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The Brainy Bunch: Anthropology, astrophysics and a four-d...

More and more footballers are doing tertiary studies while playing the game, and it's an amazingly mixed group

Not one pies player......no surprises there

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    good on them. their career is short so glad they are making plans for post footy

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    Not sure what Brett Lovett studied but he had a pretty good football brain. Greg Williams and Sam Mitchell also spring to mind

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    According to the article, Toby Greene has taken up a politics degree.

    Let’s hope he never finds an application for it.

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    2 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

    According to the article, Toby Greene has taken up a politics degree.

    Let’s hope he never finds an application for it.

    cant be any worse then the two [censored] we have running for it

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    6 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

    According to the article, Toby Greene has taken up a politics degree.

    Let’s hope he never finds an application for it.

    Actually, the article says it's Tom Greene studying politics while Toby Green is studying for his MBA.

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    20 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

    According to the article, Toby Greene has taken up a politics degree.

    Let’s hope he never finds an application for it.

    He'd be MAGA for sure

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    Okay, full credit to Bailey Scott, astrophysics is pretty tricky stuff. I gave it a try but all my comets smacked into Jupiter and my contract didn't get renewed.

    Good to see anthropology isn't dead, too. I think I might have to like this Lawson Humpries kid;

    "Uni isn't necessarily hard, but it's something I might not want to do all the time, and it's good I have to still do it and force myself to do something I might not want to. We're pretty lucky as AFL players, we have a pretty good run, so it's important to do other things."

    With Humpries' Anthropology and then Barass being the only one studying Philopsophy, I wonder if there is some special link between the humanities and defenders? I guess it does take a certain deeper perspective.

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    4 hours ago, Rocknroll said:

    Afl published a list of player working on higher degrees

    afl.com.au
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    The Brainy Bunch: Anthropology, astrophysics and a four-d...

    More and more footballers are doing tertiary studies while playing the game, and it's an amazingly mixed group

    Not one pies player......no surprises there

    To be fair, a number of Pies players already have a B.Thug.

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    7 minutes ago, Fanatique Demon said:

    To be fair, a number of Pies players already have a B.Thug.

    That'd be a basherer degree, yah?

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    De Goey studying to be a gynaecologist. Well, that's what he told the magistrate.

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    17 minutes ago, Fanatique Demon said:

    😀 Basherer of Thuggery.

    They also have a few players with a Master o farts.

    But no Ph.Ds.

    Guess why?

    They can't spell it.

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    27 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

    De Goey studying to be a gynaecologist. Well, that's what he told the magistrate.

    Gee I wish the facepalm emoji was back!!!

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