Queanbeyan Demon

I just went to the The Age website to see if there were any reactions to the JVR fiasco. On the front page is a huge headline with the words: 'Betrayal', 'laughable'. For a microsecond, I thought "you [censored] beauty!" Then i kept reading: 'Betrayal', laughable': Greens, Pocock slam JobSeeker rise

I just hope @Demonland is available this evening to take a call from NBN Co. We've broken the internet I fear.

It's quite possible my sense of humor is broken tonight @djr.

I had an epiphany a few dayz ago about Gil. In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation) who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior. The trickster archetype is a character that is built on the fundamental idea of one party deceiving or playing tricks on another. There are many obvious examples around the world. Musk comes to mind. Warne did it often (before most test series, "I've been working on a new ball") - Darryl Cullinan anyone? In the last month, I feel I've had the wool pulled over my eyes by Gil. Gather Round was declared a success before a footy was kicked in anger, and the South Australians handed the round for the next three years, no discussion entered into. The Tasmanian jamboree is full of so many holes and smokes and mirrors, it will be a miracle if it actually goes ahead (this is a different argument to whether or not Tasmania is worthy of an AFL team). And then tonight . . . I'm being told night is day, black is white. Gaslighting I think is the term.

Good get @monoccular. There are few entities emerging from this fiasco with any dignity. The GCS, God bless their souls, are one of a handful. If you had told me a week ago that I'd be bracketing JVR and the Suns inside the same compliment, I would have [censored] myself laughing.

Suggest we don't mince our words @Demon Disciple. RIP Australian Football The AFL will continue on their merry way administering some other sport.

'Landers have a better perspective on the issue than Slobo.

Greville Street was just the entree.

Quite frankly - ATM, it's hard to see this not ending up in court.

Anyone else like me . . . so completely flabbergasted that they cannot focus properly on anything else ATM - and the rest of the night is ruined?

This. JVR was brilliant on the stand tonight based on the info in the feeds. It's an understatement to say we've got a goodun.

Wow - just wow. Words completely fail me.

Conflict of Interest in the AFL. COI has become my specialty.

There are many silly, corrupt, or evil practices that would cease to exist if the participants did not generally comply with certain putative norms. Put simply, the MFC, and therefore its members, of which there are many on 'Land, are complicit in supporting this oppressive, systematic racket, dressed up as a judicial system. This is not about Michael Christian or any other individual, but insidious, systematic injustice, that transcends individual actors. Sooner or later, someone or something, must take a stand to root out systematic oppression within the whole system. It is clear the emperor has no clothes, for the AFL judicial system has acquired both a power and personality of its own, operating in a closed system, accountable only to itself. What is needed is an outside force that takes a drastic action upon the interlocking forces that composes the system. If successful, this usually results in the movement of the entire system. One person or organisation can change a system, which in turn changes other systems, forming a network of cascading changes unimaginable from the point of the first contemplative action. Numerous such actions have been taken against the previous incarnation of the VFL, and the modern AFL, that exposed disorder, hypocrisy, highlighted political and moral U-turns, and punctured bombastic posturing. Maybe the time has come to expose the emperor again and the institutionalisation of trickery at all levels.

Anyone got the AFL Law book handy? What are our options? Injunction at law? Serious.

In 1999, I actually wrote a Master's thesis on the AFL. The Prof sent it to The Age. They wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole.

S'pose Christian's sanction is upheld - do we take it further? Go fund me page anyone?

S'pose to be writing an essay - cannot focus.

Just BTW friends - do not be too concerned if deliberations take some time. Does not necessarily mean difficulty arriving at a decision. May mean Tribunal members determined a verdict in 30 seconds and are having a scotch to assist the 'optics'.

Facts and justice occasionally overlap @Wells 11.

Hey @Redleg. Must admit, I too was a bit hurt by @WalkingCivilWar's comment.

I couldn't quite figure out why Angry was looming large from my sub-conscious to my consciousness tonight @Fat Tony. Now you've just traumatized me.