confident... He no longer has his trademark strength, both...

I think the point is that they have changed it, in a very stupid way. Season used to start at the beginning of April. In a very short space of time they have changed it to be a full month earlier. Preseason games used to be night matches, too. It isn't just about the heat. It impacts on...

We are defending very deep and looking to counterattack. St Kilda haven't really looked like scoring and we have moved the ball well, although the kick to half forwards has been a problem a couple of times. They look ordinary though, real test will be against actual pressure.

Big Harry on pace for 32 goals and the way St Kilda's defence have started looks like he will probably get it. Would have 3 by now if Motloo had passed properly earlier and they don't seem at all interested in defending him

He might not be quick, tall, skilled or get much of the footy, but he is a nuggety competitor. I would actually like to see him played in the back pocket rather than forward. From what I have seen he doesn't have the weapon needed to be a threat as an AFL forward but with a bit of training in...

Regardless of your position on the middle east (and I choose to have none other than to observe that it is a particularly unfortunate and unusual historical situation that seems extremely tricky to resolve), it is unfortunate that the 'activist left' - the young, politically engaged and...

What Cold War? We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

The latter, by a country mile. But lets not kid ourselves that is the choice. Harley Reid is a generational player a la Judd and 21 years old. TDK is a solid ruckman who had a really good 6 weeks in 2024 before getting injured. A more realistic question is something like: Which core do you...

Serious question - is there an actual difference between a practice match and a 'match simulation'. Like, does this have different rules - can the coaches stop the simulation, or replay sets or something? Or is it just a fancy name?

My apologies, but I think there's a bit of confusion here. I actually posted this originally in the injury thread, as a quote response to someone else talking about Curnow's injury being pushed back again, and the likelihood that it will get pushed back further, etc. I meant to imply that the...

Expect a player re-signing to be announced tomorrow. If it is TDK, then we better hope Lemmey has made as much progress this off season as has been rumoured....

I agree. I think it is absolute madness to commit to a 7-year massive deal for a player who will be 26 when the deal starts, who has never remotely sniffed All-Australian, and who has had a significant injury every season. I cannot see TDK being worth big money at age 33, so we're really paying...

Schroedinger's knee injury...

Footy used to be a genuine winter sport. For the first 50-60 years of the league the season began in the last week of April. When the league expanded to 22 games it started on the weekend that transitioned March/April and as late as 2015 the season's first match was Thursday April 2. Basically...

Oh good, an investment banker. Those guys have elite mad skillz and would you believe it, he is even a "values-based leader with a collaborative focus on building organisations with strong cultures and alignment to stakeholder interests". Those types of leader are so important for a football...