Diamond_Jim
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Has always amazed me how international soccer teams can deal with the two leg matches across continents. In October 2017 I went down to Melaka to watch the Socceroos play Syria in a play off to make the world cup. Syria had based itself in Malaysia for that years campaign due to the war in their own country. Few of its players were playing in international leagues so they had been here a while. Members of the Australian team flew in from all around the world 2 days before the game. As usual the temperature was 32-34 and the humidity in excess of 70%. The pitch was not lawn but more like very rough buffalo grass. Australia drew that first leg 1-1 that night and then two days later were playing the return leg in a very cold Sydney. They won and were off to Russia. AFL players have it easy -
? It's still a soft cap.. just a "tax" consequence For a club like Richmond etc it's $1 per member Take it out of the salary cap.... now that could be a penalty
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Lions v Pies Do we care? Would be nice for some Magpie angst I suppose but they're looking rather safe
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Yep it was the suspended part of that fine Must say I was thinking the same thing
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Reminds me of those old westerns where you are caught tried and hung in the same day.
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And this lady is running their State........? "I know the AFL takes these issues seriously and will take appropriate action." Ms Palaszcuk
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It was stuff up as the flight timing was cost neutral: The costs of flying to Cairns would usually be paid by the AFL who would in turn be paid by Qld Govt for putting on a game in Cairns. Swans would have had a half empty plane so no reason we couldn't go with them. The plane carrying Freo would be half empty but the fact remains you still needed the two flights as presumably three teams cannot fit on the one plane. Then there is the cost of an extra 2-3 nights accommodation...not that great in the scheme of things. Only a little thing but it's little things that make the difference between winning and losing and we stuffed up again
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At least we can take solace that nothing is open in Maroochydore at 3am. Not sure about Cairns
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just appeared... hours behind the other outlets Perhaps they needed to run it past their "editor"
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Interesting test of the so called independent journalists in AFL media. Nothing obvious on the AFL website 2 hours after the story has broken
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Agree... Balme in Melbourne and how many gaffs by Hardwick and his team.
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Looks like they're gone..... Should they be sent home to Melbourne, as seems highly likely, this would leave the Tigers without two players, albeit Stack did not play against Fremantle on Wednesday night. It is a situation that is more fraught for the AFL than even the Tigers. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-investigating-tiger-pair-arrested-outside-gold-coast-strip-club-20200904-p55ses.html
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Given who the players are I'm thinking... out of the hub Not sure if they can be sent back to Melbourne Gil will want a public execution to satisfy his new mistress PS why does "mistress" sound wrong in that sentence? Is master now allowed as an androgynous word
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Gil may have to interrupt his poolside time to deal with this
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Who are the two pictured players? Punishment is inverse to importance as we know
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Perhaps Jaguar is a fitting sponsor Unreliability was their second name
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The issue here is that the Swans had 2-3 days on us including training on the ground. These are the things that you expect Pert and Mahoney to fix. Picture what Eddie etc would have done PS Gil probably needed the jet to fly his mates to Brisbane Hell... we could have crowd funded the cost of the flight for the team!!!
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