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Ryan wrote:

Tim Brown has his shoe business Wool Runners, they raised 120k on Kickstarter.




does that mean that all those people get a little bit of his profits, or are they just plain nice? (as opposed to a bit of both...)
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Bevan wrote:

Masty wrote:

After reading the Team Wellington ex-player profiles, I want to know what the retired players are up to!

Paston?

Tim Brown?

Any sightings of Tony Lochhead?

Tony Warner?

Is this question a bit stalker-y?

Retired players are no longer professionals ...




No - just curious. I'm not bothered about where they live or what their children had for breakfast.

And at the time was watching a documentary on ex-professionals' lives after football.

Here's me thinking you were gonna contribute positively to the conversation!
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Masty wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Tim Brown has his shoe business Wool Runners, th

120k on Kickstarter.




does that mean that all those people get a little bit of his profits, or are they just plain nice? (as opposed to a bit of both...)

s.

No, they gave him money and in return he have them shoes.
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Griffin McMaster is being a racist nob. Did he ever actually take the field for us?

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Doloras wrote:

Griffin McMaster is being a racist nob. Did he ever actually take the field for us?

No, he is just one of the many keepers we had sit on the bench ocassionally.
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Doloras wrote:

Griffin McMaster is being a racist nob. Did he ever actually take the field for us?

Wow what a cod. 
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the best part is that he sent this tweet in 2012

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Is that after he lived in NZ?

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Tegal wrote:

the best part is that he sent this tweet in 2012

So does that mean he's not actually a racist?

Or that he didn't use to be racist, but now he is?

(don't these things usually go in the opposite direction?)

Listen here Fudgeface
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Kristian Rees in the starting XI for Palm Beach FC in the FFA Cup again tonight.

Taking on South Melbourne who have Luke Adams in their starting XI, alongside Michael Eager. Andy Bevin on the bench.

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Eager Mike CAPTAINING South Melbourne is such a massive deal. It's a real shame more's not made of it.

Does anyone know if he's got any desire to try America - or is he just hoping for an A-League spot with Newcastle or something...

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Masty wrote:

Eager Mike CAPTAINING South Melbourne is such a massive deal. It's a real shame more's not made of it.

Does anyone know if he's got any desire to try America - or is he just hoping for an A-League spot with Newcastle or something...

 

He's been their captain for a couple of seasons. Won the league and cup with them. The Phoenix, at least, are not interested. Shame I reckon.

Back to "where are they now" Paul Ifill is, of course, playing a few minutes here and there off the bench for Wairarapa United in central league.

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Bevan wrote:

Tegal wrote:

the best part is that he sent this tweet in 2012

So does that mean he's not actually a racist?

Or that he didn't use to be racist, but now he is?

(don't these things usually go in the opposite direction?)

Maybe it's okay for a "Proud Australian" to say it, but not those uppity Aborigine types?

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Smithy wrote:

Masty wrote:

Eager Mike CAPTAINING South Melbourne is such a massive deal. It's a real shame more's not made of it.

Does anyone know if he's got any desire to try America - or is he just hoping for an A-League spot with Newcastle or something...

 

He's been their captain for a couple of seasons. Won the league and cup with them. The Phoenix, at least, are not interested. Shame I reckon.

Back to "where are they now" Paul Ifill is, of course, playing a few minutes here and there off the bench for Wairarapa United in central league.

Isn't Scott Basalaj there too? Or did I dream that...

Jag
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Jag wrote:

Bevan wrote:

Tegal wrote:

the best part is that he sent this tweet in 2012

So does that mean he's not actually a racist?

Or that he didn't use to be racist, but now he is?

(don't these things usually go in the opposite direction?)

Maybe it's okay for a "Proud Australian" to say it, but not those uppity Aborigine types?

I read his tweet above from 2012 as him proudly saying "Hell yes, let's call it Invasion Day. Let's celebrate that we invaded. Let's rub their face in it."

It wasn't until I saw Tegal say, 'What changed his mind?', that I even conceived that his 2012 tweet could possibly have been him actually supporting the "Australia Day is an insult to indigenous people" line.

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bwtcf wrote:

Jag wrote:

Bevan wrote:

Tegal wrote:

the best part is that he sent this tweet in 2012

So does that mean he's not actually a racist?

Or that he didn't use to be racist, but now he is?

(don't these things usually go in the opposite direction?)

Maybe it's okay for a "Proud Australian" to say it, but not those uppity Aborigine types?

I read his tweet above from 2012 as him proudly saying "Hell yes, let's call it Invasion Day. Let's celebrate that we invaded. Let's rub their face in it."

It wasn't until I saw Tegal say, 'What changed his mind?', that I even conceived that his 2012 tweet could possibly have been him actually supporting the "Australia Day is an insult to indigenous people" line.

Can someone treat me like a really thick cod and tell me what is wrong here? I suspect I have missed a trick but I am not sure what the uproar is about. I'm not trying to offend anyone, I just don't understand the uproar and I think I am missing a large chunk of the story.

What I understand is that some AFL player has said 'lets rename Australia day 'invasion day' " and McMaster has said 'thats quite an unaustralian thing to say and he should piss off if he does not like it'. 

What am I missing?

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JV - Read the article linked by Doloras.

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hlmphil wrote:

JV - Read the article linked by Doloras.

Also this one.

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Ok maybe I am a thick cod. I don't get it.

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Jeff Vader wrote:

Ok maybe I am a thick cod. I don't get it.

Just a guy with a huge chip on his shoulder.

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Leggy wrote:

Jeff Vader wrote:

Ok maybe I am a thick cod. I don't get it.

Just a guy with a huge chip on his shoulder.

Leggy at his ambiguous best. 

Leggy, you were talking about McMaster rather than Vader, right?

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My money is Leggy is talking about Goodes and nobody is surprised by that.

A man who's voice alone used to make me cringe but the more I know of him the more I like him writes:
http://m.smh.com.au/sport/the-fitz-files/bravo-adam-goodes-and-shame-on-alan-jones-and-his-acolytes-20150730-gin6zm.html

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Well said the fitz

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It boils down to: Adam Goodes is the captain of the Sydney Swans and an Aborigine, like many top-rank AFL players. Crouds yell racist abuse at him, because white Australians make Paul Henry look politically correct. Goodes' reactions to this - not just smiling and nodding, but calling out a 13 year old girl who called him an ape and celebrating goal by miming a spear-chuck - just seem to increase the "I'm not racist but that b**ng is too uppity and should f**k off back to the Outback if he can't take banter" reactions.

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Plus it would be hard to tell the age of someone in the heat of the moment and from the field looking at the stands.

What 13 year old is racist? Parents entirely at fault.

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Ryan wrote:

What 13 year old is racist? Parents entirely at fault.

Kids pick up racist attitudes from school and from the media, the best parents in the world can't stop that. But they can apologise on their kids' behalf and not whine about how one of the most talented AFL players of the century doesn't like being called an ape.

(DISCLOSURE: the Swans are my second AFL team after the mighty fighting Hawks. If Adam Goodes played for Carlton I would probably be all like LOL sucks to be you.)

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Not in my school. But then my school was very mixed culturally so maybe that was why.

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My school was mainly white and I clearly remember racist chants about Māori people from when I was about 7. Dunno how things have changed since the dinosaurs died out, though.

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Even the good old primary school rhyme Eeny Meeny Miney Mo ends with Catch a N****r by the toe....

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I changed that to "Catch an All Black by the toe..." seems to go down well!

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I learned the N-word version but had to change it to "tiger" if any grownups were listening.

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It was the only version we heard as kids, all kids sung it and no adults corrected us.

But it wasn't hateful... it was just a word in the song that we didn't understand.

Even the brown kids used it.

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Fruglo wrote:

Even the good old primary school rhyme Eeny Meeny Miney Mo ends with Catch a N****r by the toe....


We always said tiger.

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We said tigger

Listen here Fudgeface
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Oska wrote:

We said tigger

Same here.
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Doloras wrote:

It boils down to: Adam Goodes is the captain of the Sydney Swans and an Aborigine, like many top-rank AFL players. Crouds yell racist abuse at him, because white Australians make Paul Henry look politically correct. Goodes' reactions to this - not just smiling and nodding, but calling out a 13 year old girl who called him an ape and celebrating goal by miming a spear-chuck - just seem to increase the "I'm not racist but that b**ng is too uppity and should f**k off back to the Outback if he can't take banter" reactions.

I know the story about that but this is why I ask if I am missing something.

I say 'Waitangi day should be renamed invasion day'

You tell me if I don't like it, leave NZ

How is that racist telling me to leave NZ?

This is why I think I am missing something here. I don't tolerate racism but I am missing a rather large chunk of the story I think whereby this is viewed as being racist.

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McMaster did say it himself, and it was deemed ok in his books. 

Goodes says it, and it's "un-Australian" and he should be deported. 

Spot the difference. 

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Jeff Vader wrote:

Doloras wrote:

It boils down to: Adam Goodes is the captain of the Sydney Swans and an Aborigine, like many top-rank AFL players. Crouds yell racist abuse at him, because white Australians make Paul Henry look politically correct. Goodes' reactions to this - not just smiling and nodding, but calling out a 13 year old girl who called him an ape and celebrating goal by miming a spear-chuck - just seem to increase the "I'm not racist but that b**ng is too uppity and should f**k off back to the Outback if he can't take banter" reactions.

I know the story about that but this is why I ask if I am missing something.

I say 'Waitangi day should be renamed invasion day'

You tell me if I don't like it, leave NZ

How is that racist telling me to leave NZ?

This is why I think I am missing something here. I don't tolerate racism but I am missing a rather large chunk of the story I think whereby this is viewed as being racist.

waitangi day and australia day are different, one is signifying the signing the of a treaty between Maori and the crown the other of European settlement (even said australia was terra nullius).
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Bullion wrote:

Jeff Vader wrote:

Doloras wrote:

It boils down to: Adam Goodes is the captain of the Sydney Swans and an Aborigine, like many top-rank AFL players. Crouds yell racist abuse at him, because white Australians make Paul Henry look politically correct. Goodes' reactions to this - not just smiling and nodding, but calling out a 13 year old girl who called him an ape and celebrating goal by miming a spear-chuck - just seem to increase the "I'm not racist but that b**ng is too uppity and should f**k off back to the Outback if he can't take banter" reactions.

I know the story about that but this is why I ask if I am missing something.

I say 'Waitangi day should be renamed invasion day'

You tell me if I don't like it, leave NZ

How is that racist telling me to leave NZ?

This is why I think I am missing something here. I don't tolerate racism but I am missing a rather large chunk of the story I think whereby this is viewed as being racist.

waitangi day and australia day are different, one is signifying the signing the of a treaty between Maori and the crown the other of European settlement (even said australia was terra nullius).

Like the South Island.

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