@canefan said in NBA season 2018/19:
One of the Fab 5 is going home
He’s had a decent apprenticeship in the NBA and now gets his head coaching shot. Good news.
He will have his work cut out to see if last years decent recruiting class can take that next step up. From all reports this years recruits are that great with one good prospect, so he will need those sophomores to be better.
If anything some of the ‘good’ nostalgia will be back in Ann Arbor
@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
@ACT-Crusader @Rancid-Schnitzel Labor were looking to restore penalty rates, increase Newstart, deliver pay boosts to childcare, and a few other things that would help actual workers and those using social support.
How is that NOT looking after workers or pursuing a reasonable approach to wages stagnation and a slowing economy?
Increase Newstart - what’s the incentive there? There is no evidence that an increased benefit improves people’s chances of finding employment. And an increase does cost the budget a fair whack.
Deliver pay boosts to childcare - there is no guarantee that would actually occur. This would be a matter for the Fair Work Commission and given the relevant unions have already run a failed case, did Labor think that them just intervening would make it so? Doesn’t work like that. Unless Labor was proposing to legislate then it was out of their hands.
Restore penalty rates - probably one of the great myths of the campaign. Gillard set up the process that enabled this decision to occur. Despite the rhetoric around it, the 4 year review started well before Abbott/Turnbull were in power. So when Shorten said as a Minister for Industrial Relations said he would respect the decision of the umpire, he was not so beholden to the union movement. Then when they got a decision they didn’t like he copped out. Anyway the decision itself doesn’t affect that many people - only those on awards in retail and hospitality that actually work on Sundays. Plus they still get penalty rates it’s just that they were reduced by Fair Work not abolished like the ACTU would have everyone believe.
@mariner4life said in NRL 2019:
@raznomore said in NRL 2019:
The 3 part doco celebrating 25years of the Warriors starts tonight. They dug up Ian Robson too.
"Mediocrity, Disappointment and Hurt: How nepotism and ineptitude conspired to destroy a dream - the next 25 years"
Fixed.
@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
It addresses bracket creep which is fundamentally sound policy. It doesn't come from anything, they're just not receiving it.
Bracket creep would have to be analysed in the context of slowing wages growth and general economy as well, no?
And if they're not receiving the tax, how do they forward project funding services for an aging population? Who pays for that?
Those are real issues but not ones that Labor can prosecute politically given their own agenda. They would get outflanked if they tried to run an “economic responsible” line. Bowen tried and failed.
@Snowy said in Stormers v Crusaders:
I always used to call him Bonkers Jonkers because some of the rulings he made on the field were so weird. Then they give him a position that makes bad decision making even more obvious.
Or maybe he really is a cheat / corrupt? Not for me to SAy.
There is not enough bandwidth to list the history of SA referee injustices against the Crusaders.
@booboo said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@ACT-Crusader said in Aussie Rugby in general:
George Smith was a cheat. Referees turned a blind eye to his breakdown cheating. It was a plight on the game.
And a blight.
Had a cloak of invisibility ...
But seriously: George Smith was a legend as he was the only player ever throughout McCaw's career that in any one given year (can't remember which one, fairly early) who I would have picked in a World XV in front of him.
Blight indeed.
In seriousness, Smith was a phenomenal player. Different type of player to McCaw but yet they were both exceptional over the ball.
@booboo I found a place for George in my World XV, it was when OZ moved him to 8 when they made the mistake to play him and Waugh 
@canefan said in NBA season 2018/19:
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
Massive game by the Raptors ‘big 3’ off the bench. 48/19/11 combined.
Bucks got nothing from their bench.
Pressure on the Greek Freak to come up big at home. Even though he scored 25 today, the last 2 games he has been handled by some stingy well organised defence.
Either way the winner of the series is going to get chewed up by the Warriors machine
The only hope is that with the Warriors getting so much time off they come out cold in game 1 and lose one.
That will make it a ‘series’ that will end in 5...
George Smith was a cheat. Referees turned a blind eye to his breakdown cheating. It was a blight on the game.
Massive game by the Raptors ‘big 3’ off the bench. 48/19/11 combined.
Bucks got nothing from their bench.
Pressure on the Greek Freak to come up big at home. Even though he scored 25 today, the last 2 games he has been handled by some stingy well organised defence.
@Nevorian said in Stormers v Crusaders:
Also just like to say it seems to be the backs who are behaving badly again, the forwards were wise and tucked up in bed
As you know, backs can go out because they know how to pick up chicks. The forwards tuck themselves into bed at the hotel so they don’t embarrass themselves.