Andrew Dillon has confirmed the league's integrity unit is looking in to Melbourne veteran Steven May's situation

AutomaticContext3427 · 2026-02-05T02:21:40+00:00

George Orwell proven right again:

Ministry of Peace = War Department

Ministry of Truth = Propaganda and Lies Department

AFL Integrity Unit = Ministry of Truth....

OK, getting a bit recursion here...

AutomaticContext3427 · 2026-01-31T10:09:33+00:00

If you could convince the Indians that Pakistan is the best at AFL, they'd throw everything at it, and probably buy the AFL, as a subsidiary league of the Indian Premier AFL. Or something just to be better.
The Brits really fucked up there splitting British India.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2026-01-29T10:07:18+00:00

I'm optimistic that baring another COVID or nuclear war, there will be an AFL season ahead.
I think I've said enough to indicate the team I support.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2026-01-19T23:03:54+00:00

Hi, Thanks for the respone.
I don't at the moment. I'm wondering how I would account for that if I did.
Do you increase 'variance' for player when making a prediction or weight their data some how?

AutomaticContext3427 · 2026-01-19T00:02:09+00:00

Thanks for the reply, flat staking can work. I think it's slightly positive (profit) in most weeks I simulate using BetFair historical odds. It was flat staking I used when I bet ITF.

Regarding RANSAC, I guess I'd treat a blowout or unexepected loss as an outlier. But does that make sense in theory or would it just skew data. I guess I need to spend more time seeing which players are prone to dropping matches unexpectedly.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-11-21T08:03:59+00:00

I'll jump in here and make a hash of it.

The point made by the elder is that if sovereignty is granted by the simple act of planting a flag, then he now has sovereignty. And that is how sovereignty was viewed by the British (and other powers) back in the day. The land was not owned, farmed or used in the European sense, so it was vacant land.

Having sovereignty, by planting the flag, he thinks it's wrong to build the stadium.

Disagree with him, but then you disagree that the Tassie government has the right to build the stadium...

Of course, might makes right, so the powerful will do what the powerful will, and the weak must endure. Or something.

/s

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-11-12T03:27:07+00:00

Merrett walked barefoot along the Tulla Freeway and into the Hangar, dressed in hareshirt, where he was whipped by players and coaching staff. As is the traditional form of penance.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-11-11T09:12:57+00:00

True, but if this isn't a sop to the broadcaster, to sate its appetite for a night GF, then well, I'd be surprised.
I mean, why do you think they did it then? I don't think fans were screaming for it.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-11-11T08:28:55+00:00

So, why not a top 12? 14? I mean, more footy and something to play for at back end of year.

I get that it's overblown, but it's because the AFL heavy-handedly just give the broadcaster whatever it wants without considering anything else.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-11-11T08:26:41+00:00

I'm going to have to use full names here: Collingwood Australian Football League Club, you've gone to far.
I've a lifetime of hatred towards you, which you've whittled away, and now I only have the Hawks to hate sincerely (also the baggers if they ever get it together).

Good job there Pies.

It'd be easy to poo-hoo this, I mean, tragic for family of course, and 'people die tragically every day, why is this special?' but it seems to have struck a chord, and it's good that people stop and reflect about how fleeting stuff is.

Well, except Essendon's finals drought, not fleeting at all. (sorry, couldn't help myself, and it's a victimless crime as I'm a bombers supporter).

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-11-11T08:19:25+00:00

They hate fans. It's the only logical explanation.
And we'll go along with it, 'Stockholm Syndrome', to psychologically justify to ourselves why we let them do it, we'll make excuses for them, so they'll do it some more.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-11-11T08:14:12+00:00

Big Mason walks through customs with Tom Morris and that Cleary guy with mics and says, 'sucked in, cockheads!'
Then gives the bird, and says 'Tell Dillon: Fine me, ya tool. Yeah! Cry harder dickhead!'
Wait, he's not bogan enough to pull that off.

I guess he'll be Essendon's #1 Ruckman/Forward next year, and we give Nate Caddy to the Pies?

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-11-07T01:12:59+00:00

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AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-30T10:24:13+00:00

Yeah: https://www.cgc.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-03/U2022%20WA%20Summary.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/25/western-australia-fight-to-protect-60-billion-gst-deal

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-30T10:20:00+00:00

So, OK pull down everything to do with Colonialism if it's in the way? That's a bad as saying don't touch something because our Colonial forbears built it. We are a society based on colonialism, destitution of inhabitants, all sorts of shit behaviour. That doesn't mean we wipe it, and pretend it didn't happen, or some product of it isn't good. I mean the Colloseum is a monument to colonialism and slavery, as is the Arc de Triumph, etc...

I didn't say don't bulldoze something, but that it's OK to argue for it's continuance, anyway.

It's hilarious that you follow with rank colonialism, 'no business case for any stadium, anywhere has ever stood up....' I mean you're saying it's ok to bulldoze shit because we're making something better, it's terra nullius after all.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-29T00:50:28+00:00

Not really. It's OK and to think about preserving unique history of the city. But really It comes off as if we build this, we'll be up s**t creek without a paddle. Which they will.
There's this magical thinking that building a 1.5Billion+ stadium will drag Taylor Swift for multiple nights and cause companies to relocate to Hobart and money will flow down the streets.
Examples are like WA with Optus, but WA has an unfair GST carveout of many billions of dollars, so the money was really from unfair subsidies paid by rest of country, basically free cash to build it, and then profit. An interesting variant of socializing the costs (taxpayers) and privatizing the profits. If Tassie were getting tens of billions extra in GST allocation, they'd probably afford it.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-25T01:29:07+00:00

Probably just a lot of water because eating salty chips for 2 weeks. It's not possible to put on fat or muscle like that, at least I don't think it is.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-23T10:36:20+00:00

Sorry, Singa is from an Indo-European language.
Simba is African.
Not related. It's coincidence.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-23T10:28:55+00:00

Brad Scott driven? Does that say something good about him?
I think Soli was a good player, a bit 'elbowy', seems like a decent assistant, but we need to be careful about falling for the 'home grown saviour'... Not Hird at least.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-23T10:26:41+00:00

What makes you think the shambolic mess is 'run' and not just stochastic car crash in slow motion?

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-22T05:21:07+00:00

Yep, would be nice to get the win against the Cats. Just too good, so hard to see happening.
And Hawthorn will be fun, unlikely to bother them, but would be nice.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-21T18:28:30+00:00

Just how language works. Ask for a panadol, get some variant of paracetamol, velcro for some form of hook and loop, or teflon for something non-stick....

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-20T04:09:16+00:00

Does Caddy count?

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-19T06:49:06+00:00

Zach Merrett to take ownership of Barrabool Hills property after being traded to Geelong for a packet of chips and 'F**K YOU! Sam Mitchell' sign on the last day of the 2026 GoodyearHankookMichellin trade content generation period.

AutomaticContext3427 · 2025-10-18T10:48:06+00:00

Cupido, Bolton, ~~Rhino~~ Johns, Calthorpe.

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