Delisted Adrian Dodoro - On leave Aug ‘24. Parted ways Nov ‘24. Lodged a dispute with FairWork. Paid out. Gone. #putoutyourjackets

[I Remember Bluey]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-news-email-urging-afl-to-act-on-risk-of-indigenous-decline-revealed-as-unwanted-history-beckons/news-story/493999c1cab812bb63deea353402b701

Email urging AFL to act on risk of Indigenous decline revealed as unwanted history beckons​

The AFL was warned almost four years ago. Now — as Jade Gresham

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races the fitness clock — the Bombers may not field an Indigenous player in its Dreamtime clash for the first time ever.


Former Essendon list boss Adrian Dodoro lobbied the AFL four years ago to introduce a rule making it mandatory to recruit one Indigenous player per club as part of a new fully-funded rookie initiative.

In an email to former CEO Gillon McLachlan and current CEO Andrew Dillon in September 2021, Dodoro said the game was at risk of losing “Indigenous flair that we have seen over many years” and that his concerns around Indigenous recruiting were falling on “deaf ears”.

It comes as Essendon may not field an Indigenous player in its ‘Dreamtime at the G’ game against Richmond on Friday night for the first time in its 21-season history amid a declaration from former Essendon star Dean Rioli the game was “going backwards” for First Nations people.

 

[Zach Package]

 

[jdstorm]

Hmm… don’t Essendon have primary access to the Tiwi Islands as an academy Zone and do F all with it.

In general I like quotas but also maybe we should just be a more competent and less racist club.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

Hmm… don’t Essendon have primary access to the Tiwi Islands as an academy Zone and do F all with it.

In general I like quotas but also maybe we should just be a more competent and less racist club.

The Tiwi Islands and West Arnhem combined have about the same population as Woodend. What level of production are you expecting to see from there?

 

[jmoo wan]

The Tiwi Islands and West Arnhem combined have about the same population as Woodend. What level of production are you expecting to see from there?

if you love Dodoro so much why don’t you marry him?

 

[jdstorm]

The Tiwi Islands and West Arnhem combined have about the same population as Woodend. What level of production are you expecting to see from there?

At the very least players who have come through an academy/schooling system that represents/mirrors an elite sporting environment which allows them to better adapt to City life/professional fitness standards when they leave the NT at 18 to try and take their chance at making the AFL.

Beyond that. If it’s an actually proven successful pathway I’d imagine talented kids moving to Tiwi to try and make it in the AFL similar to any other sport specific academy.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

At the very least players who have come through an academy/schooling system that represents/mirrors an elite sporting environment which allows them to better adapt to City life/professional fitness standards when they leave the NT at 18 to try and take their chance at making the AFL.

Beyond that. If it’s an actually proven successful pathway I’d imagine talented kids moving to Tiwi to try and make it in the AFL similar to any other sport specific academy.

I think your expectations are a little too high. Let's start with getting kids to go to school 5 days a week before we start talking elite sports academies.

 

[jdstorm]

I think your expectations are a little too high. Let's start with getting kids to go to school 5 days a week before we start talking elite sports academies.

Kids at elite skate/surf schools do like 4 hours school a day and then skate another 4 hours.

Sport is inherently fun. I won’t pretend to have the answers on how to set it up but I’d assume there are ways to do so where it’s a fun positive learning environment with tons of cross training in things that would be interesting enough like swimming, fishing, cooking and all the other things that kids there would actively seek to be doing rather than school

 

[faible]

Kids at elite skate/surf schools do like 4 hours school a day and then skate another 4 hours.

I reckon they'd have grown up in pretty different environments.

 

[jdstorm]

I reckon they'd have grown up in pretty different environments.

Yeah 100% just think there’s no reason why you can’t build a community around school and football

 

[windyhill]

Q1. Has this campaigner handed his life membership back ?
If no....
Q2. Has the club stripped this campaigner of his life membership yet ?

 

[I Remember Bluey]

Q1. Has this campaigner handed his life membership back ?
If no....
Q2. Has the club stripped this campaigner of his life membership yet ?

Q1 - No

Q2 - Not yet, they are still trying to find it, only 300 more jackets to search

 

[dank420_]

I could read windyhill posts about Dodoro for days.

 

[windyhill]

I could read windyhill posts about Dodoro for days.

One day I'll get dodgey to put up his version of the day I confronted that campaigner at Marvel. He was one of two witnesses.

 

[katana]

hahaha. jesus.

 

[HirdyLannister]

I could read windyhill posts about Dodoro for days.

I may of missed this, link to it please!

 

[dodgey]

One day I'll get dodgey to put up his version of the day I confronted that campaigner at Marvel. He was one of two witnesses.

Very funny day... Adrian none too pleased with the questioning of why he was at a Bombers game on a Saturday afternoon instead of out scouting for our next batch of "Mark Bolton's" ...

Even the security guard he sought comfort and protection from found it amusing

Thought he could slink out early from yet another beating....complete with match day ground pass still hanging around his neck as he headed to catch the 4.36 to Broadmeadows

 

[Vindicater]

Yeah 100% just think there’s no reason why you can’t build a community around school and football

Who is building it?

 

[Call Me Cake]

**** this guy

 

[rumply]

Very funny day... Adrian none too pleased with the questioning of why he was at a Bombers game on a Saturday afternoon instead of out scouting for our next batch of "Mark Bolton's" ...

Even the security guard he sought comfort and protection from found it amusing

Thought he could slink out early from yet another beating....complete with match day ground pass still hanging around his neck as he headed to catch the 4.36 to Broadmeadows

oh to have been a fly on the wall

 

[Call Me Cake]

The only way Dodo will be gone:

Nuclear apocalypse
Or
He runs out of nudes to blackmail everyone

He ran out of nudes!!!

 

[jdstorm]

Who is building it?

Maybe a football club with millions and millions of dollars sponsored by a luxury automobile retailer and a vested interest in doing so should do it as it serves their own self interest to do so.

Probably have lower annual running costs the the boards wine bill once built

 

[DERO]

Interestingly, the decision is not on the public record.

 

[DERO]

I got bored and looked Lore

 

[Call Me Cake]

Watching Clug today reminded me

**** you