Jack Watts

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

I have a deep man love for Colin Sylvia. My picture, my players.

Can't argue with that.

Ahh the hoopla and frivolity in this thread is something to behold......

And encourage. How long has it been since you felt positive vibes like this? And I mean unaffected positive vibes. Not: Morton is good but can't kick. McLean is great but slow. etc etc

[discworld demon 0]

Gee I hope you're all correct about young Jack! As for me, I'm old enough to remember Diamond Jim!!!!!

ps: what's (or should that be Watts) this rumour about pork flu at Brighton Glamor School!

[Geddy Lee 582]

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[QueenC 74]

And encourage. How long has it been since you felt positive vibes like this? And I mean unaffected positive vibes. Not: Morton is good but can't kick. McLean is great but slow. etc etc

If things go the way we all hope 'ology will vanish, due to a lack of topics to [censored] about like old grandmas.

Whoa Dan back it up a bit.....

I said the frivolity was something to behold not bemoan.

Geez !!!

[Sleeve 67]

Excuse my ingorance on the swine flu topic but it has been reported on Demonology that Brighton Grammar has been closed due to 2 positive cases of Swine Flu..... the poster is uncertain if it was the senior or junior school.

When closing the schools in victoria have they been putting ALL students into quarantine?

I doubt it but stranger things have happened.

[drdrake 3,203]

The deal with the family is Stef Martin will be dropped to sit Jack's exam, well done Stef way to do the team thing, sorry about the new hair cut and colour.

[AzzKikA 2,371]

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA thats the most clever thing i have seen in a while. Well done Natanui!

[H_T 3,049]

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Brilliant!

[Satan 2,915]

that run thru was gold

[titan_uranus 25,176]

He has a career in front of him as an AFL footballer, at the end of that know one will care about his VCE. If he wants to study engineering or medicine, or arts at melbourne, while playing afl, his enter score might count. otherwise it doesn't mean jack. And if he is that keen to get in somewhere, he is earning 60k a year, to be 200k a year within 4 years and will have problems bypassing enter scores by going to a full fee paying position.

That's a very short-term look on life. Of course we all here hope and pray for a 15 year magical career, and god forbid it should be anything but, but Jack needs to consider what happens if it doesn't work out.

And what did you mean by that last bit? Are you saying that, if he screws up his VCE, he could just waltz into a full-fee paying position because he'll be able to afford it? You still need a decent ENTER to make a full-fee paying spot.

Absolutely ridiculous thing to say. VCE is important, whether you want to go to Uni or not. If you have that mentality, it says a lot about your character imo. Nothing is better than a good education. I don't care what anyone here says. To assume you're going to be earning 200k within 4 years is the biggest mistake an athlete could make. He has no idea what could happen between now and then. The good thing about Uni is that you can essentially do it for as long as you want. Plenty of players juggle full-time AFL with part-time studies and eventually get their degrees after 4 or 5 years. I have no doubt that each club encourages players to have a university degree or TAFE diploma as a back up.

Agree with you on this one.

those who think a high year 12 score is the be all and end all clearly have no idea how society works, or know they won't get it and are jealous, or know they will get it and think they are elite. or parents who don't understand. doing your best is more important than etting a high score.

There's a difference between being the be all and end all and being important. As a figure, the enter score will mean nothing once he's started uni. But as a means of attaining self-confidence and satisfaction with oneself, the enter score has much more meaning.

Besides which, not caring about your studies shows a lack of forethought and a lack of maturity.

[Geddy Lee 582]

Excuse my ingorance on the swine flu topic but it has been reported on Demonology that Brighton Grammar has been closed due to 2 positive cases of Swine Flu..... the poster is uncertain if it was the senior or junior school.

When closing the schools in victoria have they been putting ALL students into quarantine?

I doubt it but stranger things have happened.

Craigieburn Primary just quarantined the one year level affected.

Exams of VCE will not be affected.

[45HG 1,559]

These pictures are great!

[praha 11,253]

Yr 12 is important, but not the be all and end all. If you're intelligent enough to continue studying, you should focus on that. Giving up an education just so you could take up the chance to be a successful athlete, which is never assured, is ridiculous. He's smart and dedicated enough when it comes to school, so he should be able to study what he wants to study and as dedicated as he wants to. He realises that he might not be earning 300k in 4 years and if he doesn't have an education in a particular field, he'll have to be a labourer (NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT!!). Believe it or not, but not every male on the planet wants to be a brick layer or an electrician. Some men just aren't interested in that. He wants an education so that at least when he finishes football, if he doesn't have investments or if he hasn't made it, he can go into a profession he always wanted to go into.

[Guest sticksmorton]

Year 12 is over-rated you can get into uni without a good VCE result and not being a full fee paying student, go to TAFE for a couple of years - which gets credited to your UNI degree and you miss out on HECS. WHO gives a flyiiiiiiiingg F@cK about his VCE results he is an AFL player and will earn in excess of 80 to 100,000 this year, next year and the year after that at a minimum. He doesn't give a flying toss about his accounting exam! and neither do we! LOL

[Ryan Dee 140]

He doesn't give a flying toss about his accounting exam! and neither do we! LOL

correct lol. I dont know how he will be able to concentrate anyway, Imagen at 18 playing in front of 70 odd thoudsand and being on a massive high, then go home, revise for a test, TRY get to sleep early and then put all your focus on an exam the next day. Bloody hell GOOD LUCK CAUSE YOU WILL NEED IT.

[Gorgoroth 13,184]

Or if you pay up front you get into courses with a lower score.

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

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Now that is post of the year already if it was put on here originally, and not ripped off bigfooty. Solid gold.

I said the frivolity was something to behold not bemoan.

Geez !!!

Ummm... So did I.

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[Carn dees 108]

Dont no if any one else herd this but on SEN this morning roughly 8am they were talking to eddy 4chins, he said that its been confirmed that 2 people from Brighton grammar have swine flu and that jack has to get quarantined because he may have been in contact with those poeple.

Also he stated that they collingwood will go out there and play jack as normal no targeting or roughening him up or such.....

[Rogue 585]

Or if you pay up front you get into courses with a lower score.

Aren't domestic full-fee places being abolished?

He wants an education so that at least when he finishes football, if he doesn't have investments or if he hasn't made it, he can go into a profession he always wanted to go into.

I'm sure he'll pass VCE and achieving an average ENTER score is little barrier to tertiary entry - it can just make it more of a process.

Given that even if Watts did not make it in AFL footy he'd be in the system for a few years, and thus be eligible for mature-age entry into uni, his ENTER score is probably largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

That's a very short-term look on life. Of course we all here hope and pray for a 15 year magical career, and god forbid it should be anything but, but Jack needs to consider what happens if it doesn't work out.

Taking a couple of Open Uni units - which he could do while playing footy - and getting a decent average will give you access to most courses, and there are a variety of other alternative pathways (ie. STAT tests, TAFE pathways, etc.).

That said, whether he's playing senior footy or at Casey he's still going to be playing matches on the weekends and training during the week so there's probably not a huge difference in terms of time (apart from the extra hype associated with his debut).

[titan_uranus 25,176]

Dont no if any one else herd this but on SEN this morning roughly 8am they were talking to eddy 4chins, he said that its been confirmed that 2 people from Brighton grammar have swine flu and that jack has to get quarantined because he may have been in contact with those poeple.

Well I didn't hear the Eddie interview but it's true that 2 boys from Brighton Grammar have swine flu. However the school (and the MFC) have said that he, in all likeliness, did not come into contact with the two and so he shouldn't be in any danger.

[deanox 10,045]

well the vic government has lifted the quarantine anyway, so its not a big issue regardless.

[Danny_Deckchair 0]

Dean Bailey needs to remember that he can only play 10 games this year. That way we can have Watts, Strauss, Butcher, Scully and Blease nominated for the NAB rising star award next year