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Luke Ablett on what faces the new draftees

Elusive Tunbridge
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Are you trying to write serious Sh ite Obba - or are you just taking the [censored]? I can't tell.

Oh dear,

I have written on another thread that the way that various views are presented need not be abusive. How can there be any doubt as to the sincerity as to my post?

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    are you trolling obi, bbo?

    Very funny.

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    Well written article by Ablett.

    But my knock on this article is that Ablett hasn't had to live like an everyday Australian.

    Even to make AFL, Luke didn't have to train his ass off like the rest of draftees - he got there on his name.
    He trained hard when he got there, but he didn't just simply land at Sydney on hard work and dedication.

    When Lukes career is over he gets a leg up due to being a footballer - and having the last name Ablett.

    I find it hard to take this guy serious, he hasn't even been in the position of a battler.

    This guy has had a leg up in every aspect in his whole life - and now he wants to preach how hard the life of an AFL player is.

    Spend a week on a jack hammer, go dig ditches 8 hours a day, throw some bricks and mortar around for a summer - then I might listen.

    Precious.

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    Well written article by Ablett.

    But my knock on this article is that Ablett hasn't had to live like an everyday Australian.

    Even to make AFL, Luke didn't have to train his ass off like the rest of draftees - he got there on his name.

    He trained hard when he got there, but he didn't just simply land at Sydney on hard work and dedication.

    When Lukes career is over he gets a leg up due to being a footballer - and having the last name Ablett.

    I find it hard to take this guy serious, he hasn't even been in the position of a battler.

    This guy has had a leg up in every aspect in his whole life - and now he wants to preach how hard the life of an AFL player is.

    Spend a week on a jack hammer, go dig ditches 8 hours a day, throw some bricks and mortar around for a summer - then I might listen.

    Precious.

    If you want to stupidly broaden the topic, I wonder what the guy in Iraq or Afghanistan with a jack hammer, digging ditches 8 hours a day, having mortars fly up their arse would think of his counterpart in Australia. A little bit precious? A bit of perspective. Then I might listen

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    If you want to stupidly broaden the topic, I wonder what the guy in Iraq or Afghanistan with a jack hammer, digging ditches 8 hours a day, having mortars fly up their arse would think of his counterpart in Australia. A little bit precious? A bit of perspective. Then I might listen

    If that guy reads AFL articles by Ablett then by all means we should include him in the debate.

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    I got to this line in the article and my concerns for Ablett were immediately erased...

    "The average six-year career will generally take a young man from 18 through to about 24..."

    A career as an Actuary beckons - the man is a mathematical genius.

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    In this thread: a bunch of incredibly privileged people whinging about a small group of people who are just slightly more privileged than them.

    (Also in this thread: a bunch of people who ostensibly read the article, but totally missed the point).

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    But my knock on this article is that Ablett hasn't had to live like an everyday Australian.

    Oh, yes, because the life of "the Aussie battler" is so gosh-darned tough! My flat screen TV is only 54" across... the horror!

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    In this thread: a bunch of incredibly privileged people whinging about a small group of people who are just slightly more privileged than them.

    (Also in this thread: a bunch of people who ostensibly read the article, but totally missed the point).

    Not me mate, I'm a genuine Afghan jackhammerist ditch digger with a sore arse!

    Could never work out why we had to dig all those ditches with a jackhammer either.

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