Deaneus!
We Await Silent Tristero's Empire
**long exhale**
I've just about had it. I sent the club an email this morning after being alerted to something on Twitter. In my head, I delivered a speech to the Crows board with Nigel Smart present; it started with a round of applause followed by a diatribe so profane, so disgusting, so perverse and without any moral fibre, that common decency prohibits me speaking it out loud, let alone writing it. Suffice to say, [defamation]
Instead, I wrote Andrew Fagan an email. Reading it now i'd change a few words, but FSM it beggars belief. Maybe he should have just said, "nice ****".
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Hello Mr Fagan,
Last week, I wrote to the club about Rodney Jameson's comments on radio, and how they were needlessly inflammatory etc., and got a response which I was very happy with - "We can confirm the Club has recently spoken to Rod about his recent comments. The comments certainly do not reflect the position of the Club and have not been discussed at Board or management level". As for the training mishap, I don't know what happened in the Barossa, I suspect it's a beat up since Sam Maclure is involved. That's much better than believing we're employing people who can't count to two.
Sadly, I'm writing today about something else, because shooting ourselves in the foot is perhaps our greatest skill. In perhaps the greatest evidence ever that personalities and surnames have an inverse relationship, I was shown this on twitter this morning:
I have many things I'd like to say about this, but common decency and defamation laws prohibit me from putting anything in writing (although I would have made it funny, so there's that). Suffice to say, a 50 year old married man with three young children probably shouldn't be doing this with a young random female gamer on Twitter in full view of the rest of the world (he has a blue tick FFS, I'm surprised Sam Maclure hasn't jumped on this too). I mean, he ran for parliament. Wait, this is on brand for parliament.
I don't envy your job at a time like this - it must be extraordinarily difficult, especially when so many of our problems are self-inflicted. I hope for your sake you are able to adequately explain to Nigel concepts like numbers and letters and why posting stuff like this is problematic for the club. I suggest sock-puppets as a way of getting the message across clearly.
Lastly, my enjoyment of AFL is hanging by a thread. Please, please, please, do something about the people in this club, because I'm starting to not care. I know you can't fire the board - out of a cannon, into the sun, preferably - but everyone else is ultimately your responsibility.
Thank you for your time, especially now.
yours in complete exasperation,
Deaneus
member 000002
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Here's the tweet for context:
I've just about had it. I sent the club an email this morning after being alerted to something on Twitter. In my head, I delivered a speech to the Crows board with Nigel Smart present; it started with a round of applause followed by a diatribe so profane, so disgusting, so perverse and without any moral fibre, that common decency prohibits me speaking it out loud, let alone writing it. Suffice to say, [defamation]
Instead, I wrote Andrew Fagan an email. Reading it now i'd change a few words, but FSM it beggars belief. Maybe he should have just said, "nice ****".
***********************
Hello Mr Fagan,
Last week, I wrote to the club about Rodney Jameson's comments on radio, and how they were needlessly inflammatory etc., and got a response which I was very happy with - "We can confirm the Club has recently spoken to Rod about his recent comments. The comments certainly do not reflect the position of the Club and have not been discussed at Board or management level". As for the training mishap, I don't know what happened in the Barossa, I suspect it's a beat up since Sam Maclure is involved. That's much better than believing we're employing people who can't count to two.
Sadly, I'm writing today about something else, because shooting ourselves in the foot is perhaps our greatest skill. In perhaps the greatest evidence ever that personalities and surnames have an inverse relationship, I was shown this on twitter this morning:
I have many things I'd like to say about this, but common decency and defamation laws prohibit me from putting anything in writing (although I would have made it funny, so there's that). Suffice to say, a 50 year old married man with three young children probably shouldn't be doing this with a young random female gamer on Twitter in full view of the rest of the world (he has a blue tick FFS, I'm surprised Sam Maclure hasn't jumped on this too). I mean, he ran for parliament. Wait, this is on brand for parliament.
I don't envy your job at a time like this - it must be extraordinarily difficult, especially when so many of our problems are self-inflicted. I hope for your sake you are able to adequately explain to Nigel concepts like numbers and letters and why posting stuff like this is problematic for the club. I suggest sock-puppets as a way of getting the message across clearly.
Lastly, my enjoyment of AFL is hanging by a thread. Please, please, please, do something about the people in this club, because I'm starting to not care. I know you can't fire the board - out of a cannon, into the sun, preferably - but everyone else is ultimately your responsibility.
Thank you for your time, especially now.
yours in complete exasperation,
Deaneus
member 000002
*************
Here's the tweet for context:
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