Mega Thread Non-Freo AFL Discussion 2026

[Dockeroo]

Dan Curtin stretchered off, serious knee injury. Poor kid

Apparently did it in a wrestling drill. Kane Cornes having a crack at the S&C guys that come up with these drills and I think he’s right. Hard to understand how it’s meant to improve someone at footy

 

[The Feeder Club]

Wouldn’t it be to helping tackling and breaking tackles? Players are getting grappled in games on and off the ball.
I don't get the criticism, players get injured in all sorts of training exercises

 

[freo1]

Apparently did it in a wrestling drill. Kane Cornes having a crack at the S&C guys that come up with these drills and I think he’s right. Hard to understand how it’s meant to improve someone at footy

I've always wondered, when you do an ACL, is it just a complete snap straight away? or was there already damage or weakness there caused by other events, ie - a ticking time bomb.

My point is that, would a wrestling drill like this be the sole cause? or would there have been some pre-existing damage/weakness and this was just the last straw that broke the camels back.

I've seen people do an ACL just running in a straight line. Always made me think how many of us are playing footy with this potential in front of us.

 

[freo84]

I've always wondered, when you do an ACL, is it just a complete snap straight away? or was there already damage or weakness there caused by other events, ie - a ticking time bomb.

My point is that, would a wrestling drill like this be the sole cause? or would there have been some pre-existing damage/weakness and this was just the last straw that broke the camels back.

I've seen people do an ACL just running in a straight line. Always made me think how many of us are playing footy with this potential in front of us.

When I was training a bloke stood up after stretches and went down grabbing his knee. To this day its the weirdest injury I've seen.

 

[largebus]

Apparently did it in a wrestling drill. Kane Cornes having a crack at the S&C guys that come up with these drills and I think he’s right. Hard to understand how it’s meant to improve someone at footy

Players grapple and wrestle for the ball at contests all the time. People just see wrestle and think they're practising WWE moves

 

[Cesoir]

Apparently did it in a wrestling drill. Kane Cornes having a crack at the S&C guys that come up with these drills and I think he’s right. Hard to understand how it’s meant to improve someone at footy

Yeah, very surprised Cornes would be crutical of Adelaide

 

[fnerd]

Paul Curtis lucky to be alive. Turned away from a London hospital and cleared to fly to Bali despite showing severe respiratory issues. Ended up getting medivac'd to Perth from Bali with pneumonia and had a litre of fluid drained from his lungs.

Sounds like he's OK now. Hopefully Wallsy drops in and sees how he is recovering

What a promotion for englands health system , cleared to fly halfway across the globe with just few meds , then basically diagnosed properly once in Bali - a third world country .

Heard numerous stories from work mates /friends with family back over there all basically repeating this exact kind of situation.

Their health system is ****ed and collapsing under the strain of basically free for all immigration

 

[largebus]

What a promotion for englands health system , cleared to fly halfway across the globe with just few meds , then basically diagnosed properly once in Bali - a third world country .

Heard numerous stories from work mates /friends with family back over there all basically repeating this exact kind of situation.

Their health system is ****ed and collapsing under the strain of basically free for all immigration

Their system has been ****ed for a while and it isnt because of immigration. If anything immigrants prop the system up because everyone else wants to move here for the better wages (which are crap in general everywhere there) and weather.
Their population is on the decline

 

[DragoDelph]

Their system has been ****ed for a while and it isnt because of immigration. If anything immigrants prop the system up because everyone else wants to move here for the better wages (which are crap in general everywhere there) and weather.
Their population is on the decline

And it’s the poms immigrating here that’s driving the house prices up.

Sell a place there for $800k pounds, move her with $2 mil to spend.

And moving on…

 

[anchor man]

What a promotion for englands health system , cleared to fly halfway across the globe with just few meds , then basically diagnosed properly once in Bali - a third world country .

Heard numerous stories from work mates /friends with family back over there all basically repeating this exact kind of situation.

Their health system is ****ed and collapsing under the strain of basically free for all immigration

And people complain about the Australian system.
Know where I would rather be treated.

 

[Dockeroo]

Yeah, very surprised Cornes would be crutical of Adelaide

If anything he’s going to be more critical of Port than the crows this year given they just sacked his brother and his hero Kenny.
Just watch Kane absolutely castigate the Power in 2026 now after years of defending them

 

[DQ 4EVER]

Dan Curtin stretchered off, serious knee injury. Poor kid

Again, hope Wallsy checks in on him

 

[Minz]

What a promotion for englands health system , cleared to fly halfway across the globe with just few meds , then basically diagnosed properly once in Bali - a third world country .

Heard numerous stories from work mates /friends with family back over there all basically repeating this exact kind of situation.

Their health system is ****ed and collapsing under the strain of basically free for all immigration

Maaate, your mates and friends are getting wholesale bulls**ted by those “Reform” racist peanuts. Actually, the Tory government systematically underfunded the NHS for years, meaning it couldn’t meet demand; the information’s easily available.
The BMA estimates that the NHS has been underfunded by £423 billion (!) since 2010.

As others have pointed out, the NHS, like our health services generally, actually runs on immigrants! Getting out of the EU and becoming more xenophobic has made the UK less attractive for skilled immigration and so they have trouble attracting people; treating their medical folks like crap has meant they have decamped at a great rate. In fact, huge numbers work in Australia now!

Anyway, the more you know eh?

 

[theGav56]

Their health system is ****ed and collapsing under the strain of basically free for all immigration

The empire is striking back.

A colonial power plunders the wealth of other counties, and it is copping

 

[Paracleet]

The Australian population has doubled since around 1980.100% In the same time the UK's has grown by 17% but their services can't cope because of immigration?

 

[Spirit Level]

Cant 2 things be true?

The Tories are w***ers who neglected the NHS and the UK healthcare system is now a shitshow, but the UK is also taking in too many immigrants and it's causing social integration problems

 

[Taylor]

The Australian population has doubled since around 1980.100% In the same time the UK's has grown by 17% but their services can't cope because of immigration?

Clearly Australia isn't importing enough of the national cricket team and too many medical professionals.

The UK system fails because their government has a policy of just getting to tomorrow rather than treating the problem today so it's resolved for the rest of the patient's life. An example is my father and his sister, same heart condition - here, it's treated (as in resolved) within six weeks - his sister is still taking medication to manage hers. Exact same condition but different health systems.

From reports out of the rest of that family they also need to be able to see a GP within a certain amount of time of contacting them - so you are required to call up in the morning at opening and hope to get an appointment before they stop answering the phones entirely.

Their hospitals are geared towards getting people out of the bed to allow the next person waiting in rather than making sure they don't come back in a week.

They are barely holding on and it's a matter of priorities - and it's been going on for decades.

 

[mattis117]

Here I was thinking this thread was for non Freo AFL discussion.

 

[Paracleet]

Here I was thinking this thread was for non Freo AFL discussion.

Until the General thread is returned to its rightful topic of cricket, and the new cricket thread closed, no conventions will be respected.

 

[Minz]

Clearly Australia isn't importing enough of the national cricket team and too many medical professionals.

The UK system fails because their government has a policy of just getting to tomorrow rather than treating the problem today so it's resolved for the rest of the patient's life. An example is my father and his sister, same heart condition - here, it's treated (as in resolved) within six weeks - his sister is still taking medication to manage hers. Exact same condition but different health systems.

From reports out of the rest of that family they also need to be able to see a GP within a certain amount of time of contacting them - so you are required to call up in the morning at opening and hope to get an appointment before they stop answering the phones entirely.

Their hospitals are geared towards getting people out of the bed to allow the next person waiting in rather than making sure they don't come back in a week.

They are barely holding on and it's a matter of priorities - and it's been going on for decades.

Not quite. If you look at the last few governments, there’s a stark difference between conservative and labour over there. After Thatcher et al, who cut funding, investment in NHS increased markedly, and wait times and infrastructure improved similarly. Then the next government cut funding and… everything went to shit again. Health services need consistent investment and building for future needs given normal population growth. And as others have pointed out, the UK has not at all had uncontrolled immigration, merely bad actors that claim that for their own ends

IMO, it was deliberately done to try to privatise and move towards a US system ideologically, or because politicians get bought by healthcare companies that want in… but that’s just my opinion.

 

[DeanS]

And people complain about the Australian system.
Know where I would rather be treated.

Bali?

 

[Cesoir]

I disagree, and I'm outraged.

 

[oldgoat]

Maaate, your mates and friends are getting wholesale bulls**ted by those “Reform” racist peanuts. Actually, the Tory government systematically underfunded the NHS for years, meaning it couldn’t meet demand; the information’s easily available.
The BMA estimates that the NHS has been underfunded by £423 billion (!) since 2010.

As others have pointed out, the NHS, like our health services generally, actually runs on immigrants! Getting out of the EU and becoming more xenophobic has made the UK less attractive for skilled immigration and so they have trouble attracting people; treating their medical folks like crap has meant they have decamped at a great rate. In fact, huge numbers work in Australia now!

Anyway, the more you know eh?

Just so Minz...
Our health system is propped up by our wholesale recruitment of overseas health workers from countries who need them more than we do!
It is immoral!
An example...Australia has 20 times as many psychiatrists per capita as India.
And I am pro migration.

 

[Purple Jesus]

Clearly Australia isn't importing enough of the national cricket team and too many medical professionals.

The UK system fails because their government has a policy of just getting to tomorrow rather than treating the problem today so it's resolved for the rest of the patient's life. An example is my father and his sister, same heart condition - here, it's treated (as in resolved) within six weeks - his sister is still taking medication to manage hers. Exact same condition but different health systems.

From reports out of the rest of that family they also need to be able to see a GP within a certain amount of time of contacting them - so you are required to call up in the morning at opening and hope to get an appointment before they stop answering the phones entirely.

Their hospitals are geared towards getting people out of the bed to allow the next person waiting in rather than making sure they don't come back in a week.

They are barely holding on and it's a matter of priorities - and it's been going on for decades.

Mostly correct, except the phone first thing in the morning thing has changed to 'fill in a triage form online and hope someone contacts you... sometime'.

 

[Daddoo]

You're all welcome to come to the US, where our privatized medical system is awesome. Just ask the 27 million who are uninsured (27 mil is the entire Aus population, btw). That number will only go up as our Great Leader and the noble party have defunded subsidies for working class Americans. I lived in England/Scotland, and yes, there are many reasons to criticize what they have, but the alternative to national health care isn't ideal. No system is perfect. Aus has top 10 life expectancy in the world, so it can't be that bad. US ain't even top 25. Germany, UK, Austria, France, and many other European nations are higher.

You are all welcome to come here and check our our system, but you'd have to turn over all your social media accounts, your first born child, and get an American flag tattoo on your arm, and swear allegiance to our Great Leader. Oh, and a federal officer might shoot you in the face. Or handcuff you. Or kick in your face as you're handcuffed. Or ship you to an El Salvadorian prison. Or maybe all of the above, if you're lucky...