- Oct 8, 2012
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Back in the good old days..We've been spoiled. Ungrateful b'ards.
Back in the good old days..We've been spoiled. Ungrateful b'ards.
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One day Chapman made this speech about respecting indigenous culture, and how this club supports their culture.
the next day he wrote a letter to government telling them they should force indigenous communities to take the world's nuclear waste, full well knowing their culture is completely against uranium being dug up from the ground, for any purpose.
Sick s**t.
Proof?
He's full of wild theories and accusations.
We shoulds take nuclear waste. We have the perfect back yard for it.
It would be huge for the economy and jobs. Do it properly and charge astronomical prices.
Build a big nuclear plant in Port Augusta and get cheap clean power. Sell it to the other states for a profit because we'll have heaps to spare. Then store our own waste.
We could power Australia and reap the benefits. We are the perfect spot for it.
That could just as easily be a line attributed to someone like Homer Simpson or Kramer.Chapman lost me when he defended their hiring of Collective Minds by saying "There is not much more than incremental gains we can make today in physically improving our players, but when we are told we are using just five per cent of the mind’s capacity, it would be negligent not to explore how we can unlock the potential of the mind."
You simply cannot say something like that and not be a total hack. To have someone at the top of the food chain, say something so fundamentally stupid, is an embarrassment.
Edit: To be honest he probably lost me before that but then he stuck around anyway for so long that I kinda forgot he'd lost me until he opened his mouth and confirmed that he is an idiot.
Chapman lost me when he defended their hiring of Collective Minds by saying "There is not much more than incremental gains we can make today in physically improving our players, but when we are told we are using just five per cent of the mind’s capacity, it would be negligent not to explore how we can unlock the potential of the mind."
You simply cannot say something like that and not be a total hack. To have someone at the top of the food chain, say something so fundamentally stupid, is an embarrassment.
Edit: To be honest he probably lost me before that but then he stuck around anyway for so long that I kinda forgot he'd lost me until he opened his mouth and confirmed that he is an idiot.
I miss Kyle Cheney. He gave a shat
We shoulds take nuclear waste. We have the perfect back yard for it.
It would be huge for the economy and jobs. Do it properly and charge astronomical prices.
Build a big nuclear plant in Port Augusta and get cheap clean power. Sell it to the other states for a profit because we'll have heaps to spare. Then store our own waste.
We could power Australia and reap the benefits. We are the perfect spot for it.
There has been considerable research done on the feasibility of the construction of a desalination plant on the gulf for some time. Locations close to Whyalla were being flaggedThis is great in theory. However, nuclear plants require a lot of fresh water which we’re not exactly blessed with in this state.
Perhaps Collective Minds wrote the book from this episode?That could just as easily be a line attributed to someone like Homer Simpson or Kramer.
Chapman lost me when he defended their hiring of Collective Minds by saying "There is not much more than incremental gains we can make today in physically improving our players, but when we are told we are using just five per cent of the mind’s capacity, it would be negligent not to explore how we can unlock the potential of the mind."
You simply cannot say something like that and not be a total hack. To have someone at the top of the food chain, say something so fundamentally stupid, is an embarrassment.
Edit: To be honest he probably lost me before that but then he stuck around anyway for so long that I kinda forgot he'd lost me until he opened his mouth and confirmed that he is an idiot.
As simple as this.
Since the Tippett thing, the lack of accountability has been a problem.
Add in the Collective Minds debacle and injury epidemic that year, which resulted in promotions instead of being held accountable, and is it any wonder we're a pissweak Club?
Chapman lost me when he defended their hiring of Collective Minds by saying "There is not much more than incremental gains we can make today in physically improving our players, but when we are told we are using just five per cent of the mind’s capacity, it would be negligent not to explore how we can unlock the potential of the mind."
You simply cannot say something like that and not be a total hack. To have someone at the top of the food chain, say something so fundamentally stupid, is an embarrassment.
Edit: To be honest he probably lost me before that but then he stuck around anyway for so long that I kinda forgot he'd lost me until he opened his mouth and confirmed that he is an idiot.
All this agitating is all well and good, but it's also pointless. You think the license was sold back to the club by the SANFL? Wrong. It was sold to the AFL.
People need to read the fine print. All board members are ratified by the AFL. The Chairman appointment, made by the board, is ratified by the AFL. We are run, at the board level, by the AFL.
The VFL won the war on which competition was going to commercialize the sport. In doing so, it protected it's foundation members (Vic clubs) and continues to do so. It's had two cracks at killing off those pesky competitors, the SANFL. First, when it dealt with Port back in 1990, ultimately scuttled by an injunction. Then it played the long game, let Port come in and bleed the SANFL dry, then force the SANFLs hand by giving it the only out possible - pseudo ownership of Adelaide Oval in return for enough money to get it out of probable insolvency. The trade off? The club "buying back" it's license from the SANFL, which was code for the SANFL selling the Crows to the AFL.
We support a VFL owned "club". I've said it a thousand times. You will never have a vote. You will never have a say. Why do you think we have the culture of rewarding effort over performance on field? Because that's what's it's like in the club house. Because the club's KPIs are not built around premierships. They're built around bums on seats. Revenue. Sustainability. The VFL use the Crows to generate as much money as possible, to help sustain the s**t clubs. That's why we get home Showdowns at ridiculous time slots. Because the VFL knows we will turn up. The entire business model is built on the fact that we will keep turning up. We are nothing but a ******* cash cow.
The only way to cause even a tiny ripple is to not turn up. But we all know that's not going to happen. So all you can do is hope that, by some miracle, the stars align, we get a decent group of players with a decent coach and we play good footy.
It's not the players fault, nor the coaches fault really. The cards have already been dealt. It's probably why good players leave on a regular basis. . So support the players but don't ever be under any illusion that this is a footy club. It's not a club, it's a company. And we aren't shareholders.
It's not defeatist, it's reality. Look at the Clubs constitution.It's pretty defeatist to blame the AFL for the club's plight.
Surrounding yourself with old school chums and sitting there dumbly while the ship sinks is very much an SA thing. We're no different.
Chapman lost me when he defended their hiring of Collective Minds by saying "There is not much more than incremental gains we can make today in physically improving our players, but when we are told we are using just five per cent of the mind’s capacity, it would be negligent not to explore how we can unlock the potential of the mind."
You simply cannot say something like that and not be a total hack. To have someone at the top of the food chain, say something so fundamentally stupid, is an embarrassment.
Edit: To be honest he probably lost me before that but then he stuck around anyway for so long that I kinda forgot he'd lost me until he opened his mouth and confirmed that he is an idiot.
That could just as easily be a line attributed to someone like Homer Simpson or Kramer.
It's not defeatist, it's reality. Look at the Clubs constitution.
You can blame the "SA old boys club" all you like, but you've got to look at the root cause, the environment that facilitates it. Our Board is accountable to one entity, the AFL. Everything stems from that.
In terms of policy, I agree with you 100%. However, it is a little awkward when it's indigenous land.
If that wrinkle can be ironed out somehow (I have no idea how) I think we should absolutely get on the ground floor for nuclear power.
It's pretty defeatist to blame the AFL for the club's plight.
Surrounding yourself with old school chums and sitting there dumbly while the ship sinks is very much an SA thing. We're no different.
Fair point. Might not be all that far fetched when it comes to those 2.I am sure there have been plenty of occasions when Chapman and Burton have been told they only use 5% of their brains.
Plenty