Opinion Commentary & Media VIII

[Orange Peanut]

If anyone says Happy Meal belongs in the best 22 players at North, they have NFI. Doesn’t matter about gender. Stop making it a gender war. Its not.

Oh my bad, I just figured when you called the host a simp, immediately followed by the names of 3 female guests, that would be gender-related.

Dean is a simp, marnie, siobhan, clare pfff no thanks..

Maybe I misread it?

 

[Danni_Benson]

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Clouds are very offensive.

 

[year of the roo]

You didn't misread it, OP. It's a shame that DuckYeah and Teffy were never around at the same time, they'd get on like a house on fire.

 

[Orange Peanut]

That shouldn't be too hard. Just look for a poster with NFI that posts nonsense constantly. stern look

I've narrowed it down to 243 suspects. Hard to move through them when I can't even rule myself out though.

 

[shintemaster]

Unbelievable how passionate he is about NMFC and how hollow he is towards Collingwood, gee they must’ve really knifed him back in the day.

Brilliant interview and we love ya Euge! Top work Marnie

Absolutely, especially considering we effectively turfed him as well. Imagine how hard they must have burned him.

I've narrowed it down to 243 suspects. Hard to move through them when I can't even rule myself out though.

Shades of Spartacus.

 

[King Corey]

Late to the chipati but Marnie's interview with Luke McDonald was great.

Hard not to root for the guy (ahem) after that.

 

[gokangas]

So Warner isn't interested in an invite to the AFL's Christmas Party.

Michael Warner: AFL’s hypocrisy in era of identity politics is turning fans against one another​

The AFL’s bosses have tied themselves in knots conforming to identity politics, moral grandstanding and radical left ideology, writes Michael Warner. It’s clear a majority of fans have come to resent it.

Michael Warner

3 min read
December 4, 2024

AFL​

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Only the permanently outraged would have taken offence when an AFL umpire attended a private, post-season “characters of the 2000s” party in an Osama bin Laden mask.
Predictably, it triggered an investigation (and a one-match suspension) at AFL HQ where the game’s administrators have tied themselves in knots conforming to the era of identity politics, moral grandstanding and radical left ideology.
But recent world events and last year’s failed Voice referendum reflect how a growing majority have had enough of progressive lectures and the rise of divisive social agendas and their endless demands.
Persistent Welcome to Country ceremonies, Pride rounds, pre-match knee-dropping and race-baiting doesn’t unite Australians – it creates a growing level of resentment, turning us against each other.

Leigh Haussen was suspended after wearing a post-season party costume. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe
The AFL would do well to follow other corporations in disbanding their DEI department headed by its so-called “executive general manager of inclusion and social policy”.
Football’s capture by the woke movement has always reeked of hypocrisy.
The AFL is currently defending itself vigorously against a racism class action led by Indigenous North Melbourne great Phil Krakouer. But how does that correlate with its public undertakings to believe all First Nations players?
It’s hard to espouse your private view when preaching the complete opposite.
It’s like how the league waved its finger at the Hawks while releasing themselves from future liability during the botched Hawthorn racism probe.

In the year of the Voice they couldn’t bring themselves to reveal that not one but two secret reports had cleared former Hawks officials Alastair Clarkson, Chris Fagan and Jason Burt of devastating claims of racism.
The two reports went into a lead box and were buried, leaving us all to ponder whether a culture of systemic racism had indeed thrived at Hawthorn during the club’s golden premiership era of 2008-15.
Then there’s their love of the gambling dollar.
It was AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder who pushed the clubs to reduce their dependency on poker machine revenues, only to oversee a boom in the code’s lucrative relationship with sports betting companies.

AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder. Picture: Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images
As pokies baron Bruce Mathieson put it, it’s like saying gin is bad but vodka’s good.
You can only laugh when betting odds are plastered across the AFL website alongside the Indigenous place names of match venues. The Wurundjeri Cup brought to you by Sportsbet.
When a practising Muslim AFLW player sat out the league’s annual Pride Round because the rainbow-themed uniform did not represent her faith, the league could only explain that inclusion was a complicated matter.
Complicated like how one club pockets massive sponsorship dollars from the state-owned airline of Qatar, where homosexuality is banned and openly gay men and women face dire consequences, while its players slip on rainbow socks in matches.
Remember the furore when six Manly rugby league players from the Pacific Islands refused to wear a pride jersey on religious grounds? They were heavily condemned, so why not the Muslim AFLW player?

The Swans play in a pride game every season. Picture: Phil Hillyard

Qatar Airways remains one of Sydney’s major sponsors. Picture. Phil Hillyard
Rampant illicit drug-use is also tolerated within football, where some AFL club doctors conducted secret match-eve tests to ensure cocaine-addled stars don’t risk suspension under the world anti-doping code. So drugs are in, but poor taste costumes are out.
And what about the devastating scourge of concussion?
The league’s very own head-knocks tsar was exposed in an international plagiarism scandal, while in coronial inquests and concussion court cases the AFL plays hard ball to minimise its liability from suicides and debilitating brain injury, which would be fair enough if they didn’t carry on about how compassionate they are to everyone else who suffers in society.
The rules of wokeism don’t allow for debate (or even the views in this column), but a growing number of fair-minded Australians know that the nation’s biggest sport has been an active participant in the overreach of the DEI age.

 

[leighlee13]

Former AFL star heading to Ballarat Swans​

By Greg Gliddon
Updated December 4 2024 - 1:18pm,

Ballarat Swans have announced the biggest signing so far in the off-season in the Ballarat Football Netball League off-season with a former Richmond and North Melbourne AFL star to join the club in 2025.

Bigoa 'Biggie' Nyuon will be calling the Swans home from next season. The 23-year-old 200cm athletic big man said he was excited to be calling Ballarat home next year.

"I'm excited to have joined the Swans, from the first contact with the club I was impressed with their professionalism and the off and on field support and culture they have developed," he said.

"I'm looking forward to playing good footy and being involved with the club with my family and partner".
Originally recruited from the Dandenong Stingrays, Nyuon made his debut with Richmond in round nine of the 2022 season.

Looking for more opportunities to play senior AFL football, the North Melbourne Kangaroos traded away their pick No.65 in the 2023 AFL Draft for him

He spent 2024 on the Kangaroos playing list, playing three senior AFL games averaging 15 disposals and six marks per game.

Ballarat Swans director of football, Phil Partington, praised the athletic ability of Nyuon, highlighting that at two metres tall he clocked the fastest 20 metre sprint of all of the draft potentials at the 2019 draft camp.


"We are super excited to welcome Biggie to the Swans. His athleticism, exceptional speed, and ability to take a strong intercept mark are some of his key strengths. And at 23 years old he's just entering his prime years, so we're super excited to see what he can bring to the field. He's also a ripping person."

Biggie is no stranger to the Ballarat community as he spent his formative years living in the city and he has family still living only a drop punt away from Ballarat's home ground at Alfredton Reserve.

 

[The Brady Bunch]

So Warner isn't interested in an invite to the AFL's Christmas Party.

Michael Warner: AFL’s hypocrisy in era of identity politics is turning fans against one another​

The AFL’s bosses have tied themselves in knots conforming to identity politics, moral grandstanding and radical left ideology, writes Michael Warner. It’s clear a majority of fans have come to resent it.

Michael Warner

3 min read
December 4, 2024

AFL​

Don't miss out on the headlines from AFL. Followed categories will be added to My News.
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Only the permanently outraged would have taken offence when an AFL umpire attended a private, post-season “characters of the 2000s” party in an Osama bin Laden mask.
Predictably, it triggered an investigation (and a one-match suspension) at AFL HQ where the game’s administrators have tied themselves in knots conforming to the era of identity politics, moral grandstanding and radical left ideology.
But recent world events and last year’s failed Voice referendum reflect how a growing majority have had enough of progressive lectures and the rise of divisive social agendas and their endless demands.
Persistent Welcome to Country ceremonies, Pride rounds, pre-match knee-dropping and race-baiting doesn’t unite Australians – it creates a growing level of resentment, turning us against each other.

Leigh Haussen was suspended after wearing a post-season party costume. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe
The AFL would do well to follow other corporations in disbanding their DEI department headed by its so-called “executive general manager of inclusion and social policy”.
Football’s capture by the woke movement has always reeked of hypocrisy.
The AFL is currently defending itself vigorously against a racism class action led by Indigenous North Melbourne great Phil Krakouer. But how does that correlate with its public undertakings to believe all First Nations players?
It’s hard to espouse your private view when preaching the complete opposite.
It’s like how the league waved its finger at the Hawks while releasing themselves from future liability during the botched Hawthorn racism probe.

In the year of the Voice they couldn’t bring themselves to reveal that not one but two secret reports had cleared former Hawks officials Alastair Clarkson, Chris Fagan and Jason Burt of devastating claims of racism.
The two reports went into a lead box and were buried, leaving us all to ponder whether a culture of systemic racism had indeed thrived at Hawthorn during the club’s golden premiership era of 2008-15.
Then there’s their love of the gambling dollar.
It was AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder who pushed the clubs to reduce their dependency on poker machine revenues, only to oversee a boom in the code’s lucrative relationship with sports betting companies.

AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder. Picture: Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images
As pokies baron Bruce Mathieson put it, it’s like saying gin is bad but vodka’s good.
You can only laugh when betting odds are plastered across the AFL website alongside the Indigenous place names of match venues. The Wurundjeri Cup brought to you by Sportsbet.
When a practising Muslim AFLW player sat out the league’s annual Pride Round because the rainbow-themed uniform did not represent her faith, the league could only explain that inclusion was a complicated matter.
Complicated like how one club pockets massive sponsorship dollars from the state-owned airline of Qatar, where homosexuality is banned and openly gay men and women face dire consequences, while its players slip on rainbow socks in matches.
Remember the furore when six Manly rugby league players from the Pacific Islands refused to wear a pride jersey on religious grounds? They were heavily condemned, so why not the Muslim AFLW player?

The Swans play in a pride game every season. Picture: Phil Hillyard

Qatar Airways remains one of Sydney’s major sponsors. Picture. Phil Hillyard
Rampant illicit drug-use is also tolerated within football, where some AFL club doctors conducted secret match-eve tests to ensure cocaine-addled stars don’t risk suspension under the world anti-doping code. So drugs are in, but poor taste costumes are out.
And what about the devastating scourge of concussion?
The league’s very own head-knocks tsar was exposed in an international plagiarism scandal, while in coronial inquests and concussion court cases the AFL plays hard ball to minimise its liability from suicides and debilitating brain injury, which would be fair enough if they didn’t carry on about how compassionate they are to everyone else who suffers in society.
The rules of wokeism don’t allow for debate (or even the views in this column), but a growing number of fair-minded Australians know that the nation’s biggest sport has been an active participant in the overreach of the DEI age.

Michael Warner who wrote "The Boys' Club" book which was extremely critical of the private boys school and toxic male culture within AFL HQ is now having an each way bet on identity politics, inverse virtue signalling, and culture wars with his pejorative references to DEI, wokeism, and radical left ideology. Interesting that he uses the word "hypocrisy" in the title of his article.

 

[Marstermind]

So Warner isn't interested in an invite to the AFL's Christmas Party.

Michael Warner: AFL’s hypocrisy in era of identity politics is turning fans against one another​

The AFL’s bosses have tied themselves in knots conforming to identity politics, moral grandstanding and radical left ideology, writes Michael Warner. It’s clear a majority of fans have come to resent it.

Michael Warner

3 min read
December 4, 2024

AFL​

Don't miss out on the headlines from AFL. Followed categories will be added to My News.
follow
Only the permanently outraged would have taken offence when an AFL umpire attended a private, post-season “characters of the 2000s” party in an Osama bin Laden mask.
Predictably, it triggered an investigation (and a one-match suspension) at AFL HQ where the game’s administrators have tied themselves in knots conforming to the era of identity politics, moral grandstanding and radical left ideology.
But recent world events and last year’s failed Voice referendum reflect how a growing majority have had enough of progressive lectures and the rise of divisive social agendas and their endless demands.
Persistent Welcome to Country ceremonies, Pride rounds, pre-match knee-dropping and race-baiting doesn’t unite Australians – it creates a growing level of resentment, turning us against each other.

Leigh Haussen was suspended after wearing a post-season party costume. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe
The AFL would do well to follow other corporations in disbanding their DEI department headed by its so-called “executive general manager of inclusion and social policy”.
Football’s capture by the woke movement has always reeked of hypocrisy.
The AFL is currently defending itself vigorously against a racism class action led by Indigenous North Melbourne great Phil Krakouer. But how does that correlate with its public undertakings to believe all First Nations players?
It’s hard to espouse your private view when preaching the complete opposite.
It’s like how the league waved its finger at the Hawks while releasing themselves from future liability during the botched Hawthorn racism probe.

In the year of the Voice they couldn’t bring themselves to reveal that not one but two secret reports had cleared former Hawks officials Alastair Clarkson, Chris Fagan and Jason Burt of devastating claims of racism.
The two reports went into a lead box and were buried, leaving us all to ponder whether a culture of systemic racism had indeed thrived at Hawthorn during the club’s golden premiership era of 2008-15.
Then there’s their love of the gambling dollar.
It was AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder who pushed the clubs to reduce their dependency on poker machine revenues, only to oversee a boom in the code’s lucrative relationship with sports betting companies.

AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder. Picture: Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images
As pokies baron Bruce Mathieson put it, it’s like saying gin is bad but vodka’s good.
You can only laugh when betting odds are plastered across the AFL website alongside the Indigenous place names of match venues. The Wurundjeri Cup brought to you by Sportsbet.
When a practising Muslim AFLW player sat out the league’s annual Pride Round because the rainbow-themed uniform did not represent her faith, the league could only explain that inclusion was a complicated matter.
Complicated like how one club pockets massive sponsorship dollars from the state-owned airline of Qatar, where homosexuality is banned and openly gay men and women face dire consequences, while its players slip on rainbow socks in matches.
Remember the furore when six Manly rugby league players from the Pacific Islands refused to wear a pride jersey on religious grounds? They were heavily condemned, so why not the Muslim AFLW player?

The Swans play in a pride game every season. Picture: Phil Hillyard

Qatar Airways remains one of Sydney’s major sponsors. Picture. Phil Hillyard
Rampant illicit drug-use is also tolerated within football, where some AFL club doctors conducted secret match-eve tests to ensure cocaine-addled stars don’t risk suspension under the world anti-doping code. So drugs are in, but poor taste costumes are out.
And what about the devastating scourge of concussion?
The league’s very own head-knocks tsar was exposed in an international plagiarism scandal, while in coronial inquests and concussion court cases the AFL plays hard ball to minimise its liability from suicides and debilitating brain injury, which would be fair enough if they didn’t carry on about how compassionate they are to everyone else who suffers in society.
The rules of wokeism don’t allow for debate (or even the views in this column), but a growing number of fair-minded Australians know that the nation’s biggest sport has been an active participant in the overreach of the DEI age.

But he's just got a ticket to a Christmas party on Uncle Rupe's yacht.

 

[Cyber_punk]

Just watched it and came on here to post the very same thing.

I could honestly listen to Euge speak all day. He's such a great North Melbourne man now.

Kudos to Marnie as well for doing a great job with the interview. Here's a direct link to the YouTube page for part one for anyone who hasn't seen it, it's definitely worth a look...

I remember my gut feeling in the lead up to the DBH meeting. Was never in doubt that we were staying in Melbourne. All of the AFL/media and especially Caro's bullshit had no sway on me at all.

 

[shinboner magic]

Geez that part two with the emotion Euge displayed got to me.

We love ya Euge.

Thanks for the interview Marnie and thanks for opening up Euge.

We all love North Melbourne and for most of us it’s we’ve been supporting them all our lives - so we have stuck fat with the club because we’re loyal ppl.

But for Euge to buy into the club that he was an employee of and in turn stop supporting the biggest club in the land - it tells everyone that thus club is special.

He’s good ppl is Euge.

We were lucky to have him.

Hope he can get back into the club - maybe a board position?

 

[Gasometer]

Michael Warner who wrote "The Boys' Club" book which was extremely critical of the private boys school and toxic male culture within AFL HQ is now having an each way bet on identity politics, inverse virtue signalling, and culture wars with his pejorative references to DEI, wokeism, and radical left ideology. Interesting that he uses the word "hypocrisy" in the title of his article.

Fantastic read in the depths of Lockdown

 

[Masked Avenger]

But he's just got a ticket to a Christmas party on Uncle Rupe's yacht.

You'd swear the article was written by the crew at Sky News - so Warner will be definitely amongst friends on that yacht.

 

[Orange Peanut]

If you have paid attention, he was a simp to the journalist he had on his show in April 2024. I also gave Halo a drive by. When the **** did I single out women?

You see women named and think its an attack. You are a full blown clown. I tell ya what, Kearney was on the show I’d probably listen to everything she had to say? How bout that? That suit ya? Ohhh but GeNdAhH .. flog.

You want equal treatment then get ya knickers in a twist (see what I did there) just because I dont see women as superior beings. I see them and everyone else as equals. Whether you are male, female, non binary.. IDGAF about it.

I care for opinions and whether opinions carry merit, are well knowledgable and resourceful. Mark Halo is the worst public opinion on North Melbourne, so is that bald headed campaigner that walked across arden st with his video camera.

Who are you? A white knight? **** off campaigner

I showed you the passage where it looked like you were singling out women for criticism. I didn't call you a clown or a campaigner though. Anyway thanks for taking the time to reply.

 

[Samsquanch]

But he's just got a ticket to a Christmas party on Uncle Rupe's yacht.

Do Newscorpse still hand out free iPhones and Playstations as prizes to "jOUrNaLySTs"?

 

[The Brady Bunch]

Fantastic read in the depths of Lockdown

Yeah for sure. It's just interesting that the book was empathetic to women working at AFL HQ and critical of the blokey-blokes and so it could be considered "woke" in some respects yet he's now taking pot shots at the AFL for being too woke. I think there's validity in both angles and both points of view, but he might want to pick a lane.

 

[Ashley B]

Geez that part two with the emotion Euge displayed got to me.

We love ya Euge.

Thanks for the interview Marnie and thanks for opening up Euge.

Just watched Marnie’s interview last night, was excellent. Already better than most of the other footy media out there. Be interesting how far she can take this May even start doing live biased North game day commentary lol Go The Mighty Roos

 

[The Brady Bunch]

Just watched Marnie’s interview last night, was excellent. Already better than most of the other footy media out there. Be interesting how far she can take this May even start doing live biased North game day commentary lol Go The Mighty Roos

Yes she did very well with this one. My one gripe, I wish people would stop using lapel mics as hand mics. They are not meant to be yelled into. Euge has the exact same mic and he's wearing it appropriately attached to his shirt.

 

[All In Sunbury]

So Warner isn't interested in an invite to the AFL's Christmas Party.

Michael Warner: AFL’s hypocrisy in era of identity politics is turning fans against one another​

The AFL’s bosses have tied themselves in knots conforming to identity politics, moral grandstanding and radical left ideology, writes Michael Warner. It’s clear a majority of fans have come to resent it.

Michael Warner

3 min read
December 4, 2024

AFL​

Don't miss out on the headlines from AFL. Followed categories will be added to My News.
follow
Only the permanently outraged would have taken offence when an AFL umpire attended a private, post-season “characters of the 2000s” party in an Osama bin Laden mask.
Predictably, it triggered an investigation (and a one-match suspension) at AFL HQ where the game’s administrators have tied themselves in knots conforming to the era of identity politics, moral grandstanding and radical left ideology.
But recent world events and last year’s failed Voice referendum reflect how a growing majority have had enough of progressive lectures and the rise of divisive social agendas and their endless demands.
Persistent Welcome to Country ceremonies, Pride rounds, pre-match knee-dropping and race-baiting doesn’t unite Australians – it creates a growing level of resentment, turning us against each other.

Leigh Haussen was suspended after wearing a post-season party costume. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe
The AFL would do well to follow other corporations in disbanding their DEI department headed by its so-called “executive general manager of inclusion and social policy”.
Football’s capture by the woke movement has always reeked of hypocrisy.
The AFL is currently defending itself vigorously against a racism class action led by Indigenous North Melbourne great Phil Krakouer. But how does that correlate with its public undertakings to believe all First Nations players?
It’s hard to espouse your private view when preaching the complete opposite.
It’s like how the league waved its finger at the Hawks while releasing themselves from future liability during the botched Hawthorn racism probe.

In the year of the Voice they couldn’t bring themselves to reveal that not one but two secret reports had cleared former Hawks officials Alastair Clarkson, Chris Fagan and Jason Burt of devastating claims of racism.
The two reports went into a lead box and were buried, leaving us all to ponder whether a culture of systemic racism had indeed thrived at Hawthorn during the club’s golden premiership era of 2008-15.
Then there’s their love of the gambling dollar.
It was AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder who pushed the clubs to reduce their dependency on poker machine revenues, only to oversee a boom in the code’s lucrative relationship with sports betting companies.

AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder. Picture: Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images
As pokies baron Bruce Mathieson put it, it’s like saying gin is bad but vodka’s good.
You can only laugh when betting odds are plastered across the AFL website alongside the Indigenous place names of match venues. The Wurundjeri Cup brought to you by Sportsbet.
When a practising Muslim AFLW player sat out the league’s annual Pride Round because the rainbow-themed uniform did not represent her faith, the league could only explain that inclusion was a complicated matter.
Complicated like how one club pockets massive sponsorship dollars from the state-owned airline of Qatar, where homosexuality is banned and openly gay men and women face dire consequences, while its players slip on rainbow socks in matches.
Remember the furore when six Manly rugby league players from the Pacific Islands refused to wear a pride jersey on religious grounds? They were heavily condemned, so why not the Muslim AFLW player?

The Swans play in a pride game every season. Picture: Phil Hillyard

Qatar Airways remains one of Sydney’s major sponsors. Picture. Phil Hillyard
Rampant illicit drug-use is also tolerated within football, where some AFL club doctors conducted secret match-eve tests to ensure cocaine-addled stars don’t risk suspension under the world anti-doping code. So drugs are in, but poor taste costumes are out.
And what about the devastating scourge of concussion?
The league’s very own head-knocks tsar was exposed in an international plagiarism scandal, while in coronial inquests and concussion court cases the AFL plays hard ball to minimise its liability from suicides and debilitating brain injury, which would be fair enough if they didn’t carry on about how compassionate they are to everyone else who suffers in society.
The rules of wokeism don’t allow for debate (or even the views in this column), but a growing number of fair-minded Australians know that the nation’s biggest sport has been an active participant in the overreach of the DEI age.

Bit lazy from Warner to take Rita's work from her desk and put his name at the top.

 

[Devington]

The Warner article is a bit odd. Almost reads like a regular article got edited by chatGPT after telling it to be angry at 'wokeness'. There's a bunch of good points in there, but its hard to take seriously.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Happy to join in the parts where he points out the AFL’s hypocrisy. But that’s got nothing to do with yelling at woke clouds and saying the AFL’s meagre attempts to include people outside the boys club he was also mad about are divisive. And to say the majority of supporters agree with him and have had enough is just stupid - he doesn’t know that, and there is certainly no sign of fans actually jumping off for any reason, given memberships and viewing and attendance and income keep going up.

 

[Liam Boy]

The Warner article is a bit odd. Almost reads like a regular article got edited by chatGPT after telling it to be angry at 'wokeness'. There's a bunch of good points in there, but its hard to take seriously.

that's what the right wing has always done. point out all the problems with capitalism and blame them on minorities.

 

[B4Bear]

Warner comes across as a try hard dickhead.

Here is a hint for you champ: if you use woke as a pejorative you look like an ill educated child.

 

[Samsquanch]

My one gripe, I wish people would stop using lapel mics as hand mics.

It's a bad look. Geez, it's a worthy gripe every day of the week.