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For mine, it has to be a 15 minute turnaround, with players warming up on an outside pitch. In Allianz case, either SCG or the Kippax Lake field. That’s how it used to work (and work well) in rugby league right up to the late 90s.

A-League seems to be at a tipping point but ultimately we virtually have nothing to lose at the moment if TV income has crashed as much as reported. Each club’s fans really need to be building their takeover plan though, for if APL crashes a new FA comp should be free for all meaning owner desertion

Hospital OT was an 18 month wait.

My concern in that area is, how many kids are missing out? We only got picked up for both services because of a NICU follow-up. And we've had to go private on the OT while waiting for NDIS...

Qualified for the hospital speech program(s) which has been a godsend, but now also waiting for NDIS.

My son's kindy class next year appears to be much bigger than my daughter's 19. It's a one stream school with only 170-odd kids at moment.

Saw Bondi also reducing classes and fundraising for specialist teachers. Sounds like a big reduction inside next 4 or 5 years as those intakes become the norm!

Interesting, we are losing our first one next week (end of year 1, moving to Central Coast). +1 from England earlier this term.

Catholic school with a kindy class of 19.

Like the Metro is Step 1, Western Harbour Tunnel Step 2 probably secretly.

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Feels ambitious for the Bridge to be expected to last another 100 years. We really need to develop a rapid deployment replacement strategy (say 6 months?)

Especially as the cross-bench grows, the demand for alternative input grows. Should be increasing towards 8 weeks per school term.

New bug I’ve never come across before this morning!

Jeonbuk without doubt.

Not sure if everyone is aware, but tonight's game between #ADLvPER is a FTA game on 10BOLD (normally shown only on Saturdays).

You're welcome.

Indiana survives, great news all around.

National Intelligence doesn’t need a background check, it knows everything already!

Blue Sky feature update: Rotate videos and pictures…

The funny part was the 40 runs England still needed would have taken about another hour of play, but nope, we’re off to the docks!

That sounds like $40m accumulated, not annual.

I love this one the best.

“We’ve extended the sale for 2 weeks but have had to reduce the discounts substantially.” Nobody asked for that.

What on earth are they still spending on to let it get that far out of hand?

Subregional tournaments =
Nations League(s) or genuine subregional and intercontinental tournaments such as Suzuki Cup, Arab Cup, West Asian FF championships, Olympics qualifiers, Pan Pacific Championships (new suggestion).

Shout out Aaron Gurd for his Saturday night performance. Hopefully more game time in ACL2 this week.

For men Year 1
Nov/Dec - Subregional T/ments
Jun - Conti qualifiers
Nov/Dec - Asian Cup/AFCON/Gold Cup, Euro qualy’s, CONMEBOL WCQ
Jun - Euro/Copa America, Others WCQ
Nov/Dec - WCQ
June - WCQ
Nov/Dec - WCQ playoffs, Club World Cup, subregional t/ments or conti qualifiers
Jun - World Cup (64 teams)

The international calendar, men and women really needs a revamp. 2x4-weekend windows. Nov/Dec and June for the men, Feb and July for women. 8 windows every 4 years.

1 friendly plus t/ment (WC and Confed finals), 1 friendly plus 6 qualifiers Nov, and 1 friendly plus 4 qualifiers non t/ment June’s.

Follow more people, the old fashioned way!

Pretty much all of them have abandoned social media apart from highly infrequent agent managed posts (rightly, at their level of income there is nothing to be gained from it but abuse and trauma). I don’t doubt they haven’t seen any of it.

It doesn’t need to be politics for politics sake. Occasional comment on the main news for the day if it’s of substantial value but then all the other interests at other times.

Baseball, like cricket, is far lower athletic intensity and can suitably cope with the weather.

I mean the issue generally with the Derby is the Wanderers bringing zero juice.