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Given the chance of a lifetime to play AFL at the top level, continues to screw up with two assault charges pending, [censored] on the club and all of the players accusing them all of being on drugs and, if I read it right, wants Fyfe to 'die a slow painful death'. The icing on the cake is the complete lack of punctuation. I find it hard to have any sympathy.

He is backing us in, no more reality bus or rebuilding we are now a finals contender and anything less than a finals birth is a failure. Exactly the cut throats attitude we need

To all my great pals on Demonland, Uncle, Daisy, Hemmingway, Redleg, Beezle, Earl Hood,Biffen and even Dazz;le man, and anyone else who I have not mentioned Have a good one with Family and an even better 2017 cheers PF "I wish I knew what I wanted to be, when a wanted to be what I am today"

and a happy 25th of december to all demonlanders the 2017 season can't come quick enough

You'd have to think he wrote that with a bottle of jack Daniels in hand, vindictive. And Freo gave him his shot at AFL after jail time.......sour grapes from a troubled mind.

Oh but who needs all this sentimental bullshlt anyway !! Bah ..humbug !! Happy non-specific day to those who bother with it ... didn't buy it huh !! Ok Merry Christmas can't wait for the really bad cracker jokes !!

and if not someone else, then it is society's fault, so we are all to blame

the afl has never had a problem "handling" the truth, jack they have many ingenious methods for "handling" it including their favourites "ignore it", "redefine it" and "twist it"

To all my many friends friend. To whoever might GAF about what I say - Happy Christmas! May your wine be excellent, your fantasies unlikely and your wallet undamaged.

Merry Xmas guys and a happy and safe New Year to you all. Go Dees.

That's probably more to the point. Refusing a breath or blood alcohol test, carries 2 years licence suspension in Victoria, even though you might have only had a negative reading, or or a reading that leads to say 10 months suspension for example. So the refusing/avoiding, is punished heavily, to discourage that behaviour and ensure that all parties asked to undergo testing do so.

Merry Christmas to all, and I hope we all get the present we are hoping for in late September, 2017!

Not buying into the pick 15 issue myself, but there is a lot to be said for the above penalty policy. Applies in much of Scandanavia.

But it's someone else's fault didn't you know...

3) it's another name and contact details to provide to sponsors to send emails etc to

They can think themselves lucky Whitfield wasn't rubbed out for at least a season which he should have been...

He said a swear.

That was written by a very troubled person who needs help. He is carrying around a lot of hatred and bitterness and this is coming out in his assaults and other incidents in his private life. Interesting the resentment at some clubs about players who set themselves high standards, some thing has happened to others such as Rockliff. In the past you would work to match them, it seems to today they resent them when they work so hard to succeed.

I think he needs to learn about spelling and Grammar.

I don't get the angst aimed at HL......he is a different cat.....So What? There are so many robots already in the AFL. Any one a bit different is treated like they are insane. and are scorned and belittled. He has now gone.........Lets move on.

and now for something completely different......................(spoken with an american accent (lol)..... An engineer dies and goes to hell. After a while, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort there and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, hell has air conditioning, flushing toilets, water fountains and escalators - making the engineer a pretty popular guy. One day God phones Satan up and asks with a sneer: “Hey buddy, how’s it goin down there?” Satan snickered back, “Things are going great actually. We’ve got air conditioning, flush toilets, escalators and the works. Hell, there’s no telling what this engineer guy is gonna come up with next.” God replies, “What? You’ve got an engineer? That’s a mistake - he should never have been sent there; send him back up.” To which Satan replied, “No way dude. I like having an engineer on staff, I’m keepin him.” God retorted, “Send him up here or I’ll sue.” Satan laughs loudly and answers, “Yeah, right. And just where are you gonna find a lawyer?”

I stand by my assertion that TBC is better !! Lol

He slept on the park bench, I slept under it.

I thought might have lost your job as cultural attaché to Perth and gone on a drinking binge and ended up bunking at Ben Cousins " house".

7.

Details of the players from TAC Cup clubs training at Casey:- DANDENONG STINGRAYS ALLSOP, Danny Date of Birth: 23/03/1998 Height: 176cm Weight: 63kg Local Club: Red Hill FC BEVERIDGE, Kyle Date of Birth: 12/07/1998 Height: 186cm Weight: 73kg Local Club: Devon Meadows FC DICKSON, Kirk Date of Birth: 27/08/1998 Height: 186cm Weight: 75kg Local Club: Cranbourne FC GILL-RENOUF, Lachlan Date of Birth: 20/01/1998 Height: 174cm Weight: 73kg Local Club: Bonbeach FC GLEN, Thomas Date of Birth: 07/05/1997 Height: 187cm Weight: 75kg Local Club: Beaconsfield FC MARTELLO, Charlie Date of Birth: 17/02/1998 Height: 182cm Weight: 78kg Local Club: Edithvale-Aspendale FC GIPPSLAND POWER ARMOUR, Trent Date of Birth: 14/11/1998 Height: 184cm Weight: 74kg Local Club: Nar Nar Goon BYERS, Kieran Date of Birth: 05/02/1998 Height: 203cm Weight: 97kg Local Club: Fish Creek EAST, Ethan Date of Birth: 22/10/1998 Height: 191cm Weight: 94kg Local Club: Lucknow HUGHES, Keenan Date of Birth: 14/05/1998 Height: 191cm Weight: 82kg Local Club: Sale City ROUT, Jai Date of Birth: 04/02/1998 Height: 179cm Weight: 72kg Local Club: Pakenham VOSS, Nathan Date of Birth: 25/09/1998 Height: 190cm Weight: 75kgkg Local Club: Koo Wee Rup

I reckon North's is better than ours !!

I think it would be better if the AFL controlled the academies in the long run 'Return'. I understand the reasoning behind them but particularly in GWS's case they have become a rort...

I don't think so 'Jack'. Maybe Sandringham or Oakleigh would be better bets but in all honesty I would hate to see a return to zones. It's a real retrograde step.

Surprised they haven't updated the player lists on the club site.

You're talking about Fyfe right?

Poor guy. I hope he is OK. Life can go off the rails pretty quickly for a lot of people. He needs a good support network around him. An AFL club environment would be a pressure cooker for many people.

Stuff the Giants & the tipping!! Well I'll be up at 4:50am christmas morning for the Falcons/Panthers game... My mrs thinks I'm nuts! Probably earliest I'll be up on Christmas since I was 4!

Hahaha Poor H Baby John was such a talent...

Hard to say, after all you wear an eye patch

I got 10 and one of those was because you posted the answer.

How very vulgar of you hillbilly! Give yourself a good flogging immediately !!

Saints website: Buy now. Pay later. Break records.If only we had a $1 for every comment we've received on social media! Well, starting today, you can lock in your 2017 membership for just that, $1* Who knows how many of those end up actually taking up a full membership - In the meantime they count in the numbers. Adelaide website: I assume it is a non-game access membership for people who just want to stay in tune with what is going on at the club. Certainly helps explain why their numbers have skyrocketed! I think Collingwood has something similar for their overseas members (but I think they pay a token amount). 'Method in their madness': 1) Membership numbers count big time when AFL is doing the fixture with TV stations and who gets FTA prime spots. 2) They hope that one day these folk convert to full memberships.

They've been working on it for 2 years, that's some kind of evil plan if you really think it was all timed for this.

Confirmed in this article by John Pierik. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/greater-western-sydney-giants/greater-western-sydney-giants-fined-100000-for-lachie-whitfield-affair-20161222-gtgp81.html " This means that if they were to finish fourth next season, as they had this year, their draft selection No.15, worth 1112 points, would slip to No.63 (112 points). " Effectively they have had their first round pick taken away.

Washington Tennessee San Diego Merry Xmas and new years years to all.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/the-players-who-will-be-most-affected-by-afl-banning-thirdman-up/news-story/4b990201f722bf6bbff949231c5d274e Here you go. 76% clearance rate with 2 ruckman, 75% with a Third Man Up

I was wondering why I couldn't get any fresh lettuce at the supermarket. Gil obviously bought them out to ensure he could hit the AFL's favoured son with a bunch of wet ones.

You mean with clubs swimming in zero-asset debt, Victorian clubs embroiled in constant merger talks, games played at stadiums falling apart (and clubs losing millions in the process), little to no regional and grassroot support, little to no Indigenous support ... shall I go on? What's your definition of "swimming in cash", and what is "a payoff" to that surplus? The commentators have nothing to do with the AFL. The AFL is limited in who it can sell broadcasting rights to. Foxtel arguably offers the best value and best quality across a diverse broadcasting structure but the problem is that it limits free-to-air access...the AFL is in a corner because Channel 7 invests in the wrong individuals to lead its sports coverage. It's the networks that seem out of touch with the broader public, not the AFL.

What a disgrace, on his narcissistic part, that he was too selfish and thoughtless to sort this out before list lodgement. Had he done so in a timely manner, and not lead us all on, he may have left with at least a modicum of a respectable legacy: now all that will be remembered will be his screwing over the club.

Pedo at 193cm 98kg John Nichols 189cm 105kg Polly Farmer 191cm 94kg How times have changed. Adam Goodes played in the ruck at 194cm and now you need to be 200cm plus.

2.508 billion dollar TV rights deal over 6 years. That's 418 million a year without even adding the revenue from memberships, attendances etc. So at 1.7 million per year Gil has taken home about 0.41% of revenue from the broadcast deal. Is that really that unfair? Forget about if you like the bloke or not and look at his achievements and things aren't going too bad. We've got a women's league. The Dees have a women's team. The Dees have posted profits despite still missing finals A fellow battler just won the flag. The AFL took control of Etihad to help those teams out and secure an asset (Way too slowly but) the AFL is at least thinking of reigning in some of GWS' advantages The fixture isn't getting any more screwed up that it has been!

I understand the whole 'got to pay to get the best' argument. And I totally agree with the 'executive decisions make a difference on a scale with their incomes'. But here's the thing... in a genuine market, 'we' (The AFL community, which the AFL implicitly acts on behalf of, as a not-for-profit organisation incorporated for the purpose of promoting and regulating the game in Australia) should be paying a market rate for the labour, fairly based on how easily replaced the labour is. Given that there's no real case against replacing McLachlan with a kid who normally sells footy records or the trumpet-playing busker in a panda suit I saw once at Etihad, why are we paying $1.7m for this clutz?

I think we have the capabiliy to stretch teams with size. Vandenberg is a midfielder but big enough to play as a key which is a huge asset. Playing him as a "4th" tall could cause all sorts of problems. He is mobile enough to play tall or small depending on the situation. Watts is quickish for his size and is capable of out running tall defenders or out marking small ones. With Kent and Garlett around we should have enough pace if they can be consistant with their pressure. T Smith is a natural footballer and I'd like to see him get a run at it early in the season but if he struggles to cement his spot then I think Pedo comes in. Kent, Tracc, Brayshaw, Salem and maybe Hannan can all rotate between mid and forward. Maybe we could see a forward lineup something like this? Unfortunatly that means Watts continues as ruck relief but I like Watts' skill around the ground when he plays the ruck role anyway. Watts, Lewis and Salem with Jones, Viney and Tyson is a pretty good mix of skill and grunt in and around the contest, but I digress. HF: Kent, Hogan, Watts F: Garlett, TSmith, Vandenberg Rotating with Kent: CP5, Brayshaw, Salem. Tyson? (Tyson's a bit of an after thought but he can kick a goal) Edit: Obviously this leaves out the Weid. While I like him and think he will be a star I still believe he should spend more time at Casey than in the seniors. He will get a go at some stage. Either form or injury above him will give him the chance but I wouldn't have him in the team come round 1. (A fantastic BLT or whatever its called series might change my mind)