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Will be very telling if (when) no other other club comes knocking on the door for the services of the most experienced list manager in the game

Did Dodoro ever draft a single player that he didn't say could also turn into a midfielder?

Puts paid to his narrative that stepping away was somehow his/a mutual decision. And you're right, his saving grace in terms of his legacy was that he loves the club and, while he may not have achieved much, everything he did was what he thought was in the best interests of the club as opposed...

I don't think it's a question of whether Ralph is right or wrong (I didn't and wouldn't read the article in question for the reasons I'm talking about) - my main point here is what credibility does he have? What is there to suggest he has any idea at all about what he is talking about? He is...

Does Adrian Dodoro thinking he was unfairly dismissed from his role fit in this thread? The very definition of irony.

Genuine question but why would anybody care what John Ralph thinks? I don't quite understand why the line is so blurred between 'journalist' and 'football commentator'. With definite air quotes around the word, Ralph is a 'journalist' - his job is surely to have his ear to the ground and use his...

I think you're mistaking our club for a professional elite organisation. I mean we seemingly didn't even have a comprehensive draft strategy until recently...

Came here to say this

I think as Vander18 said, around halfway through the year teams started sending their best defender to Langford and he was severely restricted from then on. May have been in part due to injury, but the eye test tells you that he's not a genuine key position forward and a real quality stopper is...

Yep I think that's the issue for Langford. If he's copping the best defender each week he is simply not big/athletic enough to beat them with any kind of consistency. So as long as he is our 'best' forward he is going to struggle.

Chief of Leadership and Performance sounds like a very demanding full time job to me Edit - and very high paying

I think the age demographic of the bombers is quite misleading. We are rebuilding, and regardless of the number of more senior players on the list, the vast majority of our most promising players are 23 and under. Our best 23 probably has one player over the age of 28 (Merrett), and we are...

Yes it's not ENTIRELY meaningless. Of course there's no two teams like the hypotheticals I've raised, I'm just making an example using the extremes. The point is just saying 'average age' as if that in itself tells a story without providing context and nuance isn't particularly valuable. A team...

Average age really is the most meaningless of all the meaningless stats in footy. For example, a team with eleven 19-year-old's and eleven 36-year-old's has the same average age as a team of twenty-two players at 27.5 years old. Those are two (hypothetical) teams with wildly different make-ups...

Yep Hibberd was definitely a success, very good player and AA (though not with us) is an incredible outcome for a mature age rookie pick. People must be looking back at Baguley with some seriously rose-coloured glasses though, used to have me screaming at the TV. Was a total liability as a...

Not sure what morality policing has to do with socialism...

Not sure how you can confidently assert that it wasn't funny given you haven't seen the skits. Who knows, could have been hilarious! (probably not)

I can definitely understand the concept that it's a work function and standards of behaviour applying. I think the suggestion that it's a corporate environment is a bit simplistic though. I work in a corporate environment - if I got drunk and paraded around with my my shirt off I would certainly...

I'm not a lawyer but I'd say a place where any punter can wander in off the streets would be considered a 'public place'. I doubt you can walk into a pub and start flashing unsuspecting patron's then use the defence that a pub is private property. Maybe less clear in this instance though given...

Yeah I wasn't specifically talking about nudity, but that did jump out as another morality judgement issue - notwithstanding the legal issue boncer34 raised - that raises more questions than it answers for me.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but the entire issue isn't being framed around the presence of bar staff. All statements from the AFL and journalists etc are very much passing moral judgement on the actions in and of themselves - to me that's what makes these very murky waters. It appears to me...

Something tells me teams will be using their own bar staff (and/or making them sign NDAs) from now on. I think the players would have been in the mindset of 'private function' but clearly it is not being treated as such given there was bar staff present.

Why does being naked make it 'worse'? Some pretty strong morality policing going on here by the AFL.

Think he's talking about James' sons (Hird)

Plenty of funny jokes about paedophilia - try watching some Ricky Gervais, Bill Burr, Chappelle or Louis CK stand up. Ever watched Peep Show? Again, it's the nuance of the joke and who is being laughed at that matters, not the subject of the joke.

Well yeah that's exactly my point really. The spirit of the joke is what counts (i.e. who/what are we laughing at?) not the subject.

Can't pretend I'm on the same page as you re 9/11 but I think we agree on the sentiment; there's no subject that is too taboo to find humour in, but the ethics of it depends on the spirit of the joke.

Well you seem to be saying that a particular historic event is ethically off limits from humour based on the suffering involved. I'm trying to demonstrate that your argument simply doesn't hold, by asking you to critically assess your own humour to realise that you yourself find humour in a...

It is not ethically wrong to find humour from suffering. It's been a part of human nature and existence since time immemorial. I'm sure if you're honest with yourself you've made or laughed at countless jokes or comedy shows/movies/stand-ups about war, famine, vikings, Hitler, fraud, theft, or...

Mixed feelings about the Giants skits and punishments, particularly as we don't actually know the content of the skits or the spirit they were performed in. But the idea that it's an a priori ethical wrong to make jokes about bad things is just way off, and if anyone using that argument...