On 2/2/2016 at 7:06 AM, Barney Rubble said:

Why would we want a top up player.

Someone who hasn't done a preseason with us, is underdone and doesn't know the game plan.

Tell me why we wouldn't want to use one of our own rookies, that is fit and by now knows the game plan.

It was not clearly stated but I presume Eades' remarks don't apply to Essendon, only the other 4 clubs?

Has there ever been a more amateurish bunch in charge of a billion dollar industry?

Adelaide radio station 5AA is reporting no top up players for Port Adelaide, Western Bulldogs, St Kilda and Melbourne. 

2 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Adelaide radio station 5AA is reporting no top up players for Port Adelaide, Western Bulldogs, St Kilda and Melbourne. 

Way to go AFL

Let's reward the transgressors,... Yeah

What a bunch of....( insert favourite )

Well, at least they're transparent with their blatant favouritism of rich clubs, regardless of whether or not they're convicted drug cheats.

1 hour ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Adelaide radio station 5AA is reporting no top up players for Port Adelaide, Western Bulldogs, St Kilda and Melbourne. 

That's a poor decision.

"Announced" via an unknown leak to the media I guess ? 

Thats how the AFL role. 

18 hours ago, GM11 said:

Has there ever been a more amateurish bunch in charge of a billion dollar industry?

That needs some thought as there is quite a list to review.

However The answer will inevitability be NO

On 4 February 2016 at 9:45 PM, Delusional demon 82 said:

"Announced" via an unknown leak to the media I guess ? 

Thats how the AFL role. 

Can we appeal to CAS?

16 minutes ago, MO FINE said:

Can we appeal to CAS?

Would need to check the insurance policy

Were the other clubs consulted about Essendon topping up?

Surely the EPA must investigate the smell emanating from AFL house.

3 minutes ago, GM11 said:

Were the other clubs consulted about Essendon topping up?

Surely the EPA must investigate the smell emanating from AFL house.

Bit of a pong coming from EPA house itself !!!

I hope our Insurance company is as generous as Essendon's! Maybe we can claim Melksham's entire contract through them?

On 2/2/2016 at 11:09 AM, Tony Tea said:

The Integrity Unit exists to make sure no one commits integrity.

Honestly Tony, that's one of the best posts I have ever read on 'Land.

 

Well done.

On 31/1/2016 at 8:31 PM, Sir Why You Little said:

 The AFL as an organisation needs to be taken down. Otherwise they will kill the game. 
 

I have said that for years. I no longer bother though, I think the AFL is primarily a business, and I think the game died a long time ago now. The AFL just use the game to make $$$, it is no longer even about the game of AFL, it is about people making money, about the brand (AFL) making money, etc. Now even the business is being pimped out, and just becoming an echo chamber for certain political agendas. I pulled my kids out a long time ago, I anticipate the AFL will start to discourage aggression, and merit based performance. Gil likes to tell everyone how to think, what to do (while his brother continues to be a muppet), and Wlad used to like to harp on about integrity (while he had none, and while the AFL encouraged and enabled gambling, pokies, drinking). Hard to take this mob seriously, but people do.

 

Edited February 7, 20169 yr by KingDingAling

Even the NFL in the USA took the extraordinary step of removing /distancing itself from getting revenue from gambling and promoting gambling.

The AFL is rotten to the core with gambling....revenues and promotion. So is the Vic govt. The asian billionaire who is a gambling big wig.....reportedly  behind sports betting and no doubt fixing, ..he is flown into crown on their own plane!

This gambling epidemic  is the core business of the AFL and nearly 20 pc of our state govts budget.

Corruption greed and money money...the destruction of lives..... families.all part of the rich fabric of our culture.

Yes I would abandon the money tomorrow....here's my fantasy.....leave the AFL......get out .......form a new competition....I don't care if we play at suburban grounds .....join the vic amateur assoc.......tell me I'm dreamin'.

In some ways, the WADA decision, while devastating for the game, may finally put the preppy knobs who run the AFL back in their place.
They seem to think that they are bigger than they really are. The amount of time and research they put into spinning certain matters and their meddling in other investigations to 'protect the image of the code' has merely compounded a set of issues and left them open like a festering sore. By trying to sweep things under the carpet, they allow situations to grow until they become as big as the Essendon imbroglio. 
WADA finally let the AFL know that they aren't so big that they can manufacture an outcome for whatever they want. After all, who outside Australia gives a rats about AFL? We love it for sure but should a certain administration organization purporting to represent a certain percentage of a country's population in a greater global society decide what codes it gets to pay attention and what it gets to ignore? Give me a break.

10 hours ago, special robert said:

Even the NFL in the USA took the extraordinary step of removing /distancing itself from getting revenue from gambling and promoting gambling.

The AFL is rotten to the core with gambling....revenues and promotion. So is the Vic govt. The asian billionaire who is a gambling big wig.....reportedly  behind sports betting and no doubt fixing, ..he is flown into crown on their own plane!

This gambling epidemic  is the core business of the AFL and nearly 20 pc of our state govts budget.

Corruption greed and money money...the destruction of lives..... families.all part of the rich fabric of our culture.

Yes I would abandon the money tomorrow....here's my fantasy.....leave the AFL......get out .......form a new competition....I don't care if we play at suburban grounds .....join the vic amateur assoc.......tell me I'm dreamin'.

Most NFL teams are privately owned by people who have millions of dollars to spare so they can afford not to rely on gambling

Gambling has been going on since the cave man.....You are not going to stop it.   If it were banned it would just go underground.

I am not a gambler.....I have enough problems watching the dees without my money being put on the line. 

24 minutes ago, Bossdog said:

Most NFL teams are privately owned by people who have millions of dollars to spare so they can afford not to rely on gambling

Gambling has been going on since the cave man.....You are not going to stop it.   If it were banned it would just go underground.

I am not a gambler.....I have enough problems watching the dees without my money being put on the line. 

Banning gambling it is one thing. Actively promoting it is another.

5 minutes ago, sue said:

Banning gambling it is one thing. Actively promoting it is another.

Why..... It's legal.  

Look I don't like all the odds spouting up every five minutes but they are entitled to advertise their products whenever and through what medium they like.

Unless the country has turned to Communism whilst I wasn't looking.  

 

2 minutes ago, Bossdog said:

Why..... It's legal.  

Look I don't like all the odds spouting up every five minutes but they are entitled to advertise their products whenever and through what medium they like.

Unless the country has turned to Communism whilst I wasn't looking.  

 

So is smoking 'Boss' and we're much better for the ban on advertising of it...

Watching some old Aussie adds of the 70's yesterday and the smoking adds are embarrassing to look at now. Anyhow

4 minutes ago, rjay said:

So is smoking 'Boss' and we're much better for the ban on advertising of it...

Watching some old Aussie adds of the 70's yesterday and the smoking adds are embarrassing to look at now. Anyhow

Yes....I remember them well.......Light up a Viscount a Viscount a Viscount.    Light up a Viscount the best of them all

                                                    The malborough Man    The man, the horse and the great outdoors

                                                     Dunhill     The house of Dunhill for the upper class smoker

                                                     Peter Styversant       For the jet setters

                                                     The Escort Cup   etc   etc

 

Peter Stuyvesant

"The International Passport to Smoking Pleasure..."

12 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Peter Stuyvesant

"The International Passport to Smoking Pleasure..."

"anyhow, have a winfield".....................hoges

 

and....wasn't camel favoured by 4 out of 5 doctors?

Edited February 7, 20169 yr by daisycutter

7 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

"anyhow, have a winfield".....................hoges

 

and....wasn't camel favoured by 4 out of 5 doctors?

Yep sure was!