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Just a random thought that's been simmering away in my head today.

The other day on the Agenda Setters, I think it was, they were highlighting the amount of work that Blicavs did all around the ground, and especially in the ruck, playing almost a tagging role on Max Gawn.

This really supports my view of many years that Blitz is arguably Geelong's most important player when it comes to stability around the ground, and it's been that way for half a decade.

I may be wrong in saying this, but I feel that whenever he isn't in the team, it hurts us really badly.

Now, this guy's 35 and though i feel that he definitely deserves another year on a contract, there's someone who (though probably has a little ways to go to get to his level) is pinned as the Blicavs replacement.

And that is (maybe obviously to some) Sam DeKoning. As much as I used to hate him playing the ruck role, he has gotten better year after year, and it definitely feels like a plan of transition to me thats developed over a few years. Him playing that unicorn role in the years to come under Chris Scott has been written on the wall for a few years now.

A previous post just made me think of this. When reading The Deathly Hallows a few months ago, I was previously aware that in the books there's a reason why the Death Eaters come when Xenophillius Lovegood says "Voldemort" and that's also why the Death Eaters just happen to turn up in the diner.

At a certain point in the book though (and even though he had said Voldemort's name before) Ron all-of-a-sudden just thinks that they should stop saying his name for some reason.

Is there a genuine reason for this? Did he know that a taboo was possible? Because it just felt like plot convenience to me when reading it for the first time.

Would like to add a "man yells at cloud" flair.

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The old man needs to get to Melbourne tomorrow (sunday) and the earliest train leaving Ballarat is at 8 o'clock? Obviously for someone who needs to be in Melbourne at that time, it just doesn't work.

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Aside from that, there's barely any trains running at the moment whatsoever. Every time it's practically inconvenient AND there doesn't seem to be a bus replacement timetable.

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Can't even find any reasons online as to why there's disruptions. There's still trains running, just not that many which is weird.