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Best not to accuse me of generalising, Luci. I’m happy for your experience, would that it weren’t just yours. I have seen racism vocalised by pretty much every culture with which I’ve come into contact, undoubtedly most egregiously and most harmfully by the dominant culture in this country, Anglo-saxon and Celtic. As I said, and have made the point, it’s heftily generational. It is also almost entirely projected onto other minority cultures. Be very very careful not to misrepresent my experiences and attitude.

It is getting better though, Dr.G. The current generation of millennials and newer, they just don’t have the same bigotries. For those I know, gender, race and sexual preference really mean nothing to them in a judgemental or hierarchical sense. It constantly surprises and fills me with hope. And the beauty is, most of it is unconscious, they just live, let live and respect. Growing up in the 70’s in Melbourne, probably then and now this country’s most progressive society, (and excuse my referencing, it’s only for historical context) it was all Wogs, Abos, Chinks, Yugos and so on. We’ve come a long way, and I’m grateful that the kids today truly hold the future.

“By“ and to others, obviously not ‘their own’. Presuming they were immigrant Italians, they would’ve copped it of course. Being of a certain generation, they most likely gave it as well.

And even seen it perpetrated by his family elders.

To the point on anonymity and accountability, I wonder how many on Demonland would willingly be known by their real names, with full disclosure about their personal circumstances …age, gender, occupation, etc? Avatars are fun, but why do we need them?

None of that is deserved.

4 years on, same story, no solution. The weirdest part of our multi-billion dollar game.

Yep. This exactly. And Yeo kept shaking his head, like the coathanger he gave Kozzie, as the umpire in fact called it, just somehow didn’t happen. Gobsmacking.

BoBo’s summary of contextualised racism nails the distinction terrifically, particularly for those dinosaurs and brainwashed haters who hang onto their ‘white man’ grievances for grim death, and distinctions between overt undisguised racism such as Tex Walker’s, and online anonymity are equally true. The fact remains though that we ARE in a new and completely unfettered era of anonymity. What used to be graffitied on walls or stuck on posters is now online - unaccountable and pathologically designed to provoke. Despite the poison they spill and the pain it inflicts, I’m not sure that who they are is important, particularly given that what they say makes them valueless. What is certain is that if they were identifiable in the ‘real world’, 99% of them would stop. What bothers so many of us is there appears to be no way, ever, of creating or enforcing that identification or accountability. And as others have mentioned, it’s insidious in its ability to foster hatred and misinformation. But it may also be the single remaining protection for those given to antipathetic, prejudiced and bigoted behaviours, the last place they can hide. So much progress has been made, particularly in the last 3 generations, in understanding, fostering and promoting humane equity to nullify those behaviours that I believe, perhaps hope, it simply can’t be stopped. But whilst gender, sexual preference, religion and race bigotries are all becoming less practised as societally justifiable reasons for prejudice, it’s hardly odd that the pointy, grimly resistant vestiges are the noisiest and most aggressive. The softer, more influencable hearts have already shifted. If only we could bring those remainders to personal, real world account.

You can tape the foot, but it looked to me like they were only focussed on the ankle. If his pain presented in the foot, much more likely he would never have been rerun, too much fracture risk. And yet….

Very unlikely to be syndesmosis given he came back on for a bit. Its inherent instability kills weight-bearing dead from the git-go….usually. So can’t rule it out. If an uncomplicated lateral ‘sprain’ (means tear), he’ll come up for finals but would miss the last two games. (3-4 weeks).

Me too. Was more predictable than lockdown 7.0

Welcome to the club.

No he isn’t.

Not a temptation the selectors will even remotely consider, and for good reason, right there on the competition’s goal kicking ladder.

Strangely enough, those of us over 40 or so have all been on that journey, not just you. Your comment about being happy with silver or bronze is completely missing the point. If you can’t enjoy the ‘now’, then you’re ignoring the whole premise upon which the ‘gold’ even exists.

Makes me laugh to think that if he has a quiet one next week, there’ll be those calling for him to be dropped. Nibbler would be one of the first 10 selected every week. Unquestionably. Nobody does what he does across 4 quarters. Ain’t always pretty, but it is always valued by those who matter.

It IS the pinnacle of our season so far. By definition.

It’s a journey - destination kind of thing. Some just aren’t up for the journey, despite the utter illogic of it in every conceivable sense. We should pity them I reckon. Must be tough.

Great effort by the team under crazy, de-energising circumstances to secure the finals entry they deserve this season. Given the umpires had their traditional 6 goal influence on the Weasels score line, that’s equivalent to a 7-8 goal win. Fabulous. To James Harmes and Alex Neal Bullen, Demonland might not know why you get selected every week, but your coaches do.

Predictable, and disgraceful.

Not hard.

Anyone who thinks that was an even playing field in respect to the umpiring is deluded.

His lack of longer term perspective combined with an obvious love for the sound of his own pseudo-analysis is cringeworthy.

I suppose you think that’s funny….😳