Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 16

[Portology]

Feel free to pile onto InDaily. I’ve said my piece



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[bomberclifford]

“Old welfare sponge boomers” would be half of the Crows‘ supporter base.

 

[ctpower]

John Olsen - forced to resign as Premier because he lied to State Parliament but good enough to become the front man for the Crows.

I bet his barefoot skiing skills tipped the job in his favour. The crows being the downhill skiing experts and all.

You missed a key point.
He also skipped town afterwards.

 

[Alberton Proud]

You missed a key point.
He also skipped town afterwards.

Whilst bare foot skiing ?

 

[nadsee]

John Olsen - forced to resign as Premier because he lied to State Parliament but good enough to become the front man for the Crows.

I bet his barefoot skiing skills tipped the job in his favour. The crows being the downhill skiing experts and all.

Olsen resigned as Premier in October 2001 following a finding by a government inquiry that that he had given ‘misleading, inaccurate and dishonest’ evidence to an earlier inquiry into his negotiations with the electronics company Motorola while he was Industry Minister in 1994.

 

[OneGreatClub]

And so it begins

 

[Lightning_Rod]

And so it begins

Classic dodoro

 

[JUSTWORK]

Classic dodoro

Its unbelievable that clown still has a job.

 

[Lightning_Rod]

Its unbelievable that clown still has a job.

Throw enough bull$hit trades out there ones gotta end up landing eventually surely lol

 

[TheFVK]

And so it begins

A swing and a miss for Essendon's first trade offer of Saad for Carlton's 1995 premiership.

 

[Eric Blair]

You missed a key point.
He also skipped town afterwards.

didn’t he get a cushy job as SA agent general afterwards?

If only they asked him what he knew about the state bank pre 1990?

 

[Schulzenfest]

Essendon are literally employing a Bay 13 flog to manage their list and have been doing so for years. It's honestly ridiculous.

Fingers crossed Saad ends up in the PSD.

 

[ctpower]

didn’t he get a cushy job as SA agent general afterwards?

If only they asked him what he knew about the state bank pre 1990?

He took off to New York in a cushy govt role.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

didn’t he get a cushy job as SA agent general afterwards?

If only they asked him what he knew about the state bank pre 1990?

Nah it was Howard government who gave him the job as Australian Consul General in LA a couple of months after the 2002 state election after he retired from politics at the election.

He created the G'day USA week long Oz promotion festival. Started as G'day LA before spreading to other cities and is still an annual event.

When his 5 year term was up Downer got him the gig as Consul General in New York.

 

[Eric Blair]

Nah it was Howard government who gave him the job as Australian Consul General in LA a couple of months after the 2002 state election after he retired from politics at the election.

He created the G'day USA week long Oz promotion festival. Started as G'day LA before spreading to other cities and is still an annual event.

When his 5 year term was up Downer got him the gig as Consul General in New York.

He took off to New York in a cushy govt role.

that’s right I knew he got a cushy job overseas after he resigned.

surprised nobody picked up on my other comment about the state bank.......

 

[Portology]

Should we even bother showing up on Friday night?

Newsflash: Roo backs any of three sets of feral cats against the Power. Sorry, what channel am I listening to again, 5 double crow?

 

[EskimoPAFC]

If that happens, it will need a modern day Marinus van der Lubbe to sort it out.

 

[Steve Dore]

If that happens, it will need a modern day Marinus van der Lubbe to sort it out.

I too had to Google that. I am shocked to find that M'anus van der Lube is not a made up name.

 

[Steve Dore]

Olsen resigned as Premier in October 2001 following a finding by a government inquiry that that he had given ‘misleading, inaccurate and dishonest’ evidence to an earlier inquiry into his negotiations with the electronics company Motorola while he was Industry Minister in 1994.

The team that brought you Tippetgate and The Camp combines with the director of The Motorola Affair and Liar Liar Down Under to bring you the latest epic blockbuster Assault On The Parklands.

 

[Papa G]

Nah it was Howard government who gave him the job as Australian Consul General in LA a couple of months after the 2002 state election after he retired from politics at the election.

He created the G'day USA week long Oz promotion festival. Started as G'day LA before spreading to other cities and is still an annual event.

When his 5 year term was up Downer got him the gig as Consul General in New York.

As tacky and cringe worthy as they sound, those G'day USA type events seem to have been widely successful. Olsen, for all his skuldugfery is no fool. I wouldn't be so dismissive of him. As I said earlier, he became National President of the Liberal Party a couple of months ago, his connections are vast and powerful.

 

[PowerBaz]

Parklands? Not sure, however this guy and the club would have a venue/location already earmarked no doubt, he was brought in to work their way through it.

 

[Steve Dore]

Parklands? Not sure, however this guy and the club would have a venue/location already earmarked no doubt, he was brought in to work their way through it.

As I said in an earlier post, I suspect Olsen was brought in because they are targeting a location within Adelaide Oval's existing footprint.

 

[Papa G]

As I said in an earlier post, I suspect Olsen was brought in because they are targeting a location within Adelaide Oval's existing footprint.

Where though?

 

[Steve Dore]

Where though?

If they can squeeze a hotel into the eastern stand I'm sure they find a spot to put a Camry Crows HQ. There are areas on the western side that they can probably find a way to exploit. Village Green South, Favell-Dansie Indoor Centre, the outdoor practice net area adjacent to the Favell-Dansie Indoor Centre, Village Green North (doesn't need to be that big).

 

[jac147]

Parklands? Not sure, however this guy and the club would have a venue/location already earmarked no doubt, he was brought in to work their way through it.

The Barton?