Red and Bluebeard

Bozo the Clown may feel insulted by the comparison :-) One of the main things that sticks in my craw is the way he has handled the Essendon drug scandal. It shouldn't have been an issue whether or not Jobe Watson kept his Brownlow once the appeal failed. This should have been obvious to anyone with a clue, therefore ... On the broader Essendon issue, Gill has never come out and said what I think an AFL CEO should, which is that performace-enhancing drugs are banned, and that anyone found to be using them is not welcome. He has encouraged an atmosphere in which there are ready arrangements for Essendon to top-up player lists in 2016, and that the players are victims of circumstance, rather than professional athletes who are accountable for their actions. As someone said early in the Essendon saga, in what other context woud a professional sporting organisation contact the parents of the players, rather than the players themselves? It seems that the "players as innocent victims" image is practically AFL-endorsed. Where does the buck stop for that? As for the Players Association, I think he should have at least turned up for a little while. What is the AFL without the players? So at least doing something to contact them at the appropriate time seems a no-brainer to me. If nothing else, he seems to have made them feel he is the enemy, rather than someone with a similar broad interest but perhaps some differences of detail which can be discussed. To me, this is Management 101, let alone the top level of the organisation that is supposedly the leading sporting organisation in the country. He seems far more intent on making so-called 'win-win' deals than following rules, such as the way that we were denied a priority pickin 2013, but Brisbane get one. Clearly there is no consistency here. A good CEO would have articulated a general strategy or policy, and made sure it was understood by all concerned. Demitriou may have had his detractors, but there wasn't much doubt what he stood for. Whether it was a good thing or not is another matter, but to me a key duty of an AFL CEO is to articulate and maintain a publically visible direction. Gill? Enough said!

5. He is very far from the sharpest tool in the shed, and seems to always want people to agree with him. Close to useless as a CEO IMHO.

Not to mention my Front People's of Judea one ... or my Judean Front of the People one, or ...

It is a little more disturbing to think that changing the second 'o' in 'Roosey' gets to 'Romsey'

So why wasn't Rome called Romule?

Who?

Perhaps the Vatican in the time of the Borgias might be more in keeping ...

And the dogs sit and chunder all day!

Ernest, you are letting the side down, mate. Surely Greece is the home of classical antiquity! The Romans certainly had the world domination part down pat, having learned from the downfall of Alexander the Wog, and were handy at engineering, all things military, and building arches on every second corner. But when it comes to counting or calendars or democracy, I am sorry, but they suck.

Where seldom is heard, an encouraging word ...

'So give me a home, where the alpacas Rome, ... '

Can it be a coincidence that if you take 'sy' out of Romsey you get 'Rome'?

Excellent!

Dr Seuss is big, DC!

Yes. But does that mean the past tense of match is mought, or of snatch is snought, or of batch is bought, or of hatch is hought? (There should be a verse of this sort, somewhere in Dr Seuss, there really ought)

Thanks, DC, but there are some people in this world who are thunts ...

Sounds like a thatch-22 situation ...

The Dank W*nk Bank I presume ...

Only the Aussies are making an art form of being the easiest team to bowl against ...

That is better than The Day of the Triffids I guess ...

Here's hoping that this season is more like The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ?

In a wardrobe?

This makes me think that the phrase "to w*nk like Dank" really ought to become part of the lingo ... Perhaps he is using Essendon's lawyers?

The story will set longer and more spectacular each day, I am sure ...

That is either a long story or one very large beer ...