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GET OUTTA HERE WITH THAT NEOLIBERAL ALT-RIGHT NEOCON ANTI UNION PROPAGANDA

word of advice: "neoliberal", "cultural marxist", "altright" and "SJW" are used either when the person is too lazy to form a coherent argument, or don't have the mental capacity to. I doubt you'r in either of those so please don't fall don't the rabbit hole of Millenial arguments 101. I wasn't trying to be political and I'm not (overly) anti union. In a sports environment I think it's pointless having a union that does anything other than negotiate pay and player movement. A fwiw, you used "free market" in a negative sense but it's the union pushing for a more open free market of player movement. An AFL team isn't a construction site The players are a team's greatest asset and aren't anywhere near as replaceable as a guy on a construction site. It is within a team's utmost best interests to ensure players are safe and healthy. That players are running to the union in this instance undermines the club, its coaches and medical staff. It's not the same as a kid on a construction site running to the union because he feels unsafe. the kid knows he's expendable and his safety isn't a priority. He's not a key to finish the project. Players running to a sports union because they feel "unsafe" is an embarrassment and major indictment on the club's intentions of gaining respect. I'm not antiunion. I'm anti players running to the union because they train too hard. I'd love to see them put on a hardhat for a week.

What?

true. but I didn't know that at the time. it's even more worrying now that we have players running to the union. Michael Jordan managed to get Steve Kerr, head of the player's union, to do the team thing and go above and beyond. They clashed, punched on (literally). But the two of them sealed a championship (Literally. Google "Steve Kerr finals winner"). This is another major concern I have now. You have some players actively undermining the coaching department. This is the first news story ever of players running to the union about training. It's embarrassing. The club can't actively address this. What can it say? outside of what it's already said? You can't ignore this. With any work place if the union needs to get involved you've got a problem. What do players who wanted to do the training say? They'r scabs if they say anything. That creates division. This isn't a construction site. It's a football club. Team cohesion is so important. And now the coaching department's efforts to work on this area have been compromised. The reports were that players were struggling...but they pushed each other. They pushed and pushed. Then 8 months later round 23 happens. A few months later we heard that someone or a few are worried they're being trained too hard. Why does this club always set the worst records, the worst stories, the worst standards? We are the new Richmond.

Bernie is generally good from kick ins and Salem fluffed a fair few this year.

I don't care that it was cancelled or the reason for it, but again i think this is just amateur hour from the media department. They don't owe the fans or media any reasoning for it. I don't think many people would have even realised if nothing was said. At the most all they had to say was "We've cancelled the camp to focus on a different training approach". Even that is too much because it creates questions. Had nothing been said, would people have even cared? Or realised? Now we're once again the subject of media and fan ridicule. Regardless of the legitimacy of the reasoning behind it, and it does some like a reasonable decision to make, you simply can't ignore that to the general football world, it doesn't look good. The club's PR and media department is just full of nuffies. This is bad PR. And we wonder why we struggle for sponsors.

yeah no doubt but better crowds and the NT games have netted us a profit. Sponsorship is a reflection of purchase intent and amplification, and so long as we struggle to net long term partnerships, we'll never truly be able to compete with the big boys. Missing finals this year would have been a massive hit to the 2018 bottom line. it all flows on.

....i hope he doesnt.

it ain't 1964, 64. that just doesn't cut it anymore.

He talks the talks....

I'm not entirely convinced with esports. it's a super competitive market and unless you compete successfully in NA and Asia, the financial benefits are minimal. You also won't attract good players unless you'r prepared to outlay most of the winnings to the actual team. Some smaller esports teams only give a small percentage to the players because they'r seen as a stepping stone to more reputable teams. it's the kind of thing where you need to invest millions in order to start off high from the very beginning. I don't think any of the Afl teams getting involved are going that deep. imo some AFL clubs are seeing the financial benefits based on the success of NA and Asian teams, without truly understanding or appreciating the cost to actually set this up. Blizzard was asking for tens of millions just to buy a license for the Overwatch league. This is a league that atm has appealing projections, but there are still huge question marks over the viability. ultinately it all comes to sponsorship money and purchasing intent. Gamers are traditionally firmly in that high purchase intent category, but they won't get involved if the team/players aren't competitive on a global scale.

jones has never been top 50. he barely cracks top 100. i like nibbler. elite potential.

I don't think what he says is wrong. Neither team is at a point yet where if a KPP goes down, we can successfully cover them unequivocally without ruining structure. We're continuing to develop our ruck division, Omac is clearly being developed as a reliable depth player, and Weeds needs to be our Roughead equivalent. But we're not at a point yet where losing a Lever or Hogan allows us to bring someone straight into the role with similar efficiency. We got lucky with Hogan and Gawn this year but we were arguably a 4-5 win better side with them playing every game. We need to be in a position where losing Gawn doesn't force us to go small, or losing Hogan forces a complete restructure of the line and structure of the team. We're too vulnerable. Make no mistake that if lever, gawn and hogan stay healthy this year, so long as we aren't decimated in the middle like we were for a patch this year, we'll be top 4.

I got a letter re. AFL Membership that gave me a few weeks notice regarding automatic renewal. Debits start this week i believe.

A Phantom Menace style entry could be in order. "Turmoil has engulfed the Melbourne Football Club board. The hiring of a new coaching department is in dispute."

He thinks we're a few years away from playing finals? what? EDIT: Finished reading. You win this round.

You eat pieces of [censored] for breakfast?

he'll bounce back. they are a 2 win better side with him even with the current crop of downhill skiers they have running around.

If EA Sports can't even get the trade algorithm for NBA Live right, what chance do we have of the AFL creating a fair and coherent computer system?

The white jumper doesn't really bother me. What bothers me is the outright hypocrisy of it all. The only "clash" is with Essendon...if you're blind and can't differentiate between black and dark navy blue. I think every team should just have one alternate away strip for away games. Switch the colours around like Essendon and Richmond do. Why we need two clash jumpers is beyond me.

Among the most healthy teams in 2017 and couldn't get close to a top 8 side. We destroyed them and should have won by 10+ goals but gave them a sniff which was very Melbourne in 2017. Hinkley is a one-trick poney. They'll go on a run but they've added depth and still have Toumpas as their midfield depth. Watts and Motlop are easily blanketed. Rockliff is unpredictable but consistent enough to be a good addition. I think they'll be top 4 but like Geelong they'll be blown over by a rampaging team with more answers. I hope it's us.

No.3?

His season was good. Not great. IMO none of the mentioned should be replaced in favour. Oliver had a better 2017 than Woewodin did 2000.

Good list. What about the vs WC game in 98? We'd lost by 100 points each of the past two weeks and were paying like $10. No one gave us a chance. We went over with a bunch of kids and rolled the Eagles.

but he didnt. and most of his shots were gimmies. has the talent no doubt but needs a better eye for goal to kick them when we need them. Kent, too. Huge ceiling.