Mazer Rackham

Have you seen some of the arguments that player advocates have come up with over the years? That have succeeded against all common sense? We are seriously dense if we play this with a straight bat and don't try to game the system like all other clubs, and try to get May off. This is quite apart from the serious argument that he was legitimately "standing his ground", in accordance with the rules of a contact sport.

I think "they" got to Paolo. Thanks "Delusion demon 82" for waking up the sleeping giant.

Hmmm ... it's obvious that this "Delusional demon 82" knows too much ... CODE RED. CODE RED. Men in black are moving into intercept position as I type ... all future posts by "Delusional demon 82" are to be disregarded as they will be plants by AFL agents. Repeat CODE RED.

Let's not kid ourselves. These things you say are supposed to be true, and in a fair and consistent MRP/tribunal world they would be true and no-one would have any issue with any of it. But ... we don't live in that world. We live in a world where the MRP work off the wheel of fortune, or a darts board, or dice rolls, or horoscopes ... no-one can be sure, such is the discrepancy and inexplicable randomness of it ... and the tribunal is something to be gamed, where you take your most audacious shot and hope that the tribunal members' biorythms are out of sync and you get a favourable result. And you often do! We are out of our minds if we sit back and say "well, it's a fair cop". Because it is not a fair cop, not in the world where fairness and consistency have been replaced by chooklotto. We've come up snake eyes and want a second roll of the dice. If we don't get it, or if we accept the results of the first roll, we're not playing the same game and deserve to lose. Until the AFL/MRP/tribunal get their act together we have every right to be upset, and every right to have a second bite of the cherry. Clubs need to challenge every decision of the MRP for no other reason than to get the AFL to work toward finally getting it right, ie, consistent.

Is that the new PC term for "demented"?

Even our sponsors are getting into the swing of things! The value-add of being associated with MFC just goes up and up. (PS she looks like a Collingwood supporter)

The entire MRP from its conception has been laughable. Business as usual.

What game are we watching? Australian rules football? Translation: as MFCSS sufferers (long term, lapsed, and recovered), we accept that this kind of bullsh*t just happens to MFC But this is the new MFC! If we have the nads to shoot for 70,000 member,s we have the nads to challenge the MRP lottery 1000%

Oh well. One has to be philosophical about these things.

Yes, probably true. Because there is no way we would have had the clout or connections to shove out the athletes and claim the oval. Olympic Park was supposed to be the one true permanent home of athletics in Victoria. In 2006, to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the 56 Olympics, there was a considerable refurbishment of the area, hence "Olympic Boulevard", with lots of goodwill about the permanent home of athletics, and other Olympic-related vibes. Statues, a mooted new stadium (turned out to be AAMI), etc. But then a board member of Athletics Australia got the idea that AA would be better off in South Melbourne. Got in the ear of the premier. Somehow along the way Melbourne City Council ceded title to the State (ie, Victoria). Lo and behold, within two years, AA was out of their permanent home, shifted to Bob Jane stadium, with promises of new digs there, and now there's barely anything "Olympic" about "Olympic Boulevard". It's all tennis and various codes of football. [*] By the way, the board member was none other than Eddie McGuire. And the premier was John Brumby, a keen Collingwood supporter. [*] and who can forget when a certain prominent Toorak businessman suggested moving an entire tennis stadium to make way for (guess what) more football.

Thank you Hillary. Marc-Ange Draco here. We have heard these words before. "Ah, but that's not PURE communism. PURE communism would get you the results we predicted." All the while ignoring the fact that pure communism is so completely antisocial, normal people reject it in droves. It can't work. It's against human nature. Through a fluke of nature, IT nerds somehow became cool. (A strange phenomenon worth of study in its own right. It's as if international scrabble tournament players became celebrities and their every enunciation press-worthy, with the ordinary masses goggling over their wisdom and insight.) Gates, Jobs ... then Zuckerberg. With a cool person, it's possible to overlook their character flaws. Zuckerberg has the greatest character flaws you can imagine. Basically, he's an odious little [censored] trapped in a man's body. And too immature to see it or do anything about it. I'm not normally a pessimist, but I think we're stuck with it until the next generation fixes it. A truism, maybe too simple to be bear out in real life and the long stretch of history, but I believe the kids of the kids you reference, I think (I hope, I trust), will rebel and correct the errors of their elders. If you read Churchill's history of the English speaking peoples, you will see that a lot of [censored] has happened in 2000 years, and essentially, everything old is new again. We've been through a lot of turmoil over centuries, and even though the current generation may end up as collateral damage, goodness and rightness will shine through eventually. (Again, human nature.) We see glimpses of it even now. Long live the younger generations. They are easily dismissed, but they see as far as we older and supposedly wiser ones.

Well, nobody's perfect. (Except for certain posters not a million miles from here.) We are on our way to being respected, feared, and other good things along those lines. We may have a certain measure of that already. What a long way we have come. Misson is part of that journey and can take a healthy slice of credit for dragging us up from the cellar with his knowledge and expertise. It doesn't just happen. People have to put in. Hard to bag on that. Thanks Dave, for your commitment to a potentially lost cause, and for your part in the club's rise. Good luck, and don't forget to take a warm jacket.

I was a doubter. I was okay-ish with the deal on a "buy one (Hibberd), get one free (Melksham)" basis. At games I would call out "that's the good one" when Hibberd got the pill. But turns out we got two good 'uns. It's good to be wrong!

Misson accomplished!

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Yeah OK but after Brexit we will relocate to Holland. A permanent base with training facilities to die for. And it's closer to the MCG than Casey.

On the subject of Jesse Watch, from the bigfooty Freo pre-season training thread... On the sidelines, boom recruit Hogan continued individual skills, running and repeat-effort work in his comeback from a navicular stress fracture. "Jesse's going good. He's started being drip-fed into drills in the last couple of days and he will look to be in full training in the coming weeks," Fyfe said. (Later reports have him on track for round 1.)

Nice euphemism. Other euphemisms in play: "Ballwinner" "Stakeholder" Not that there's anything wrong with that

We should look into that. It's a lot less than we're paying C'wood for Gosch's.

Still can't kick 50m

Master Po: It is just the notion of social evaluative contribution based on formative reasoning that differs and then it might progressively change to interpersonal evaluative judgements - depending on one's own haste for that change, itself. Grasshopper: uh .... right. Do you reckon Jesse is going to kick a bag when he plays us?

They say on dark nights ... just like that one ... about 3am on the Freo foreshore, when the DJ has packed up his gear and gone home and the night is still and quiet, you can hear the sound of a power forward ralphing into the lapping waves below

There's one where he's wearing a Dockers jumper. An act of rash stupidity that a number of young men these days unfortunately indulge in.

...tually .... ually .... ally ... ly ....