Discussion 2024 General AFL Discussion

[wannabewinner]

This isn’t Kerner / Kennett - we are broke and nothing left to sell.

The suburban rail loop if implemented as an uncosted Dan folly will finish this State! Eat humble pie and walk away from it and fund Health, Mental Health, Education etc . Unlike what Dan said - unfortunately u can’t have both!

Ps Dan has exited stage left - he is a smart guy - everything was in great shape when I left!

And a project supposed to finish in 2085… I won't be surprised if it gets beyond 2100… too bad a lot of people might not have 80 years left to check it out.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

This isn’t Kerner / Kennett - we are broke and nothing left to sell.

The suburban rail loop if implemented as an uncosted Dan folly will finish this State! Eat humble pie and walk away from it and fund Health, Mental Health, Education etc . Unlike what Dan said - unfortunately u can’t have both!

Ps Dan has exited stage left - he is a smart guy - everything was in great shape when I left!

Yet the car tunnel the liberals were going to build was ....Eeeevil.

Kerner didn't do anything wrong, or anything right. Cain bailed out like Dan did, and Kerner sat there blissfully holding the bag.
Cain managed to get the place deeply in debt without building much in the way of infrastructure at all except the Tennis centre. Then managed to get an Arena named after him.
Fair enough, but it kind of sucks to name our infrastructure after "non-great" political figures.

Bolte Bridge. John Cain Arena. What next, the Joan Kerner Roundabout? The Ted Bailleu National park and cattle farm?

 

[Brian Oblivion]

Our lack of outer linking public transport is a serious issue for the city going forward. People arguing against the rail loop now are the same people who criticized the city loop in the 80s.

Nah, most of them are dead now.

 

[Brian Oblivion]

Here is a very good article on Freo/GWS player Cam McCarthy that is absolutely worth the read.

Remembering Cam McCarthy goes beyond black armbands and bouquets | Jonathan Horn

The former AFL player was known to mates and Dockers supporters as ‘Dardy McCrafty’ and embraced being ‘a bit of a weirdo’

www.theguardian.com

 

[phantom13]

Definitely a very neocon budget. Pulled s**t from services to balance the books. They needed infrastructure and costs for everything have blown-out to an insane level including finishing projects. Spending to invigorate was the right thing post covid but the economy has since nosedived and prices have risen causing a practical recession without meeting full criteria.

They are so far down the road with their major projects that they can't stop now. Commonwealth games was their biggest heck up. Pulling out was smart but signing on to it was a major heck up. Comm games are of no interest to most people and they've bankrupted cities recently. Brisbane will heck themselves with the Olympics too. They are a lead balloon.

Comm games thing is half right, as i understand it we signed up expecting to use existing facilities with a spit and polish. The capital cost would be heck all then someone in a senior position saw a way to shoehorn up a bunch of regional marginal seats upgrades and have them host some s**t and the cost went way way north. Then we bailed.

The original business case stacked up and we probably should have reverted to that TBH.

 

[gringo2011]

Yet the car tunnel the liberals were going to build was ....Eeeevil.

Kerner didn't do anything wrong, or anything right. Cain bailed out like Dan did, and Kerner sat there blissfully holding the bag.
Cain managed to get the place deeply in debt without building much in the way of infrastructure at all except the Tennis centre. Then managed to get an Arena named after him.
Fair enough, but it kind of sucks to name our infrastructure after "non-great" political figures.

Bolte Bridge. John Cain Arena. What next, the Joan Kerner Roundabout? The Ted Bailleu National park and cattle farm?

Huge debt is a load of s**t. We used it as an excuse to sell everything off. Sold the SEC, water, schools, land, outsourced everything and then we all have to pay for it twice. Politics is about convincing the people that they should give everything to the private sector these days. Wonder why the cost of living is so high when what was provided by our taxes now needs to be provided by individuals to help ever increasing profits for companies that pay no tax.

 

[botts]

Damn. Didn’t expect Caro to come out on nine news and actually speak some leveled truths about the saints.

 

[beside the seaside]

Damn. Didn’t expect Caro to come out on nine news and actually speak some leveled truths about the saints.

What'd she say?

 

[Dr Spaceman]

 

[austinnn]

Always hilarious to see the media slavering over Essendon's pipe after they beat GWS. "They're back!" "They could go all the way this year!" "Is Merret the best captain in the AFL?" etc

If the Bombers were a Dickens book title, they would definitely be Great Expectations. Can't wait for the inevitable fall from the heady heights of competency and tasting the salty Bomber fans tears.

BTW, Do you we think that we'd have got any of that love if we'd kicked two more goals against the Giants and won? Me either.

 

[Saint Watto]

This isn’t Kerner / Kennett - we are broke and nothing left to sell.

The suburban rail loop if implemented as an uncosted Dan folly will finish this State! Eat humble pie and walk away from it and fund Health, Mental Health, Education etc . Unlike what Dan said - unfortunately u can’t have both!

Ps Dan has exited stage left - he is a smart guy - everything was in great shape when I left!

Absolutely nailed it Cobra.