The AFL Should Ban Gambling Advertising At Games and During AFL Broadcasts

[FastLane]

Just noticed on the AFL ladder on the AFL website now has an “odds” toggle button. Much the same as the live ladder toggle button.

What an absolute disgrace. Not sure how long this option has been available, but I only noticed it yesterday. And the default option is to display the odds - disgrace.

My 8 year old likes to get on the AFL website to look at the ladder to see where the Hawks and Crows are coming. Do I now have to explain to her what the odds means. Does that start the next generation of problem gamblers.

The AFL should be ashamed. Don’t have to look to far to see gambling problems in their own ranks. Why do we need to expose kids to this same.

I will be writing a letter to the communications and Sports Ministers, and I encourage anyone that feels the same to also write.

Enough is enough.

And this is where Gil's 'leadership' really shines!

He and his cronies simply pay lip service and tick the box in relation to every social issue.

Women's rights- tick the box, yet allowed young women in their own offices to put up with creepy power hungry older men (who then get plum gigs at clubs and continue the boys club rules).

Indigenous affairs- Late and inadequate initial response to Goodes situation- then have their own department rewrite the history of the game because AFL is totes 'woke'

Drug taking- would be interesting have the toilets and monetary notes tested at the AFL end of year party- Sam Murray still waiting for test? Mental Health issues, long term hamstrings, loopholes galore.

LGBTI- Have a token pride round where a few rainbows are thrown about. Still no AFL male to come out- wonder why?

Alcohol- CUB sponsorship- sell overpriced watered down piss at games- make $$$

GAMBLING- reap enormous amounts of $$$$$ from partnerships with gambling companies- say- if we didn't do it, someone else would' bury head in sand- suspend dumb bogan kid.

Could go on- but it's sunday and I'm still hangover and coming down from my night out with an gender non-binary team at a womens rights march where I lost a bet and am now going to have to work at the AFL

 

[Dixie Normous]

They say gambling is an addiction and a disease. That's true but at least its a disease where can win a lot of money!

 

[Aussie in exile]

I wish the game was in a strong enough position to turn down gambling advertising.
For me gambling is an evil like drugs and and alcohol, but not quite as bad, but it still ruins life's and destroys family's

 

[skilts]

Yes but why are you shouting?

The most common way to denote shouting on the web used to be to put the words in capitals. Have I missed another bloody meeting?

 

[skilts]

They say gambling is an addiction and a disease. That's true but at least its a disease where can win a lot of money!

Were it possible for the average Joe to win consistently and overall, there would be no bookies, casinos or pokies in pubs. The last of these is the most insidious. How to destroy conversation in what used to be a vibrant meeting place.

To argue against myself somewhat, a few years ago, over a couple of months, I made an informal study of those who attended pubs for this purpose, particularly late at night. My conclusion was that for most of the pokie addicts, a gambling addiction was the least of their worries. Incredibly sad and totally dispiriting for one who usually holds the human race in higher regard.

I once did not-dissimilar research about those who attended early-opener pubs, with a view to writing an article about it. This time, the grey pallor of imminent death among the customers was startlingly and unavoidably oppressive. I couldn't bring myself to write about it. I got pi$$ed instead.

Would it really matter if there were no advertising of gambling at all? Would it really matter if there were there no gambling? Racing is deemed, by some, to be a sport. Maybe another source of research might be how many people actually go to the races to watch the horses run? How many would attend were it not for the betting aspect?

In fact, given the paucity of numbers of those who turn up to horse racing (except during the Spring Carnival), trots and harness, it seems nobody gives a toss, except those betting at home, or in a TAB. For them, they might just as easily be betting on two flies crawling up a wall.

 

[Gralin]

The most common way to denote shouting on the web used to be to put the words in capitals. Have I missed another bloody meeting?

Thread title was originally in all Caps

 

[skilts]

Thread title was originally in all Caps

That explains it. Thanks for the reply.