Opinion Non-Crows AFL 10

[GreyCrow]

Freo about to enter a bad place

Off field PW style issue

* I am speculating on comment on main board v breaking Perth news

 

[AFC979810]

Freo about to enter a bad place

Off field PW style issue

* I am speculating on comment on main board v breaking Perth news

PW?

 

[Vader]

PW?

Player Welfare?

 

[FR0GGY]

Freo about to enter a bad place

Off field PW style issue

* I am speculating on comment on main board v breaking Perth news

Link?

 

[GreyCrow]

Link?

Its now been deleted from Main Board until confirmed

 

[skam85]

That was finlayson.

How do you know that Powell didnt infer that the Brisbane player drives a suburu?

I'd be suspending Powell too if he associated the Brisbane player with the former BF poster subaru. Nobody deserves that

 

[1970crow]

It's like when all the comedians in the last 5 years get up and say you can't say anything anymore and then go on to say the same thing they've been saying forever and get lots of laughs and then get paid lots of money for it.

Which bit keeps you up at night?

 

[skam85]

I'm glad we weren't that woke in the 90s. Would have missed out on this iconic classic story.

Australia plucked out Zimbabwe’s ninth wicket at 120 and in walked Eddo Brandes. The game was all but won by Australia but Eddo wasn’t going down wondering and he decided to play his shots. A few minutes later, Glenn McGrath, the Australian pacer, casually asked Eddo, ”Why are you so fat?”

Eddo Brandes, the Zimbabwean bowler, didn’t miss the opportunity and quickly replied, “Because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit.”

 

[skam85]

And it should be.

This opinion is going to offend a lot of people here, of course, but they are just words.

The reason you can’t (or shouldn’t) police spoken words on a football field is that there is no limiting principle to that concept.

So you punish some slurs and leave others alone? Who gets to decide that?

There has been some egregious, disgusting things said on football fields over the years. One of the worst I’ve ever seen was what Will Minson said to Kane Cornes.

But you didn’t need to suspend him — he paid dearly for it in the court of public opinion. As he should have.

An AFL-imposed five game suspension for something, anything, a player said on a football field is laughable.

I'm sure many opponents called Rance various more fruity versions of "pesky door-knocker" in his playing days.

Don't recall any bans being dished out for religious vilification.

 

[skam85]

Go on Essendon. I dare you.

Looking forward to Jenny telling you off for going off half cocked based on a media clickbait report.

 

[Slippery Pete]

And you don't think racists and homophones exist and harass people from those groups in the workplace? Very utopian world view there slippery!

If you’re from one of these “groups” you’re more likely to be promoted these days than harrassed.

To answer your question, no, it doesn’t happen to any significant degree.

It is not some systemic problem we need to stamp out. It just isn’t.

 

[Slippery Pete]

homophones

Is that one that plays Queen as its ring tone?

 

[WAG]

Link?

Check out West Coast general AFL thread.

 

[GreyCrow]

Cant even call someone a cooker anymore

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Anyone watching Fox Footy at the moment. 2007 GF. PA supporters would love to revisit this game just for nostalgia reasons.

 

[1970crow]

Adel Uni teams/players used to be collectively called Uni P……s back in the day. Not so much in heated situations but just to be mildly derogatory, sometimes while attempting to be humorous. It seemed ubiquitous.

Playing olds scholars we’d routinely be called various derogatory terms. In Alice we were called pink this and pink that.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Playing olds scholars we’d routinely be called various derogatory terms. In Alice we were called pink this and pink that.

My number one favourite pastime on this board is being abused by Bearded Clam. I can’t get enough of it.

 

[Checksider]

Go on Essendon. I dare you.

He should not be let back onto an AFL playing list, but they’ll let a Victorian club take him on and sell it as a good news story if it suits.

Whereas if we were to even think about recruiting him… BOOM DRAFT SANCTIONS.

 

[FR0GGY]

SEN reporting Cam McCarthy has died.

 

[Twist_of_Lemon]

 

[GreyCrow]

 

[chazwazza]

Player Welfare?

I immediately assumed Phil Walsh

 

[GreyCrow]

I immediately assumed Phil Walsh

That was my initial thought as there was an incident nearby Coogee in Safety Bay of someone of a similar age

 

[Bearded Clam]

My number one favourite pastime on this board is being abused by Bearded Clam. I can’t get enough of it.

**** yeah!…

Its been a few months since we’ve had a good argument too!…

 

[kirky]

If this is true, the AFL just has to come out and ban him from the league for life. Take it out of the hands of clubs.

The AFL have the power to de-register a player.

Bite the bullet AFL and send the strongest message.