@ScottBaileyAAP @sportandracing They don't get it bro so will defend their concept until the cows home (or until when they inevitably cave and copy the NRL concept)
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@sportandracing My point is though that there are games going on at same times, so it's physically impossible to watch all the matches.
That's the lure of Magic Round.
I know they are different events and I'm not bashing Gather Round. Obviously a big success. Just seems foreign to me.
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This is not a knock on the AFL, but for the life of me I can't wrap my head around Gather Round being at different stadiums.
The best bit of Magic Round is you can get a bunch of mates together, and watch everyone's team play over the course of three days.
Peter Malinauskas@PMalinauskasMP
3 venues. 9 AFL matches. One state - South Australia.
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@andybuds23 @AFL Why is everyone unhappy about the @AFL making money on a new concept. Would you rather be the cash strapped @NRL, or worse, whatever the fuck the A League is called these days? How about we try being grateful that there’s more money to funnel back into the game, at all levels.
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The @AFL were angry when Chris Scott said he believed the Wildcard round was simply a cash grab. Now they're looking to sell off those games. The real reason for their anger was that Scott was right and he voiced what we all already knew. Its impossible to take the AFL seriously.
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@WSWanderingEels @JEdwardsFOX 💯 this is the exact attitude of why the game fails in NSW
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@JEdwardsFOX Yeah trying to box league fans as lower class is not going to fool anyone in Sydney.
NRL covers all levels of Sydney society.
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Good stuff from Gerard.
I’ve been involved in the sport in Sydney for nearly 20 years now and the geographic gap has only widened.
Aussie Rules is popular in the East, North Shore, inner west and a bit of the Hills.
Non-existent in the West.
SEN 1116@1116sen
97 registered: The damning truth behind the AFL's western Sydney failure, writes Gerard Healy. ✍️ READ: bit.ly/4sgLTX9 #AFL
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@1116sen According to my quick count on PlayHQ, there’s over 800 registered players.
But I guess that doesn’t fit the agenda 🤦🏻♂️
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97 registered: The damning truth behind the AFL's western Sydney failure, writes Gerard Healy. ✍️
READ: bit.ly/4sgLTX9
#AFL
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@1116sen Would have been better to put a second team in the Eastern Suburbs. No one gives a shit about Rugby League in Surry Hills.
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@NathanY76 @the_real_flea Yes so many cricket grounds are famously rectangular
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The AFL have spent $7.7m per registered player on Western Sydney.
Is there a worse ROI in the history of Aussie sports?
sen.com.au/news/2026/04/0…
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@HendoWest @footyindustryAU It does seem obvious. Maybe the economics dont stack up!? 🤷♂️
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@footyindustryAU NZ2 is so obvious, if expansion should happen at all (it shouldn't)
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NewsCrp: The Ipswich Jets will table a monster $60 million expansion bid to win the NRL’s 20th licence as the ARL Commission ramps-up plans for a fifth Queensland franchise.
Overseas investors with ownership tentacles in the NBA, NFL, baseball and the English Premier League are now turning their attention to the NRL and want to buy into rugby league via a 20th team in Brisbane’s western corridor.
couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/pete…
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@BrentHodgson The old f*cken use of 'champ' 🤷♂️🤦♂️ lose credibility in your first line.
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No, champ.
This is how Australia investigates & charges them as war criminals when faced with credible allegations they’ve killed unarmed guys, disarmed prisoners, and/or civilians.
This isn’t the targeting of soldiers. He’s charged because good soldiers themselves spoke up.
Meanwhile the far-right thinks licensing war crimes strengthens nations.
Ian Miles Cheong@ianmiles
This is how Australia treats its war heroes. Brands them war criminals for killing the bad guys and throws them in jail. Disgraceful.
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Riyadh meaning "gardens" is Capital of Saudi Arabia with 8 million population, sits in the middle of the desert, the city gets its water from Desalination plants almost 500 km from the city
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@LeagueFreak Here we go... the Penrith robotic cluv system don't work at Origin. 8 years of stats dont lie! 🤷♂️😂 Incredible club team though - never seen better
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Listen, we all politely indulged the whole "Moses in Origin" and "Cam Murray is better than Yeo" talk, because we didn't want to unnecessarily upset anyone.
However, its time to stop now.
It's just stupid. You sound stupid when you say it. So stop. Please.
#RugbyLeague #NRL
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Strange take maybe... but I love the fact that I lived in a time frame where I got to drive my kids to school, kiss the goodbye, pick them up when I could (to the delight of their faces)... then as they got older, get the call to pick them up late at night when they were stranded... or drunk!
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Try out self-driving in a Tesla.
It will greatly improve your quality of life and may save your life.
Robert Scoble@Scobleizer
I was on @wholemars space this afternoon while my Model 3 drove me for a couple of hours to drop off my taxes. And found myself quite emotional listening to others' stories about theirs. I'll never sell it. It is the best thing I've ever spent money on beyond marriage and bringing children into the world. During the show it passed 159,000 miles. It is the 7,409th one Tesla made. Stood in line overnight 10 years ago to put down $1,000 before it was even announced. (I have a video over on Facebook of the first 100 people in line that I treasure today. Behind us were more than 1,000 in the Danville store). I really feel sorry for anyone who buys something else. I've driven many others since and they simply aren't even close to as good. Even the Chinese ones. They don't automatically drive nearly as well. My eight year old car is still way better than any other that's out today. Except a new Tesla. I studied automotive innovation most of my career because of my perch in Silicon Valley. When I was a kid the auto industry had its R&D centers somewhere else. Detroit. Stuttgart. Tokyo. Today they all have their R&D centers here in Silicon Valley because this is where the talent is that can build the future. Had the first ride in the Fiat 500. First ride in the BMW i3. First ride in the first Mercedes AI car. First ride in the first Tesla. Because two of my high school friends were killed in wrecks. My last book written with @IrenaCronin has a whole chapter about Robotaxis (written seven years ago). Uber was invented right in front of me in a Paris snowstorm. Did one of the first interviews with Lyft's founder. A week ago had a ride in the NVIDIA Mercedes at GTC. I have the first video of a Waymo EVER driving around a Silicon Valley freeway (it's up on YouTube). I had a front row seat on how Tesla outclassed the whole industry and brought software driven automobiles to the market. No one had done so before. Today my eight year old car is WAY better than when I bought it (I picked it up April 4, 2018). If I'm alive in 10 years we'll see maybe 100 million Optimus robots walking around everywhere and many vehicles that Franz @woodhaus2 and team haven't even dreamed up yet. All driving autonomously. And finally the death rate will start going down because of plans made more than a decade ago. There is a reason why I'm an Elon fan and it goes way beyond him giving me a ride in the first one before he gave his best friend a ride. It builds products the others can't match. Even a decade later. Even after Elon showed them. Even after they tore apart his cars to analyze how they were built. Even after I drove mine to Detroit to give people in traditional auto industry their first look back in 2018. And next comes Optimus, a new Roadster, a new semi, a new car without a steering wheel, a new transportation system, new tunnels to go faster across cities like Las Vegas, and more that I can't even dream up yet and I've been a futurist for a long time. It is so awesome finally seeing many "normal" people get what I've been saying for years and seeing the numbers of Tesla's on Silicon Valley's streets go up and up. So many over the years have given me shit about owning a Tesla. Or supporting Elon. Or being one of the first to take my hands off of the steering wheel and sharing that here on X. They all were wrong. Tesla is the world leader in all of transportation, even if you include all the Chinese new brands, which are making cars with more screens and better seats. Soon everyone will understand that transportation isn't about having a leather dashboard or seats, but about having better AI. And Tesla's is the best. And I'm talking about the AI running in my eight year old car. The AI that runs in today's Teslas is even better than that. And, yes, I know that lots of engineers claim theirs is better. But they won't give me one of theirs to drive around for a few weeks. There is a reason for that. Theirs isn't as safe. Isn't as smooth. Isn't as capable. And by the end of the year everyone will recognize that.
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When you understand what "Greater Israel" means you’ll understand what’s happening in the world right now.
Praying for the people of Iran, Lebanon & Palestine.
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@colonelhogans Hahaha... bro.. seriously.. is this a serious post? Is this a parody account surely yes?
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Pauline Hanson asks what’s the problem with trips on Gina Reinhardts private jet as the taxpayers don’t pay for them.
That’s the whole point!
WHY is a billionaire giving her free flights on her private jet?
Obviously eventually Reinhardt will call the favours in!
It’s called CORRUPTION you slag!
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@AndersenJerome @goodfoodgal Cant imagine being indoctrinated by someone like Albo... weird and fascinating but suspect deep insecurity deep down.
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@goodfoodgal That's Lord Emperor Albo who has vanquished all competition
Dutton ✅
Ley ✅
Littleproud ✅
Hanson is next.
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Why is the Liberal Party in Australia gone?
1. They pandered to people that were never going to vote for them.
2. Whilst pandering to those with the woke mind virus - they alienated the common sense, hard working, tax paying, law abiding conservatives who are sick of watching Australia lurch from one crisis to the next.
3. They did not listen to ANYONE trying to tell them this. Now it is too late.
One Nation is simply an inevitability.
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@colonelhogans Suddenly Pauline is the politician pay issue!? 😂🤷♂️🤦♂️ jesus Rick, welcome to the party
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@Piffster @LeagueFreak Not sure... same could be said for the cricket I guess. Just hope they dont make the same mistake as Sydney did!
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@NathanY76 @LeagueFreak The league GF is played in Sydney… so you’d be building a new stadium for one game a year… it’s not a compelling case, is it?
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QLD should learn from Sydney. Make this stadium reconfigurable to a rectangular field on a permanent basis after the games.
ABC SPORT@abcsport
The new stadium being built for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games at Victoria Park will be situated in a "central position" near Gilchrist Avenue. The Queensland government will reveal the precise location of the 63,000-seat arena on Wednesday, as well as unveil the first early designs of the stadium. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…
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@Piffster @LeagueFreak Great stadium, but world class would be 70-80k which they would easily fill for SOO, league GFs, etc
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@LeagueFreak Why? They already have a world class rectangular stadium? They need a world class replacement for the Gabba.
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@jonburkeUK We need to nationalise the wind, it's outrageous that private companies are making profits from our air. We then need to take the profits and create a sovereign wealth fund.
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My brother is an electrician who works in offshore wind.
He sent me this photo of the largest turbine installation vessel in the world.
Skilled jobs, good pay, & secure futures.
While fossil fuels shed jobs & destroy the planet, renewables are delivering for the working class.
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