Something doesn’t add up

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I really have an interest in this, but honestly Ben, you are currently talking loud and saying nothing. The rest of us are obviously not privy to the information you have, so accusing us of etc. feels like the treatment I get from my mother about the things I don’t know about my dad.

I appreciate your input to this forum, but I don’t see how skirting around the issue helps us understand - if we can. For example, us taking Eades seems to go against the point you are making. If it is convenient to cite that example, tell us what are we missing?

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Maybe over the past half a decade we’ve had more than enough on our plate, … similar reasons to why we weren’t front runners in the WAFL race.

It seems this issue, along with that is now being focused on through the Academy route, and will probably improve itself in the next few years via that system, and with a much better success rate.

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I think we are a risk averse club, and this should be owned up to.

We don’t deserve Walla after how much we put him through to just make the rookie list.

If we want to be a pro reconciliation club who promotes Aboriginal culture, we should be taking a punt on more Aboriginal players, at least an average number like 6 or so.

Otherwise the Dreamtime Match is a hollow charade. Port Adelaide are more worthy at the moment.

We should put our list management where our mouth is.

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Wasnt it a board member that had the issue with drafting indeginous players?

Excuse me if I’m off the Mark, sure I read it on blitz a while back

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Ok,… now thats odd??

When I made this point a few years ago, you agreed with me.

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What the?

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You don’t think a 25 year old professional footballer should be expected to know not to eat dimmies pre-game?

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Wonder why that would be the case lately …?? :thinking:

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That’s racist! Think you’ll find that Puopolo is a Maltese surname.

Edit: Maybe not. Hmm, there was a Puopolo at work who was definitely Maltese. Whatevs.

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exactly

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It would be our preference to have the current AA ruck still on our list. With Tippa & Ryder clear best 22; longy & LAV2.0 as indigenous younger players; and plenty of multicultural talent elsewhere on the list, there is no case for racism. The talent pool has widened considerably and maybe it’s getting harder to get noticed.

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I agree that is harder in melbourne, but its not coz of less indigenous people in melbourne, its about being away from family

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not that one.

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Spill the beans ben

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from earlier

Because it will cause a shitstorm, and I want to check with the site owner that its ok if I do that before I do that.

I am also wanting to check with a couple of sources whether a) its ok if i share this information publicly, and b) if i am allowed to name them

but seriously, its not hard to join the dots, what im finding out now is if I can name names, places and dates

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Not really, it’s called risk management

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Would feel sorry if Mynott ever read this thread…

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Everything I’ve heard is richmond ■■■■■■ him around, but he was also way behind the 8 ball.

Almost like in the real world there’s not nice clear cut and dried scenarios, and lots of factors have to be accounted for.

Note: i have walked past Smith St Safeways about 10 times.

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And this is the point, and I would have a lot less of a problem with it if we were not a club who claim to be champions of reconciliation, and that indigenous football is part of our heritage and culture

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Walla deserved more EFC support, ie a senior list spot a year or two before we actually gave him one.