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What's with this guy taking stabs at the deez?

He talks about how other clubs and everyone dissaproves of the afl giving Melbourne money and the application for a priority pick.

Firstly, the afl giving Melbourne money doesn't affect any one except ensuring melb stays in the competition.

And secondly, the club has been in such a bad way for such a long time, declining the entire time with no improvement, and although we may have miss used priority picks in the past, the current group that have to handle this club are new to the club and could use all the help they can get to get this club up and running again, so a priority pick doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

Other clubs suggest they never got help. Some did get help, but none of them have been through what melbourne has been through.

Any way, barret makes me angry.

Feel free to vent lol.

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He takes stabs at us because we are an easy target.

We haven't been awarded a PP yet so the other clubs a whinging about nothing. Image the uproar if the AFL actually give us the PP.

Personally,i don't want one. If we don't get the PP, it shifts the focus of the rest of the clubs to some other issue that s going on, hopefully not at the MFC.

Some of the other clubs understand and agree that the AFL should help MFC with cash, they need 18 clubs and a club called Melbourne in a national competition.

But I do agree with you Deez, that Damien Barret is a giant [censored].

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What's with this guy taking stabs at the deez?

He talks about how other clubs and everyone dissaproves of the afl giving Melbourne money and the application for a priority pick.

Firstly, the afl giving Melbourne money doesn't affect any one except ensuring melb stays in the competition.

And secondly, the club has been in such a bad way for such a long time, declining the entire time with no improvement, and although we may have miss used priority picks in the past, the current group that have to handle this club are new to the club and could use all the help they can get to get this club up and running again, so a priority pick doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

Other clubs suggest they never got help. Some did get help, but none of them have been through what melbourne has been through.

Any way, barret makes me angry.

Feel free to vent lol.

He is a convenient mouthpiece for other clubs, and particularly for people like Eddie and Malthouse who would not want to vent their spleen at the demons in that way publicly, but if they can get someone like Barrett to do it for them in the highest rating, and most inane football show in the country, then of course they will. Barrett is a stooge. I'm surprised you're surprised!

It is about putting public pressure on the decision makers to ensure the powerful remain powerful, and the also rans remain also ran . quite simple really.

Fortunately we have an independent commission which is set up to make these sorts of decisions, and in my view the AFL makes these sorts of decisions pretty objectively. We also have someone like Peter Jackson on our side who has huge credibility with the AFL commission and knows his way around the politics of it better than almost anyone.

Yet another reason for being optimistic.

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Yeh I'm feeling pretty similar regarding the pp, I think the club can manage without it.

Well that's it, there has to be a team called Melbourne.

Your not wrong, he's a bit of a [censored].

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Damian Barret works for the AFL, but his agenda is not necesarily guided by the AFL.

It's only about 4 days until the deadline when we find the result of our priority pick application, and I honestly think he's just winding the football public up for an almighty backlash as he thinks we'll probably get one.

He's trying to create a situation of public outrage so he can get mileage out of the issue.

Good luck to you, DB.

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Thats how the AFL operates these days. He is their unofficial PR trying to raise the ire of the supporters to see the support for, or establish the popularity of, a decision by the AFL.

Agreed he should take a long walk off a short pier.

I don't think it is the AFL. they have a history of making tough decisions for the good of the game. I think it is the clubs who are trying to protect their entrentched powerful positions via the "court of public opinion".

Nothing in this is new. It is meat and drink to the AFL Commission. PJ must be really enjoying this, being the consummate politician he is.

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He won a lot of awards at the AFL media awards night last night.

So did Caro.

To think that those 2 set the standard...

1 pay TV channel, 2 free to air channels that really cover the game, AFL.com.au and club websites and then 2 major papers and yet they feel they need a media awards. Have you ever heard of anything so self centered?

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I don't get how he wins awards, he is plainly wrong as often as he is right!

he is just using his standing to push a case to remove an idea that doesn't suit his personal wishes,

i am looking forward to monday as i believe we will be granted the Priority pick we NEED maybe not deserve and [censored] off Barrett and his army of knobs bigtime

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1 pay TV channel, 2 free to air channels that really cover the game, AFL.com.au and club websites and then 2 major papers and yet they feel they need a media awards. Have you ever heard of anything so self centered?

lol

Swine eating their own filth.

I love journalism. Yet to see many journalists in the profession however.

They are loud air horns in an echo chamber of their own making and grandiose delusions.

So what if we get another good kid, Damien.

Who really gives a flying moose tail.

I am in Sweden right now, that isn't a Swedish saying but it could be, and that's what matters.

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He takes stabs at us because we are an easy target.

We haven't been awarded a PP yet so the other clubs a whinging about nothing. Image the uproar if the AFL actually give us the PP.

Personally,i don't want one. If we don't get the PP, it shifts the focus of the rest of the clubs to some other issue that s going on, hopefully not at the MFC.

Some of the other clubs understand and agree that the AFL should help MFC with cash, they need 18 clubs and a club called Melbourne in a national competition.

But I do agree with you Deez, that Damien Barret is a giant [censored].

I'll never understand this point of view and I've never heard this sort of thing coming from supporters of other clubs. The AFL draft is so severely compromised with compensatory picks going here, there and everywhere that one more hardly makes a difference. Let them make their decision and everyone can move on and focus on the drug cheats, the dwarf burners and all of the other things that go to making this game of ours so great.

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Damian Barret works for the AFL, but his agenda is not necesarily guided by the AFL.

It's only about 4 days until the deadline when we find the result of our priority pick application, and I honestly think he's just winding the football public up for an almighty backlash as he thinks we'll probably get one.

He's trying to create a situation of public outrage so he can get mileage out of the issue.

Good luck to you, DB.

I so hope that you are right. It would be lovely to steal Boyd from under the nose of GWS and then use pick 3 to trade/draft the best mid (Martin, Swallow, Sloane, Adams etc)

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The clubs now complaining about us getting the money is we got Roos. If we had signed Eade for instance, there would be no negative noise. The fact is PJ got us the best coach not coaching and arguably within the top 3-5 in the AFL.

They are getting a little worried that we will get our shite together and pass them sooner rather than later.

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