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Well, obviously Collingwood have to go with cardboard to be true to their heritage, but what would be the appropriate materials for the other clubs?

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    1 hour ago, Demonland said:

    You too could become a cardboard cutout. Would you do it?

     

    With Collingwood going down this path their collective IQ at the ground is set to double in 2020. ?

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    8 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

    Well, obviously Collingwood have to go with cardboard to be true to their heritage, but what would be the appropriate materials for the other clubs?

    carlton should use cardboard, i think you mean?

    the filth should use an effigy of a crowd constructed solely from the teeth plucked from the mouths of their rabid hordes

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    I'm looking forward to seeing all the cardboard cutout cats and dogs at Hawthorn home games. 

    Edited by Rab D Nesbitt

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    This isn't exactly a new concept by the way. Celtic have been filling their ground with 60,000 plastic paddies for as long as I can remember. 

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    1 hour ago, Little Goffy said:

    Well, obviously Collingwood have to go with cardboard to be true to their heritage, but what would be the appropriate materials for the other clubs?

    ... don't know about other club's,  'LG',   but has Visy got a deal for the Pies.

     

    Sainters - Sackcloth

    Cats - Recycled fur balls.

    Swans - Down

    Hawks - Plaid

    Blues - Denim

    Bombers - Gossamer

    ?????

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    1 hour ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

    carlton should use cardboard, i think you mean?

    the filth should use an effigy of a crowd constructed solely from the teeth plucked from the mouths of their rabid hordes

    I would have thought brown paper bags for the Blues.

    GWS can just be a bunch of empty suits, because we all know that's where their real support is coming from...

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    I'm pretty sure I heard yesterday that an overseas sporting club is offering supporters the chance for them to have their lifesize image on a cardboard cutout at that club's games. There was a fee ($32, I think) with the money going to charity.  Would you pay $32 for a lifesize picture of yourself at the game with the money going either to the club itself or a charity?

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    All this will mean is more chinese imports.

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    3 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Would you pay $32 for a lifesize picture of yourself at the game with the money going either to the club itself or a charity?

    I would pay to see a life size picture of Neal Daniher with a beanie on his head for the big freeze round. Imagine 40k ND’s watching us play!

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    What could possibly go wrong.....

    Dominic Cummings may be weathering the storm that engulfed him for apparently flouting the government’s coronavirus lockdown guidance but that has not stopped Boris Johnson’s top adviser being ridiculed on the other side of the world.

    As Australia’s NRL season restarted this week, the Fan in the Stand initiative allowed the public to pay $22 for a cardboard cutout of themselves to be placed in a seat to “watch” their team in action.

    It seems one Sydney Roosters fan with a sense of humour had other ideas. A cardboard cutout of Cummings appeared at Bankwest Stadium for the Roosters’ match against South Sydney Rabbitohs and did not go unnoticed by TV viewers.

    “He’s travelled to Sydney now. Cummings doesn’t give a [censored]!” posted Sam Rowlett, along with a photo of the match coverage – a post which quickly gained several thousand likes on Twitter.

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/may/29/dominic-cummings-cutout-appears-at-rugby-league-match-in-sydney-australia

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    9 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    What could possibly go wrong.....

    Dominic Cummings may be weathering the storm that engulfed him for apparently flouting the government’s coronavirus lockdown guidance but that has not stopped Boris Johnson’s top adviser being ridiculed on the other side of the world.

    As Australia’s NRL season restarted this week, the Fan in the Stand initiative allowed the public to pay $22 for a cardboard cutout of themselves to be placed in a seat to “watch” their team in action.

    It seems one Sydney Roosters fan with a sense of humour had other ideas. A cardboard cutout of Cummings appeared at Bankwest Stadium for the Roosters’ match against South Sydney Rabbitohs and did not go unnoticed by TV viewers.

    “He’s travelled to Sydney now. Cummings doesn’t give a [censored]!” posted Sam Rowlett, along with a photo of the match coverage – a post which quickly gained several thousand likes on Twitter.

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/may/29/dominic-cummings-cutout-appears-at-rugby-league-match-in-sydney-australia

    Haha ? that is superb

    this could be marvellous 

    spend more time watching the crowd than the game!!

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    Just wait for the ball to hit a defenceless cutout of a young kid in the crowd and HD cameras catching it perfectly. Have fun with that PR AFL. 

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    On 5/29/2020 at 12:42 PM, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    I'm pretty sure I heard yesterday that an overseas sporting club is offering supporters the chance for them to have their lifesize image on a cardboard cutout at that club's games. There was a fee ($32, I think) with the money going to charity.  Would you pay $32 for a lifesize picture of yourself at the game with the money going either to the club itself or a charity?

    No, but I'd pay $32 to put embarassing photos of my friends on them.

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    There is a few dogs in the ones at NRL games. Might pay the $22 to have my Lab on TV.

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    31 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

    There is a few dogs in the ones at NRL games.

    Encouraging news for Hawthorn members.

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    Not quite sex dolls but.....

    Over the weekend a photograph of mass murderer Harold Shipman made an appearance in the stands, then a TV sketch featured an image of Adolf Hitler, prompting furious criticism from Australia’s Jewish community.

    The broadcaster and the show’s host subsequently apologised, while the NRL said it would review its screening process.

    Shipman was found guilty in 2000 of murdering 15 of his patients by lethal injection, and while he may not be as infamous in Australia as he is in the UK, the inclusion of his likeness raises questions over the vetting procedure used by the NRL in its scheme

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    1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Any idea when real human fans are allowed in?

    If it were 50 years or so down the track the AI's could be attending. 

    Now there's a way to build a membership base. 

    All the AI's would be programmed to be optimists so they'd therefore keep fronting up.

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