Geelong

[GVGjr]

Depressing Selwood fact:

Joel Selwood finals wins = 22

Footscray/Western Bulldogs finals wins = 21

He's had a blessed run and I kept hearing over his journey how much he did for the culture at the club.
I get why some people won't like him or rate him but it's been a hell of a career and he should be proud of it.

[angelopetraglia]

He's had a blessed run and I kept hearing over his journey how much he did for the culture at the club.
I get why some people won't like him or rate him but it's been a hell of a career and he should be proud of it.

He has been unbelievable. But he didn't create the successful culture at the club. They literally won the GF by 119 points in his FIRST YEAR in one of the best teams that I have ever seen.

We often confuse skill and luck. Taleb wrote an excellent book about it Fooled By Randomness https://www.booktopia.com.au/fooled-...RoCBKMQAvD_BwE

[Topdog]

He has been unbelievable. But he didn't create the successful culture at the club. They literally won the GF by 119 points in his FIRST YEAR in one of the best teams that I have ever seen.

We often confuse skill and luck. Taleb wrote an excellent book about it Fooled By Randomness https://www.booktopia.com.au/fooled-...RoCBKMQAvD_BwE

But he absolutely was instrumental in keeping it going.

We lost a few leaders since 2016 and it really does show.

[jeemak]

I'm not sure if it's an empty platitudes thing, though it's often said he immediately helped change the culture the day he arrived at the club, expecting the highest standards of everyone.

[GVGjr]

I'm not sure if it's an empty platitudes thing, though it's often said he immediately helped change the culture the day he arrived at the club, expecting the highest standards of everyone.

They've been beating that drum for many years. A mate who supports Geelong mentioned years back what happened with Stringer, Dahlhaus and co with us in 2017 wouldn't have happened with Selwood in charge. Thought he was he just overstating how strong their leadership group was at the time.

[bulldogtragic]

Look, inflation, interest rates and unemployment are going up. Regional projects got gutted too. There’s hard times ahead and will all have to accept some pain ahead. But on the other hand the Kardina Park redevelop is full steam ahead and the Geelong Football/Netball League is getting a huge new government cash handout. Plus:

Federal budget - what's in it for Geelong

$3.25 million to upgrade the Leopold Sports Precinct
$750,000 for improved lighting and female change rooms for the Ocean Grove Football Club
$600,000 for Stage 1 of the Portarlington Reserve Masterplan
$600,000 to upgrade the Grinter Reserve netball courts
$350,000 to upgrade the Bannockburn Football Netball Club
$340,000 to upgrade the Bannockburn Female Friendly Netball Pavilion
$160,000 to upgrade the Queenscliff Recreation Reserve
$700,000 to help fund the Inverleigh Active Youth Space
$700,000 to upgrade the Torquay Tigers Football and Cricket Club Spring Creek pavilion
$1.2 million to upgrade facilities at Barwon Heads Football Netball Club
$1.6 million for women’s change rooms and a new pavilion at South Barwon Reserve
* Might be more, these are just the notable Geelong footy/netball projects being funded as psds of $180M being splashed there

All sides of politics do it, this absolutely isn’t a partisan observation. But government spending in the Geelong region football never seems to go backwards irrespective of the party in power, or the economic conditions of the day. Must be great to be involved with footy if you live in Geelong. You can always bank on the rivers of cash flowing no matter the circumstances.

Any insight Sedat?

[hujsh]

[Sedat]

Look, inflation, interest rates and unemployment are going up. Regional projects got gutted too. There’s hard times ahead and will all have to accept some pain ahead. But on the other hand the Kardina Park redevelop is full steam ahead and the Geelong Football/Netball League is getting a huge new government cash handout. Plus:

Federal budget - what's in it for Geelong

$3.25 million to upgrade the Leopold Sports Precinct
$750,000 for improved lighting and female change rooms for the Ocean Grove Football Club
$600,000 for Stage 1 of the Portarlington Reserve Masterplan
$600,000 to upgrade the Grinter Reserve netball courts
$350,000 to upgrade the Bannockburn Football Netball Club
$340,000 to upgrade the Bannockburn Female Friendly Netball Pavilion
$160,000 to upgrade the Queenscliff Recreation Reserve
$700,000 to help fund the Inverleigh Active Youth Space
$700,000 to upgrade the Torquay Tigers Football and Cricket Club Spring Creek pavilion
$1.2 million to upgrade facilities at Barwon Heads Football Netball Club
$1.6 million for women’s change rooms and a new pavilion at South Barwon Reserve
* Might be more, these are just the notable Geelong footy/netball projects being funded as psds of $180M being splashed there

All sides of politics do it, this absolutely isn’t a partisan observation. But government spending in the Geelong region football never seems to go backwards irrespective of the party in power, or the economic conditions of the day. Must be great to be involved with footy if you live in Geelong. You can always bank on the rivers of cash flowing no matter the circumstances.

Any insight Sedat?

Insert Terry Wallace "I'll spew up" emoticon here.

It is not a surprise. Corangamite is a highly marginal electorate that is almost always in play for both major parties at virtually every federal election. So they will constantly throw themselves at the mercy of the residents of Greater Geelong to buy power. So it was, so it is, and so it will always be.

All politicians of all colours and from all sides are self-serving grubs, it's simply what they are and what they do. There's no point getting angry about it, and especially no point preferencing one party/individual over others in everyday life (by law, we reluctantly "have" to preference them at elections) - they are all fundamentally mediocre, untalented, awful people, and completely disconnected from the vast majority of the people they are supposed to represent and serve. They have absolutely no principles, and think nothing of changing entire long-held values and beliefs in order to cynically to remain in power and feast off the largesse of the taxpayer. Each to their own, but I really don't understand how some people are so passionatly invested in Team X or Team Y or specific individuals in the political class. Not one politician (state, federal, local, major party or minor party affiliated, or "independent") ever suffers personal consequences from the (almost always) ill-informed decisions they make and impose on the people they are supposed to serve - you only need to look at the last 2.5 years to see the destruction they have caused to millions of people while they continue to shamelessly reward themselves (let alone stop and pause to reflect that maybe they could have shared in some of the pain they inflicted).

Anyway, I heard an unfounded rumour that Geelong actually won the premiership this year? I didn't see anything on the Greek islands about this and by the time I got back to Australia it was Brand Dunks and his fajita recipes hogging the limelight.

[The Underdog]

Insert Terry Wallace "I'll spew up" emoticon here.

It is not a surprise. Corangamite is a highly marginal electorate that is almost always in play for both major parties at virtually every federal election. So they will constantly throw themselves at the mercy of the residents of Greater Geelong to buy power. So it was, so it is, and so it will always be.

All politicians of all colours and from all sides are self-serving grubs, it's simply what they are and what they do. There's no point getting angry about it, and especially no point preferencing one party/individual over others in everyday life (by law, we reluctantly "have" to preference them at elections) - they are all fundamentally mediocre, untalented, awful people, and completely disconnected from the vast majority of the people they are supposed to represent and serve. They have absolutely no principles, and think nothing of changing entire long-held values and beliefs in order to cynically to remain in power and feast off the largesse of the taxpayer. Each to their own, but I really don't understand how some people are so passionatly invested in Team X or Team Y or specific individuals in the political class. Not one politician (state, federal, local, major party or minor party affiliated, or "independent") ever suffers personal consequences from the (almost always) ill-informed decisions they make and impose on the people they are supposed to serve - you only need to look at the last 2.5 years to see the destruction they have caused to millions of people while they continue to shamelessly reward themselves (let alone stop and pause to reflect that maybe they could have shared in some of the pain they inflicted).

Anyway, I heard an unfounded rumour that Geelong actually won the premiership this year? I didn't see anything on the Greek islands about this and by the time I got back to Australia it was Brand Dunks and his fajita recipes hogging the limelight.

Jesus, that's some bleak shit right there...I'm going to adhere to the board's general don't get political stance, but if you want to form an anarchist collective, DM me boo.

[Sedat]

Jesus, that's some bleak shit right there...I'm going to adhere to the board's general don't get political stance, but if you want to form an anarchist collective, DM me boo.

The Geelong premiership bit was the bleakest part, closely followed by Dunkley's rubbish fajita recipe

[The Underdog]

The Geelong premiership bit was the bleakest part, closely followed by Dunkley's rubbish fajita recipe

You know Dunkley's fajitas are bland with some weak sauce

[EasternWest]

Yes Sedat. Yes. Give it to me.

[bulldogtragic]

Yes Sedat. Yes. Give it to me.

The force is strong with this one.

[The Underdog]

The force is strong with this one.

Give in to the dark side….

[hujsh]

Give in to the dark side….