Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[finbarr]

Just once I'd like to hear an Australian athlete interviewed post race thanking the Australian public for funding their training and travel. Just once.

 

[finbarr]

Who the **** does Basil know?

He's the right place, right time part of the equation.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Just once I'd like to hear an Australian athlete interviewed post race thanking the Australian public for funding their training and travel. Just once.

Only happens at the drug olympics in Mt Druitt.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Just once I'd like to hear an Australian athlete interviewed post race thanking the Australian public for funding their training and travel. Just once.

That recent article on this topic was a corker. It spoke of how we fund Athletes with billions through the AIS and they give nothing back. They score sponsorship's and the like and don't pay anything back. Portions of sponsorship should go back to the government.

 

[JayPea14]

4th.

Unlucky.

The equivalent of ninth

 

[Eddie Dingle]

That recent article on this topic was a corker. It spoke of how we fund Athletes with billions through the AIS and they give nothing back. They score sponsorship's and the like and don't pay anything back. Portions of sponsorship should go back to the government.

HECS direct from Kelloggs to the Government?

I can see that working.

 

[finbarr]

That recent article on this topic was a corker. It spoke of how we fund Athletes with billions through the AIS and they give nothing back. They score sponsorship's and the like and don't pay anything back. Portions of sponsorship should go back to the government.

It's a mentality that's been hard wired into the nations DNA and that of other first world nations. We allow banks and multi-nationals to play all sorts of speculative games, only to be bailed out by the public purse when it all comes crashing down around us.

 

[Dylan8]

That recent article on this topic was a corker. It spoke of how we fund Athletes with billions through the AIS and they give nothing back. They score sponsorship's and the like and don't pay anything back. Portions of sponsorship should go back to the government.

Didn't Pat Rafter hide all of his earnings in tax havens? But he's an Aussie hero and Kyrgios is an international embarrassment or whatever.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Didn't Pat Rafter hide all of his earnings in tax havens? But he's an Aussie hero and Kyrgios is an international embarrassment or whatever.

Tax payer funded Bonds sponsorship.

 

[Dylan8]

Tax payer funded Bonds sponsorship.

That reminds me of this awesome abstract meme I made about Shane Bond

 

[Eddie Dingle]

That reminds me of this awesome abstract meme I made about Shane Bond
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Awesome you say?

 

[Dylan8]

Awesome you say?

sort of

 

[Andre]

That recent article on this topic was a corker. It spoke of how we fund Athletes with billions through the AIS and they give nothing back. They score sponsorship's and the like and don't pay anything back. Portions of sponsorship should go back to the government.

Yet said public cracks the collective sads when we do poorly at the Olympics. It's why we even have an AIS, after earlier 'Oh no's' around few medals.

It's the rarities that get anything decent from sponsorships, most just get by. Do people want an East European system where potential athletes are pulled from families/schools early and then paraded around as propaganda props by the Government? (Full time, rather then the reflected glory all will try to be in on in a couple of weeks).

Personally I don't give a shit if we had a lot fewer medals and no AIS. If we are going to have it, then it's running fine as it is.

 

[_VXV]

Didn't Pat Rafter hide all of his earnings in tax havens? But he's an Aussie hero and Kyrgios is an international embarrassment or whatever.

2002 Australian of the year Pat Rafter you mean?

 

[Grave Danger]

I may never drive through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in my hair, but I have submitted my Census form before Tuesday night!

 

[Doctor Feel]

That reminds me of this awesome abstract meme I made about Shane Bond
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wat

 

[chiwigi]

Yet said public cracks the collective sads when we do poorly at the Olympics. It's why we even have an AIS, after earlier 'Oh no's' around few medals.

It's the rarities that get anything decent from sponsorships, most just get by. Do people want an East European system where potential athletes are pulled from families/schools early and then paraded around as propaganda props by the Government? (Full time, rather then the reflected glory all will try to be in on in a couple of weeks).

Personally I don't give a shit if we had a lot fewer medals and no AIS. If we are going to have it, then it's running fine as it is.

Not only this, but we demand so much of them in their 'representing us'. Most pay a fortune out of their own pocket (and certainly in time) in search of an Olympic place.
Headline sports like swimming get decent funding, but the likes of judo demand a player compete internationally before they can get minimal funding. That's an expensive proposition.

The UK, through the national lottery had the right idea. You basically choose if you want to pay tax towards sports through playing the lottery.

 

[Lagooner]

Just once I'd like to hear an Australian athlete interviewed post race thanking the Australian public for funding their training and travel. Just once.

These days I get more pleasure from seeing some wild underdog from Wherethe****istan come from nowhere to claim a medal than I do from an Aussie Gold in most sports.

Especially the swimmers. Entitlement just oozes out of most of those pricks and prickettes.

 

[chiwigi]

That recent article on this topic was a corker. It spoke of how we fund Athletes with billions through the AIS and they give nothing back. They score sponsorship's and the like and don't pay anything back. Portions of sponsorship should go back to the government.

Give nothing back? Haven't you seen any media the past week? People love that shit.

 

[Dylan8]

Vital for a country like ours to fund elite sports though, it's a big part of our identity - winning too.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

I've done the census.. nosey campaigners

 

[edgie]

I've done the census.. nosey campaigners

JediBeerCans?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

So how about the beach volleyball outfits?

 

[Doctor Feel]

JediBeerCans?

JewishBeerCans

 

[Steve Dore]

PETA launches bid to change Eggs and Bacon Bay to healthy alternative

"PETA Australia campaign coordinator Claire Fryer said the group had written to the Huon Valley Council requesting the location be known as Apple and Cherry Bay."

Sounds like something from a comedy sketch.