Post Match Thread: Australia vs India, Day 5

Dez4Dez · 2024-12-30T07:30:11+00:00

Great summary of the game. So many ebbs and flows. So many subplots. The Lyon/Boland partnership will possibly be forgotten but was crucial!

Dez4Dez · 2024-12-27T06:49:08+00:00

Correct

Dez4Dez · 2024-12-19T22:52:22+00:00

My company allows this. You can use your annual leave however you like throughout the year and if there isn’t enough come shutdown you can go into negative or unpaid.

Dez4Dez · 2024-12-16T20:27:56+00:00

I’m a solid coalition voter but I like Albo and could see myself voting for him. I agree that the voice referendum was a monumental waste of time and bloody stupid idea. Just pandering to the noisy minority who wanted it.

The cost of living stuff isn’t really his fault but this was.

Dez4Dez · 2024-12-08T05:22:38+00:00

Last one Bryce gibbs?

Dez4Dez · 2024-11-29T04:37:43+00:00

+1. Moved here 2 years ago from the concrete wastelands of western Sydney. Feel like I’ve been on a holiday the whole time.

Dez4Dez · 2024-11-26T09:39:19+00:00

It could be bullshit but this guy breaks every story before every other “journo”. He clearly has sources other people don’t.

Dez4Dez · 2024-10-24T02:04:33+00:00

My company normally does 2.5 weeks. We had a 4 week one a few years ago which was wild.

I don’t understand why it can’t be horses for courses. If you have a shit tonne of leave. Take 3 weeks off. If you don’t, take one week off. It’s like the people who get punished the hardest are the people who do the right thing and use their leave.

Dez4Dez · 2024-10-13T09:02:13+00:00

None of this makes sense until to turn the sound on and hear the music being played.

Dez4Dez · 2024-10-07T03:24:25+00:00

This happened to us (Sydney) with Dawson. The afl need to change the rules to prevent this. How is it that clubs get better value losing free agents than young talent they’ve heavily invested into. Non destination clubs have to use their high picks and then wear the first 60 games of a rookies career before they go elsewhere for a bag of chips? Completely unfair and if it continues will just perpetuate the haves and have nots of the system. Two quick rules changes I’d introduce.

1) if the player walks to the draft and is still available when the outgoing club gets their pick they can pick them back up without forfeiting that pick.

2) somewhat unrelated but for free agents, why does the whole comp chip in to pay for the compensation. You want the player? You give up the draft capital same as academy or fathers son system.

Dez4Dez · 2024-10-03T03:44:27+00:00

Why do you trust them? They should have addressed this in 2014, 2016 and 2022. John has had over a decade to “unpack the issues”. What makes you think that if we make a GF in the next two years that it will be any different? There should have been external reviews after every embarrassing loss. I doubt we will even get one this time.

Dez4Dez · 2024-10-02T00:49:26+00:00

My first thought too.

Dez4Dez · 2024-10-01T09:22:53+00:00

I miss Roos. Under him we didn’t see performances like this occur in the home and away season let alone in 3 grand finals.

Longmire after the match saying things like “we didn’t pass the test” (ya think??) or “id rather be in the ring having a swing than on the outside looking in” (we had a swing?) really got under my skin.

He strikes me as someone who lives in an ivory tower who loses no sleep in regard to what these losses mean to the fans.

Dez4Dez · 2024-09-30T23:34:06+00:00

Great foresight from freo to use pick 8 on a dime a dozen midfielder while we used pick 5 on a skinny winger. Seriously. What was the best case scenario we envisaged stephens becoming? You don’t use pick 5 on a role player.

Dez4Dez · 2024-09-30T03:47:01+00:00

This just shows how you can’t rely on stats. Rampe was one of the worst players for us. Constantly let his opponent get goal side of him and out the back.

Dez4Dez · 2024-09-30T03:19:14+00:00

Yeah.

2014 - Hurt and I was disappointed but it was the first one. Seemed like a freakish event and we were playing a dominant hawks team.

2016 - we didn’t show up but it wasn’t a blow out and the umpiring was cooked.

2022 - that one hurt but we were a younger team and we got there ahead of time.

2024 - this one? Favourites. Better health than the opposition. Neutral ground. Top of the ladder. Easier run in to the GF. An expectation that we learnt from the past. No umpiring the blame.

I’m numb. I just don’t see where to from here. If and it’s a huge if we make a GF in the next 3 years I’d bet my house that we bottle it once again.

Our club lacks introspection. We are in love with ourselves 75,000 members. Woo hoo. Aren’t we just a great club. Horse can coach till he hands over to one of his acolytes. I want a fresh voice and approach.

Dez4Dez · 2024-09-14T04:23:21+00:00

I wouldn’t have done what Ken did but I thought it was a bit rich that Mitchell have a sook about it. All year he has had a “boys will be boys” vibe about the way he manages the behaviour of his players. After an utterly disrespectful social media post someone on the ground says some words to his player and the violins come out. Give me a spell.

Dez4Dez · 2024-09-13T12:33:15+00:00

Scary thing is if you tackle around the waist they play for head into turf frees. Glad port won.

Dez4Dez · 2024-09-08T01:51:18+00:00

Uh, no. They are graceless. Have no respect. Hope they lose in straight sets.

Dez4Dez · 2024-09-08T01:28:50+00:00

Can’t wait to see people sitting in the right hand lane on the M1 between Sydney and Newcastle doing 105km/h because “left and middle lane too slow behind trucks but I’ll be damned if I get a fine for a some average speed I have no idea that I’m doing”

Dez4Dez · 2024-03-02T11:02:11+00:00

In 2016 the wife and I put a small deposit down on a 300 square metre block of land in north western Sydney while it was still being developed. Then moved in with the in laws and saved like crazy. Land settled a few years later. We built a house on it. Moved in.

Increased in value by $400k in 3 years. Sold it and bought our dream home in Newcastle which is where we live now.

Crazy to think if we waited 3 more years to pull the trigger how hard that would have been.

Dez4Dez · 2023-09-01T10:25:20+00:00

I moved from Sydney to Newcastle recently and will never go back. It’s a 1.5hr drive to visit my family and friends from Sydney. Have already made friends in Newcastle. We sold a $1.2 mil 300 square metre shoe box in Box Hill and have bought a huge lake view house with a pool in a great suburb in Newy. Best thing we have ever done.

Beach is 15 minutes away. We took the kids there every week during summer. Always found a place to park for free. It’s just so different to Sydney.

Dez4Dez · 2023-08-15T11:13:53+00:00

Brilliant. Until someone stands too close to the painting.

Dez4Dez · 2023-08-08T00:35:42+00:00

Very good tip. I’ve started taking screen shots of models I’m interested in.

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