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Incredibly unpopular opinion: I hate the Auskick kids presenting the Premiership medals
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heck that keep politics and mcdonalds outta football
Shit could ya imagine Abbott up there in his speedos. Yikes
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i really don't think the players find it that inconvenient, like they sit around later, dejected.. "bending over for that kid to hang the medal round me neck really did my back in"
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I like it...Makes the whole process less formal and serious.
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Not a fan of it either.
How did they used to do it, if they did it at all?
I wouldn't mind past premiership players from that team being on hand to do it.
Or players from the losing side
I actually think the winning coach should do it. I think that would be really fitting, and he'd personally know each player and not just "congrats" "well done" "well done" ETC...
How did they used to do it, if they did it at all?
I wouldn't mind past premiership players from that team being on hand to do it.
Or players from the losing side
I actually think the winning coach should do it. I think that would be really fitting, and he'd personally know each player and not just "congrats" "well done" "well done" ETC...
Was presented by an officialNot a fan of it either.
How did they used to do it, if they did it at all?
I wouldn't mind past premiership players from that team being on hand to do it.
Or players from the losing side
I actually think the winning coach should do it. I think that would be really fitting, and he'd personally know each player and not just "congrats" "well done" "well done" ETC...
That only started in the 90's, before that there weren't premiership medals, they were made by the clubs
Personally, I've never quite understood the need to have medals anyway. But people love symbolism, specatacle and THINGS more than memories these days - to the extent that the shiny bauble almost becomes valuable in its 'own right, rather than just a small momento of a meaningful accomplishment. (eg - the 'premiership tattoo' fad). Sure, get a personal souvenir if you want - team photo, beer glass, whatever - but don't make it a 'sacred object' that is required to complete the achievement.
Be a part of a premiership team - well done. The fact that you now own a cheap, shiny piece of medal on the end of a string does not make the accomplishment any greater, not is it likely to impress anyone over the age of 5 more than the feat itself.
Anyone knows what an AFL Premiership medal would fetch on the Memorabilia Market? Probably several grand.................
Be a part of a premiership team - well done. The fact that you now own a cheap, shiny piece of medal on the end of a string does not make the accomplishment any greater, not is it likely to impress anyone over the age of 5 more than the feat itself.
Anyone knows what an AFL Premiership medal would fetch on the Memorabilia Market? Probably several grand.................
I don't mind it as it avoids situations like we had in 1998 with a stoney faced Keith Greig a North Melbourne legend, handing out medals to Crows players, looking like someone had just told him he had two weeks to live. It was an embarassment.
Kids are the future of the game, so I say let them be involved and they often provide a bit of humour, although not as much as the face plant of the kid at the NRL Grand Final. That will be on loop at his 21st.
Yep hate it, should be the opposition players presenting them.
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Should be BF posters handing them out, a 22 person parade of teenagers, middle aged fat guys, a couple of shut ins with giant chips on their shoulders and a handful of the overly smug telling the winning players they are hacks and flogs.
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This thread is an excellent insight into the character of some BF posters.
What on earth makes you think Abbott would be doing it in speedos?
Could be even worse... since big ears Tony is wherever for the APEC summit... the NRL had the distinction of 'Acting Prime Minister Warren Truss' being there on the night.
Seriously though... the AFL should give each player from both sides a medal the night before the match. Their task is to successfully swallow the medal, or they can't take their place on the ground. Once the game is over, each member of the winning team is given a sharp knife and gets to cut the medal out of an opposition player's stomach and laud it over the trembling bodies of the vanquished. You know that's how the vikings would have done it.
Don't knock the idea. It makes just as much sense as having a stupid politician handing the medals out.
Seriously though... the AFL should give each player from both sides a medal the night before the match. Their task is to successfully swallow the medal, or they can't take their place on the ground. Once the game is over, each member of the winning team is given a sharp knife and gets to cut the medal out of an opposition player's stomach and laud it over the trembling bodies of the vanquished. You know that's how the vikings would have done it.
Don't knock the idea. It makes just as much sense as having a stupid politician handing the medals out.
AFL meets Fear Factor
Much prefer the kids replaced with grid girls in bikini's....
5 million would watch grand final and 6 million the medal presentation !!!
5 million would watch grand final and 6 million the medal presentation !!!
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Yeah, just another example of the sissification of the brand.
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The point is not just to give these particular kids a day they will remember, but to give kids all over Australia even more of a connection to what's happening. That's what Auskick is about - growing the sport among the next generation. The AFL has a bigger idea in mind and the kids presenting medals is the pinnacle of that.
Brad Hardie would probably know a ballpark figure.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...htyearold-boy-picture-goes-viral-8903484.html
This story will make some of you guys mad. A professional footballer embracing a small child instead of hating him for stealing his limelight.
This story will make some of you guys mad. A professional footballer embracing a small child instead of hating him for stealing his limelight.
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What idiot would schedule that.
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WHY THE **** WOULD YOU SEND SOMEONE OUT WHEN ALL THEYLL HEAR IS A HUGE ROAR!?!?!??!?!!??!?!
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I repeat my view on the whole thing...get rid of the kids on GF day.
Why on earth would anyone be opposed to this? For most of those kids, it will possibly be the highlight of their lives. The players have won, they're getting their medals, they don't mind who presents it to them. And to the poster who thinks the medal is nothing but some cheap token, guess again. To see the players the next day, some of whom haven't been to bed yet, still proudly displaying their medals draped around their necks, it is more than just a token, it's a mark of achievement. I remember talking to one player, a member of Hawthorn's 1989 team who told me he didn't take the medal off for three days, except to shower.
Yeah, these kids should be put in a nice quiet room somewhere for the rest of their lives.....
On the other hand, they could be involved in a major event that may enable them to overcome some of their anxieties and with support from well meaning mature adults, they can have a day that will mean so much to them.
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