AFL 2016

The Hird Legacy.

skully wrote:The Hird Legacy.

Watched the soft iv on abc. What a grub.

Heard the manager of a player who has lost his job up. The bush. The manager said they had been injected with disgusting stuff, inc an extract o faeces. Turd and co are lucky to have avoided criminal charges.

Titus O'Reilly

WADA is a bad fit for the AFL: Here’s why
In recent weeks, numerous people and organisations have called for the AFL to withdraw from WADA’s anti-doping regime.

The AFL Players Association CEO Paul Marsh, Collingwood’s Neil Balme and the Greens leader Richard Di Natale are just some of the people who have called for the AFL to move away from WADA.

For those that don’t understand the intricacies of anti-doping regimes in sport, here’s why a move away from WADA and to the AFL having its own code makes sense.

Problems with WADA:

The WADA code has resulted in players actually being found guilty, not just fringe players, really good players
Players who were found guilty under the WADA regime have actually been given appropriate sanctions
The WADA code was designed for individual, not team sports. It encourages personal responsibility. AFL players and personal responsibility don’t mix
Because of WADA, Brendon Goddard is the captain of an AFL club
WADA is independent of the AFL and therefore cares more about anti-doping than AFL revenue
WADA’s Headquarters is in Montreal which is French speaking and they were formed in Switzerland which is basically a hiding place for Nazi gold
Benefits of an AFL specific doping code:

Star players could be protected from unhelpful positive tests
Penalties could be aligned to other minor misdemeanors such as violence against women and therefore punished only through pre-season suspensions or fines
Players could outsource responsibility to their clubs who can then claim ‘systemic failure’ and get a small fine
The rare bad result can be released during that period between Christmas and New Years’ Eve when no one cares or notices
The AFL Tribunal has already shown an ability to deliver helpful ‘not guilty’ decisions in these cases, so much so that even Essendon supporters now praise the AFL’s system without irony
Doping investigations would not drag on for years because they would never get started
The NFL and NBA have their own doping codes and nobody really cares that their athletes are doping like crazy

James Hird: WADA used wrong facts
The decision today by WADA is a terrible miscarriage of justice. Probably Easily the worst in history.

When I said I hoped 2016 would be a ‘year of facts’, I was hoping they would be my facts, the ones that suit my world view.

Unfortunately, WADA have chosen to look at all the facts, many which I have chosen to discount. I like to think it’s the facts I reject that make mine the best.

My facts have been hand selected, like I’m a ‘facts sommelier’, picking facts carefully and thoughtfully while discarding the ones I don’t like.

Being a facts sommelier gives you a far better outcome, a much more palatable one too.

WADA are like some ‘facts Dan Murphy’s’. Just every fact in the world under one roof, with no careful eye on which ones are completely unpalatable.

That’s why we’ve ended up with this result. Every fact has been sampled leaving a bad aftertaste. Like when teenagers make rocket fuel using whatever alcohol is in their parent’s cupboard. Sure, you get a result but it’s rarely a good one.

Is this the world we want to live in? Where unpalatable truths win over carefully crafted narratives?

It’s time to wake up.

The barbarians are at the gate and today we got a glimpse of what it will be like if they get inside.

Titus O'Reily

Matty Stokes a top up Bomber


E'll be ecstatic

embee wrote:James Hird: WADA used wrong facts
The decision today by WADA is a terrible miscarriage of justice. Probably Easily the worst in history.

When I said I hoped 2016 would be a ‘year of facts’, I was hoping they would be my facts, the ones that suit my world view.

Unfortunately, WADA have chosen to look at all the facts, many which I have chosen to discount. I like to think it’s the facts I reject that make mine the best.

My facts have been hand selected, like I’m a ‘facts sommelier’, picking facts carefully and thoughtfully while discarding the ones I don’t like.

Being a facts sommelier gives you a far better outcome, a much more palatable one too.

WADA are like some ‘facts Dan Murphy’s’. Just every fact in the world under one roof, with no careful eye on which ones are completely unpalatable.

That’s why we’ve ended up with this result. Every fact has been sampled leaving a bad aftertaste. Like when teenagers make rocket fuel using whatever alcohol is in their parent’s cupboard. Sure, you get a result but it’s rarely a good one.

Is this the world we want to live in? Where unpalatable truths win over carefully crafted narratives?

It’s time to wake up.

The barbarians are at the gate and today we got a glimpse of what it will be like if they get inside.

Titus O'Reily

Fact: James Hird is a lying, cheating qunt.

skully wrote:

embee wrote:James Hird: WADA used wrong facts
The decision today by WADA is a terrible miscarriage of justice. Probably Easily the worst in history.

When I said I hoped 2016 would be a ‘year of facts’, I was hoping they would be my facts, the ones that suit my world view.

Unfortunately, WADA have chosen to look at all the facts, many which I have chosen to discount. I like to think it’s the facts I reject that make mine the best.

My facts have been hand selected, like I’m a ‘facts sommelier’, picking facts carefully and thoughtfully while discarding the ones I don’t like.

Being a facts sommelier gives you a far better outcome, a much more palatable one too.

WADA are like some ‘facts Dan Murphy’s’. Just every fact in the world under one roof, with no careful eye on which ones are completely unpalatable.

That’s why we’ve ended up with this result. Every fact has been sampled leaving a bad aftertaste. Like when teenagers make rocket fuel using whatever alcohol is in their parent’s cupboard. Sure, you get a result but it’s rarely a good one.

Is this the world we want to live in? Where unpalatable truths win over carefully crafted narratives?

It’s time to wake up.

The barbarians are at the gate and today we got a glimpse of what it will be like if they get inside.

Titus O'Reily

Fact: James Hird is a lying, cheating qunt.

Don't beat about the bush Skulls. Tell us what you really think.

Hubris is now measured in Hirds.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/hawthorns-jarryd-roughead-to-miss-first-half-of-2016-season-with-pcl-injury-20160131-gmhvog.html

Wow that will be a test. The dawks have been pretty h injury dress

we have plenty of forwards, so no need to stress.

One for Embee if he's around: I saw the pic of Alex Blackwell & Meg Lanning in today's fish-wrapper, couldn't help notice the strong facial similarity between Alex and former WAFL & Carlton midfielder Wayne Blackwell.

The time-lines don't match easily for her to be Wayne's daughter, but do you know if they are related more distantly?

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/banned-bombers-consider-split-ahead-of-compo-bid-20160203-gmkv19.html

This never goes away. The lawyers will get rich though.

Titus O'Reily ‏@TitusOReily 6h6 hours ago
Primary school kids teach Melbourne players handballing skills

(If playing for Collingwood wasnt enough reason to dislike the bloke ...Jeremy Howe is Matt Wade's cousin)


Nathan Buckley grills Jeremy Howe over Frisbeegate


Following conflicting reports about how new recruit Jeremy Howe broke his finger, Director of Football Neil Balme and Senior Coach Nathan Buckley pulled him in for a chat.

Nathan Buckley: Sit down Howie.

Neil Balme: Yeah sit down before we make you sit down you little punk!

Buckley: Neil, what are you doing?

Balme: I thought we were doing good cop/bad cop.

Buckley: Why? And why would I be the good cop?

Balme: I just think I’d be a better bad cop.

Buckley: Only if by ‘bad cop’ you mean a cop that’s really bad at policing.

Jeremy Howe: Do you guys want me to come back…?

Buckley: Jeremy, yesterday you sat in that chair and told us you broke your finger in some sort of Frisbee accident involving a dog. I believed you because when you first mentioned the dog I thought I had a Mitchell Pearce incident on my hands. Today we hear you did it playing a Twenty20 game.

Howe: I told you the truth.

Balme: You’re not at Melbourne anymore Howie, people recognise Collingwood players. We’ve got witnesses saying you dropped a catch in the outfield at Vermont Reserve and that caused you to break your finger.

Howe: I did play cricket but that’s not how I broke it. It was the Frisbee, I swear.

Buckley: How does a grown adult break a finger playing Frisbee? Did the dog throw it too hard?

Howe: You’ve got to believe me Mr Buckley, you’ve got to. Ask the dog! He saw everything.

Buckley: Oh don’t think we won’t, Eddie’s interviewing the dog on radio tomorrow.

Balme: Seriously. Frisbee accident. Do you think Ted Whitten and Jack Dyer ever played Frisbee? Let alone got injured by one?

Buckley: Let’s say we believe you, what are you doing bowling medium pace while dealing with foot stress fractures anyway?

Howe: I’ve always done it. I had to do something to keep me fit while playing for Melbourne.

Titus O'Reily

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/garry-lyon-leaves-footy-show-after-relationship-with-billy-brownless-ex-20160213-gmtkf5.html

The deeply private matter was going to come out not before long. Can't see this friendship being revived in a hurry.

if the relationship only occurred after the divorce whats the ****** issue?
people split up. they move on. let go of the past and live your life ffs!

You're talking about what happens on earth. This is Planet AFL.

Geebers...get over it ...people tend to shag people they like. Lyon is hardly Wayne Carey.

Brownless is an antediluvian parody of Jabba the Hutt, but more sexist. Wake up smell the roses -no-one owns anyone. Even taips presumably pays award wages these days.

horace wrote:Geebers...get over it ...people tend to shag people they like. Lyon is hardly Wayne Carey.

Brownless is an antediluvian parody of Jabba the Hutt, but more sexist. Wake up smell the roses -no-one owns anyone. Even taips presumably pays award wages these days.

I know who I would choose out of the two. Brownless always called his missus 'the darl'. Wondered when she would see the light.

I wonder if Mrs Lyon and the former Mrs Brownless are still best friends?

Red wrote:

horace wrote:Geebers...get over it ...people tend to shag people they like. Lyon is hardly Wayne Carey.

Brownless is an antediluvian parody of Jabba the Hutt, but more sexist. Wake up smell the roses -no-one owns anyone. Even taips presumably pays award wages these days.

I know who I would choose out of the two. Brownless always called his missus 'the darl'.  Wondered when she would see the light.

Presumably when he got out of the way.

I always thought Billy Brainless's main appeal as somebody to flog garage doors was, he looks like one.

Some salutary articles by women writers on this



Breaks with the blokey don't cut my lunch bizzo. In the Guardian and elsewhere