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Couple of quick thoughts reading through this long long autopsy: 1. Hoodoo? Definitely. I can't see how anyone could claim otherwise. We have lost nine straight to the Cats; even if you grant that Geelong has been the better side over the last 4 years, and say for example that on talent you...

Pretty ordinary. First one a set shot on an angle but would expect him to kick it, the second one on the run straight in front from about 30.

Re: Josh Kennedy Hindsight Thread aka 'We sold Manhattan for a bunch of trinkets and a blunt hatchet One other thing - if Kennedy had stayed at Hawthorn he wouldn't be the player he is today, so the argument that we should have kept him so that we had the current model Kennedy in our 2012 side...

Well the answer from pretty much every serious study is pretty clearly yes. Have a look at the beyond blue report linked above for starters. No, you are not "addicted" to Hawthorn in the sense that the term is being used here for problem gambling. That's just a figure of speech that...

Not sure how you come to this conclusion. Jeff Kennett has had many opportunities over the years to publicly support reducing poker machine revenue, but I have never heard him do so - but he HAS expressed the contrary opinion. As an earlier poster pointed out, he is also on the board of a...

There are pretty clear links between clinical depression and problem gambling - not just the normal process of feeling bad because you've lost money. It's fair to say that there's more research to be done, but it's pretty clear that people with clinical depression are far more likely to have...

There is a big difference between gambling, and a gambling addiction. No one is trying to stop people losing a few bucks on the pokies. Problem gamblers though lose over $20,000 per year on average, with major impacts on families. That's the thing about addiction - it's no longer just something...

Well, how about thinking about it in moral terms rather than purely commercial terms, and asking whether we really want to be basing the club's finances on exploiting some of the least well off members of society? No-one's saying that clubs can't have pokies, and the compliance costs aren't as...

So Jeff thinks that proposed legislation to limit the losses of problem gamblers will 'threaten the survival' of Australian Rules Football. Yet another example of why it has been such a complete embarrassment to have him as our President. I also don't know how he can be involved in...

Irrespective of whether he has made Hawthorn a more successful club or not, I will be rapt when he's gone. Football is a game, and his time as President pales into insignificance compared with his term as Premier between 1992 and 1999. Having him associated with the club has, for me, been an...

Re: Okay, I will say it because somebody has to. This reminds me a bit of a situation with the English soccer team I follow, Everton, a few years ago. A young, ambitious manager, David Moyes, had some initial success but then lost the players completely with an authoritarian, my way or the...

I've got to say I don't understand all the concern about not posting information that others might find alarming, or without naming a source, or that might be only a rumour. Getting information from BF is no different from any other area of life: there are a lot of different 'facts' and views...