Everything posted by redandbluemakepurple
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Hawks racism allegations (merged thread)
If I may have a attempt Old55, the AFL should have wrapped this up more rapidly. First up, their investigations officer should have interviewed all parties individually asap with or without their lawyer as they choose. When it came apparent that their stories were incompatible and one side didn't want to meet the other side, the AFL should quickly have said that the basic facts could not be agreed and no further action was possible. The appointment of a panel of lawyers had no prospect of success. Gill's statement that "this is what they asked for" ducks responsibility. So no further action unless someone sues. Then the jury will be able to look into their faces and work out who was gutted and who is defensive/ashamed. I suspect that there won't be cases. The interview with the former Hawthorn football club welfare manager Jason Burt suggests that they should keep their heads down. So Gill that is another big fail after Lamumba, Goodes, Rioli(?), etc. The system to support indigenous and/or immature and/or isolated players is broken and you do not seem to care. Sling me or many others some of your salary and we would tell you how to fix it.
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PREGAME: Rd 12 vs Carlton
Too much information perhaps but "p" run into "f" does sound a bit like "f". It was the best that the ancient Greeks could do a couple of thousand years ago last Tuesday, when the "f" sound came back into use in their language. The dedicated letter of diagamma had disappeared due to lack of use. Phono-etc words come from the Greek words ฯฯฮฝฮฎ (phonฤ, 'sound' or 'voice'). Hence the odd spelling. Similarly, the naughty frenchies spelled the Anglo-Saxon "ch" sound as "tch" i.e. catch, hatch. They ran together the "t" sound with the "sh" sound that they rendered as "ch" e.g. chalet, mon petit chou.
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Sestan & Verrall Re-Sign
Looked Verrall up on the MFC website. Bronze Sponsor => Clayton Oliver Should be a couple of threads about conflicts of interest in there ๐
- PREGAME: Rd 12 vs Carlton
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Tom De Koning
But only 23, playing at the club where coaches go to die, TMac has seized up. We need the kgs. Sign him up.
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NON-MFC: Rd 11 2023
Just an oddity but he runs exactly like his old man did.
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Sparrow cops one week ban for rough conduct
Has there been extra video yet? If not, Sparrow released Day earliy and he stumbled over the umpires' guide dog as far as we could see in the partial video. Woofy was too cute to charge.
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When will Melbourne break these embarrassing records?
Still worth a thread but the records are no longer a dagger to my heart. We won a Premiership. We crashed out of the finals last year but we won a Premiership. We gave Roos a very MFC send-off with his greatest ever loss. But we won a Premiership. Hopefully others found 2021 as therapeutic. ๐
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
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NON-MFC: Rd 09 2023
God bless you Mansell. Still looking forward to Scott's presser. He may collapse inwardly like one of those blackhole thingies.
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
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PREGAME: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
We need to give Petty some time to learn the Forward's craft as we did for Van Rooyen. Possibly some less flaky coaching will train up the Love Shack for a key position. We need the extra kilos. Our new guys are lightly built. Van Rooyen floats like a bee but dropped a lot on Saturday. Half a century ago, a much taller friend was coached to tilt his hands forward. Anyone out there with an updated diagnosis and cure?
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The No T$ No B$ Thread
Who do you want to dig you out of the snow, a St Bernards or a beagle with ambition? The political system has thrown up Prime Ministers Morrison, Abbot, Rudd, Turnbull, Keating, etc. Shrinking violets to the man with hubris unknown. Be Afwaid be vewy vewy Afwaid โ (Elmer Fudd c. 1956) Any mention of a recent State Premiers will cause this thread to self-combust.
- The No T$ No B$ Thread
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Andrew Dillon is the Next AFL CEO
As a dislecksick baby boomar, I will one at the back yelling "JUDAS".
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Nuggets' Music Videos
Very percussive. A friend reckoned that standing up near the stage was like being caught in a pin-ball machine. Possibly when they first hit Melbourne from Dubbo. Still loved them.
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Tasmanian AFL Team
Warner Bros owns the trademark, Tasmanian Devil. The AFL applied for a Trademrk, Tasmania Devils, in 2019 but it has not proceded. This has been reported on several news sites. I favour "Tasmanian Tigers" to ignite another team.
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Tasmanian AFL Team
Until we apologetically stop, slip in a few "Mexicans".
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2023 Indigenous Guernsey
Big tick
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20th AFL Team
Newcastle has the population but rugby-mad.
- PODCAST: Rd 07 vs North Melbourne
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Farewell Sam Weideman
It is official folklore of the Eighties (and from ex-players, too) that rugged Essendon full-back Ronnie Andrews would toughen up the downy-cheeked recruits by taking them pig-shooting. Now we know where we were went wrong.
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Death Riding Fremantle 2023 - Feathered Cap Edition
JVR listed at 193 should be 2 or 3 cm shorter than Lever and Petty. I saw him coming up the race next to Lever and standing next to Petty. Instead he looked 2 or 3 cm taller. Maybe he has grown. Just curious really but will claim that it is compromising my football betting so that I may spit the dummy.
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AFL Pushing for Players to be Traded Against Their Will
Don't see a problem to be fixed. If the Football Deptartments can't or won't do their job, they need to retire or improve and not expect the players to bail them out. If you freely make a contract, you should stand by it and cop the consquences of soft earlier decisions. Still disappointed that Woey Senior and Jack W didn't tell the club to stick it.
- PODCAST: Rd 04 vs West Coast