Which Footy Club Leads the Way in Social Issues?

[Liam Boy]

Since when is tackling a drug epidemic infesting the senior players at the club 'political correctness'?

Sheesh.

I'd happily trade the 2006 premiership cup back to AFL headquarters personally if it brought Chris Mainwaring back and kept Ben Cousins on the straight and narrow post-AFL.

That term is used way too much by right wing elements longing for a return to the days when you could say whatever bigoted s**t you wanted without recrimination and minority groups knew their place.

go off king

 

[joop]

If only they put as much effort into something like winning games

Ahhh cocky Melbourne supporters, gotta love em.

 

[ROYAL EAGLE]

I think WCE lead the way here.
Our players spend more time/hours working on community projects giving of themselves than any other club.
We have donated my more money and time to charities in the last ten years than any other club
Apart from below established charities every player on the list as there own they look after individually

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• • BHP Community Campaign
  • Cambodia
  • Charitable Partnerships
  • Diversity Programs
  • Donations and requests
  • Eagles in their Prime
  • Rethink your waste
  • Grassroots Football
  • Reconciliation Action Plan
  • Schools and Education
  • SEDA
  • Wirrpanda Foundation
  This may have been because of our drug problems, and the influence Beau Waters had on our culture going forward

 

[david addison]

I might be breaking some news here, but it's my understanding that the Collingwood Football Club has spent the last 12 months developing their own bank. Pretty soon there'll be a Bank of Collingwood. Apparently Eddie was sick and tired of watching players and fans alike, squandering their earnings. The bank will offer only one account, and it's called the Tooth Fairy account. Named after the Tooth Fairy because that's where most Collingwood fans get their income. They can deposit their Tooth Fairy money at the Bank of Collingwood, and rest assured it will be managed with care. I found the building plans. It'll look something like this:




Not footy related, but Mr. Weir has done a lot for animal rights. For so long horses have thought 'I'd much rather run on a tread mill than out in the field.' And god damn if Mr. Weir didn't head straight out to Treadmills R Us, and grab the biggest one he could find. Now horses don't have to run around outdoors anymore. He even put TV's in front of them while they work out. Reruns of Mr. Ed, The Black Stallion, and Seabiscuit. Probably reruns of the Melbourne cup too, but with a few minutes edited out - the bit where they put a bullet in The Cliffsofmoher. The jigger wasn't a jigger at all, it's a prototype stable door opener, so the horses can let themselves in and out as they please. As for the nails, he's just giving the horses a lesson in construction, teaching them how to build their own stable. Case closed. Like the rest of us, the horses will tire of their treadmill, get themselves a dog, maybe a greyhound rescue, and walk the local streets instead of walking indoors in front of the idiot box.

 

[Ocha905]

The selfless work to improve the position of players negotiating new contracts doesn't get enough recognition either.

Dammit that made me laugh.

 

[hoianbulldog]

The bulldogs stand alone in their stance against quality tall forwards who can turn a game in 15 minutes.

No place for them in our society.

 

[Topkent]

That approach almost destroyed West Coast post 2006, though.

WC has won more premierships since 2005 than 11 clubs combined.
There's a difference between letting your players smoke glass pipes on weekends an becoming a club with political affiliation

 

[Topkent]

Since when is tackling a drug epidemic infesting the senior players at the club 'political correctness'?

Sheesh.

I'd happily trade the 2006 premiership cup back to AFL headquarters personally if it brought Chris Mainwaring back and kept Ben Cousins on the straight and narrow post-AFL.

That term is used way too much by right wing elements longing for a return to the days when you could say whatever bigoted s**t you wanted without recrimination and minority groups knew their place.

What absoloute garbage. They are ******* footy clubs. They are organisations who's only purpose is to win games of footy, if you wanna get involved in political s**t go to march out front of parliament house.

People are sick to death of constantly being told how to act and think by whatever issue social media is pushing at the time

 

[Royal Flush]

Remember, for all their virtue signalling, the only reason North doesn't have pokies is they had to sell them to pay their debts. They had no choice.
The spin about how socially conscious they were only came a few years after the sale (and after roobet had also failed).

Some what true.
However like all clubs, north needed to invest in something , they had choices including pokies. They went down the path of the Huddle instead of pokies

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[telsor]

Some what true.
However like all clubs, north needed to invest in something , they had choices including pokies. They went down the path of the Huddle instead of pokies

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I know North's history of investments might confuse you on this, but most clubs, when they invest, do so to MAKE money, so I'm not sure the huddle qualifies....but hey, if you want to pretend that matters, Richmond 'invests' in the Korin Gamadji Institute too...Indeed, I'm sure you'll find most clubs have a community program of some sort that they like to make a lot of PR out of.

 

[Forward Press]

What absoloute garbage. They are ******* footy clubs. They are organisations who's only purpose is to win games of footy, if you wanna get involved in political s**t go to march out front of parliament house.

People are sick to death of constantly being told how to act and think by whatever issue social media is pushing at the time

And I think it's absolute garbage that a sporting organisation is only set up to win games, and I am glad that none of the AFL clubs (or most other professional sporting organisations, for that matter) don't agree with your premise.

 

[telsor]

And I think it's absolute garbage that a sporting organisation is only set up to win games, and I am glad that none of the AFL clubs (or most other professional sporting organisations, for that matter) don't agree with your premise.

You mean, have been browbeaten by the handwringing whingers into making some PR noises without ever doing anything significant (unless there is something in it for them).

 

[Topkent]

And I think it's absolute garbage that a sporting organisation is only set up to win games, and I am glad that none of the AFL clubs (or most other professional sporting organisations, for that matter) don't agree with your premise.

That's because agendas are now being forced on people even when they don't want to hear about them. There's political messages being constantly pushed when sport is supposed to be neutral.

 

[Royal Flush]

I know North's history of investments might confuse you on this, but most clubs, when they invest, do so to MAKE money, so I'm not sure the huddle qualifies....but hey, if you want to pretend that matters, Richmond 'invests' in the Korin Gamadji Institute too...Indeed, I'm sure you'll find most clubs have a community program of some sort that they like to make a lot of PR out of.

It doesn't confuse me at all.
I once tried to book an overseas flight through a nmfc travel agency back in the 90s.
The point is back in 2009 when north rallied to save itself from relocation the question was what direction do they take moving forward to generate revenue.
Pokies was an option hotly debated moving forward.
The board at the time decided against it.

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[Forward Press]

You mean, have been browbeaten by the handwringing whingers into making some PR noises without ever doing anything significant (unless there is something in it for them).

Perhaps, and I understand the cynicism completely, but taking a position of social responsibility is something I agree with. Yes, there is $$$ in it for them but they are a business, too.

That's because agendas are now being forced on people even when they don't want to hear about them. There's political messages being constantly pushed when sport is supposed to be neutral.

Bullshit. You can believe that sport is 'supposed' to be neutral but sport has never been neutral and always been used to push barrows. Once money gets involved as well the whole idea of neutrality gets corrupted - rightly or wrongly. If you want pure sport with no 'agendas' you need to get down to your local football oval or cricket pitch.

 

[telsor]

It doesn't confuse me at all.
I once tried to book an overseas flight through a nmfc travel agency back in the 90s.
The point is back in 2009 when north rallied to save itself from relocation the question was what direction do they take moving forward to generate revenue.
Pokies was an option hotly debated moving forward.
The board at the time decided against it.

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They acknowledged they couldn't afford it and tried to spin it to look good.

 

[Royal Flush]

They acknowledged they couldn't afford it and tried to spin it to look good.

This is where you have no idea.
Yes they sold up a few machines that were losing money at Etihad stadium, remnants from kanga casino at Arden st.which were sold out. This was prior to 2008.
Post 2009
Pokies was a business model discussed at board level as means to be sustainable in Victoria.
They rejected that and looked to generate revenue through other means

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[Rob]

This is where you have no idea.
Yes they sold up a few machines that were losing money at Etihad stadium, remnants from kanga casino at Arden st.which were sold out. This was prior to 2008.
Post 2009
Pokies was a business model discussed at board level as means to be sustainable in Victoria.
They rejected that and looked to generate revenue through other means

You just said exactly what telsor said.....i.e they tried pokies, they were a commercial failure so they moved on to something else. They only "rejected" them after they couldn't make any money from them.

It's great they don't have pokies, but let's not pretend they wouldn't have them if they were pulling in a million bucks a year.

 

[Royal Flush]

You just said exactly what telsor said.....i.e they tried pokies, they were a commercial failure so they moved on to something else. They only "rejected" them after they couldn't make any money from them.

It's great they don't have pokies, but let's not pretend they wouldn't have them if they were pulling in a million bucks a year.

FMD

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[Engimal v3]

Imagine openly melting on an online forum because no one agrees that your club was more socially conscious than North Melbourne haha

 

[kranky al]

Any club running pokies is immediately eliminated.

 

[Art Corvelay]

Lol North and the mythical no pokies/social responsibility angle.

Sold them to reduce debt, still ran RooBet for years afterwards.

 

[Tectonic]

Lol North and the mythical no pokies/social responsibility angle.

Sold them to reduce debt, still ran RooBet for years afterwards.

What's the history on roobet? To be honest I never paid attention to that side of football until my adult years and I can't find any info on it anywhere.

 

[Pragmatic Shill]

Imagine people thinking that a football club, which has traditionally been an organisation in touch with the local community, having a say on social issues is "virtue signalling."

Imagine people thinking that a football club throwing its support behind a social cause somehow distracts its football department from winning games of football.

 

[Art Corvelay]

What's the history on roobet? To be honest I never paid attention to that side of football until my adult years and I can't find any info on it anywhere.

Was an online betting site, run by someone else for North. Basically a branded site.