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The big thing with women's rugby league these days is trying to grow the game, ie: bigger crowds resulting in more sponsorship bringing more money into the game. When that happens, a lot of the players can go fully professional. It's frustrating for them at the moment. Most of them have to have a day job and juggle that with playing while they see their male counterparts on big annual salaries to play football full time.

Yes, Jesse Southwell, our star new recruit for the Brisbane Broncos did all the kicking. She missed number 14 out of the 21 kicks. I'm not sure why she didn't play in the match against England. The girl doing the kicking in that match missed a lot and Jesse rarely misses. She's not only a great kicker but a playmaker as well; she's one of the top women players in the game and only 21 so plenty of career time ahead of her.

Jeez, that's a long game! 😁

That works out at 20 converted tries and one not converted. That's 4.3 minutes per scoring event. I bet it took longer to do the kick than score the try. The big game is Samoa -v- Tonga. Just starting as I write this. Let's check the score in the morning.

The Welsh are ok. They aren't POMS. They worked the Coal mines OWNED by the Poms. There's Plenty on record about that. Nev

Silly way to set it up with a GAP to the wall.. Nev

Albo stepping back:

The Jillaroos have beaten Wales 124 to 6 in the Women's Rugby League World Cup. It's a world record for total number of points scored in any Rugby League match ever, men's or women's. The Welsh seemed to be a happy lot. They were down 100-0 with ten minutes to go when they scored their only try. The reaction from the crowd of supporters and the players was as if they'd won the world cup. Good training for the Welsh team to be able to play a top tier team like Australia. They'll be reviewing that match many times over in training for sure.

The Batteries in some EV's do this well. There will be commercial opportunities there as well for smart local Councils etc. Nothing responds quicker than a Battery. . Best way to MANAGE systems with a fluctuating demand. All done automatically. Home batteries will get Bigger. Everyone benefits. It's a logical progression.. Nev

A couple of weeks ago there was a heat wave in NSW and due to various factors including coal generators outages due to breakdowns and maintenance, the spot price soared to over $2,000.00 a MW. As a VPP my system immediately began to sell power to the grid. It see sawed rapidly for an hour or 2 due to this occuring from numerous battery systems doing the same thing. Anyway I ended up with a credit of $65.00 over the 2 hours & my monthly bill just received is now in credit foe $70.00. This includes charging my EV once or twice a week.

Wild stuff. When you fly through the Inter-tropic convergence zone the tops may go to 60,000 feet.. It looks like wall of ice. Natures forces can make us look Puny. Nev

We are Not in a really bad state HERE, but Corruption will happen anytime there's a situation where (SOME) People think they can get away with it, Pretty Much.. (The Temptation Factor). There are SOME People for whom MONEY and Power is everything. I think those people have a Problem because LOTS is Never enough and we are ALL going to die someday, and often the Money is not earned or gained Fair and Square, so you will have enemies. Also How Pathetic is someone who as to have the Latest, shiniest and biggest of everything to feel OK? They don't have REAL Friends. Just Hanger's on. Money is NOT CLASS. It's not called "Filthy" Rich for Nothing. Nev

Greed and Fear propels the stock Market. . What Trump "SAYS or Does" changes it. In 1929 it was Junk Bonds (worthless Paper) that Caused a World recession that only WW2 brought USA out of The Military-Industrial Complex that Dwight Eisenhauer spoke at great Length on and warned of It's increasing Influence on American Politics.. Boeing would have gone Broke, if it wasn't so Important/ essential to Military Output. Nev

History repeats itself???? The Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred from October 24 to October 29, 1929. The same week in October, ninety-eight years later, Wall Street suffered a big drop due to off-selling of stocks related to AI businesses.

Potsy on Happy Days.

Somewhat connected to this thread, although it relates to many more than just Albo. Our corruption rating has dipped slightly lately. So much for transparency and a proper Anti Corruption watchdog (we only got a toothless watch-puppy) https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025

Lst night I watched an astonishing light show in the clouds. Usually one gets intermittent lightning flashes, but this storm light show was just like New Year's fireworks. The storm was way off in the distance, but I did get about 12mm of rain in a couple of very heavy showers. However, this is a storm that moved over tjhe NSW Southern Highlands yesterday.

Just to clarify:- I'm sure know that I am skeptical about the future of, and even the financial/environmental viability of A.I. I totally agree with this. The 'new wave' is trying to convince the plebs that A.I. is something new. It is just one more evolutionary step made possible by hardware advances.

I'm not skeptic about AI. A skeptic is a person who questions the truth, validity, or value of an idea, claim, or belief rather than accepting it at face value. I was just wondering if the advance of AI is likely to be slowed by its failure to produce profits rapidly for investors. AI has been developing since the end of WWII. It hit some hurdles in teh 60s and 70s when computing power wasn't up to its needs. Now that power seems to be available, but other factors are at play, and I reckon the major factor is the profit on investment in the short term.

You forgot the RAT RACE. That's everywhere but the BUSH. Nev

See! We ARE multicultural!

I agree with your skepicism. Sure, it's still early days. But so far the returns don't seem to be ramping up in proportion to the collective $billions being 'invested' in data centres and A.I.

I'm wondering if the AI boom might go bust. I need to separate the technology from the financial backing it needs. I don't see the technological side of things dying off. There will always be people playing with it and developing its abilities. However, it seems that recently there hs been some nervousness amongst the sources of finance for it. At the moment, those seeking to finance AI seem to be hyping it when they are making their requests. Howver, it also seems that those who can provide the finance are concerned that the returns on investment are too long in coming. I'm not a financial expert, but my opinion is that those providing the money want both security for their money and at the same time they want the profits to roll in pretty quickly. In other words, investing in AI is a risky business. I think that these financiers, having been burned by the dot.com bubble and the causes of the 2008 GFC, and factoring the uncertainty of the global political situation might become more reluctant to go in as deeply as those seeking finance might like. However, my opinion is based on the way I think Wall Street types operate. I think that they are too concerned with short term returns. That leaves the other major economy whose mind set allows for playing the long term, regular small returns game. We live in interesting times.

Just another grasp at straws to try and discredit renewables

Probably because Star Trek: the next generation had 178 episodes spanning 1987 - 1994. Plus 4 movies with the same cast, with the latest in 2002. For us Gen X's that's a big chunk of our teens and early adulthood.