What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 4

[CDBulldog]

Whilst true that if the childcare centre is on Bulldog property they can do what they want, this move would be a huge cash grab and completely against the ‘community’ and values the club allegedly represents.

For-profit childcare centres are of considerably lower quality than non-profits. To maximise profits everything else is sacrificed. Staff will be cut to the absolute minimum required to be legally acceptable in terms of adult to child ratios. This, and poor pay, results in lower quality educators/staff.

Food and resources will be the cheapest, shittest stuff available. It’s likely there won’t be enough of either.

My wife is a kinder teacher in a non-profit and gets 12.5 hours a week out of the classroom to do planning, reports, learning stories, deal with parent/child issues and concerns. She still works late every day. A for-profit often gives their teachers as little as 2.5 hours a week to do the same number of tasks. It’s impossible. You can imagine how little energy Educators have to deal with children’s everyday challenges when they are working in these kinds of conditions. These aren’t opinions, they’re the reality of making childcare a profit based business.

I love the club but I’m really disappointed in this move and anyone who cares about others should be too. Childcare should not be a tool to extract profit at a cost to the community.

Agree, we sent all our children to not for profit centres. I’d even go one further and argue that early learning should be treated like schooling and provided for by the government. Such a crucial part of children’s socialisation and learning. Anyway, a little off topic…

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

BULLDOG REVEALS EMOTION OF SETBACK

BULLDOG REVEALS EMOTION OF SETBACK

todayspaper.theaustralian.com.au

 

[Morris Major]

BULLDOG REVEALS EMOTION OF SETBACK

BULLDOG REVEALS EMOTION OF SETBACK

todayspaper.theaustralian.com.au

Interesting link! Is this a way to bypass the paywall?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Interesting link! Is this a way to bypass the paywall?

No, I subscribe.

 

[In Repair]

I once felt embarrassment and shame about my club. These two players dragged us out of the darkness

A gang of beautiful young mongrels took the Bulldogs from rock bottom to an AFL flag; two of them are about to celebrate 250 games.

www.theage.com.au

A beautifully written piece on our boys

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

I once felt embarrassment and shame about my club. These two players dragged us out of the darkness

A gang of beautiful young mongrels took the Bulldogs from rock bottom to an AFL flag; two of them are about to celebrate 250 games.

www.theage.com.au

A beautifully written piece on our boys

paywalled.

 

[Norm De Guerre]

If you have a Mac and use Safari.

You can get around many paywalls including this one, by putting your browser in Reader mode.

If you're on a PC. Im sorry. Not because there aren't ways around a paywall. Im sure there are.

But because Microsoft.

 

[Norm De Guerre]

Hopefully the club puts out an extended version of this.

Filmed in my happy place.

 

[Mhiggo]

Putting 12ft.io/ at the very front of the link sometimes works for paywalled articles

 

[Angak]

Is this true? I thought we had improved a lot this year

 

[geoffjennings79]

Is this true? I thought we had improved a lot this year
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We have... we were 25th last year!

 

[threenewpadlocks]

Is this true? I thought we had improved a lot this year
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It's true but it's bad statistics. It doesn't include set shots that failed to score (Hawks have the most in the league with 38 so far this season) nor does it adjust for the difficulty of the set shot with location on the ground.

We're third in the league with 0.05 points per set shot more than expectations (which is 0.12 points points per shot more than expectations if only looking at this season's accuracy, as the league as a whole is 0.07 points less accurate than all the shots taken over the last 5 years).

AFL Expected Scores

AFL expected scores and player shot charts.

www.wheeloratings.com

 

[Angak]

It's true but it's bad statistics. It doesn't include set shots that failed to score (Hawks have the most in the league with 38 so far this season) nor does it adjust for the difficulty of the set shot with location on the ground.

We're third in the league with 0.05 points per set shot more than expectations (which is 0.12 points points per shot more than expectations if only looking at this season's accuracy, as the league as a whole is 0.07 points less accurate than all the shots taken over the last 5 years).

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AFL Expected Scores

AFL expected scores and player shot charts.

www.wheeloratings.com

Brilliant. Thanks for the context

 

[Dogs 13]

Jay Clark’s top 50 in the Herald Sun today.

1 The Bont
2 N Daicos
3 Red Ed
4 Sam the Unicorn.
33 Bailey D
34 Libba

The people’s votes have Ed at 44 the last time I looked online.
They haven’t woken up to him yet.

No Hawks players

 

[MaxiBont]

Jay Clark’s top 50 in the Herald Sun today.

1 The Bont
2 N Daicos
3 Red Ed
4 Sam the Unicorn.
33 Bailey D
34 Libba

The people’s votes have Ed at 44 the last time I looked online.
They haven’t woken up to him yet.

No Hawks players

Newcombe is definitely top 50 in my opinion.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Newcombe is definitely top 50 in my opinion.

Top 5 when they play us.

 

[Bulldog Brent]

Jay Clark’s top 50 in the Herald Sun today.

1 The Bont
2 N Daicos
3 Red Ed
4 Sam the Unicorn.
33 Bailey D
34 Libba

The people’s votes have Ed at 44 the last time I looked online.
They haven’t woken up to him yet.

No Hawks players

Blimey! 3 of the top 4 players in the AFL. Just pinch yourself for a second .... how blessed are we to live in this era.

Now, for more silverware!

 

[Mojorisin]

Blimey! 3 of the top 4 players in the AFL. Just pinch yourself for a second .... how blessed are we to live in this era.

Now, for more silverware!

In one man's opinion.

 

[Angak]

Newcombe is definitely top 50 in my opinion.

So is the wizard, Weddle & meek is borderline

 

[maddog37]

So is the wizard, Weddle & meek is borderline

 

[Pencil case]

So is the wizard, Weddle & meek is borderline

In no world is Nick Watson a top 100 player. Weddle stiff though

 

[Angak]

In no world is Nick Watson a top 100 player. Weddle stiff though

I have him in the top 30. He’ll be top 20 in less than 12 months.

 

[maddog37]

I have him in the top 30. He’ll be top 20 in less than 12 months.

He’s not even top five at his own club.

 

[Angak]

He’s not even top five at his own club.

Too often, fans put a premium on meaningless possession counts instead of actual impact. For a decade, they'd use the fact that Cyril only got 10 touches in a game as justification for calling him overrated, completely ignoring how he could shift the momentum or change the dynamic of a match with just a handful of moments.

We just see the game differently.

 

[Bulldogs85]

Good little Article about Darcy