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  1. Ive said it before, but i seriously dont get the republican movement. Wont achieve/change a thing. I'm not for it or against it, i just dont see the point.
  2. He did, but that was the joke at the time.
  3. For mine: Vukovic Franjic Wilkinson Jakobsen Carney Kilkenny Ninkovic Nichols Rojas Fornaroli Keogh Subs Theo Berisha De Vere Grant Castro I know Carney hasnt played LB for a while, but hes played there plenty over his career. Havent seen enough of Colazo yet to consider him.
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    Watched the first two eps and found it interesting. Prob depends if youre into your history and that sort of thing, but its well put together.
  5. Anyone got a spare active membership for Saturday I could borrow? Beer or two in it for you at the pub pre game
  6. Arguable that its no different to being thrown in the lock up overnight for being drunk and disorderly other than the time it takes to process really. But yeh semantics haha, more of a devils advocate argument than an accurate representation of what I believe haha
  7. Like band, like opinion.
  8. The one behind active definitely used to be a female block that got changed due to demand.
  9. Agree with this. If we do decide on 4-3-3 then Tongyik in for Cahill and Retre to miss.
  10. Well, they have committed a crime by entering Australia illegally... Go try and sneak across the Iranian border and see how that goes for you. Ideally I'd like to think we'd take an infinite amount of people and rehouse them, but that assumes many things, not to mention that we'd have unlimited money. At some point the economic question has to be posed and as it stands we currently spend a lot more than most per capita on refugee intake, and more than we can afford. At what point are everyday Australians happy to accept cuts to their standard of living to accommodate others is the real question.
  11. Warren Mundine: Common sense from the centre will win the day Warren Mundine, Herald Sun December 14, 2016 9:00pm DONALD Trump’s victory demonstrates that most media and commentariat are disconnected from ordinary voters. Almost without exception, they failed to anticipate the presidential election outcome. And they had little influence on it; the message that Trump was unfit to be president was largely ignored. Australia’s political media and commentariat are also largely out of touch. Listening to them, you’d think Australians are preoccupied with gay marriage, offshore detention, carbon emissions and identity politics. Actually, most are preoccupied with their families, their homes, their jobs, the monthly bills and their kids’ education and job prospects. They care about the economy and national debt. They want to live in a safe society, where Australia’s way of life is valued and respected. There’s a disconnect between views expressed by the media and commentariat and those of many Australians, with common sense frequently dismissed as extreme, ill-informed, even bigoted. Here are some examples. Our biggest education challenge is performance steadily declining against global benchmarks. Demanding more education funding as the solution is misconceived. The decline has been happening despite substantial education funding increases. Something’s wrong. Australian schools should be the best in the world, not 28th behind Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, the dominant education issue has been the Safe Schools controversy. It’s understandable why parents are concerned. Some content in Safe Schools and other school programs, frankly, beggars belief. Teachers shouldn’t be schooling children in gender fluidity; or asking them to imagine or role-play different sexual orientations; or criticising “heteronormativity”. Governments should shut down this nonsense and focus on lifting academic performance. That’s not homophobic. It’s common sense. The world has more than 60 million refugees, with many others desperate to move to Western nations for economic opportunity. Allowing people to stay in Australia if they make it to our shores Hunger Games-style (or acquiescing when they do) is cruel and irresponsible. During Rudd-Gillard-Rudd, more than 1000 people drowned and detainee numbers rose from below 500 to more than 10,000. Refusing to settle asylum seekers in Australia who arrive by boat is tough but it saves lives and reduces human trafficking. Nations must uphold their borders to maintain sovereignty; potentially, their survival. My ancestors learned that the hard way. Border security isn’t racist or an embarrassment. It’s common sense. Australians have a strong record of embracing immigrants in their communities, even in their families, and most immigrants embrace Australia’s way of life. But at the moment Australians are seeing something we’ve rarely seen before. A small minority of Muslim migrants and/or their descendants reject our way of life and instead want Australia to embrace aspects of theirs, which go against our laws, customs and culture: women covering their faces; refusing to stand in court; sharia law regulating divorces; polygamy; even forced child “marriages”. A smaller minority support terrorist causes and are plotting to kill us. That’s not acceptable to most Australians, including most Arab and Muslim Australians. Yes, it’s only a tiny minority. But their attitudes and actions are divisive and dangerous and must be acknowledged and confronted. Every Australian should treat others with decency, follow our laws and respect our institutions. That isn’t racist or Islamophobic. It’s common sense. PEOPLE of all societies have been expected to work and contribute; families and charities supported those who couldn’t. Modern Western governments introduced welfare to help those doing it hard get back on their feet, not to provide an optional life pathway. Governments shouldn’t pay people who refuse to work. If there are jobs picking fruit, selling hamburgers, labouring or cleaning, unemployed people should do them or lose benefits. Making people take available work isn’t cruel. Sit-down money is cruel. Welfare reform is common sense. It’s rare for centrist politicians to speak as bluntly as I just have. Centrist Labor tends to pander to the progressive/Left; centrist Liberals timidly tiptoe around it. In doing so they leave a vacuum for extremists and populists to fill. Politicians who speak directly to voters about what voters care about can prevail, regardless of the media and commentariat. Secondly, if centrists are afraid or unwilling to embrace commonsense views, voters will turn to extremists and populists who do, whatever offensive or fringe opinions they also peddle. I believe the first centrist politician who embraces common sense and plain speaking, ignoring the noise of the political class and dealing honestly and firmly with issues most Australians care about, will dominate the ballot box. Warren Mundine is chair of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council and a former national president of the ALP
  12. Tbf, on point a, Redmayne's first (half) season after replacing Bolton was pretty good. Things hit the skids badly in our 4th season and he's never recovered since. IMO its not ability with Redmayne, its mental. That said, you can only have so many chances and he's well and truly used up his 9 lives as an A League goalkeeper now.
  13. http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2016/12/14/exclusive-league-hopefuls-south-melbourne-announce-marquee-signings Looks like Samaras is finally coming to the A League...
  14. Haha the mong fans are complaining that our prices are too high, although theyre exactly the same as when we go to Etihad. Over 26k sold including memberships, it'll be near enough to 25k or higher.
  15. I personally dont think there's much in the Simon thing. IMO He's tried to be intimidating and he's caught Jakobsen at the precise wrong second and got him in the head. In saying that, as much as i hate how soft the suspensions in the AFL are these days, and that you shouldnt be suspended for accidents or incidental contact, the fact that he's 'elected' to bump means Simon would have got at least two weeks in the AFL and so a week here was expected.
  16. Tbh that presser everything he said got taken out of context based on which 10 second clip the media took. He certainly said the little bits and bobs here and there, but if you watch it I didnt at any stage think he was defending Fernando or diving, more he was annoyed at that incident being blown out of context in the Aust media, relative to the actual very important game that had just been played.
  17. Oh nah i was talking about the one at AAMI. I thought we deserved at least a point if not all three against Brisbane up there. Dominated that game, although our final ball and set pieces were atrocious. The home one I thought they had a lot more good chances, a point probably a fair result in the end. Agree re the other three games.
  18. Curiously, which of the five do you think was the one we deserved to drop points? I'm assuming Brisbane at home? But yes agree, we're in a good space and despite not playing particularly well compared to our capabilities, we are second and primed for a title assault from here onwards.
  19. I see Malcy wants to ban people handing out vote cards at polling booths and replacing them with a stand you take them from. Good idea, will get rid of all the aggressive twats throwing themselves on you at the booths, and will mean theres more volunteers for sausage sizzles. Perhaps the money they save on printing costs can go to some extra sauce flavours or something. Everybody wins.
  20. The club sets aside x amount of seats that are reserved in the event of someone purchasing a membership. Those seats are then released to the public the day before if they havent been bought, as it is assumed that it is unlikely someone will buy a membership in the last 24 hours
  21. Noone here is advocating it, there's just a few of us that dont seem to think its as big a deal as people are making it out to be.
  22. But but but Ray Martin said it was neutral....
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