Demetriou soft spot for Saints
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Demetriou soft spot for Saints
Interesting article in the HUN, any chance we might get the rub of the green this finals series
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/h ... 6132727454
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/h ... 6132727454
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any chance he can follow through with stadium assistance and FIXture fairness.
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It's a pity Demetriou didn't have a "Soft Spot" for the saints when he first knew that KD was living her lies through Anthony Dowsley and the Herald-Sun. He had the opportunity to squash that story very early on and chose not to.
Coming out now and saying he has a "Soft Spot" for the saints and all they went through early in the year reeks of hypocracy !!
Coming out now and saying he has a "Soft Spot" for the saints and all they went through early in the year reeks of hypocracy !!
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I know. It's actually quite outrageous.Eastern wrote:It's a pity Demetriou didn't have a "Soft Spot" for the saints when he first knew that KD was living her lies through Anthony Dowsley and the Herald-Sun. He had the opportunity to squash that story very early on and chose not to.
Coming out now and saying he has a "Soft Spot" for the saints and all they went through early in the year reeks of hypocracy !!
i must be getting old and soft......reading andrew's views on our saints made me all warm and fuzzy......now if he can get those nice umpires to think the same way... ...after all
pleasing the boss never hurt, guys
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For starters he knows that the filth were all high on drugs in last years Grand Finals but swept it all under the carpet.
AFL response is to target test the main offenders SWAN, SWAN & SWAN and keep it all hush, hush
because if the real story got out that the filth cheated it would be too messy
has a soft spot for us because he knows we were cheated and is feeling guilty
AFL response is to target test the main offenders SWAN, SWAN & SWAN and keep it all hush, hush
because if the real story got out that the filth cheated it would be too messy
has a soft spot for us because he knows we were cheated and is feeling guilty
crap. the story was there, it was always going to be a story once the media got hold of it, not sure what anyone could have done to stop that.Eastern wrote:It's a pity Demetriou didn't have a "Soft Spot" for the saints when he first knew that KD was living her lies through Anthony Dowsley and the Herald-Sun. He had the opportunity to squash that story very early on and chose not to.
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Didn't Thomas get the arse from SEN at the demand of the AFL for bagging the AFL?bergholt wrote:crap. the story was there, it was always going to be a story once the media got hold of it, not sure what anyone could have done to stop that.Eastern wrote:It's a pity Demetriou didn't have a "Soft Spot" for the saints when he first knew that KD was living her lies through Anthony Dowsley and the Herald-Sun. He had the opportunity to squash that story very early on and chose not to.
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If it's CRAP you might explain to me why Demetriou (on 60 Minutes) said that he knew that KD telling lies and the Herald-Sun was printing those lies and that he made a decision NOT to buy into the story at the time !!bergholt wrote:crap. the story was there, it was always going to be a story once the media got hold of it, not sure what anyone could have done to stop that.Eastern wrote:It's a pity Demetriou didn't have a "Soft Spot" for the saints when he first knew that KD was living her lies through Anthony Dowsley and the Herald-Sun. He had the opportunity to squash that story very early on and chose not to.
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if he'd come out and said "we're fairly certain that duthie is a liar", how do you think the story would have evolved? "afl tries to silence abused schoolgirl" - "afl culture hates women" - "demetriou has no proof for lie claims" - etc. yes, from a purely selfish point of view we'd rather he was the story rather than st kilda, but i can't think of any logical reason for him to do that.Eastern wrote:If it's CRAP you might explain to me why Demetriou (on 60 Minutes) said that he knew that KD telling lies and the Herald-Sun was printing those lies and that he made a decision NOT to buy into the story at the time !!
i reiterate: once it became a story there's nothing anyone could have done to stop it. it just had to run its course.
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It certainly seems that this was the case. AD appears to suffer from an extremely thin skin: not so much personally, but on behalf of the organisation he runs.Johnny Member wrote:Didn't Thomas get the arse from SEN at the demand of the AFL for bagging the AFL?bergholt wrote:crap. the story was there, it was always going to be a story once the media got hold of it, not sure what anyone could have done to stop that.Eastern wrote:It's a pity Demetriou didn't have a "Soft Spot" for the saints when he first knew that KD was living her lies through Anthony Dowsley and the Herald-Sun. He had the opportunity to squash that story very early on and chose not to.
He's got a lot to be defensive about IMO. While I think he has done some things well as head of the AFL, I still think he will ultimately go down in history as a failure: the CEO who guided the AFL down the disastrous expansion path into the Gold Coast and Western Sydney. (But I realise many on here don't agree with me about that, just as they don't agree with me that climate change is real and man made. We'll find out in time who was right and who was wrong.)
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If he knew it was all lies he had nothing to worry about then did he?bergholt wrote:if he'd come out and said "we're fairly certain that duthie is a liar", how do you think the story would have evolved? "afl tries to silence abused schoolgirl" - "afl culture hates women" - "demetriou has no proof for lie claims" - etc. yes, from a purely selfish point of view we'd rather he was the story rather than st kilda, but i can't think of any logical reason for him to do that.Eastern wrote:If it's CRAP you might explain to me why Demetriou (on 60 Minutes) said that he knew that KD telling lies and the Herald-Sun was printing those lies and that he made a decision NOT to buy into the story at the time !!
i reiterate: once it became a story there's nothing anyone could have done to stop it. it just had to run its course.
There was no evidence from the start of the whole thing, and a few on here myself included posed these questions when it all started.
Thats all anyone needed to do was look below the surface to realise it was rubbish, if Demetriou had of come out publicly when he knew, which was pretty early on it would have been allover [pretty quick.
And the Ricky Nixon crap would have been half the story it was.
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I love how he now words it this way...
"We've invested a significant amount of football money on behalf of the clubs into a new team and it's gone exceptionally well from a planning and execution perspective."
Does that sound like someone distancing themselves fro the decision to introduce new clubs?
"We've invested a significant amount of football money on behalf of the clubs into a new team and it's gone exceptionally well from a planning and execution perspective."
Does that sound like someone distancing themselves fro the decision to introduce new clubs?
A pig like him. I take it you are a great guy. You wouldnt know a thing about him and call him a pig. Yep thats really good. Dont worry you will get support from some of the other mindless people.Johnny Member wrote:It worries me that a pig like him can throw a little bit of ear candy out there and people suddenly like him!
Frankly, I thin it's incredibly unprofessional for him to make comments like that leading in to the finals.
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plugger66 wrote:A pig like him. I take it you are a great guy. You wouldnt know a thing about him and call him a pig. Yep thats really good. Dont worry you will get support from some of the other mindless people.Johnny Member wrote:It worries me that a pig like him can throw a little bit of ear candy out there and people suddenly like him!
Frankly, I thin it's incredibly unprofessional for him to make comments like that leading in to the finals.
You don't know a thing about me (far less than what I know about Demetriou) and you call me all sorts of stuff and insult me all the time.
Have I ever called you a pig? I doubt it. I disagree with many things you say but if I recall the last really personal comment was from you when you called me a f*** wit. That maybe true but you dont know for sure.Johnny Member wrote:plugger66 wrote:A pig like him. I take it you are a great guy. You wouldnt know a thing about him and call him a pig. Yep thats really good. Dont worry you will get support from some of the other mindless people.Johnny Member wrote:It worries me that a pig like him can throw a little bit of ear candy out there and people suddenly like him!
Frankly, I thin it's incredibly unprofessional for him to make comments like that leading in to the finals.
You don't know a thing about me (far less than what I know about Demetriou) and you call me all sorts of stuff and insult me all the time.