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I always draw a parallel to the All-Blacks and Wallabies in Union. I embarrassingly used to convince myself the only reason New Zealand would constantly beat us was because McCaw was a cheat. (How anyone supporting a team with George Gregan on it could call anyone else a cheat shows the level...

They are playing at home, have won the toss both times on wickets they have asked for and Australia played the whole 2nd Test down a bowler and yet they are losing 0-2. If things start to go Australia’s way even a little, this will be an absolute bloodbath.

I know the wickets haven’t suited him but I get the feeling Anderson is now bowling to protect his average rather than take a wicket. He is constantly bowling at a 5th or 6th stump and just content to rack up the dot balls.

So the only stumpings that will be acceptable are when they are attempting a run?

How do the Poms deal with this sort of cognitive dissonance? https://www.givemesport.com/1815389-the-ashes-2021-jonny-bairstow-ben-stokes-react-angrily-to-weight-jibe-sledge/ They egg their home crowds on endlessly and visiting teams have to put up with some absolutely vile abuse yet one Aussie...

We get it, Bairstow is a s**t keeper and has no awareness as a batsman compared to Marnus. Don’t know why the Poms keep pointing that out. Just saw his presser, apparently a new rule from Stokes - can’t be stumped off the last ball of the over.

Bairstow didn’t even look at the keeper at all but I guarantee he would have been mid walkies by the time he realised it had gone past Carey and he would have run byes. Thus negating any assumption of dead ball nonsense.

Maybe an unfair hypothetical but do you think if Carey hadn’t taken the ball Bairstow would have run for byes?

Was Labs attempting a run when Bairstow threw at the stumps?

Everyone now understands it was technically correct but for all intents and purposes it was a catch. Starc caught it with two hands, controlled it, transferred it to his left hand and then put his knees down to slide. At no point was the ball dropped or out of his control. In the “spirit of the...

Absolute lols. “Bairstow had gone on the same wander down the pitch after each of the previous three balls but he was not trying to gain an advantage. He was not setting off for a run or batting out of his crease to negate swing,” Agnew wrote. We need to recall every batsman ever who has been...

https://www.theroar.com.au/2023/06/18/collingwood-claims-england-can-save-test-cricket-with-bazball-if-we-dont-do-that-it-might-not-survive/

They brought in on themselves by talking about “saving Test cricket” with their style. Just not sure where bowling 98% bouncers in a session of cricket fits in to their plan of entertaining cricket.

If Geelong supporters want to accuse others of being bandwagoners, StKilda fans probably aren’t the target demographic

A Geelong fan with a join date of 2018 made this comment. I don’t even know where to begin…

That’s how it’s meant to work right, but in reality the process is plagued with issues. An experiment by Godlee et al. published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) inserted eight deliberate errors into a paper that was nearly ready for publication, and then sent the paper to 420 potential...

Yes. The poster seems to put a lot of faith in peer review, so I’d like to know the formal process papers have to go through to be deemed peer reviewed. What’s the standard?

How thorough is their review? What steps do the reviewers have to take for something to be deemed peer reviewed? Edit - changed there to their, otherwise it will s**t me forever.

I admiyour principled stance. I can’t use the same argument without being a hypocrite, because in general I’m for government intervention, but in this case I don’t see the value in it. How does the peer review process work in current academia?

But you personally are against mandating it, why?

Can you make your case as to why it shouldn't be mandated?

Well, meaningful discussion with you has reached it’s inevitable conclusion.

One of us is advocating for denying healthcare to people and this is the conclusion you come up with. Like what?

Literally nothing. This is my point about media reporting being misleading or downright dishonest. Give me age, comorbidities, BMI and vaccination status of those in hospital. Then we can have a discussion. Edit - let’s also report smoking status while we are at it.

You can not get herd immunity with a vaccine that does such a poor job at preventing transmission. It’s literally impossible. Do you think we should mandate vaccinating children?

What did I just read? Your sense of perspective has been so warped by hysteria. Vaccination status isn’t the biggest contributing factor to you ending up in hospital with covid, despite what the media reports. Age, comorbidities and BMI all contribute far greater. But clearly people not...

Bingo!!! Now apply that logic to all diseases, not just covid.

Lol - nice rewriting of history. They had 80% of eligible people vaccinated, it didn’t work, so they changed the eligibility criteria and that subsequently decreased their vaccination rate. You now also need to have had a booster to be considered vaccinated.

So now it’s about economics, not capacity?

What if they catch it from someone who is vaccinated? Who’s fault is that? Should we treat people who have vaccine side-effects, they made a choice, can’t have them denying a bed to a chronic smoker or someone morbidly obese ?