LukeParkerno1
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Maybe, could see them cancelling this week. However the competition must go on. No issue with the crows game being called off.
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Maybe, could see them cancelling this week. However the competition must go on. No issue with the crows game being called off.
what the *?
yeah it is a tough one... but geez so close to the game you would wonder if the players would be in the right mindset to prepare & compete. Will be interesting to see how the club responds to this tragic news
I agree. Phil Walsh is now dead. While everyone who knew and loved him would want to honour him that doesn't mean they are capable of that right now.
As harsh as it sounds life is about the living. We need to think about their feelings and capabilities. Phil Walsh no longer has wants and desires. I hope when I die my loved ones do what they need to do.
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Arbiter of stupid. You are on the internet, and the "nature of the internet" comes from people in society speaking through it.
So the posts are a reflection of Australian people and their many reactions. You seem to want to differentiate it when its all just people from our country speaking.
A lot of people could argue you are being in this thread with your rant about other posters, as divergent to the meaning of the event, and honouring Phil's memory, as the people speculating nonsense. Now I can be accused of it too.
Oh I wish people would stop pretending that they know what Phil would have wanted.
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"Phil would want them to play"
How do you know? Did you ask him?
How do you know? Did you ask him?
I don't agree, but if it could somehow result in more funding for drug and alcohol services then some good could come from this mess.
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Heartbreaking, but also heartwarming to see the good it's bringing out in people if you ignore the few yobs on here.
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Yeah except that those that don't go to work the day after someone closed to them has passed is limited to a small number.
In the AFL there are 1000's of people involved, do you seriously propose that every time something tragic happens to a player or a beloved figure in the game then we should be cancelling games or rounds?
Think of it in terms of a big organisations, would a huge company that employs thousands of workers in many different departments cancel work for the day when one of its employers is cut down by tragedy in their private lives? No they wouldn't, they might if that employee was murdered during work hours, but they don't definitely cancel work for the day of an employee was murdered in their private life.
Same with AFL, Walsh was cut down at home in his private life, why should AFL cease for as week every time someone involved in AFL has a tragic event in their private life.
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its just crazy to log on and see this thread title... real numb feeling
LukeParkerno1
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That is the thing. Honestly very few of us know the players and we are taking a guess. Their welfare is the number 1 priority. However we can't just cancel games every week. No issue this week though, purely as the game is 2 days away.
yep...purely a wait and see what the players/crows want to do I would have thought. Lots of pointless speculation as to what should happen atm
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Cliches tend to surface at times like this.
If I have to read "it's what he would have wanted" or "the show must go on" one more time I'll vom.
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Yep. It has the potential to kick on to people with mental health issues unfairly. We already have a corner of football media now putting the incident on drug use. Doesn't take long thereafter for some to confuse the two concepts.
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You can't play. There's just no way known.
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i think there's no doubt the crows game will be postponed. can't be fair to have players play a few days after their leader is tragically murdered. i'm sure the whole league will be understanding of whatever schedule changes need to be made. at this point the football season is secondary.
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Really liked the guy in the presser. I guess thats because its the most we neutrals ever got to see him speak. And his thoughts and ways of seeing things. His mantras and way of going about it.
Already feeling like from that small perspective we've lost a genuine supremely mature elder statesmen from our game.
Already feeling like from that small perspective we've lost a genuine supremely mature elder statesmen from our game.
sherb
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I first saw the terrible news on Facebook. A Crows supporter in our club posted that Phil Walsh had passed away.
I immediately thought heart attack, car accident......................
As if the shock of his passing wasn't bad enough, then I found out he had been murdered.
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I hear you.
The King!
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I first saw the terrible news on Facebook. A Crows supporter in our club posted that Phil Walsh had passed away.
I immediately thought heart attack, car accident......................
As if the shock of his passing wasn't bad enough, then I found out he had been murdered.
I saw it on facebook and embarrassed to admit but thought the headline was just some sick joke with crows and murder and all that, took my breath away it was real..
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