No Oppo Supporters 2024 AFL General Discussion

[Bloods86]

Incredibly hypocritical by the Giants.

Day 1: “we’ve investigated, it’s all OK”

Day 2: “this is deeply disturbing and doesn’t represent us blah blah blah”.

Nothing more than corporate weasels.

Yeah, probably needed to do a better job on Day 1.

 

[Olian]

AFL clubs aren’t normal work environments. The analogy to that is odd. If it was a normal work environment it wouldn’t make national headlines.

Yes the Giants players carried on like young men who should know better. At worst fine them for being idiotic 20 something’s.

However, AFL are happy for players to dress like serial killers (murder is a bit of laugh) and for players to not wear pride jumpers because of their homophobic ideology. Soon as you get the blow up doll out though, out with the sanctions.

AFL should stick to running the competition rather than trying to moralise all that happens.

 

[Bloods86]

AFL clubs aren’t normal work environments. The analogy to that is odd. If it was a normal work environment it wouldn’t make national headlines.

Yes the Giants players carried on like young men who should know better. At worst fine them for being idiotic 20 something’s.

However, AFL are happy for players to dress like serial killers (murder is a bit of laugh) and for players to not wear pride jumpers because of their homophobic ideology. Soon as you get the blow up doll out though, out with the sanctions.

AFL should stick to running the competition rather than trying to moralise all that happens.

No-one is claiming the AFL are consistent or always correct.

So there should be lower standards because they are famous?

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Yet the AFL gladly take gambling money and contribute to ruining families and individuals which is one of the highest causes in male suicides.

Worse hypocrites than any politician.

 

[SeanM]

Let me get this right -

Connor Idun gets sanctioned for dressing up as a black guy from a movie.

A bunch of players get sanctioned for doing nothing.

The Josh Fahey skit is impersonating NRL player Jarryd Hayne who was accused of raping a girl while his taxi driver was waiting outside. So he is possibly pretending to bite the genitalia of a blow up doll in homage to what Hayne was accused of doing.

You can understand why he got the longest suspension.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Bar has been outed.

Woolly Bay Hotel in Woolloomooloo

 

[Olian]

Jimmy Bartel is involved at GWS these days. But here he is having a bit of harmless fun dressed as a school girl with Ricky Nixon…. No fines.

Now days Bartel would have been banned for a month.

 

[Millky95]

AFL clubs aren’t normal work environments. The analogy to that is odd

And they should be. People can't pull the "its a different environment" card when players are making slave and rape jokes on company money and also claim its a workplace when a player is injured or racially abused by a fan.

This type of behaviour, btw, if not punished is what leads to people thinking it is OK to abuse players.

These players (for better or worse) are role models for a lot of young people. That matters a lot. This was not a private function and I am sick to death of people saying it is when it isn't. The venue rightfully complained to the AFL who was probably the ones footing the bill for this gorup's innappropriate behaviour.

**** honestly since we won the prelim being a fan of this code has been the ****ing worst...

 

[Millky95]

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Jimmy Bartel is involved at GWS these days. But here he is having a bit of harmless fun dressed as a school girl with Ricky Nixon…. No fines.

Now days Bartel would have been banned for a month.

He is a star so he'd get a small fine whilst the fringe player gets 12 weeks

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Geelong would of backed their players like they did with Stengle.

GWS let them hang in public

 

[Olian]

Geelong would of backed their players like they did with Stengle.

GWS let them hang in public

Geelong just pretended it didn’t happen. Ignorance is bliss.

GWS were stupid enough to tell the AFL.

 

[Olian]

And they should be. People can't pull the "its a different environment" card when players are making slave and rape jokes on company money and also claim its a workplace when a player is injured or racially abused by a fan.

This type of behaviour, btw, if not punished is what leads to people thinking it is OK to abuse players.

These players (for better or worse) are role models for a lot of young people. That matters a lot. This was not a private function and I am sick to death of people saying it is when it isn't. The venue rightfully complained to the AFL who was probably the ones footing the bill for this gorup's innappropriate behaviour.

**** honestly since we won the prelim being a fan of this code has been the ****ing worst...

Who from the public was allowed? I must have missed my invite.

It was a private function.

 

[Bloods86]

Who from the public was allowed? I must have missed my invite.

It was a private function.

It was a work related event, in a venue and room accessible by venue staff and members of the public. Unless you can tell me they had security on the door preventing access, and even then venue staff can still access.

 

[Bloods86]

Bar has been outed.

Woolly Bay Hotel in Woolloomooloo

Why do we care?

Unless a bunch of cancel culture warriors are triggered and will target them. Would suck for the hotel unfortunately.

 

[rustycrate]

Who from the public was allowed? I must have missed my invite.

It was a private function.

The fact that they imitated a violent rape is enough. Anyone defending that should just shut the f**k up.
or go support the Giants.
or both.

Have any of you got daughters. Would you want them around these clowns.

Each to there own.

I wouldn't.

 

[Olian]

It was a work related event, in a venue and room accessible by venue staff and members of the public. Unless you can tell me they had security on the door preventing access, and even then venue staff can still access.

Clubs have minders to make sure the players are left alone.

Yes no staff were allowed. Players had to serve their own drinks behind the bar…

It was a private function.

 

[Bloods86]

Clubs have minders to make sure the players are left alone.

Yes no staff were allowed. Players had to serve their own drinks behind the bar…

It was a private function.

Ok fair enough. Still not their venue and still a work related event. So the venue had a right to report it and the club/AFL to investigate and take action.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Why do we care?

Unless a bunch of cancel culture warriors are triggered and will target them. Would suck for the hotel unfortunately.

Hopefully!

 

[Olian]

Ok fair enough. Still not their venue and still a work related event. So the venue had a right to report it and the club/AFL to investigate and take action.

Giants did that, nothing illegal. Bad taste yes, but that”s not a crime.

 

[rustycrate]

Giants did that, nothing illegal. Bad taste yes, but that”s not a crime.

Olian is a closet Giants supporter it appears. He supports the players actions.

 

[GoTheSwannies]

Or maybe do it at someone's house with people you know are up for / comfortable with anything. You're still probably a d***head but at least no-one else has to put up with you.

That's when you invite the whole issue of neighbours suing for stress and trauma because the neighbours kids were on the balcony watching hitler toss the blow up doll to Stalin.

 

[Bloods86]

Hopefully!

Seems an odd thing to hope for.

But I wouldn't be surprised if there's some who care less about the players behaviour, and want to take it out on the business for reporting the behaviour of the players to the club who held the function.

 

[caesar88]

Just out of curiosity, for the folks who think they were just bad jokes and the punishment doesn't fit the crime... do you want to end the violence against women crisis in our country or not?

Kinda getting the vibe that people are more interested in protecting the right to shit comedy than the lives and safety of women.

 

[Bloods86]

Giants did that, nothing illegal. Bad taste yes, but that”s not a crime.

Why do things have to be illegal before an employer should give a shit?

 

[GoTheSwannies]

Just got my membership email , premiership club up to $353 ! should be called runners up club

I think 2025 will be the first year where the cost of premiership club will go down in price as the year progresses. And they'll still have plenty left over.