No Oppo Supporters 2025 AFL General Discussion

[bedford]

I actually see it the other way around.

The parents of most convicted rapists aren’t plastered all over every media site in Australia. News Corp in particular has chosen to go to town on the couple.

What else would you expect from Murdoch , but the fact remains is that he's been found by a jury to be guilty
What about the poor girl , no one thinks about her , she said she couldn't even handle her Dad giving her a cuddle !

 

[Voula]

I saw Hayward and Ollie on the news at Carlton training. It just didn't look right .

 

[caesar88]

I actually see it the other way around.

The parents of most convicted rapists aren’t plastered all over every media site in Australia. News Corp in particular has chosen to go to town on the couple - because of who they are.

Define "go to town" though. For example, the Australian's headline today was, "We want to clear his name, and bring him home: Stephen Silvagni's plea", with the by-line saying, "AFL legend Stephen Silvagni has broken down in tears while issuing an emotional statement outside court."

Let's say the offender was not a privileged, private-school educated son of a high-profile Victorian, but instead, an every day joe, working class, on the dole, person of colour, whatever. Do you think the parents of such an offender would even get to make a statement outside the court, and if they did, it'd be represented through an "emotional" lens as afforded to the Silvagnis by the media?

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Define "go to town" though. For example, the Australian's headline today was, "We want to clear his name, and bring him home: Stephen Silvagni's plea", with the by-line saying, "AFL legend Stephen Silvagni has broken down in tears while issuing an emotional statement outside court."

Let's say the offender was not a privileged, private-school educated son of a high-profile Victorian, but instead, an every day joe, working class, on the dole, person of colour, whatever. Do you think the parents of such an offender would even get to make a statement outside the court, and if they did, it'd be represented through an "emotional" lens as afforded to the Silvagnis by the media?

No, they wouldn’t. And I do acknowledge your point.

But I’m looking at this through the lens of loving parents who haven’t done anything wrong but are clearly extremely distressed and now (for example) have the Daily Mail running stories gleefully declaring how Jo Silvagni’s career could be destroyed.

I find putting the boot into distressed parents who haven’t done anything wrong needlessly cruel - regardless of their wealth or profile.

I don’t see it as a class warfare or privilege thing. I just see it as a lack of empathy and human decency.

 

[Jewelsbon]

No, they wouldn’t. And I do acknowledge your point.

But I’m looking at this through the lens of loving parents who haven’t done anything wrong but are clearly extremely distressed and now (for example) have the Daily Mail running stories gleefully declaring how Jo Silvagni’s career could be destroyed.

I find putting the boot into distressed parents who haven’t done anything wrong needlessly cruel - regardless of their wealth or profile.

I don’t see it as a class warfare or privilege thing. I just see it as a lack of empathy and human decency.

I see both sides and there's no winners. Such a sad situation for all involved - with the exception of the arseh*le that put the poor victim, his mate and his whole family in that situation.

 

[bedford]

AFL have said the VFL won't change for 5 years

 

[Dubai Quacker]

My pet hate is the stand rule.

I recall the AFL said they’re going to make some changes to it this year - but not sure what.

Does anybody know?

 

[RilesMacca]

My pet hate is the stand rule.

I recall the AFL said they’re going to make some changes to it this year - but not sure what.

Does anybody know?

Basically they’ve made the rules stricter on players being told to stand if they’re inside the protected area. Before, a player could drift away from inside the five meter zone prior to the ump calling stand to help out and defend, like guarding up the corridor or covering up an overlap handball option. Now if you’re within that five metre protected area you’ll be told to stand and can’t move outside the 5m zone.

 

[bedford]

What else would you expect from Murdoch , but the fact remains is that he's been found by a jury to be guilty
What about the poor girl , no one thinks about her , she said she couldn't even handle her Dad giving her a cuddle !

I also believe he was expelled by Xavier college fot spreading inappropriate pictures

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Basically they’ve made the rules stricter on players being told to stand if they’re inside the protected area. Before, a player could drift away from inside the five meter zone prior to the ump calling stand to help out and defend, like guarding up the corridor or covering up an overlap handball option. Now if you’re within that five metre protected area you’ll be told to stand and can’t move outside the 5m zone.

Thanks for the clarification.

Sounds like even more frustrating soft 50’s are on the way.
I know the AFL wants to speed up the game …. but I still despise the stand rule.

 

[bedford]

Thanks for the clarification.

Sounds like even more frustrating soft 50’s are on the way.
I know the AFL wants to speed up the game …. but I still despise the stand rule.

I despise the 50

 

[Tedeski]

Define "go to town" though. For example, the Australian's headline today was, "We want to clear his name, and bring him home: Stephen Silvagni's plea", with the by-line saying, "AFL legend Stephen Silvagni has broken down in tears while issuing an emotional statement outside court."

Let's say the offender was not a privileged, private-school educated son of a high-profile Victorian, but instead, an every day joe, working class, on the dole, person of colour, whatever. Do you think the parents of such an offender would even get to make a statement outside the court, and if they did, it'd be represented through an "emotional" lens as afforded to the Silvagnis by the media?

No winners mate.

 

[bedford]

The story grows . It just sort of backs up things ive heard about SOS for a long time , probably deserves to be at St Scum

 

[joeykanga]

I hope we are doing this type of training

 

[Bandicoot]

But not everyone is as clever as you with these things , did you get accommodation ?

The Vibe hotel in central Adelaide is charging over $3,000 for the 4 nights of gather round next year. Ive made the assumption that Gather round will again be in Adelaide in 2027 and have booked this hotel for the corresponding 4 nights for $603. What's even better is that it is fully refundable.

 

[Mister B]

The Vibe hotel in central Adelaide is charging over $3,000 for the 4 nights of gather round this year. Ive made the assumption that Gather round will again be in Adelaide in 2027 and have booked this hotel for the corresponding 4 nights for $603. What's even better is that it is fully refundable.

The place i have stayed at the last few years out at Modbury for 175 a night even hiked their prices up to 269 a night for next year's Gather Round. They keep pulling shit like that and people will stop going.

 

[Bandicoot]

He bashed a woman. With a belt.

After being supported through earlier indiscretions.

Being indigenous cannot be used as a basis to excuse it.

Failure to sack Taylor would have sent an awful message.

Reminds me very much of Tarryn Thomas. Everyone still says he should be given a second chance. Problem with that is he was given a second chance 4 chances ago.
The guy will never learn and he believes women don't warrant any respect.

 

[Bandicoot]

The place i have stayed at the last few years out at Modbury for 175 a night even hiked their prices up to 269 a night for next year's Gather Round. They keep pulling shit like that and people will stop going.

It's no different to airlines when they triple their price for special events. Where's our consumer protection agency in relation to these matters?

 

[dosser]

The Vibe hotel in central Adelaide is charging over $3,000 for the 4 nights of gather round next year. Ive made the assumption that Gather round will again be in Adelaide in 2027 and have booked this hotel for the corresponding 4 nights for $603. What's even better is that it is fully refundable.

My mate and I book our accomodation for the Adelaide test on the day the dates are announced otherwise the hotels all put up their prices. We booked the Vibe one year (2 rooms) at the usual rate by doing this through Booking.com and then when we turned up for the test they had a record of our 'cancellation' and therefore there were no rooms available. We never cancelled, but I'm sure they booked our rooms to someone else for a heady profit. We then had to hunt around for accomodation the day before the test, with bags in tow.

A month or so later booking.com refunded our money.

I will never book that hotel again.

 

[Bandicoot]

My mate and I book our accomodation for the Adelaide test on the day the dates are announced otherwise the hotels all put up their prices. We booked the Vibe one year (2 rooms) at the usual rate by doing this through Booking.com and then when we turned up for the test they had a record of our 'cancellation' and therefore there were no rooms available. We never cancelled, but I'm sure they booked our rooms to someone else for a heady profit. We then had to hunt around for accomodation the day before the test, with bags in tow.

A month or so later booking.com refunded our money.

I will never book that hotel again.

That's a worry.
I booked it through hotels.com

 

[dosser]

That's a worry.
I booked it through hotels.com

It wasn't the website's fault, it was the hotel. This was about 6 years ago.

 

[Bandicoot]

It wasn't the website's fault, it was the hotel. This was about 6 years ago.

I will be ringing the hotel about 6 weeks prior to organize car parking. I'll know then if the booking is still valid.

 

[Jewelsbon]

It wasn't the website's fault, it was the hotel. This was about 6 years ago.

Did you report it to bookings.com? I had a similar issue in Italy a few years ago and bookings.com were all over it.

 

[Mister B]

It wasn't the website's fault, it was the hotel. This was about 6 years ago.

Bloody hell. I would have been requesting their "evidence of cancellation" and evidence of confirmation of cancellation. Needless to say they wouldn't have had any. I'd be booking whatever hotel I could get into at whatever price, then contacting their head office with the bill that they would now be paying. Insane stuff.

 

[dosser]

Bloody hell. I would have been requesting their "evidence of cancellation" and evidence of confirmation of cancellation. Needless to say they wouldn't have had any. I'd be booking whatever hotel I could get into at whatever price, then contacting their head office with the bill that they would now be paying. Insane stuff.

They produced internal docs showing that it was cancelled, but we never did it. They couldn't explain to us how it was cancelled - only that it was.

My friend made sure they got an appropriate review.