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THE AGE Points finger at AFL over sports betting.

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More AFL hypocrisy on display if we needed reminding.

Also excellent article by Rita Panahi in The HUN today on the AFL.

She has them pegged.

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    16 minutes ago, old dee said:

    More AFL hypocrisy on display if we needed reminding.

    Also excellent article by Rita Panahi in The HUN today on the AFL.

    She has them pegged.

    Not so sure about that. I wouldn't call that article excellent.  Typical  Murdoch propaganda against those who don't fit in with  his politics or business interests and only fit for lining my canary cage.  Can't  trust them because there is an agenda there even when they mix truths in with their distortions. 

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    23 minutes ago, america de cali said:

    Not so sure about that. I wouldn't call that article excellent.  Typical  Murdoch propaganda against those who don't fit in with  his politics or business interests and only fit for lining my canary cage.  Can't  trust them because there is an agenda there even when they mix truths in with their distortions. 

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess adc.

    Trying to suggest that News is better than the AFL is like getting out of the frying pan into the fire.

    I would not trust either as far as I could see them.

    However I still liked the article.

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    Please tell me the game is corrupt, that there was a betting plunge on a juiced up Essendon and Melbourne tanked.

    At least that would make some sense from the weekend. 

    Maybe the two clubs can come up with a Cup........the Disrepute Cup.

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    1 hour ago, H_T said:

    Please tell me the game is corrupt, that there was a betting plunge on a juiced up Essendon and Melbourne tanked.

    At least that would make some sense from the weekend. 

    Maybe the two clubs can come up with a Cup........the Disrepute Cup.

    Three inexplicable losses in identical long odds circumstances in less than a year make even less sense.

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    The AFL is business first (before everything else). I am not surprised to see the AFL continue to pray on the poor. The have enabled - and supported - clubs that revenue raised off of pokies, and the AFL continue to advertise sports betting. In addition, the AFL have long endorsed alcohol sponsorship, and after all this, they try lecture people on how to act, behave, and preach their integrity. I would love to see the game of AFL stripped right back, limited business, more ethics, and have the product as the actual game.

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    2 hours ago, KingDingAling said:

    The AFL is business first (before everything else). I am not surprised to see the AFL continue to pray on the poor. The have enabled - and supported - clubs that revenue raised off of pokies, and the AFL continue to advertise sports betting. In addition, the AFL have long endorsed alcohol sponsorship, and after all this, they try lecture people on how to act, behave, and preach their integrity. I would love to see the game of AFL stripped right back, limited business, more ethics, and have the product as the actual game.

    They are not a business they are a not for profit organisation. The only ones profiting are the executives who line their pockets making commercial decisions. Corruption? Nah

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    On 4 April 2016 at 4:16 PM, old dee said:

    ...excellent article … Rita Panahi... in The HUN

    Yeah…nah.

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    On 4/4/2016 at 4:29 PM, america de cali said:

    Not so sure about that. I wouldn't call that article excellent.  Typical  Murdoch propaganda against those who don't fit in with  his politics or business interests and only fit for lining my canary cage.  Can't  trust them because there is an agenda there even when they mix truths in with their distortions. 

    I'm not HUN reader but gee whiz, screams of "Murdoch propaganda" are soooo 2012.

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