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Generational talent is my favourite. Wouldn't the literal definition of a 'generational talent' be a player who exuded talent only seen once every generation? Australian media is terrible with this. Both Harley Reid and Daniel Curtin labelled as 'generational'. In addition to JUH and Daicos...

Paywall. Can you copy paste it in please?

It always boggles the mind an AFL player, who is usually a highly paid individual with great networks and connections, can still find their way into organised crime. And if it isn’t organised crime, what on earth is he thinking doing something so brazen by himself?

That's the point. Both substances are dangerous and provoke risky behaviour which can easily lead to harm to oneself or others. My point was that a large portion of those condemning Bailey for the actual taking of the drug and not considering the risks of it are hardly any better. Of course, one...

Can say that about half the AFL then.

Overwhelmingly, violence stems largely from alcohol as compared to other drugs. 88,000 deaths in the USA alone had alcohol as a contributing factor, which is quite an astounding number. Yes that doesn't mean cocaine is okay. But people in this thread shouting from their ivory tree are just as...

Geez the comparison to Cousins is a bit premature isn’t it? Can’t exactly compare a bloke operating at the same level as half the competition to a raging meth addict.

In regards to sanctions, what's the precedent for these incidents? By that, I mean off-season indiscretions, not Sam Murray's midseason usage that results in a 2 year ban or whatever it was.

Asking a young man to have that sort of perception is pretty unrealistic. But it would also be remiss of anyone to suggest coke is completely harmless.

Wasn't really an understanding and respect for mental health issues 15 years ago, unfortunately. These days you'd hope there's enough mitigation strategies in place to prevent another full-blown Cousins situation. I mean really, Cousins's self-medicating solo benders and Smith's occasional...

Remember the fallout from Steven May having an afternoon drinking a few pints with mates? Like **** me.

Agreed. As much as I don't like Melbourne, I always find it ridiculous when players and coaches get demonised for fairly minimal 'indiscretions' if you could even call it that. Especially given that a fair portion of those criticising are living in glass houses.

Yeah, a bloke suffering from mental health issues should not have fun and lock themselves indoors. That ought to do it.

Not entirely sure what point you’re trying to make.

The statements he used are either wrong, extensions of the truth or completely irrelevant. Therefore his reasoning to construct his opinion is largely fallacious.

Took me less than 10 minutes thank you. He asked me to back up my point and I did. Hardly triggered.

Bolded are statements that are flat-out wrong or based on extremely limited evidence that aren't enough to construct a proper opinion. Italics are statements that may have happened but don't point to the player having a "tosser" personality. Underlined are statements that just don't matter...

You probably spent what, like 20 to 30 minutes writing that? You probably didn't know all that information off the top of your head either, so I assume you looked it up just to fact check. And if you did, then that's just sad to remember minor 'indiscretion' (in your opinion, mind you), of a...

Okay Google... define "obsessed".

Here we go. Grown men potting a bloke for having a personality, doing something they have little detail of what actually happened.

On the other hand, Jamarra has had almost no exposure to the physicality of high-level football and realistically doesn't quite have the body for it yet. He has the athleticism and skill, but a year out of the game would have limited his ability to walk into a top-4 AFL side. You shouldn't...

No shit he does. How do you know that his attitude "isn't admired by Luke Beveridge"? Kid is 19 and missed a year of footy. Got screwed by injury and COVID lockdowns when he was on the cusp of debut and still managed to pay five straight in a team that made a GF. Nothing about that screams...

Jealousy is a bitch. Hilarious reading these threads.

Trust demondavey to give us all his two cents on Jamarra and Bevo's relationship. Clearly knows exactly what goes on through multiple sources.

I never said it DID happen. I said it was ridiculous to definitively say that it didn’t.

Plenty of evidence he was extremely close in an Aboriginal community that almost certainly played the game. It doesn’t take a genius to connect the dots. There might be no evidence to suggest that he definitively played the sport, but there is certainly no evidence to suggest that he didn’t...

Does no evidence of a then-child in Tom Wills participating (or witnessing) in marngrook, which was clearly prevalent across the Western Victorian region during the 1840s point to the fact that it never happened? Yes, European settlers treated Aboriginies poorly during this era. However, both...

I haven't seen anything stating that Wills wasn't present, only Gillian Hibbins putting forward the idea that because there was no 'documentary evidence', therefore Marngrook wasn't played in the Grampian areas. However, as is well known, Indigenous communities weren't exactly documenting their...

Never said it was definitively based off Marngrook. However, as I detailed here, there is some likelihood that it was a factor: Whilst evidence is circumstantial, it does point to the fact that prior to Cullin-la-ringo, Tom had extensive experiences within Indigenous communities in the Western...