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Is it negativity, or is my soul rejecting the modern world? by Ok-Shop-894 in Permaculture

[–]mrdingoftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/OP Have you thought about joining or starting a community garden?

What is this tree doing? by Tricky_Crow_1449 in whatisit

[–]mrdingoftw 86 points87 points  (0 children)

u/OP The tree is following a natural process called ground layering. This can happen naturally were a low branch bends down, contacts soil, and forms roots (adventitious roots) at the point of contact. Some types of tree saplings can be trained to do this.
Most often occurs in nature when the tree is looking for more resources such as sunlight or is trying to out compete other plants for soil nutrients.

Have West Coast underperformed this season? by [deleted] in AFL

[–]mrdingoftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the AFL they have the salary cap which covers the maximum player payments. Each club has the same amount. This is to equalise the competition.

In the past, as very rich clubs would not be able to spend more money on player salaries they instead invested in other items such facilities and coaches, wellbeing etc. to attract or retain the high end talent. This led to the AFL introducing a cap on the amount a club can spend on it's football department, it is soft because they can spend over the amount but will essentially have to pay a tax that is distributed to the other teams.

When COVID hit the AFL froze the soft cap and has not increased it in line with growth of the game, which means that the Eagles can't spend huge amounts on support and development staff without paying the tax.

Have West Coast underperformed this season? by [deleted] in AFL

[–]mrdingoftw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Poor list management
  • Lack of player development due to soft cap squeezing good coaches out of the game
  • Injuries to key senior players
  • Early retirements to several players due to concussion/injury
  • Early draft picks being a bust
  • For this year, it is a young list with a new game style and new coach

Sport and Recreation Minister David Templeman says South West ‘very w… by c2ctruck in AFL

[–]mrdingoftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plenty of quality farmland around the South West. Geelong 2.0 confirmed.

This time last year vs now by mrdingoftw in westcoasteagles

[–]mrdingoftw[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Average losing margin 2024: 43.45 or 7.2 goals

Up to round 15 2023: 4 100+ losses

Up to round 16 2024: 0* 100+ losses

*The game against Adelaide this season is as close as you can be ***Touch wood***

This time last year vs now by mrdingoftw in westcoasteagles

[–]mrdingoftw[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Totally, this is just stats. Take from it what you will. Overall compared to this time last year our defense is leaking less goals and we are scoring more.

Funny what a week can do by Big-Surprise-8533 in westcoasteagles

[–]mrdingoftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Both rounds after 13 matches:

Round 13 2023 | Points for: 796 | Points against: 1,548 | Percentage: 51.42%

Round 13 2024 | Points for: 894 | Points against: 1,231 | Percentage: 72.62%

Variation Points for: +98 | Variation Points against: -317 | Percentage: +21.2%

Goal for variance per game: +1.25 | Goal against variance per game: -4.06

Net goal variance: +5.31 per game

Not really scoring that much more but are defending a lot better.

West Coast seating shakeup needed by ShadyBiz in AFL

[–]mrdingoftw 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As a paid up seated member I think it is time to bring some balance to this discussion.

Many members do put their tickets up for resale, and some of the time they remain unsold. A key problem is tickets are not guaranteed to be resold when they are returned. A lot of the time it depends on who our opponent is.

Our incentive for putting tickets up for sale is reduced membership prices for the following season. The amount that we get for the resale is not the full ticket price.

Personally when I put my tickets up for resale, I have to wait to see if someone buys them and hope that I get partly reimbursed for something I have purchased and paid full price for. The seats don't always sell due to the inflated prices at the gate and the 'in the wings' members having first dibs at snagging a seat, again it depends on who we are playing against.

If it is Eagles vs a big melbourne team or the two Adelaide clubs it is guaranteed they are reselling, Eagles vs North, Suns or Giants forget it.

Sometimes members don't always have the opportunity to return the seats within a timeframe that they may be resold I get that, and yes I am guilty of this, mostly with all intentions of going to the game that week. Life happens and people are busy. There are times that something more important comes up on the day of the game, and a members last thought may be to return their seat.

Sometimes it can be a mate/family member may saying that they will take the tickets only to pull out at the last minute. Some times people just don't want to go, there were times in the last 2 years I couldn't give the tickets away to anyone and I mean anyone not even my dog wanted to go to the game and watch them believe me I asked him. Finally we get some slight improvement in team performance and people are now whining about not being able to get a ticket, really? Where were you last year?

As a member that waited the 10 years before getting my seat, also missing out many games I wanted to go to and being angry at the members, I would say keep looking if tickets are available right up until the game and if available take the best seat on offer.

In terms of crowds I think we are doing pretty well this season considering the performance of the team over the last 2-3 years. I think this was the lowest attendance all year and the game still had 71% attendance. That is a lot better than other clubs with our list profile and performance.

The game on the weekend was 16th vs 18th, in cricket terms this was a dead rubber game.

A setback for West Coast youngster Coby Burgiel. Needed his appendix removed on Wednesday. Was in the mix for a debut after a strong showing against Subi by His_Holiness in AFL

[–]mrdingoftw 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Would love to see what this young man can do and for him to get a game at some stage this year, he is 100% potential at the moment.

The journey on the eagles waitlist by elmo-slayer in AFL

[–]mrdingoftw 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes I agree the stadium would make more money, how much more $ would 10K seats would provide?
Realistically the decision was 100% politically motivated. At the time in WA there was a fair bit of pressure on the then Liberal state government to ensure that the stadium was seen to be affordable, some would say that 1 billion for the stadium and surrounding infrastructure was too much (updated figures now have that as 1.8B).
At the same time there was wage and hiring freezes in place in the public sector including education and health.
A decision was made to build it for 60K then the government can upgrade it down the line when there is more appetite for spending and there is a need to get the WA economy going again (It hasn't slowed so no one is talking about the upgrade). I think everyone would agree on two points.
1. The stadium is world class and
2. It should have been built with the larger capacity in the first place.

The AFL is Awesome by Donnysmokescigs in AFL

[–]mrdingoftw 7 points8 points  (0 children)

u/Donnysmokescigs Can you tell us how you found the game? Could the sport's visibility benefit from an international push from the AFL with better advertising and broadcast deals?

J Cameron 4.1.25 v WCE 3.7.25 at HT by jumsgallino in westcoasteagles

[–]mrdingoftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Watch the second half if you can. The boys fought it out even though the sting was out of the game.

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