Tag: black swan

Home

grown black swan swimming on water in small pond

Sydney & The Black Swan Grand Final Event

9 October 2024 2 yrs

I want to start this article by acknowledging the wonderful speech given by John Longmire at the Sydney Swan’s Club Championship dinner. That speech inspired me to write this piece. Sydney and the Black Swan Grand Final event. Hands up who knows what a black swan event is?

Book Review Culture Fresh Sport

Caveman Sports Have No Place In A Healthy Life

by Clio

3 July 2026 1 week

Caveman Sports Have No Place In A Healthy Life

Contact sports in the guise of AFL or rugby are coming under increasing scrutiny in regard to head knocks to players. The truth is that modern human beings are not designed to crash and bash into each other at speed. We have, obviously, evolved away from the need to do so in the natural world. Survival does not call for such behaviour these days and that has long been the case. It is, rather, recreational pursuits in the form of team contact sports which have become the unhealthy danger in recent years. The professionalism and commercialism within these sports have motivated players to become bigger, stronger and faster in pursuit of material rewards. The resultant clashes between these modern day gladiators are fuelling an increasing amount of brain injury diseases showing up in past and present players. Is it a situation where caveman sports have no place in a healthy life?

Culture Footy Fresh Health News Sport

Sydney Swans Flop Off The Bye At The Gabba

by Clio

26 June 2026 2 weeks

Sydney Swans Flop Off The Bye At The Gabba

The Sydney Swans flop off the bye at the Gabba under fierce Lion’s pressure. Personally, I hate the bye and always have as a Swan’s fan. Too many times the team fails to fire after a week off. The Swans looked soft on this Thursday night featured contest with last year’s premiers. Brody Grundy gifted Brisbane goal scoring opportunities out of the centre 4 times on the night. These free kicks for crossing the line at the ball up are huge penalties to pay for this indiscretion, especially when advantage is taken and opposing players steal out the front of the centre square toward their goal.

Footy Fresh

The Idealisation Of The Past Is A Never Land

by Clio

22 June 2026 3 weeks

The Idealisation Of The Past Is A Never Land

You know a lot of the apparent support for One Nation comes from older white Australians. Pauline Hanson and her campaign machine promote the idea that things were better back in the day. This right wing idealisation of the past, of there being some sort of golden age, is nothing new. Fascists in Hitler’s era promoted the concept of the pure German who lived during a bucolic time of yesteryear. Romanticising the past appeals to older folk especially. Contrasting it with the present and focusing on negative stuff like urban crime and demonising special interest groups plays well with this audience. Hitler and the Nazis attacked the immorality of the Weimar Republic, which won them electoral support from conservate Germans. Pauline Hanson attacks Muslims, refugees and immigrants, as all things bad for Australia. The idealisation of the past is a never land, in that it never really existed the way they say it did.

Crime Culture Democracy Fresh News Politics Power

Episode 29: Caveman Sports & The Mysteries Of AFL Coaching - Robert Sudha Hamilton's Podcast

Robert Sudha HamiltonContact sports in the guise of AFL or rugby are coming under increasing scrutiny in regard to head knocks to players. The truth is that modern human beings are not designed to crash and bash into each other at speed. We have, obviously, evolved away from the need to do so in the natural world. Survival does not call for such behaviour these days and that has long been the case. It is, rather, recreational pursuits in the form of team contact sports which have become the unhealthy danger in recent years. The professionalism and commercialism within these sports have motivated players to become bigger, stronger and faster in pursuit of material rewards. The resultant clashes between these modern day gladiators are fuelling an increasing amount of brain injury diseases showing up in past and present players. Is it a situation where caveman sports have no place in a healthy life?The Mystery of Coaching AFLHighly paid but bloody hard work too.More likely to fail than find ultimate success, but still ex-AFL players try their hand at the caper. In this podcast we dig a bit deeper into the whole coaching challenge..Michael Voss & Brad Scott are the latest victims.Why were they unsuccessful????Robert Sudha Hamilton is a keen, longtime AFL fan. He like many wonders why? About so many things...

Midas Word Follow

SpeakTruth

Midas Word @midasword ·

3 Jul

Can the game of AFL be sanitised enough to make it safe from developing CTE or some other form of brain disease? In my view it seems unlikely. A contact sport is all about that physical contact...

Reply on Twitter 2072884773593518219 Retweet on Twitter 2072884773593518219 Like on Twitter 2072884773593518219 X 2072884773593518219

Midas Word @midasword ·

26 Jun

The Swans are soft. You cannot rely on them to turn up when the going gets tough. Jake Lloyd was brushed aside by Cam Rainer so often he must have thought that he had died and come back as a curtain.

Reply on Twitter 2070374213165470004 Retweet on Twitter 2070374213165470004 Like on Twitter 2070374213165470004 X 2070374213165470004

Midas Word @midasword ·

25 Jun

In Australia, we are discovering that the sudden popularity of One Nation is not some weird organic thing but rather has been force fed via a funded avalanche of AI fake news crafted in Vietnam.

Reply on Twitter 2069962517221384508 Retweet on Twitter 2069962517221384508 Like on Twitter 2069962517221384508 X 2069962517221384508

Midas Word @midasword ·

22 Jun

Pauline Hanson has spent decades claiming victimhood status for herself and those she supposedly represents. Hanson is now worth millions and boasts backing from billionaires. Her claim to represent the little Aussie battler is a sham