Vandenberger With The Lot

I'm more of a lurker than a poster, but just wanted to highlight this comment as it kind of gets to the heart of it. Statistics would say there is a better than 60% chance there is a gay player on the field in any given game of football. I personally know one ex-footballer who is gay and has chosen not to come out, even now after he is retired. He doesn't want to come out because one, the footy public is ruthless, both at the games and on social media, and two, he felt there would be a lot of pressure put on him being the first openly gay player. He was worried that media in their quest to do the right thing would make him a poster boy, and he just didn't want the spotlight and inevitable abuse that would bring. Even if you were to put aside the crowd and general public who have to hear these things, you can't say that there is no victim.

According to Morris who broke it, the players were set to be told this morning.

111-90-1 Record 5-5 Finals, broke a 12 year drought 2021 Premiership, broke a 57 year drought Forever a legend of the club and sad to see it end like this. Love you Goody and hope whatever is next goes well.

I dislike Geelong so much. I don't know how good Sam McClure's information is, but it has rubbed me the wrong way. In all honesty, I would rather have Clarry on his current salary averaging 22 possessions for us than paying him 700k to play well at Geelong. If he is deadset on leaving, the club needs to make it clear that his fresh start has a significant associated cost and the club will not be paying a single dollar of his salary to play in other colours.

Tommy has had an absolute rollercoaster career with us. From the depths of our slump in the early 2010's, to the false start in 2018, to a premiership player. From backman, to forward, to swingman, to forward to backman. Honestly just a great servant of the club who at 32 is in as good of form as he has ever been. An absolute credit to his work ethic and ability to get and keep his body right. Hope he makes it to 300, he certainly deserves it.

F1 in town next week. See if Christian can get the Red Bull drivers down to the Dees and in a jumper

Rare to hear a nice word from Kingy and Cornes, but nice to not be discussed for the wrong reasons at least

I would rather pay Oliver a mill a year to sit on the couch than to see him play well at Geelong. For the love of god don't trade him/

Good point, and I highly doubt it would have. Gus was loved amongst the playing group because of the strength of his character, and you know he would've been talking to Christian non-stop and keeping others apprised of the situation. There is no doubt in my mind that Gus was the next captain of the club, and his speech saddens me to see. I can only imagine whatever he does next, be it in footy or out, he will perform extremely well

Only takes someone with a big enough wallet to engage a lawyer. I would suspect smaller sites probably just comply with C&Ds and remove comments on request to avoid litigation

Very common sense approach, especially given in Fairfax Vs Voller the high court indicated a web forum could be considered a publisher and responsible for content posted on the site

I said they may have unreliable sources but they don't just make things up. Another room temperature IQ take from you.

Yep they can say whatever they want, you can choose to believe them or not, but no one that knows anybody at the club is going to come out and name them on a public forum. Then you suggest professional journalists have no sources. Their source might be unreliable but they don't just make these things up mate. Like I said before, to ask someone on this board to put someone they know at the club, and to suggest journalists just make up stories out of thin air, is a braindead take.

"Out your friend who gave you inside information in confidence publicly or you're a liar" Braindead

Very disappointing. I know it's for yourself but you would hate to have been planning to give it as a Christmas gift