Anzac Ceremony for every game

[PP34]

Isn’t this just a bit over a top?

I understand the game, but I find it bizarre and tacky that they’ve now pretty much marketed a whole round around the slaughter of innocent men. Do we really need to have the ceremony for almost every game?

Surely just do it on the actual day.

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

Did the Crows do the power stance?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Isn’t this just a bit over a top?

I understand the game, but I find it bizarre and tacky that they’ve now pretty much marketed a whole round around the slaughter of innocent men. Do we really need to have the ceremony for every game?

Surely just do it on the actual day.

Show a bit of respect, this is the time we remember footballers who gave their lives for the game.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Isn’t this just a bit over a top?

I understand the game, but I find it bizarre and tacky that they’ve now pretty much marketed a whole round around the slaughter of innocent men. Do we really need to have the ceremony for every game?

Surely just do it on the actual day.

You think that's over the top? We did a minutes silence for an indoor cricket game many years ago, can't say it was 'silent' though as we were pissing ourselves laughing, not out of disrespect to our past and present service men/women, but because it was indoor cricket FFS, i thought they were gonna play the national anthem for a minute.

 

[LynchysMob]

Wow. So 9 ANZAC tributes a year before the footy to men who sacrificed their life for this country offends you. No words.

Entitlement at its finest is all I can say.

 

[Messenger]

We don't need it for every match. Although I did enjoy God Defend New Zealand.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Don't they only do one in each state with the only exception of ANZAC day eve and ANZAC day

 

[Bunk Moreland]

You think that's over the top? We did a minutes silence for an indoor cricket game many years ago, can't say it was 'silent' though as we were pissing ourselves laughing, not out of disrespect to our past and present service men/women, but because it was indoor cricket FFS, i thought they were gonna play the national anthem for a minute.

We’ve got caps

https://www.bombershop.com.au/950-essbom-2018-anzac

“Show your support for fallen men by buying a $50 cap that cost 11c to make.”

 

[PP34]

Wow. So 9 ANZAC tributes a year before the footy footy to men who sacrificed their life for this country offends you. No words.

Entitlement at its finest is all I can say.

I’m not offended at all.

Just feels completely tacky compared to the stuff on the actual day.

But yeah I forgot how dare I forget that the whole idea of Anzac Day has been been turned into something totally different in modern times.

They are marketing a round of football around a day that commentates men being slaughtered. That’s pretty sick.

 

[LynchysMob]

I’m not offended at all.

Just feels completely tacky compared to the stuff on the actual day.

But yeah I forgot how dare I forget that the whole idea of Anzac Day has been been turned into something totally different in modern times.

I daresay you wouldn't have this view if your grandfather had been an ANZAC. They deserve every moment of respect they get. There is nothing lost by having the tribute before the game.

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[Kram]

Never been a fan of how the AFL almost use the day as a marketing exercise.

 

[PP34]

I daresay you wouldn't have this view if your grandfather had been an ANZAC. They deserve every moment of respect they get. There is nothing lost by having the tribute before the game.

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Yeah righto mate.

My deceased family member is going to feel completely disrespected and forgotten about because there wasn’t a ****ing ceremony for them at an AFL game.

You do realise men coming back from war don’t want to be constantly reminded of it? They have memories of war that last much longer than once a year. Making close to a week long spectacle around it goes totally against that.

 

[Sentinel]

It's entirely appropriate to use the moments before a football game to pay respect to the ANZACs and their sacrifices made.

It's entirely inappropriate to use the abovementioned tribute to the ANZACs as a means to market said games of football.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I daresay you wouldn't have this view if your grandfather had been an ANZAC. They deserve every moment of respect they get. There is nothing lost by having the tribute before the game.

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It’s the marketing of it and the profiteering.

 

[Pessimistic]

Don't they only do one in each state with the only exception of ANZAC day eve and ANZAC day

That makes sense

 

[Leeda]

why do we have to be all so cynical. Can't we all have our own derivations of an Anzac ceremony. Not perhaps like soldiers jumping out of
choppers or else driving them round the g.

Do what each combination of clubs want to do and where the games are going to play.

It is being cynical that we all become disinterested. Let the two clubs develop a way to celebrate, commemorate and embrace
what is the Anzac spirit..

stop the idea that it belongs only to the bombers and the Pies.

make it your own..

 

[Hawker_85]

I'm currently deployed on operations and I was surprised to see it before today's game, the day proper still feels like it's a long way away. I don't mind it, but I understand some might find having it before every game to be a bit excessive.

 

[Madison]

It’s almost a full week away. Feels weird doing anything so far away from the actual day.

I’d prefer they keep it to the day of and the Anzac eve game. Makes it more special if they aren’t doing it the week before the actual day.

 

[Cmarsh]

Don't mind it. Some people have to work Anzac day so having them on the days leading up may be the only chance one gets to see a commemoration.

 

[Leeda]

ah well there you go.. we aren't perhaps expected to watch every game other than our own.. that's obvious. so everyone should stop
complaining. Perhaps not complaining but again it is such a dynamic situation where everyone has a different view.

shucks I am telling myself to shut up mother for trying to cuss her son and daughter for being so vocal.. they hate me for it.

 

[Cincinnatus]

There is so much the AFL does that is wrong or contentious or needs fixing. This isnt one of them.

It allows all teams to pay their respects officially.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

We’ve got caps

https://www.bombershop.com.au/950-essbom-2018-anzac

“Show your support for fallen men by buying a $50 cap that cost 11c to make.”

And then you have to take the ****ing thing off during the minutes silence.

 

[Power Raid]

Wow. So 9 ANZAC tributes a year before the footy to men who sacrificed their life for this country offends you. No words.

Entitlement at its finest is all I can say.

ANZAC day is a disgraceful celebration of war designed as a marketing tool to attract the next lambs to the slaughter and reduce the compensation to the families who lost their loved ones.

regards
ex-serviceman

 

[moses]

Did the Crows do the power stance?

no but we won

 

[Cmarsh]

ANZAC day is a disgraceful celebration of war designed as a marketing tool to attract the next lambs to the slaughter and reduce the compensation to the families who lost their loved ones.

regards
ex-serviceman

I'd imagine your view would be in a minority amongst your colleagues?