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 Pictured: SS Commandant Luke Hodge celebrates the Nazi Party's glory at the Nuremberg Rallies (1936) hiddenmovement posted:My pre season begins next week with a vigorous early morning meeting with a physio Whats wrong with you that a 6 pack at the end of season BBQ couldnt fix?
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Sep 20, 2015 18:26
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 GDT for the grand final should be posted asap on the day so the yanks can make plans and tune in.
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Sep 20, 2015 19:23
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MUSCULAR BEAVER posted:Let's all read Robert Walls' opinions about coaching! (He even sticks in a dig at the old west coast side!) I think Worsfold would be better in a director of coaching role rather than senior coach, I'd be pretty happy if him and Ratten/Dew/Burns were enticed to Essendon. Speaking of bad coaches, I heard Chris Connoly on the ABC as I drove back from Barwon and I now understand why he didn't do to well at Freo. The guys an inarticulate idiot, his analysis was crap and I don't think he made a single good point in the entire time he was on air.
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Sep 20, 2015 23:35
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gay picnic defence posted:drove back from Barwon On weekend detention mate?
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Sep 20, 2015 23:46
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gay picnic defence posted:Speaking of bad coaches, I heard Chris Connoly on the ABC as I drove back from Barwon and I now understand why he didn't do to well at Freo. The guys an inarticulate idiot, his analysis was crap and I don't think he made a single good point in the entire time he was on air. He was good at selling Freo to a very WCE saturated Perth media, but wasn't good at too much else. Its no wonder the players responded so well to Lyon taking over after Connolly/Harvey, Connolly was a bumbling fool and Harvey would look at near tears when asked questions at press conferences.
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Sep 21, 2015 00:09
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gay picnic defence posted:I think Worsfold would be better in a director of coaching role rather than senior coach, I'd be pretty happy if him and Ratten/Dew/Burns were enticed to Essendon. They get him on to commentate loving Melbourne games all the time, as if we didn't have to suffer through enough when he was at the club.
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Sep 21, 2015 00:54
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Wow, the Perth prelim ticket prices are double the elimination finals prices. http://media.ticketmaster.com/en-au/img/static/pdf/AFLFinals2015_Week3.pdf
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Sep 21, 2015 01:37
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It loving sucks that the racists won
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Sep 21, 2015 01:47
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bigis posted:Wow, the Perth prelim ticket prices are double the elimination finals prices. I remember the visitors tickets in to the MCC last year for a Prelim final were about that price, elimination final tickets on Friday night were $77.
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Sep 21, 2015 01:50
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Testekill posted:It loving sucks that the racists won I feel awful for Goodes. After a near 400 game career, 2 brownlows, 2 premierships - he can't even do a lap of honour on Grand Final day for fear of being booed relentlessly for the colour of his loving skin. On Saturday night I watched the game with a few mates and after we had finished talking about how awful Hodge is, Goodes did that kick thing at the Norf player and someone said "see that's why he is constantly booed, not because of race!" So I asked "we were just speaking about how Hodge is the worst player in the game, which you'd willingly admit is a much dirtier player than Goodes - so why isn't he booed relentlessly every time he touches the ball, even in games where he is gathering his first possession like Goodes does?" Her argument completely falls apart at that because there is no logical answer as to why Goodes should be getting booed more than Hodge other than bringing race into the equation. It's an old story and we all know it, but it just sucks for Goodes that he can't get the same send off as everyone else.
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Sep 21, 2015 03:30
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thepokey posted:I feel awful for Goodes. It's so loving depressing. He should be going out a universally admired legend of the game. It's tragic.
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Sep 21, 2015 03:33
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Testekill posted:It loving sucks that the racists won Welcome to post-invasion Australian history
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Sep 21, 2015 03:34
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The thing is, isn't he LESS likely to be booed at the GF because the great unwashed are locked out in favour of the business elite?
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Sep 21, 2015 03:38
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pkid posted:The thing is, isn't he LESS likely to be booed at the GF because the great unwashed are locked out in favour of the business elite? Aren't they the people who all vote liberal and thus their views on race are all really progressive and, wait no, they'd boo the living poo poo out of him
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Sep 21, 2015 03:44
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thepokey posted:I feel awful for Goodes. After a near 400 game career, 2 brownlows, 2 premierships - he can't even do a lap of honour on Grand Final day for fear of being booed relentlessly for the colour of his loving skin. i finally got into an argument with my old man about it the other week after the saints eagles game. i was laughing at how when riewoldt got his first touch the saints supporters all cheered 'rooooo' and then a few eagles fans were like wait is riewoldt being booed are we booing riewoldt now?? and then the crowd ended up booing riewoldt for the rest of the match. my dad was like ha see theres nothing racist about that! i bit the bullet and said fine you want to talk about goodes lets go through it, so then we went through his like of justifications, eagles have black players too that dont get booed, goodes is a sook, sam newman hit the nail on the head, so on so on. he dropped each argument after i objected to each point and shut up about it past that, although probably because he didnt want to get into a shouting matching in the middle of the pub. my dad's pretty set in his ways and if hes going to change his mind it usually takes a few weeks rather than one instance. he seemed to back off a little when i mentioned that if 40,000 people are heckling 1 person, those 40,000 do not get to be the ones who feel victimised. fingers crossed he can look at things differently anyway. ive also been avoiding talking to my brother about footy at all, i already heard my 10 year old nephew spouting my brothers inferiority complex opinions about it and quietly told him that he doesnt need to agree with everything his dad tells him and some things are a little more complex than he thinks. i personally disagree with his dad and a lot of other people do too.
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Sep 21, 2015 03:46
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thepokey posted:Aren't they the people who all vote liberal and thus their views on race are all really progressive and, wait no, they'd boo the living poo poo out of him While this is true, would you boo if you'd been invited to attend by a client or boss or whatever? I'm not saying no one would boo, I'm saying it'd be a smaller section of people. Also, what I'd like to see is Goodes rolled out with security standing at the top of every aisle and if someone boos, they get the boot from the GF. What's that, you paid $3K for the ticket plus flights and accom? gently caress off out of here.
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Sep 21, 2015 03:54
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pkid posted:While this is true, would you boo if you'd been invited to attend by a client or boss or whatever? This except snipers on top of the stands.
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Sep 21, 2015 03:56
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pkid posted:While this is true, would you boo if you'd been invited to attend by a client or boss or whatever? Maybe, unless you're the guest of someone who actively encourages a bit of booing as a team building exercise or something. Maybe it wouldn't be quite as loud or whatnot, but it what it lacks in boisterousness it makes up for in being an awful representation on our biggest stage of all. But I do like that idea.
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Sep 21, 2015 04:04
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pkid posted:The thing is, isn't he LESS likely to be booed at the GF because the great unwashed are locked out in favour of the business elite? Counterpoint: likely all West Australian GF means West coast AND Freo supporters in the same ground.
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Sep 21, 2015 04:06
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If you tell a footy fan not to do something, a significant minority will do it anyway because gently caress you dad
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Sep 21, 2015 04:15
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Caro thinks Dangerfield is a done deal: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/adelaide-knew-before-finals-that-patrick-dangerfield-was-leaving-20150921-gjrefo.html
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Sep 21, 2015 06:31
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Spedman posted:Caro thinks Dangerfield is a done deal:  I don't understand how our best player, likely B&F winner and Brownlow contender, as his powers peak, and as the team looks like it could push on to a premiership in two years, would just up and leave. And even worse, up and leave for a team on the slide in Geelong. I just don't understand. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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Sep 21, 2015 07:25
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Maybe he doesn't want to live in Adelaide Which you can't really blame him for
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Sep 21, 2015 07:31
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NTRabbit posted:
Maybe he actually is legit with wanting to live near home unlike others
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Sep 21, 2015 07:31
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Also he would go a fair way to arresting any slide at Geelong
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Sep 21, 2015 07:33
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So that makes the initial complaints when we drafted him eventually true, as soon as it was convenient for him, and it wasn't for us, he hosed off back to Victoria. If someone that well looked after, who is that good of a player, in a team on the up, in a good environment, just leaves at a critical juncture for that reason, then why the gently caress would we ever draft anyone from outside SA again? I loving hate this go home bullshit, it is the worst non-reason for changing clubs.
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Sep 21, 2015 07:36
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I also feel that having your Coach murdered through the season would maybe put some things into perspective like, 'Why should I play here if I don't really want too and prefer to live and play near my friends & family, life is short.'
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Sep 21, 2015 07:36
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This whole loving system is just designed to consistently screw us out of players, every loving year. I hope we match the offer so that Geelong have to pay the two first round picks and a player he's worth, and not a single poxy loving pick 14 we'd get in FA compensation
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Sep 21, 2015 07:40
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NTRabbit posted:So that makes the initial complaints when we drafted him eventually true, as soon as it was convenient for him, and it wasn't for us, he hosed off back to Victoria. Alternatively it meant you hosed up by not trading him last year at which point you could have gotten compensation on your terms for him. Also it's not like he Tom Boyd'ed you, you. You got eight years and 150 games out of him and he gave his all right up to the final siren of his last game in a crows jumper
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Sep 21, 2015 07:43
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I don't really know anything but from all reports Boak was close to returning to Geelong but stayed at Port. What I'm saying is just promise Dangerfield Captaincy and more pub ownership to stay in Adelaide!
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Sep 21, 2015 07:43
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NTRabbit posted:This whole loving system is just designed to consistently screw us out of players, every loving year. 
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Sep 21, 2015 07:44
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Solemn Sloth posted:You got eight years and 150 games out of him and he gave his all right up to the final siren of his last game in a crows jumper Totally loving meaningless if he jumps ship at the peak of his powers when we're on the cusp of being a flag contender.
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Sep 21, 2015 07:44
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NTRabbit posted:So that makes the initial complaints when we drafted him eventually true, as soon as it was convenient for him, and it wasn't for us, he hosed off back to Victoria. i remember a few years ago port's recruiter was lamenting the fact that it was hard to attract players because nobody wanted to live in adelaide
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Sep 21, 2015 07:57
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snaeksikn posted:i remember a few years ago port's recruiter was lamenting the fact that it was hard to attract players because nobody wanted to live in adelaide Which led to Adelaide and Port questioning why they don't get a player retention allowance, when Sydney had an allowance despite every fucker in the league declaring they were moving to Sydney for the lifestyle, shortly before phoning the Swans and asking if they had a spot on the list for them. Aside from which, there's nothing wrong with living in Adelaide. If you already have a job, and a high paying one at that, Adelaide is a fine place to live, it just has slightly less to do on your day off than Melbourne. Adelaide is only poo poo to live if you're unemployed or on the bottom rung of the wage slave treadmill, because on that treadmill te steps don't go around, the bottom one just falls off every couple of years and adds to the unemployed pile. It's just a played up stereotype in the AFL. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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Sep 21, 2015 08:02
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Adelaide if Paris compared to Geelong
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Sep 21, 2015 08:05
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NTRabbit posted:Aside from which, there's nothing wrong with living in Adelaide. If you already have a job, and a high paying one at that, Adelaide is a fine place to live, it just has slightly less to do on your day off than Melbourne. Adelaide is only poo poo to live if you're unemployed or on the bottom rung of the wage slave treadmill, because on that treadmill te steps don't go around, the bottom one just falls off every couple of years and adds to the unemployed pile. It's just a played up stereotype in the AFL. if there's nothing wrong with living in adelaide why do your players keep leaving?
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Sep 21, 2015 08:05
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Solemn Sloth posted:if there's nothing wrong with living in adelaide why do your players keep leaving? Because the AFL equalisation policy equalises all the money into a couple Melbourne clubs, Sydney and GWS. The salary not of the salary cap.
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Sep 21, 2015 08:08
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Perth isn't exactly a centre of excitement, but the only big losses out of WA to return home have been Judd, Croad and Tarrant off the top of my head.
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Sep 21, 2015 08:21
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Spedman posted:Perth isn't exactly a centre of excitement, but the only big losses out of WA to return home have been Judd, Croad and Tarrant off the top of my head. the WA clubs definitely have better luck with players coming back home rather than leaving
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