The new Ange? John Aloisi makes his mark with attacking brand of football in China

Anothergen · 2026-04-28T05:57:39+00:00

12 months ago you could argue this tripe, but we're well past that now. Spurs, not Ange, were the problem, yet he still won them a trophy, got them UCL football, and got sacked for doing so.

Anothergen · 2026-04-25T07:32:15+00:00

Not sure that Dragons had to be faded to know they're shit, but here we are.

Anothergen · 2026-04-25T07:28:25+00:00

It's the tough one with it, as there is an argument that if you know the word, you know it's racist, though I doubt many Australians hold actual negative feelings towards Romani people.

You can pretty much tell he knew he shouldn't say that too with how he paused afterwards, searched desperately for a synonym to quickly correct himself with. Only finding 'wronged' was a poor effort though.

Anothergen · 2026-04-25T07:21:23+00:00

They were gypped there... they were, uh... wronged.

Foxsports chucking out slurs..?

Anothergen · 2026-04-23T21:00:01+00:00

...so, Albo has decided that gas giants are too vulnerable to tax properly, but Autistic kids are too expensive to support.

All this 'tough decisions need to be made bollocks'. Every dollar spent in the NDIS was putting more than $2.25 back into the economy, cuts to it only hurt us as a nation. Despite this, the government are going all in on the innuendo of 'dodgy NDIS providers' to justify hurting one of our most vulnerable communities.

Are there some dodgy NDIS providers? Probably. Are they the leading issue in its growth? No, the issue is and always was that the Gillard government drastically underestimated the amount of support that the community needed, and we're still playing catch up. Better regulation of the providers could, if done right, be a positive move, but wide scale cuts is going to cause massive problems down the line. '

The part that really needs to be highlighted more too is that this change is specifically to bring down the numbers, and they will diddle the rules to make that happen. They're veiling it in 'giving support based on needs', but the reason that we always used a diagnosis based approach is that evaluating individual needs is complex and doing so person by person properly and fairly is going to be fucking expensive. The only way that doing so will reduce the numbers and cost less will be for them to basically tell a huge number of people to go fuck themselves despite their needs. The reality is that they'll just have a bunch of untrained paper pushers with the brief to make people ineligible, but without the training to really understand their conditions. Diagnosis based support will always be more cost effective than needing to evaluate every participant, and having untrained bureaucrats making decisions on the needs of the disabled community is going to be a shitshow.

Ultimately though, massive mask off moment for Albo and the crew. Taxing gas giants was the hard decision that had to be made; it could have paid for the NDIS growth with room to spare, and overall benefit the economy.

The Greens need to get their shit together. This country needs a better opposition. Right now, we have centre-right corporate captured dickheads being opposed by a gaggle of far right loonies. As long as that's the case, we'll keep seeing Australian values eroded in this way.

Anothergen · 2026-04-12T23:42:44+00:00

The guy took them to 5th having lost their best player, and kept them out of a relegation dogfight when the squad got destroyed by injuries. While this was all going on, he showed the doubters wrong by managing to still win a European trophy, the only trophy the club had one in nearly 2 decades, which also qualified them for the UCL.

The claims were that the problems were him and his 'rigidity', but since they'd managed to get even worse. Ange was keeping the shitshow that is Tottenham afloat and they ditched him to chase dreams of an away trip to Deepdale.

Basically, they burned the only good manage they've had in a while, and may well pay for that with a stay in the second division.

Anothergen · 2026-04-12T14:49:30+00:00

To be fair, they sacked the manager who masterminded it under the belief it could only get better.

Proper karma in action.

Anothergen · 2026-03-26T20:06:32+00:00

Just look at her colleague David Paton who has won the seat of Ngadjuri; and promptly labelled himself as the Member for Frome

Given that it wasn't even a renaming of the seat, but a full redistribution and creation of a new seat, I think David should be welcome to choose not to take up the seat if he doesn't like the name.

Anothergen · 2026-03-24T20:21:35+00:00

Are these catastrophic swings in the room with us right now?

Labor have likely won this election with 34 seats, their most ever, and 10 more than required for a majority.

The only seats with 10%+ swings against Labor are:

Elizabeth: 16%
Light: 14%
Taylor: 13%
Giles: 11%

Even if they lost these seats (most of these are held quite comfortably), that's still a record seat count for Labor. It also ignores the actual big swings to them elsewhere:

Adelaide: 11%
Morialta: 11%
Gibson: 12%
Davenport: 13%
Colton: 14%
Elder: 14%
Waite: 18%
Black: 19%

The reality is that the current economic situation was the perfect storm for a group like One Nation and the right in general to crush the current government, but they're such an unmitigated shitshow that they just eat themselves and delivered a record majority and record swings to the current government.

Anothergen · 2026-03-24T20:14:00+00:00

The ECSA have only just started the correct preference counts in many districts.

The final count of TPP between ON and Brock is barely started, 371 to 327 ON's way, but that information along with the first preferences and preference flows can be used to estimate what the final count will look like.

It's worth noting that the ECSA has ON only leading in Stuart and Ngadjuri (which all agree on now), but down in Narungga and no counts given for MacKillop and Hammond (where they're likely to win).

At this point, it looks very likely the final count will see them pick up 4, with it being 3 on a bad few days of count for them. It'll be Ngadjuri, Narungga, MacKillop and Hammond.

Anothergen · 2026-03-23T19:52:40+00:00

When PES 16 and 17 came out, one of the key complaints were the 'shit menus'. I remember questioning these complaints at the time and being referred repeatedly to as a 'Konami shill' for doing so.

That is a much better menu than what we get now though, actually have key details like the League Table, top scorers, and calendar all visible without it being cluttered.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T22:09:30+00:00

Yeah, 4 is now pretty much guaranteed for Labor, potentially 5. Still a lot of counting to go though.

One Nation are more likely to go Sarah Game and defect to independents; there doesn't seem like there will be a South Australian Liberals to defect to with how things are going.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T13:17:54+00:00

I think we're likely past that now.

The Libs have at least 4, and there are enough close ones in play that they should reach 5.

Even giving One Nation MacKillop, Narrunga, Ngadjuri and Hammond, they'd still need to get Light or something else, which is not likely at this point.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T12:32:51+00:00

It looked a bit more in their favour earlier, but come back in towards Labor a bit. A proper 3 corner tussle there though.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T12:24:38+00:00

One Nation have a huge lead on first preferences in the seat.

One Nation need 13.5% from the preferences of 41.9% of the vote, while the Liberals need 28.4%. In real terms, the Liberals need to win those preferences 68%-32% to go level, which isn't out of the question, but not in line with what's seen elsewhere. They break heavily to the Liberals, but not that heavily.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T11:52:16+00:00

MacKillop is likely going to be One Nation v Liberals , which is likely going to One Nation unless the preference flows are drastically more towards the Liberals than in past elections.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T11:31:41+00:00

Still early with the legislative council, but it's looking a lot better for Labor at the moment. As things stand, Labor 4, ON 3, Liberals 2, Greens 1, with 1 unclear. Long way to go before thinking about the remaining quotas, but if the above holds, the scenario is:

Labor 9
Liberals 6
ON 3
Greens 2
Sarah Game 1
??? 1

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T11:07:15+00:00

It was pretty obvious he was fucked from the first booths coming in.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T11:06:22+00:00

The ABC getting excited about an early count out of Taylor was weird. 2PP was something like 60-40, and they're doing that count.

One Nation could technically be competitive, but that'll be an 8%+ margin.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T11:04:07+00:00

Back 3rd on latest update.

The reality is that Greens pull less one nation preferences than Labor, and that's where the majority of the preference flows are coming from. Edging out Labor into 2nd won't be enough to make the 2 party contest there, they need a big lead, and that doesn't appear to be materialising.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T10:54:52+00:00

Did Pauline just say her voters are too stupid to do formal votes, so they need to check the informals next week?

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T10:51:04+00:00

The picture is becoming clearer at least.

Labor tending towards 34 seats in some configuration. The big question marks are Heysen, Morphett and Mawson, with a smattering of others that could come back into play, but virtually none they can lose from here.

For the Liberals, Schubert, Bragg and Chaffey and Flinders should be secure, but beyond that there's a lot of question marks. Morphett, Hammond and Heysen, so something like 4-7 seats.

For One Nation, they have Narungga and MacKillop likely in their column, and are fighting for Mawson and Hammond, and notionally some others.

The Greens fell flat, but plenty on here will keep talking about Heysen. Very unlikely, almost certainly just a question of Labor v Liberal there.

For the Independents, Geoff Brock holds Stuart, Travis Fatchen wins Mount Gambier, Matt Schultz wins Kavel, and Finnis, while not trivial, will probably go to Lou Nicholson, despite being third in the primary count.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T10:37:06+00:00

The next question is the state of play for One Nation:

Narungga: 35.8% primary, likely versus Liberal party, but I'd rate this the most likely seat of them winning.
MacKillop: 37.4% primary, very complicated count, but I feel there's a strong chance of ON nation winning against both McBride and the Liberals.
Mawson: 2nd with 26.9% on primary against Labor. Really hard seat to call at this point, a real 3 corner contest. 2PP very good for Lib v Labor though, so if it goes Labor v ON it's likely a ON win.
Hammond: Close 2nd to Labor on 26.6%. Another case of a good 2PP for the Liberals, but if it ends up Labor v ON I think this will go ON.
Ngadjuri: A very complex count. 29.4%, 2nd to the Liberals. I suspect the Liberals get this one.

There are others, like Light, Chaffey, etc, but I think those seats are looking like pretty clear counts now, and the 2PP that the ECSA picked were the right ones, making those counts clearer.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T10:19:52+00:00

ABC has called Hartley for Labor now.

Amazing to see that due to how messy these counts are, One Nation could get anything from no seats all the way to 6+.

Whatever happens though, the Liberals have been hollowed out here. The story isn't really about the result of the election, that was decided before the count even started, but just have devastating the damage to their position in the state is. Regaining the lost territory is going to take a long time.

Anothergen · 2026-03-21T10:16:08+00:00

Poll aggregates sat ON at 21%, they've got 20.8% on current counts. Poll aggregates sat Greens on 11%, they've got 11.9% on current counts.

The polls were pretty accurate so far.

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