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NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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I didn't get a go on the Crows supporters list :saddowns:

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NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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tnimark posted:

Milne's biggest crime is sexually assaulting a teenager.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Adelaide are playing on a slab of rock at Port Lincoln :cripes:

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Drugs posted:

i am extremely excited for a low-quality feed of a practice game in bumfuck nowhere

This unironically

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Just watching the Adelaide highlights - Betts got the ball over the back, kicked at goal under pressure, and it went straight through the middle as he slid into the goal post.

Except it hit the goal umpire just over the line and bounced back onto the field, and what I can only assume was an apprentice metro primary schools umpire called that it wasn't a goal, and was instead play on with the Kangaroos rebounding.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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The only way I would like to see Port make the GF is if they were on the end of another hammering that broke their 119 record.

I don't bandwagon other teams, when the Crows are done for the season I pretty much am as well.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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This is the best time to post that KB gif but I can't loving find it

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Gough Suppressant posted:

Richmond fans are just Melbourne fans cursed with hope.

Also chicken coops instead of chalets

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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There's a red (and a green, blue and yellow) button on the Foxtel remote control which is used to activate multi channel stuff, most commonly for 6 Premier League games on one channel. Last year they started offering team-oriented alternative AFL commentary, and that game was the best ever example.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Gough Suppressant posted:

feeding us a steady drip of dementia fuelled stupidity through his daily morning radio show.

Also through the rules committee, where his demented ramblings present as some of the hosed up reactionary rules changes we're living with today.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Diet Crack posted:

Press red for no commentary, just on ground sound.

Press red for Fat Cat and Humphrey B. Bear

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Gough Suppressant posted:

Yeah, this too. Have they finally chucked him off the rules committee yet?

Yeah, end of last year, but we'll still get to see his hilarious selections for the Rising Star and AA team for a while yet

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Gough Suppressant posted:

Also the AFL is calling the sydney vs freo nab challenge match the 'pride cup' to raise awareness against homophobia.

I wonder how bigfooty is taking this news.

A comparatively liberal BigFooty user posted:

Queers can do whatever they want at home, just don't shove it in our faces

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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TG-Chrono posted:

:siren: Giants re-sign Jeremy Cameron on $5 million over 5 years

Welp, that kills that trade rumour good and proper, now we can find someone else to fantasise over.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Gough Suppressant posted:

zac dawson just said that one of his teammates had clocked up 200,000km running during the off season. I knew Ross Lyon worked his players hard, but that seems slightly excessive even for him.

Can you think of a better way to stop Colin Sylvia looking like Darren Jarman?

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Diet Crack posted:

Honestly though, it's probably a thing to do with cricket being an all day event where musical instruments wouldn't really gently caress your spectatorship of the sport. I don't get it personally, but I'd be kind of pissed off if someone was blasting a trumpet in my ear at the footy.

They banned musical instruments at Adelaide Oval years ago, and it basically took people getting lovely with them not letting the Barrmy Army trumpeter into the ground with his trumpet for them to take one step back and allow approved instruments in on a case by case basis.

Steel drums and bongos on the Clem Hill hill were great during a game, back before and just after they put up the Chappell stands and the Clem Hill stand :sigh:

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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hiddenmovement posted:

To take it from the other point of view, who's to say that we aren't excluding people from other cultures feeling like they can come to the footy by preventing them from being able to enjoy sport in a way they can relate to? What if the overly strict rules which dampen crowd participation are actively keeping away cultural groups that really enjoy that sort of thing?

Everyone in, everyone sits, everyone claps, everyone cheers politely at a middle volume, everyone gets up at half time to buy a venue snack and a non alcoholic drink, everyone returns to their seats, everyone claps, everyone cheers politely at a middle volume, everyone applauds bboth teams and the umpires at the end of the game, everyone queues to buy one item of Playcorp merchandise, everyone files out of the venue in an orderly fashion.

The AFL dream as envisioned and currently being enacted by a HR department. Alcohol, excessive noise, non-regulation cheers, any aggression, these are things that could lead to an incident and a lawsuit, and a PR campaign against them from the Family Morality Organisation for Moral Families.

NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Mar 9, 2015

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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cpaf posted:

It's a sullen dystopian future to be sure. Could it even be called a sport, unless a thirteen year old girl is there, in the front row, calling an indigenous player an ape? Probably not.

Yes because I was totally talking about bringing back racism, and not that stewards and police will come and give you a warning if you shout loudly or swear, and you weren't at all being pretentious.

It is possible to stamp out racism, sexism and alcohol fueled violence without also stamping out vocal and passionate support, which seems to be flying out the door with them.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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I like the Rugby Union flanker to charging front rower style underarm throw from Selwood to get it to him

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Gough Suppressant posted:

Ah, Jupiter, is he to leave,

is a foreigner to pour scorn on our kingdom? Shall my Tyrians

ready their armour, and follow them out of the city, and others drag

our ships from their docks? Go, bring fire quickly, hand out the

weapons, drive the oars! What am I saying? Where am I?

What madness twists my thoughts? Wretched Dido, is it now

that your impious actions hurt you? The right time was then,

when you gave him the crown. So this is the word and loyalty

of the man whom they say bears his father’s gods around,

of the man who carried his age-worn father on his shoulders?

Couldn’t I have seized hold of him, torn his body apart,

and scattered him on the waves? And put his friends to the sword,

and Ascanius even, to feast on, as a course at his father’s table?

True the fortunes of war are uncertain. Let them be so:

as one about to die, whom had I to fear? I should have set fire

to his camp, filled the decks with flames, and extinguishing

father and son, and their whole race, given up my own life as well.

O Sun, you who illuminate all the works of this world,

and you Juno, interpreter and knower of all my pain,

and Hecate howled to, in cities, at midnight crossroads,

you, avenging Furies, and you, gods of dying Elissa,

acknowledge this, direct your righteous will to my troubles,

and hear my prayer. If it must be that the accursed one

should reach the harbour, and sail to the shore:

if Jove’s destiny for him requires it, there his goal:

still, troubled in war by the armies of a proud race,

exiled from his territories, torn from Iulus’s embrace,

let him beg help, and watch the shameful death of his people:

then, when he has surrendered, to a peace without justice,

may he not enjoy his kingdom or the days he longed for,

but let him die before his time, and lie unburied on the sand.

This I pray, these last words I pour out with my blood.

Then, O Tyrians, pursue my hatred against his whole line

and the race to come, and offer it as a tribute to my ashes.

Let there be no love or treaties between our peoples.

Rise, some unknown avenger, from my dust, who will pursue

the Trojan colonists with fire and sword, now, or in time

to come, whenever the strength is granted him.

I pray that shore be opposed to shore, water to wave,

weapon to weapon: let them fight, them and their descendants.

This passion lifted him upon his feet,
And made his hands to struggle in the air,
His Druid locks to shake and ooze with sweat,
His eyes to fever out, his voice to cease.
He stood, and heard not Thea’s sobbing deep;
A little time, and then again he snatch’d
Utterance thus. - «But cannot I create?
«Cannot I form? Cannot I fashion forth
«Another world, another universe,
«To overbear and crumble this to nought?
«Where is another chaos? Where?» - That word
Found way unto Olympus, and made quake
The rebel three. - Thea was startled up,
And in her bearing was a sort of hope,
As thus she quick-voic’d spake, yet full of awe.

«This cheers our fallen house: come to our friends,
«O Saturn! come away, and give them heart;
«I know the covert, for thence came I hither.»
Thus brief; then with beseeching eyes she went
With backward footing through the shade a space:
He follow’d, and she turn’d to lead the way
Through aged boughs, that yielded like the mist
Which eagles cleave upmounting from their nest.

Meanwhile in other realms big tears were shed,
More sorrow like to this, and such like woe,
Too huge for mortal tongue or pen of scribe:
The Titans fierce, self hid, or prison-bound,
Groan’d for the old allegiance once more,
And listen’d in sharp pain for Saturn’s voice.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Corzaa posted:

Anybody know if the rumor about Allen Christensen messing around with Tom Lonergan's wife is true?

The rumour was he got some girl knocked up, never heard any specifics about which girl

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Volkerball posted:

Looks like Ablett gets the last laugh.

Robert Shirley retired unbeaten :colbert:

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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BrigadierSensible posted:

James Brayshaw is a oval office. And as a North supporter, I blame you personally for him and his atrocious cricket commentary.

edit: To make a serious point though, I doubt there is any major sports team anywhere in the world that is not owned/run buy horrible horrible people. And if there is, then that sports team probably has horrible horrible people playing for them, and if they don't then they are supported bu horrible horrible people.

In short: people are cunts, people involved at the highest level of sport exponentially so.

The best case study is Chelsea FC - the supporters are largely racist to full on neo-nazi cunts, many of the players are cunts, the captain is a deadset oval office, the manager is a mega oval office, and the owner is a corrupt as all gently caress oval office. They're going to win the league this season :thumbsup:

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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TG-Chrono posted:

Paleo diet works man.

Raw milk for strong bones

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Spacman posted:

I think the best bit of that was that Collingwood fan hurling racial abuse at a footballer resulted in her fat ugly arse being turfed out of the stadium and his peak physical fitness arse being named Australian of the Year as direct result.

I think personally calling her to explain why what she did was wrong, and how she could be a better person, instead of participating in a trial by media they could pick apart is what upset people most of all

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Fine, not most of all, but you can't believe it didn't annoy them that he didn't live up to the "whinging abo on tv" thing they could wave around

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Adelaide have lost Brad Crouch for 2 months with a broken foot. So this will be another wasted season for him, and he's already a player I didn't think would get anywhere near the hype inflamed when we spent big draft picks to get him.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Drugs posted:

Oh poo poo 8 weeks better send him to the glue factory

He's 21 and he's already had an achilles, a broken leg, a broken foot and a severe hamstring tear. I already have him down as a good 200 game who never reaches the hype type, but if he keeps getting these injuries he's not even going to get that far, which compounds the trade error even further.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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This just in, Essendon players beat doping charges after accepting the defense that their mums gave them the pills, so they didn't know what was in them and couldn't reject the offer

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Aug 15, 2012

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Testekill posted:

Sounds like Iaccarinno probably won't be punished either since there aren't rules related to VFL players betting on AFL teams. Heard that they are going to change rules regarding players at VFL clubs that are either aligned with an AFL team or are flat-out owned by an AFL team.

They're basically saying he got away with abusing the loophole this time, but next time anyone tries it they won't be able to use an unpunishable VFL player as the fall guy

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Drugs posted:

The likelihood of that story being the true sequence of events is zero

I agree, there's not the remotest chance that a single part of the story Lachie Hunter told the AFL investigators is true

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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I've never done a draft before, so in preparation I've been watching all the draft episodes of The League

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Aug 15, 2012

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Designed by McLeod, with input from all the current indigenous players on our list

NTRabbit
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So I guess I mistook when the draft was, because I've missed all of it.

Looks like the machine picked utter poo poo for me, is there any reason to bother playing still?

NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Mar 28, 2015

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Got home from Ikea just in time to see pick 12 fly by; took over, then just before I selected Cooney, while desperately trying to boost someone else above him in my wishlist, Adam internet cut out for 10 minutes, so by the time I got my phone off wifi and logged in that one was gone. Then the time desynched and it auto selected a 4th ruckman for me while I was trying to take Langdon as a back.

This is going to take some doing to salvage, since the stupid machine also burned my third pick on Brad Crouch, who is out for a good 6 rounds.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Here have a video about the awesome Crows indigenous guernsey http://www.afc.com.au/news/2015-03-28/new-indigeous-guernsey-revealed

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

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Apparently I'm going to my first Crows game outside of Adelaide... if I can figure out how to buy the tickets.

Should I be able to buy GA tickets to the game vs Collingwood at the MCG Etihad already? I don't think my membership entitles me to anything else

Edit: Turns out I can, just the automated system from Ticketmaster turns off between 2 and 5am for reasons unexplained.

NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Mar 29, 2015

NTRabbit
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The important thing is that I almost took Josh Thomas in the draft but didn't

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realbez posted:

Please no, I can't take another two years of this drugs bullshit. Anyway, there is no way an AFL club would be dumb enough to give their players clenbuterol, a very well known PED. Only idiot individuals can make that choice as professional footballers.

Won't remotely take two years, they have an actual positive test this time so it will be done shortly after the B sample comes back positive

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hiddenmovement posted:

If they have any sense they will just sack them on the spot. They aren't exactly A graders anyway

If they do that now and the B samples come back negative they'll cop a wrongful dismissal suit. It's pretty much on hold until the end of April.

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