Bluey's Dad

Well, that was not what I expected when I opened this thread. Lucky my boss wasn't walking past.

And the oldest team in the comp, who have no right to be playing like 22 year olds, are undefeated and on top of the table. I'm starting to think that age profile is meaning less and less as the seasons go on.

Interesting. Feels very foreign to me. I learn all kinds of things on these forums

lol I'm still not sure I get it. Did you throw the 'confetti' at the players? Or was it reserved for when we won and you threw it around the stands?

I don't get it, why would you rip up phone books before a game?

Why would you do this in the first place? You must either be a very, very rich man or you already have a substantial reserve of disinfectant.

Could you post a photo? Neck down would be ok if you don't want us to see your mug, but just so we can see. I've ordered larges online that fit like tents before.

Do you think you (or someone willing to model) could try one on so we get a good idea on sizes? I have been burnt by online purchases not fitting before

I wonder if Roos and PJ would give permission for us to use their emoticons on merch? One face on the front, one face on the back.

Boo, hisssssssss

In the immortal words of the 12th man, "get him up here I wanna boof him"

Merchandise and DLC? https://minecraft.net/store

Ooooooooooh snap.

So.... Did you show him your unit?

Ah, of course. My mistake.

I think you'll find that's 9. Unless you rotate after the game is over.

HAHAHAHAHA! Wanksy! Nice find Moony.

Looking through Emma's list in hindsight, I think Viney is probably the pick of the bunch. And we got him with F/S at 26!

I see what you're saying RPFC. I just think we have a bit of a double standard where because these guys play football, they can act unethically and keep on playing after a ban, but the same can't be said of acting unethically in other professions. I guess in this case the unethical behaviour affects only them, and not clients/patients/the public. I guess as Needly says, it is what it is, but I'll still find it hard to cheer Jake on knowing what he did.

I don't see why football shouldn't be seen like any other profession. If you violate the ethics of a lot of professions, you can't work in that profession any more. Doctors can have their medical licence revoked, lawyers can be disbarred etc. Then they go out and have to start a different career. Life bans from football only really prohibit the player from being a footballer. Nothing to stop them going out and getting any other job.

I think CAS got it right in terms of guilt, and pretty much right in terms of what punishment they were allowed to give out. The maximum was 2 years, they got 2 years backdated. CAS has now increased their maximum to 4 years, so even they think 2 years is too light as a maximum, but with the Essendon 34 case, they were tied to the lower amount because those were the rules at the time of the infringement. Personally yes, I would prefer life bans. I have very little tolerance for drug cheats. Lets remember here that this is not a ciminal case. They aren't being sent to gaol, nor are they doing community service. If they get a life ban, it's essentially telling them that they can't work in their chosen field any more. Well, too bad, go work somewhere else. You cheated at your chosen profession and now you can't do it any more. Go re-educate yourself and go work somewhere else. People do it every day. If a doctor contravenes a medical code, or a lawyer is disbarred for unethical behaviour, they go get a different job. Why does a drug cheat get to go back to work after a year?

Yep, the EFC were fined for that and governance failures I believe. The AFL have not yet punished them for the drug program itself though. I don't think they will either, as they said that if the EFC come last they'll get the #1 pick.

We got fined for bringing the game into disrepute. It was the AFL's political way of punishing us but not actually saying it was tanking. If they said it was tanking they'd have to punish everyone who did it (Hawks, Eagles, Carlton). Also, this is the AFL we're talking about. They are hardly a bastion of consistency when applying fines or penalties, I don't think "you only get fined if you do something wrong" applies to them. Edit: Demitriou actually said what we did was fine. The only reason we got fined was because Adrian Anderson overstepped the mark as a response to Brock McLean's interview. Had Demitriou not been overseas as the time, we would not have been fined at all. We had the tacit approval of the man in charge at the time, and a draft system set up to incentivise precisely what we were doing. Very different to contravening the WADA code.