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I don't have younger children so I hadn't paid attention but it seems silly to keep the name of a retired player on a kids package - nostagia is great for adults, but kids should have a xurrent player to watch and look up to. The sad part is I would have no idea who that current player could be, apart from Ben Brown, and it can't always be him.
Can understand that logic but a lot of kids still know Boomer and he might be well known enough as a 'brand' to persist past his playing career like Dipper, Dermie, Kouta, Plugger etc did for lots of kids.
 

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Can understand that logic but a lot of kids still know Boomer and he might be well known enough as a 'brand' to persist past his playing career like Dipper, Dermie, Kouta, Plugger etc did for lots of kids.
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Back on The Huddle for a second....

Would this be the kind of thing that State and Federal Governments could use to justify handing over large parcels of land to a Football Club?

Because the Bulldogs just received a $16 million dollar block previously earmarked for residential property and I hear there is a decent size development taking place in the Arden Precinct.
 
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Back on The Huddle for a second....

Would this be the kind of thing that State and Federal Governments could use to justify handing over large parcels of land to a Football Club?

Because the Bulldogs just received a $16 million dollar block previously earmarked for residential property and I hear there is a decent size development taking place in the Arden Precinct.
I imagine that’s part of the thinking behind it. Land, handouts, other gov’t support which proves beneficial to the club as a whole in the long run.
 

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You jest but I think Ben would actually do a good job of running kids activities on family day. Kids see through bullshitters.
Carefull with that calling it as it is stuff. Wouldn't want our brad to be called out for being naked. Because acording to our board he wears a suit taylored from the finest threads that they say is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent.
 

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What have we learnt so far.

Half our supporters want a transgender round incorporated into the afl season.

Half our supporters couldn't give a hoot about any type of special round as they just want to see football.

The coach should walk but he won't.

Ben Buckley lives in Sydney.

The Scanlons are using the Huddle as a tax write off or tax minimisation scheme.

The board wants the players to try harder.

Laura Kane former lawyer somehow got a job as Head of Football.

Did I miss anything?




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Back on The Huddle for a second....

Would this be the kind of thing that State and Federal Governments could use to justify handing over large parcels of land to a Football Club?

Because the Bulldogs just received a $16 million dollar block previously earmarked for residential property and I hear there is a decent size development taking place in the Arden Precinct.

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That’s the point along with being a can’t live without community member!
 
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It seems like anything correlated to our club has descended into chaos...

  • This thread.
  • The team performances.
  • This thread.
  • Bewildering misspelling of the term 'hotmail' in my email.
  • This thread
  • BBB thread. Pretty standard at this point.
  • This thread.
  • Mistreatment of club tickets.
  • This thread.
24 pages in three days oh boy wowee.
 
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I’m surprise none of you has declared “should’ve gone to the Gold Coast” yet. We’ve come up with everything else...


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People are bitching about on-field performance.

Quite the straw man effort to correlate that to a near death experience for the club.
 
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It seems like anything correlated to our club has descended into chaos...

  • This thread.
  • The team performances.
  • This thread.
  • Bewildering misspelling of the term 'hotmail' in my email.
  • This thread
  • BBB thread. Pretty standard at this point.
  • This thread.
  • Mistreatment of club tickets.
  • This thread.
24 pages in three days oh boy wowee.
Should there be a loss on Friday, things are going to get messy
 
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Are you honestly comparing the Tiges and Magpies lists to ours?...
Those two coaches also have the advantage of coaching a ‘big’ club and the luxury of virtually taking their pick of all the best players coming out of contract unlike us. As we only know too well!
 

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You can feel the tension building...almost as much pressure on the big footy community than there is on the team........
As this thread amply demonstrates, the big footy community has shown about as much ability to cope with pressure as the players.
 
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