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On the train heading to the Preliminary final, going to be good!
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Great game. I envy you being there Knobby.
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It was great! Fantastic win by Brisbane.
Drank plenty of beer and had a great time. On the way home now.
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Unfortunately I only got to see 15minutes in the 3rd quarter and Brisbane looked as if they were starting to play.
Great to see that not one VFL club is making it in the Grand Final this year.
Not too sure how I will back to win, Brisbane/Fitzroy or Sydney/South Melbourne
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I think you just mentioned 2 VFL clubs
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Certainly, as they demised they morphed into the Sydney and Brisbane of years gone by..
I think you just mentioned 2 VFL clubs
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Great game by youngster Will Ashcroft.
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Follow the Bulldogs and enjoy a game. Just came across this story from Helen Garner and how she became entranced by footy while taking her grandson to footy practice.
Really interesting, perceptive and sweet.
I always knew football draws to the surface a whole well of emotion. What I didn’t know was I too contained such a well
Sat 23 Nov 2024 01.00 AEDT
I hear a burst of cleats on the concrete behind me and turn in time to see the U16s emerge from the rooms and stride towards the ground. Our boys. My God, they are men, in their vertical stripes and white shorts, even the little skinny ones are men: the groupness of them is what makes them men, moving with purpose in a thick bloc. Why do I feel like crying?
What are these tears? What do they mean?
I always knew, without trying to articulate it, that footy goes very deep in people, particularly in men; that it draws to the surface and makes unshameful a whole well of otherwise inaccessible emotion.
What I didn’t know, late in the summer of 2023, was that I too contained such a well.
I was 81. I was finished as a writer – bored, burnt-out, a shell, too deaf to sit through a trial and too lazy to invent a story, let alone write a novel. My memory was failing. I had glaucoma, my joints ached, I’d lost three inches in height. I couldn’t ride my bike or climb on a chair to reach the top bookshelf in case I fell and fractured my osteoporotic skeleton. Whenever an editor tried to commission a piece of work from me, I would think, “I can’t be bothered”.
I volunteered in my idleness to drive my youngest grandson to twice-weekly U16s Aussie rules football training. I would drop him off and duly go straight home. But one warm February evening, watching this recently bulked-up creature jog away to his teammates on the sun-parched oval, I heard a little whisper inside me: you won’t be here much longer. Any minute now he’ll be fully a man, and you’ll be dead. Wake up, old girl. There might be something here for you.
www.theguardian.com
Really interesting, perceptive and sweet.
People laughed at my interest in my grandson’s footy team - but I found it a source of strange bliss
Helen GarnerI always knew football draws to the surface a whole well of emotion. What I didn’t know was I too contained such a well
Sat 23 Nov 2024 01.00 AEDT
I hear a burst of cleats on the concrete behind me and turn in time to see the U16s emerge from the rooms and stride towards the ground. Our boys. My God, they are men, in their vertical stripes and white shorts, even the little skinny ones are men: the groupness of them is what makes them men, moving with purpose in a thick bloc. Why do I feel like crying?
What are these tears? What do they mean?
I always knew, without trying to articulate it, that footy goes very deep in people, particularly in men; that it draws to the surface and makes unshameful a whole well of otherwise inaccessible emotion.
What I didn’t know, late in the summer of 2023, was that I too contained such a well.
I was 81. I was finished as a writer – bored, burnt-out, a shell, too deaf to sit through a trial and too lazy to invent a story, let alone write a novel. My memory was failing. I had glaucoma, my joints ached, I’d lost three inches in height. I couldn’t ride my bike or climb on a chair to reach the top bookshelf in case I fell and fractured my osteoporotic skeleton. Whenever an editor tried to commission a piece of work from me, I would think, “I can’t be bothered”.
I volunteered in my idleness to drive my youngest grandson to twice-weekly U16s Aussie rules football training. I would drop him off and duly go straight home. But one warm February evening, watching this recently bulked-up creature jog away to his teammates on the sun-parched oval, I heard a little whisper inside me: you won’t be here much longer. Any minute now he’ll be fully a man, and you’ll be dead. Wake up, old girl. There might be something here for you.
People laughed at my interest in my grandson’s footy team - but I found it a source of strange bliss | Helen Garner
I always knew football draws to the surface a whole well of emotion. What I didn’t know was I too contained such a well
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Flemington colts! I played for them as an 11 year oldFollow the Bulldogs and enjoy a game. Just came across this story from Helen Garner and how she became entranced by footy while taking her grandson to footy practice.
Really interesting, perceptive and sweet.
People laughed at my interest in my grandson’s footy team - but I found it a source of strange bliss
Helen Garner
I always knew football draws to the surface a whole well of emotion. What I didn’t know was I too contained such a well
Sat 23 Nov 2024 01.00 AEDT
I hear a burst of cleats on the concrete behind me and turn in time to see the U16s emerge from the rooms and stride towards the ground. Our boys. My God, they are men, in their vertical stripes and white shorts, even the little skinny ones are men: the groupness of them is what makes them men, moving with purpose in a thick bloc. Why do I feel like crying?
What are these tears? What do they mean?
I always knew, without trying to articulate it, that footy goes very deep in people, particularly in men; that it draws to the surface and makes unshameful a whole well of otherwise inaccessible emotion.
What I didn’t know, late in the summer of 2023, was that I too contained such a well.
I was 81. I was finished as a writer – bored, burnt-out, a shell, too deaf to sit through a trial and too lazy to invent a story, let alone write a novel. My memory was failing. I had glaucoma, my joints ached, I’d lost three inches in height. I couldn’t ride my bike or climb on a chair to reach the top bookshelf in case I fell and fractured my osteoporotic skeleton. Whenever an editor tried to commission a piece of work from me, I would think, “I can’t be bothered”.
I volunteered in my idleness to drive my youngest grandson to twice-weekly U16s Aussie rules football training. I would drop him off and duly go straight home. But one warm February evening, watching this recently bulked-up creature jog away to his teammates on the sun-parched oval, I heard a little whisper inside me: you won’t be here much longer. Any minute now he’ll be fully a man, and you’ll be dead. Wake up, old girl. There might be something here for you.
People laughed at my interest in my grandson’s footy team - but I found it a source of strange bliss | Helen Garner
I always knew football draws to the surface a whole well of emotion. What I didn’t know was I too contained such a well
Footy is truly a great game to watch for the young ones. My memories of watching my son play are truly wonderful.
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The 2025 AFL tipping is open in the Comp that I subscribe to.
Submitted my tips a couple of days ago.
Picked home teams for this round.
Anyone's guess as to who will be a winner.
Submitted my tips a couple of days ago.
Picked home teams for this round.
Anyone's guess as to who will be a winner.
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Well blow me off the Planet.
The first AFL game of the year and it's in Qld with that that nasty Alfred bearing down.
Where will the game be played if it is cancelled/transferred.
Over here in sunny/too hot WA might be the logical choice.
The first AFL game of the year and it's in Qld with that that nasty Alfred bearing down.
Where will the game be played if it is cancelled/transferred.
Over here in sunny/too hot WA might be the logical choice.
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AFL House executive jobs must pay well.
The two Brisbane weekend matches could easily have been postponed on Monday, well before Geelong had advance group players heading to the airport on Tuesday.
But no, wait until after the QLD Govt press conference on Tuesday morning.
Somebody elso make the call. ..Big brave Dillon and Laura.
Lions and Cats both have a bye in Rd 3. Play it then ..Suns and Essendon, call ity a draw and 2 points each. Doubt either club would complain.
The two Brisbane weekend matches could easily have been postponed on Monday, well before Geelong had advance group players heading to the airport on Tuesday.
But no, wait until after the QLD Govt press conference on Tuesday morning.
Somebody elso make the call. ..Big brave Dillon and Laura.
Lions and Cats both have a bye in Rd 3. Play it then ..Suns and Essendon, call ity a draw and 2 points each. Doubt either club would complain.
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Criticise them as much as you like but it was the correct decision and had to be based on real time.
If the had not waited and the cyclone had changed direction I am sure you would have criticized them for making the wrong decision.
Rugby should have copied them Yet another PR disaster for them. They are the gooses. I think they are paid less but it's still too much.
Or maybe it's a case of pay bananas get monkeys.!
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The AFL can start paying their way on tax as well. Multi million dollar business.
NRL not much better.
"AFL should loose its "not-for-profit" & tax-free support over the paywall.
The AFL has enjoys significant tax breaks due to its "not-for-profit" / tax free classification. But with broadcasting deals requiring fans to pay for access, and a significant portion of revenue seemingly directed towards executive salaries and, let's be honest, (drug dealers pockets), nah jokes- foreign businesses... shouldn't they start to have to pay their fair share?
While the sport undoubtedly provides entertainment, is that enough to warrant the same tax treatment as genuine charitable organisations. The AFL's popularity & cultural value inherently benefits the public. However, many would say that the money gained through pay per view style broadcasting should mean the AFL should be treated as the for profit business it acts like.."
NRL not much better.
"AFL should loose its "not-for-profit" & tax-free support over the paywall.
The AFL has enjoys significant tax breaks due to its "not-for-profit" / tax free classification. But with broadcasting deals requiring fans to pay for access, and a significant portion of revenue seemingly directed towards executive salaries and, let's be honest, (drug dealers pockets), nah jokes- foreign businesses... shouldn't they start to have to pay their fair share?
While the sport undoubtedly provides entertainment, is that enough to warrant the same tax treatment as genuine charitable organisations. The AFL's popularity & cultural value inherently benefits the public. However, many would say that the money gained through pay per view style broadcasting should mean the AFL should be treated as the for profit business it acts like.."
