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Speak for yourself RF. You don't speak for me. There will be, no doubt people who agree with you, and those who don't.

This is a football site, do you agree with me there?

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Speak for yourself RF. You don't speak for me. There will be, no doubt people who agree with you, and those who don't.

The majority has its way in any democracy.

We don't want this crap on the footy boards.

Posted (edited)

Thats got nothin' to do with it.

go back to 3aw.

I think you my well be.

Do you want to talk about Strauss and his football ability, or other wise, or do you want to talk about where he went to school? Or do you want to talk about me?

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The majority has its way in any democracy.

We don't want this crap on the footy boards.

No one wants crap, nor dictatorial abuse.

I can't see a poll done on anything, but 'Muammar Gaddafi'styled rhetoric, is not good.

we live in a democracy, where they're thankfully are ,many and varied views and comments.

People getting precious about a bit of light hearted banter about the school they attended, or the politics they follow, is OK, but not when they say they speak for all, and try to use that as a weapon. They don't, and there's a bad smell of bullying in it.

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I think you my well be.

Do you want to talk about Strauss and his football ability, or other wise, or do you want to talk about where he went to school? Or do you want to talk about me?

I don't want particularly to talk about any of it.

Just a casual reader of this humerous topic.

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The majority has its way in any democracy.

come, come rpfc, engage brain before the pen. please

the majority may be the theory but certainly not the practice


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I don't want particularly to talk about any of it.

Just a casual reader of this humerous topic.

I think you become more than a casual reader when you offer up multiple posts.

Be that as it may the thread is about James Strauss not you or me so I'll leave it at that.

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come, come rpfc, engage brain before the pen. please

the majority may be the theory but certainly not the practice

I know you expect it of me, but even I can sometimes struggle with capturing nuance in 8 words...

Point is - I don't want to be lectured on someone half-thought political views on the footy forum.

Put it on the general board/

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Depends, if his dad wore high heels. LoL.

I think you missed the point of this question.

It said if "your son" and what would "you" do.

So, do you wear high heels?

and this just show you probably need a private school education. They generally educate students on the meaning of the word "you". Mind you most schools do. Leads me to question whether you had an education at all.....

idiot

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I know you expect it of me, but even I can sometimes struggle with capturing nuance in 8 words...

Point is - I don't want to be lectured on someone half-thought political views on the footy forum.

Put it on the general board/

This thread has been hijacked for socio-political agitation

Like many threads it has reached its use-by date and become an ego trip

Best to let it die by giving it no oxygen

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This thread has been hijacked for socio-political agitation

Like many threads it has reached its use-by date and become an ego trip

Best to let it die by giving it no oxygen

Two kinds of oxygen though:

Replying to it.

Allowing it to be read.

I am all for having heated discussion about politics on the internet.

Just not on the footy board.

Delete the posts and tell them to put it elsewhere.

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I think you missed the point of this question.

It said if "your son" and what would "you" do.

So, do you wear high heels?

and this just show you probably need a private school education. They generally educate students on the meaning of the word "you". Mind you most schools do. Leads me to question whether you had an education at all.....

idiot

Those were the absolute throw away replies to a sort of rediculous thread, so I responded with non intellectual humour. The sort the thread called for.

* Bring on the Footy season.

Nothing else cuts it.

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Posted (edited)

Those were the absolute throw away replies to a sort of rediculous thread, so I responded with non intellectual humour. The sort the thread called for.

* Bring on the Footy season.

Nothing else cuts it.

Does any thread on demonland not end in a catfight? B) :)

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Jikajika,

Who are you to comment on James Strauss' upbringing? You do not know James Strauss, you have little understanding of his life and are simply basing your 'comments' on the basis that he attended a private school and like many other hopeful AFL footballers, he hasn't set the world on fire to date. There is no need to bash private schooling on demonland, it is a place that supporters of the club can debate and share opinions on their players, staff and the team as a whole. Nobody wants to read your comments and hear of your hatred towards private schooling, it has nothing to do with football.

Your first paragraph (which happens too also be a very long sentence) and the way it is written has clearly clouded your judgement on the matter. Wow, you sound so damn intelligent, 'exceptionally', 'extremely', 'desperately', 'elitist ideology', 'auspice'. I never knew james Strauss' career was in fact, so dramatic. 'Comprehensively failed'. Rightiooooooo. The backroom staff at the club seem to think differently, if his career to date was such a comprehensive failure, why waste a couple of hundred thousand dollars of wages and numerous resources on a worthless asset for another two years? Let him grow, let him develop and if he doesn't manage to crack the big time then so be it, it wont make him a failure, and it certainly wont be because of his attendance at Scotch.

In short, you might as well have simply posted, 'James Strauss is a failure, and will never be anything else, because he attended a private school, and all other graduates from that school are failures too'. The rest of your post is meaningless junk.

Aleichem Shalom.

You're a wise man thedemonwithin.

Jikajika. You are a Collingwood supporter.

Posted

Funny, I thought I clicked on the thread about James Strauss and his footballing ability....

My mistake


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We spin it around now onto football, our cheeky jokes have been made but let's talk footy.

I'm all for Strauss but you cannot force development like some expect!

There are so so many threads in football suggesting every skill can be taught in our great game but the perfect kick you either have or you don't.

For some reason, whenever James is mentioned the topic turns to how he gets lazy because he only has a kick etc etc etc.

In 3 years we will have a weapon that few other teams have, and that is a confident running half back flanker that will be putting the ball on our forwards [censored] from the back of the center square.

I can see some of the flaws discussed, but as a kid trying to find your way in the wide world of AFL your first reaction is probably to air on the safe side to prevent mistakes.

Sadly, in his first ever game James had a shocking mistake that was also played over and over again. The mental strength to get over things like that is tough, on your first day at job very few people are made a mockery of in front of all their fellow employees over and over again let alone the public.

Let's cut the kid some slack and get excited because when he gets going we will have the most explosive backline in the AFL.

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I've heard Melbourne supporters say this often, but i really wonder what that's based around? He has shown himself top be very handy already, and will no doubt improve as he matures. He already looks better than average, especially considering he is only 20 years of age. If he was at Melbourne he'd be the bees-knees, i'm sure. Once his motor is fully developed, look out. Underrated around here, that's for sure. I hate Essendon too, but you can't just say their youngsters, like Zaharakis, are "average" when clearly they've shown quite a bit.

As for Strauss, I hope he makes it, but as others have mentioned already, my expectations aren't high anymore.

*bump*

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This thread's still going?

Posted

The point is how the specific social geography of James Strauss might affect his chances of making it in the AFL.

Social geography is an interesting field, Roger. I think you would enjoy doing some reading about it.

There is no place for condescending inverse snobbery on this site - even when it is dressed up under a hifalutin' academic label, like "social geography"

To reinforce the point that we take all our recruits at face value and judge them by the way they play football, will the mods please kill this thread immediately!

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