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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2019 AFL Fixture
While you can spend time discussing our draw, what chance do some clubs have?

Travis Auld;
Travis holds a Bachelor of Business from La Trobe University and is an associate of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Institute of Company Directors. He started his professional career with William Buck Chartered Accountants including a secondment to London. Joined Essendon Football Club in 1997 and in December 2000 was appointed the club’s Chief Operating Officer, with responsibilities across the business ranging from strategy, commercial operations, football, financial management and governance, community strategy and media.

Appointed inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Gold Coast Suns in June 2009. Led the development and implementation of the strategic plan to establish the club which entered the AFL competition in 2011. Commencing at the AFL in September 2014, he is responsible for AFL clubs, strategy, human resources, broadcasting, fixturing and stadia operations.

Is it any accident CheatsFC is a big winner, after a crap 2018, and that GC have gotten the easiest draw despite as Kevin Sheedy likes to remind us finishing above us on the ladder!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: The Facts
Those facts will never make it to air on TV or Radio, they do not suit the politics.

Anyone who monitors the TV ratings can clearly see the tripe being delivered by BT, Pink Pig, Special and The Hair Sniffer doesn't match the numbers.

Their position is political not objective, whether it's their position or the networks position doesn't matter, they broadcast it so they wear it!

I wouldn't even be surprised to find that down the track they(CheatsTV) broadcast some fake figures in the best Trump style to justify their position. They can get away with it because there is no independent umpire that really cares about this sort of stuff, it's inconsequential.

Insidiously, I won't be surprised to find Jab Snr parroting out some dodgy figures on SEN to support the CheatsTV case.

The nepotism across AFL media is rampant and out of control, it's the nepotism and politics that destroy the broadcasts on TV and Radio not the games!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: When Actors claim Defamation!
Quote from: dodge on
This from Crikey...

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/comment-rush-trial-will-leave-behind-nothing-but-wreckage/ar-BBP8ltD?ocid=spartandhp

The following line in the article caught my eye.

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The law demands that there be an objective truth at the bottom of this. Either Norvill is lying, or Rush is lying.

In intent perhaps, in practice in cases like this hardly, they are often far more subjective than objective!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: A Rapid Rise Would Not Surprise.
Kerr might be the KPD man EB1, he's played that role at VFL level.

Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
Docherty back is great and hopefully Williamson is fit to go as well but you look at round 1 and Lynch and J. Reiwoldt and it smakes me uneasy with two very flakey opponents like Jones and JW playing on them.....

But on that basis we've had nothing for Lynch before or after the departure of Rowe and ACoS, as I see it the problem isn't the KPDs, the problem is our pissweak midfield defensive running efffort.

Regardless, what are the odds Reiwoldt will clean up Lynch sometime early in the season, like he has to all the other KPFs that competed with him for the football!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: The Facts
Quote from: madbluboy on
When we're back in the finals picture all of our games will be blockbusters.

This latest effort is nothing more than a tactical counter attack for the calls last season to have them kiboshed from the Anzac Day. They'll use this Good Friday game as a loss leader to defend the bigger prize. If the Good Friday schedule or the Cheats turn out to be spuds they argue for to surrender Good Friday but retain Anzac Day.

But for other clubs the bigger risk is if by chance the Good Friday schedule is a success, the Cheats have a history of locking these things in long term and good luck getting your share because the AFL Board, AFL Broadcaster and AFL Executive is dominated by CheatsFC benefactors! The word I have is that if they again fail to fill Etihad on Good Friday that will trigger Norp getting the ar5e for it to become a CheatsFC / Handbaggers event. Norp already have the blame allocated to them, despite how quickly the CheatsFC fans bailed last season when they turned sour!

The source of this rumor has been right on the money from day one, so I'm confident of the AFL's long term intent is not a fiction.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: A Rapid Rise Would Not Surprise.
Quote from: flyboy77 on
And likely 18yo Sam Walsh....all of the above will start hitting peak output in 2020 more or less - I'd expect to make the 8 in 2020. Next year maybe 10-12th spot.

We need to making finals and losing well before we are ready to make a real long term impact, they will need the experience.

We do not want to be one hit wonders, like a the starving homeless man invited to a feast then sent back to live in the gutter!

Also, the longer the lead-time to finals the lower our chance of retaining layers. Fans might hold the line and maintain the faith long term, but aging players won't if they are not given some positive short term signs! Believing otherwise is just a wish!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: When Actors claim Defamation!
btw., Final update today.

Affronted by an emoji it seems!

I did a quick pop quiz here in the office, not many people but I showed a few different age groups of people asking them what the alleged emoji means. I basically got a three main categories, drunken wink, raspberry wink, nudge nudge wink, not one person thought it meant some weird licking wink or panting tongue lapping wink.

I suppose I now have to assume Rush is devilishly clever, picked just the right emoji to send an suggestive and offensive yet ambiguous message! Alternative is the girl a moron or a gold digger, could they both be in it for profit!

Maybe Rush wins his defamation case, then makes quiet restitution with the girl as an apology for an unfortunate yet otherwise simple misunderstanding, must I be so cynical! If I hadn't worked for so long at the newspapers, with the connected behind the scenes insights, I'd look at this whole episode far more innocently.

They are all potentially profiting, even the newspaper, they are probably making more additional money right now than they will ever have to pay out, and it's a very uncomfortable feeling!

Bye ...................... no alternate meaning intended!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: When Actors claim Defamation!
Quote from: dodge on
The Rush case is different.  He is suing the newspaper for defamation.  This is not only for personal reputation, but also loss of work.  I don't think the actress made a formal complaint.

The consequences of Rush's action is that everything has to be aired. He has to be able to prove that he has been defamed, therefore his story, her story and everyone else's who was involved in that production.

From the reports, there is a massive defense of Rush, and the actress has been saying that she was intimidated by who he is - and she has little support from the rest of the people involved in the show.  It seems to be along typical lines - someone with power and someone with none.  There is also a blurring of generations and what is and isn't acceptable.  Two worlds colliding.

Back to the original question - who is to be believed?  In many cases, both would have elements that are to be believed,  That doesn't make them both right.

A sensible response that is free of political, social or moral agenda.

I have one associate who works in a similar area of the arts, projects they get involved in are like those of Rush and they are not developed overnight. They are planned years out, it's surprising to know how far out some of these endeavors start, not months but years! I find it an uncomfortable assertion from the Rush camp, and the Wilson camp before that, and the claims by their supporters, that opportunities dried up effectively overnight. Because if they were busy they would have been working on projects 2 or 3 years out from completion with a lot of money already invested. Not something that investors will generally throw out with the bathwater, or when a court date is not yet even set in a such civil case!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: When Actors claim Defamation!
Quote from: PaulP on
The parallels between a surge in work, profile etc., between reality TV folks and accusers are perfectly valid.

I don't think so, the subject of this thread is the potential for coordinated activity on either side.

There are questions on both sides that should leave the reasonable person feeling uncomfortable, and I see no reason to favor one side above the other!

In the Rush case, his accuser doesn't pay, this isn't a case between the accused and the accuser, yet the accuser testifies! Through hate, justice or reward?

Rush could be rewarded, while he risks costs he could also be assessed as placing a bet!

If there is no benefit what motives of his accuser, I'm rightly led to believe that in genuine circumstances these are deeply private, personal and embarrassing situations causing grief and disenchantment. Yet I see a smiling, perhaps even parading, débutante leaving the court! Why participate in the media organizations litigation, this is a civil case isn't it?

Am I to be expected to assume it is of good intention, if so explain why on what grounds?

Further to today's events, why the sudden change in the defense plea have they discovered a liability or exposed a fraud?