Roast The AFL… incredibly irresponsible and selfish

[timokane]

AFL now has permanently wreaked the sport of Australian rules.
Been thinking about this for a long while.
Trash organisation now is the AFL.
Abolish the AFL.
Gone.
Allow a board of admin run it with club reps and have a say in things.
AFL to me are a dictatorship like labor.
All about control and greed.
AFL has put alot of people off.
Turn off now the AFL.
2023 was last great year.
Been a wreak since.
Destroyed it.
Yet not a word from the leftist dictatorship media either.
Corrupt and criminal nowadays is the AFL.
It stinks.

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

I dont know you personally, but literally millions.

The populist politics only sustained because of this fact.

Yeah, nah. I don't agree.

I genuinely don't think many people actually look to the government to save them.

I think most sane and level headed people understand that government is there to facilitate and enable a functional society.

 

[demondavey]

You are as sharp as a blunt tool.

IEA Obligations (which Australia is a member of) state that a country is required to have a minimum of 90 days reserves of fuel at all times.
Our reserves are around 30 before this conflict started.

Our governments close our refineries, let mining companies strip our resources and pay **** all tax, and then get bullied by the mining companies when we should be moving towards an electric transport system.

But of course our government is as weak as piss, and sooner or later the tinder box in the middle east was going to go off again and **** us.
We were in an amazing position due to our natural resources to withstand something like this, yet we are.

Anyone who is not a moron understood this, but the halfwits running this country did nothing.

I suppose the ‘our government’ rhetoric also applies to non Labor administrations?

Anyone stressing about the fuel are likely the same cookers worrying about excessive lockdowns.

 

[Orfullrules]

I suppose the ‘our government’ rhetoric also applies to non Labor administrations?

Anyone stressing about the fuel are likely the same cookers worrying about excessive lockdowns.

Davey is very comfortable. That is all that matters.

 

[archereleven]

Yeah, nah. I don't agree.

I genuinely don't think many people actually look to the government to save them.

I think most sane and level headed people understand that government is there to facilitate and enable a functional society.

Until there is a crisis of course...

Sane and level headed has nothing to do with it.

 

[demondavey]

Until there is a crisis of course...

Sane and level headed has nothing to do with it.

Lucky you live in Australia and not under an oppressive regime like Iran. Try getting some perspective and stop carrying. You don’t sound resilient, you sound very very soft.

 

[archereleven]

I suppose the ‘our government’ rhetoric also applies to non Labor administrations?

Anyone stressing about the fuel are likely the same cookers worrying about excessive lockdowns.

You've been caught up in identity politics davey boy. Us versus them. You just sound like a brain dead campaigner tbqf...

This administration is just as culpable as the last and pretty much anyone who has held power in the last 30 years. Slowly but surely, our ability to sustain ourselves has been eroded and everything that tax payers have a vested interest in sold off to corporate.

Just in time economics is fine when the world turns as per normal, but is a shit show when it doesn't. Got it?
What's been done to counter this?
Absolutely nothing.

Anyone stressing about fuel is a 'cooker' lol
Let's give it a month or so...


This should age well.

 

[archereleven]

Lucky you live in Australia and not under an oppressive regime like Iran. Try getting some perspective and stop carrying. You don’t sound resilient, you sound very very soft.

Perspective?
So now there is an oil crisis we need to care about a democratically elected regime do we?

The Iranians are showing their disdain for their current leadership.

So, Trump is doing the right thing by bombing the shit of that big, bad regime? I would never have taken you for a Trumpy demon

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

Until there is a crisis of course...

Sane and level headed has nothing to do with it.

People comply with government advice and directives for all sorts of reasons.

Narrowing it down to simply 'dumb people think the government is saving them 'cause they're sheep' is really arrogant and narrow minded.

 

[archereleven]

People comply with government advice and directives for all sorts of reasons.

Narrowing it down to simply 'dumb people think the government is saving them 'cause they're sheep' is really arrogant and narrow minded.

No, arrogant and narrow minded is expecting everybody to do what you're doing because you are insecure.

We can do this all day if you like?

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

No, arrogant and narrow minded is expecting everybody to do what you're doing because you are insecure.

We can do this all day if you like?

I'm not sure what you mean? And I'm not sure how that comment relates to any of my posts?

Besides, isn't Arrogant basically an antonym of Insecure?

 

[demondavey]

Perspective?
So now there is an oil crisis we need to care about a democratically elected regime do we?

The Iranians are showing their disdain for their current leadership.

So, Trump is doing the right thing by bombing the shit of that big, bad regime? I would never have taken you for a Trumpy demon

I am not pro trump at all. I don’t agree with his invasion but that doesn’t mean the Iranian regime GAF about its citizens.

Most people go from A - B, you go from A - P with more twists than the black spur.

 

[archereleven]

I am not pro trump at all. I don’t agree with his invasion but that doesn’t mean the Iranian regime GAF about its citizens.

Most people go from A - B, you go from A - P with more twists than the black spur.

Closet Trumpy then.

 

[demondavey]

Closet Trumpy then.

Keep making it up pal. I can’t stand him.

 

[Dee Train]

That's the dumbest.

 

[Dee Train]

Yeah, you were SOOOO hard done by during COVID. I mean the government really wanted to keep you locked down just to show how tyrannical they were, it had nothing to do with a pandemic we had no answers for at that point.

So, who dropped the twin towers? Was it, DAN ANDREWS?

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If you think Dan and his bs Covid rules saved Victoria from mass deaths you’re completely delusional.

 

[Lando_]

Politics and sport don't mix.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Closet Trumpy then.

You wouldn't mind him if he were CEO of the AFL.

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

You wouldn't mind him if he were CEO of the AFL.

He'd probably be excellent at that gig.

Any job where bullshitting and conning dim and vulnerable people is the main skillset is right up his alley

 

[Leather Poisoning]

If you think Dan and his bs Covid rules saved Victoria from mass deaths you’re completely delusional.

Dan's lockdown rules were more guided by medical direction (than economic considerations) than any state.

The lockdown measures got us down to zero reported daily cases on 2 occasions, which was almost world leading.

The problem, and what was short sighted, is that the approach doesn't work unless the other states were also doing this - as we were bound to get a leak into Victoria at some point, which we did.
The other problem was we struggled to maintain strict border control via quarantine hotels. This border control needed to be absolutely perfect to successfully deliver target zero. It wasn't.

Target zero was a valid approach especially given the vaccine hadn't been produced and there were concerns about how the federal government was going to be able to manage the international vaccine supply.

The Vic Gov made errors. That's for sure. But the ****en braindead hindsight pandemic experts really give me the shits. The state, and the country, and most living people on the planet had never been through this, so being shitty, critical and high-and-mighty that we didn't have the perfect play book is just so arrogant.

Hundreds of thousand of people died around the world from this thing. Spain and Italy had hospitals that were overcrowded. Some countries had to turn stadiums into makeshift hospitals - this is what happened in countries that went too far the other way and didn't take efforts to control the spread. The evidence was on our screens every day of what happened in countries that didn't take proactive measures.

And to be clear - we don't actually know how many deaths would have happeend if the extreme measures weren't taken. We can look at other states and compare - but the given our rates of illness were influenced by the actions and population of the others states it really muddies the water.

 

[Tasmanian saint]

Pretty shocked with this tbh.

The federal government has made a plea to people to not use extra fuel where possible. Of course there’s a lot of driving that’s pre-arranged or essential that people can’t avoid, but there are other things everybody can do to try to lower their use of fuel to try to conserve what we do have for important use.

As we saw during COVID with distancing measures, people are generally pretty good at doing the right thing. We’ll whinge about it a bit, but still, people do tend to pull together and do the right thing as much as they can.

Yet the very day after the government makes this plea… the AFL comes out and announces a deal for footy fans to save 10c per litre of fuel over Gather Round. To (and I quote) “make travel more accessible”??

With “thousands of footy fans planning to drive to Adelaide for Gather Round”.

What in god’s name? Actually encouraging people to drive straight after people have been asked to try not to? To go to the bloody footy?

Surely this hasn’t gone down well with the government? The AFL gets a hell if a lot of favours from them.

How can the AFL justify this blatant selfishness?

If they were truly concerned about this, why not offer full refunds on Gather Road tickets for those who would like to take it up? Why not subsidise cheap trains to Adelaide for travelling supporters? Get more services put on and cheap fares??

(Answer - because they don’t also get a financial kickback from Shell as they will be here)

Pretty alarming stuff… also alarming they’re not being called on it?

Maybe you should be blaming it on a incompetent government who have chosen to carry 20% of the fuel reserves of what most other western countries are keeping on hand.

 

[archereleven]

Dan's lockdown rules were more guided by medical direction (than economic considerations) than any state.

The lockdown measures got us down to zero reported daily cases on 2 occasions, which was almost world leading.

The problem, and what was short sighted, is that the approach doesn't work unless the other states were also doing this - as we were bound to get a leak into Victoria at some point, which we did.
The other problem was we struggled to maintain strict border control via quarantine hotels. This border control needed to be absolutely perfect to successfully deliver target zero. It wasn't.

Target zero was a valid approach especially given the vaccine hadn't been produced and there were concerns about how the federal government was going to be able to manage the international vaccine supply.

The Vic Gov made errors. That's for sure. But the ****en braindead hindsight pandemic experts really give me the shits. The state, and the country, and most living people on the planet had never been through this, so being shitty, critical and high-and-mighty that we didn't have the perfect play book is just so arrogant.

Hundreds of thousand of people died around the world from this thing. Spain and Italy had hospitals that were overcrowded. Some countries had to turn stadiums into makeshift hospitals - this is what happened in countries that went too far the other way and didn't take efforts to control the spread. The evidence was on our screens every day of what happened in countries that didn't take proactive measures.

And to be clear - we don't actually know how many deaths would have happeend if the extreme measures weren't taken. We can look at other states and compare - but the given our rates of illness were influenced by the actions and population of the others states it really muddies the water.

Medical direction

Thanks for the laugh...

Victoria had 10x more lockdown days than Queensland and fared worse in almost every metric.

 

[demondavey]

If you think Dan and his bs Covid rules saved Victoria from mass deaths you’re completely delusional.

Well for immunocompromised people minimising the spread was pretty critical. It was an unknown quantity. He dealt with it the way he did, lots of sooks out there that showed very little resilience and couldn’t hack it. We live in Australia, first world country. The whingeing from so many people just showed how piss weak they were.

 

[Tas]

Dan's lockdown rules were more guided by medical direction (than economic considerations) than any state.

The lockdown measures got us down to zero reported daily cases on 2 occasions, which was almost world leading.

The problem, and what was short sighted, is that the approach doesn't work unless the other states were also doing this - as we were bound to get a leak into Victoria at some point, which we did.
The other problem was we struggled to maintain strict border control via quarantine hotels. This border control needed to be absolutely perfect to successfully deliver target zero. It wasn't.

Target zero was a valid approach especially given the vaccine hadn't been produced and there were concerns about how the federal government was going to be able to manage the international vaccine supply.

The Vic Gov made errors. That's for sure. But the ****en braindead hindsight pandemic experts really give me the shits. The state, and the country, and most living people on the planet had never been through this, so being shitty, critical and high-and-mighty that we didn't have the perfect play book is just so arrogant.

Hundreds of thousand of people died around the world from this thing. Spain and Italy had hospitals that were overcrowded. Some countries had to turn stadiums into makeshift hospitals - this is what happened in countries that went too far the other way and didn't take efforts to control the spread. The evidence was on our screens every day of what happened in countries that didn't take proactive measures.

And to be clear - we don't actually know how many deaths would have happeend if the extreme measures weren't taken. We can look at other states and compare - but the given our rates of illness were influenced by the actions and population of the others states it really muddies the water.

Everyone knew it was bullshit when we had to stay locked up, but it was safe to protest for black lives matter, some bullshit American thing.

Anyway, this whole gather round is bullshit and should go.

 

[Randomizor]

'As we saw during Covid'

All i saw was a massive cluster**** of arbitrary rules made on fear and populist politics.

I might drive down from Cairns just to spite the ****wits in Canberra. When I say ****wits, I mean every single one of the grifting campaigners too...

What alternative rules would you have put in place to:

Maximise the amount of freedom people have
Minimise the amount of Covid deaths

?