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On 01/09/2024 at 20:35, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Another topic, another round of media-lity (invented word for my purpose; like trivia-lity), Fresh from 4 weeks of 'that' other topic, and before I jump in to thinking this article is true, complete and meaningful,

What are Big Footy's credentials?

What do 'has emerged', 'leading', 'candidate' and 'potential' mean?

What is the 'strong support' and who are 'AFL circles'?

Apart from being in adjacent paragraphs, what connects the claims about Smith with the observations about Roffey?

What do 'significant' and 'pressure' mean? From whom?

'Any changes to Melbourne’s board would occur before the end of the year at the annual general meeting.' Drama? Not.

'Melbourne was contacted for comment.' Implies they didn't. However...?

Accompanying out-of-context pic of Roffey looking worried. See invented word above.

 

Thank you… These are very sensible questions. (Are you sure you’re in the right forum?)

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16 hours ago, Cyclops said:

We may not have to wait for the next election/AGM. An EGM to spill the board would get things done quickly (and before the men return) - probably takes just 2000 members to fire it up.

an EGM would be the worst thing the club currently needs now

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On 01/09/2024 at 04:01, John Crow Batty said:

 

So many blasts from the past there!  Even various of the trainers look familiar.

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8 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

Try this excellent daily puzzle: www.wafflegame.net

No subscription necessary.

Thanks. 

Gave it a try this morning. The 'Deluxe' version was a bit trickier but once i got the gist of it, all was good!

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The media has moved on (kind of) from our players wanting out, it has now moved on to Kate. 

There does not appear to be anything actually, in fact, linked to Steven.

So..... he doesn't quite have the pull of Trac, but here we go - get ready for about a bajillion pages on will he/won't Steven Smith join the Board? 

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32 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Thanks. 

Gave it a try this morning. The 'Deluxe' version was a bit trickier but once i got the gist of it, all was good!

I need to start doing sudoku and crosswords regularly again. Good for the ole grey matter. 

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2 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Thanks. 

Gave it a try this morning. The 'Deluxe' version was a bit trickier but once i got the gist of it, all was good!

Yes, much tougher. If you want to do more than one per day of the Daily version, there’s an archive where you can do as many as you want. 

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2 hours ago, Red But Mostly Blue said:

The media has moved on (kind of) from our players wanting out, it has now moved on to Kate. 

There does not appear to be anything actually, in fact, linked to Steven.

So..... he doesn't quite have the pull of Trac, but here we go - get ready for about a bajillion pages on will he/won't Steven Smith join the Board? 

He has 100% been approached, this isn't media 'hearsay'. 

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2 hours ago, layzie said:

I need to start doing sudoku and crosswords regularly again. Good for the ole grey matter. 

Have you tried the New York Times games? The app is NYT Games

I particularly like Wordle, Connections, and Letter Boxed. You can play one of each per day without an account. 

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49 minutes ago, BLWNBA said:

He has 100% been approached, this isn't media 'hearsay'. 

Apologies, what I meant is there is nothing concrete linking him to joining the Board - as the title of the thread suggests.

I have no doubt someone has approached him given the noise of late/for quite some time (and by all accounts would probably do quite well)

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In the blink of an eye, mind you none of the journo’s actually interviewed Steven, it’s all so spy Vs spy vs spy. No one really knows anything do they, yet we have an external review being conducted and none of the learned journos were any the wiser. 😁😁😁

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Just now, At the break of Gawn said:

The Peter Ryan article says he may be interested in 12 months but essentially he needs break after recently retiring and he felt he couldn’t give the energy it deserves.

He can join the line of Melbourne supporters who have no energy left for this club 😩

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