18th club, whose next?

[Canard]

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Well if they put a fulltime AFL team in Canberra the head bosses would a brand new shiny oval built for them just like the demands from them in Tasmania. No way is that going to happen.

ACT Gov are in bed with AwFuL.

 

[jim_57]

The thing I’d be wary of regarding the AFL’s 20th is if it is Canberra they will go hard for a new stadium. If a new rectangular one isn’t built by then watch the bullshit agenda push for one “multi-sport” venue to really kick off.

The only thing that might save it is having Raiders, Brumbies, AFL & A-League sides would make it pretty congested. Also maybe a big bash franchise and some international cricket.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

The thing I’d be wary of regarding the AFL’s 20th is if it is Canberra they will go hard for a new stadium. If a new rectangular one isn’t built by then watch the bullshit agenda push for one “multi-sport” venue to really kick off.

The only thing that might save it is having Raiders, Brumbies, AFL & A-League sides would make it pretty congested. Also maybe a big bash franchise and some international cricket.

That's my fear as well. The ACT Gov is full of dopey hipsters and soccer mums who hate RL and love fumbleball.

 

[Colk]

That is probably the funniest GIF I have seen for a while. I can even imagine the dramatic Universal music

 

[blue bags]

The thing I’d be wary of regarding the AFL’s 20th is if it is Canberra they will go hard for a new stadium. If a new rectangular one isn’t built by then watch the bullshit agenda push for one “multi-sport” venue to really kick off.

The only thing that might save it is having Raiders, Brumbies, AFL & A-League sides would make it pretty congested. Also maybe a big bash franchise and some international cricket.

A Melbourne Marvel style stadium would be fantastic
With all women teams involved

 

[The Great Dane]

That's my fear as well. The ACT Gov is full of dopey hipsters and soccer mums who hate RL and love fumbleball.

Hipsters, soccer mums, and hate doesn't come into it.

The truth is that the ACT government is full of out of touch, university educated, upper middle class people with trashy degrees and little to no not real world experience, sat comfortably in their ivory tower trying and failing to impose their theoretical utopia on reality.

A handful of those people are currently in positions of power and love AFL and/or cricket, but are apathetic about other sports. The rest are just apathetic about sport in general, and see investing in it as a necessary evil that can be politically useful from time to time, but should generally be avoided as much as possible.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Hipsters, soccer mums, and hate doesn't come into it.

The truth is that the ACT government is full of out of touch, university educated, upper middle class people with trashy degrees and little to no not real world experience, sat comfortably in their ivory tower trying and failing to impose their theoretical utopia on reality.

A handful of those people are currently in positions of power and love AFL and/or cricket, but are apathetic about other sports. The rest are just apathetic about sport in general, and see investing in it as a necessary evil that can be politically useful from time to time, but should generally be avoided as much as possible.

Hipsters and soccer mums hate rugby league because it's a masculine sport associated with the working class. The ACT Gov is full of high income academic wankers who think they're better than working class men.

 

[The Great Dane]

I think a third team in Perth is the best option. The last place I want them to put a team is Canberra. The Raiders are building a decent supporter base.

Competition for public funding, the potential competition for sponsors, and the odd scheduling clash aside, I don't think that a Canberran AFL side would really impact the Raiders very much at all in real terms.

I can't see a bunch of Raiders fans abandoning them because an AFL side showed up, and though there's a lot of cross pollination (way more than the average in my experience) the RL and AFL fanbases in Canberra are separated enough to more than support both.

A Canberran AFL side would draw crowds similar to the Raiders on average, probably a bit larger, and would likely have a larger membership base (membership numbers are BS anyway), but aside from that there wouldn't be any significant changes outside of potentially in the grassroots over the long term, but that's been happening anyway.

Frankly I hope it happens. Personally I wouldn't be interested, but it'd be good for the city and the huge portion of the population that are Aussie Rules fans. It'd also create more opportunities for local athletes and a more direct pathway for local Aussie Rules talent, which is always good as well.

If anybody should be worried about an AFL side it's the Brumbies, but that's a separate discussion.

 

[The Great Dane]

Hipsters and soccer mums hate rugby league because it's a masculine sport associated with the working class. The ACT Gov is full of high income academic wankers who think they're better than working class men.

They don't think they're better than the working class, they just think they know better than the working class.

They don't hate masculinity either, they're simply afraid of it.

Most of them aren't hipsters or soccer mums either, they're yuppies.

And it's pretty ironic that you're complaining about their classist attitudes whilst flaunting your own.

RL's fanbase isn't married to class identity in Canberra anyway, so it's largely irrelevant. It's just not seen that way here, even in RU, where the largest club is based in one of the more economically depressed parts of the city.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

They don't think they're better than the working class, they just think they know better than the working class.

Have you heard the way they speak about the working class?

Always referring to them as "bogans" and "losers".

They don't hate masculinity either, they're simply afraid of it.

Most of them aren't hipsters or soccer mums either, they're yuppies.

The women who sign their sons up for soccer or fumbleball because they think it's "safe" are soccer mums.

And it's pretty ironic that you're complaining about their classist attitudes whilst flaunting your own.

I've heard the way Canberrans speak about Queenslanders. They're arrogant know-it-alls who think they're better than anyone else.

Sound familiar to some one on here?

 

[mongoose]

Have you heard the way they speak about the working class?

Always referring to them as "bogans" and "loses".



The wen who sign their sons up for soccer or fumbleball because they think it's "safe" are soccer mums.



I've heard the way Canberrans speak about Queenslanders. They're arrogant know-it-alls who think they're better than anyone else.

Sound familiar to some one on here?

shutup, you're an embarrassment.

 

[The Great Dane]

I've heard the way Canberrans speak about Queenslanders. They're arrogant know-it-alls who think they're better than anyone else.

Sound familiar to some one on here?

Yeah, it sounds like the stereotype of Queenslanders if you add in ignorant and stupid.

The difference between Canberrans and Queenslanders is that the average Australian has zero experience genuinely interacting with Canberra or Canberrans…

 

[Canard]

Old mate thinks Politicians = Canberrans

 

[Maximus]

They're arrogant know-it-alls who think they're better than anyone else.

Sound familiar to some one on here?

Yes. You.

 

[mongoose]

not all Queenslanders have massive chips on their shoulders like Donkey by the way... nor are they overly xenophobic. Brisbane is really no different to any of the other state capitals in terms of people or culture. Regional QLD (not including GC or SC) is more conservative but even Toowoomba has its "hipster" cafe's, laneways and craft beer bars.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

shutup, you're an embarrassment.

You're the idiot who doesn't know the definition of a city and thinks there's a conspiracy between Ch9, News Ltd, NRL and ARU to not put an NRL team in Perth.

Yes. You.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

You're an obnoxious wanker.

Yeah, it sounds like the stereotype of Queenslanders if you add in ignorant and stupid.

The difference between Canberrans and Queenslanders is that the average Australian has zero experience genuinely interacting with Canberra or Canberrans…

Canberrans were the only people in Australia to vote "Yes" on that racist referendum. Aborigines in NT voted "No". Sums up the arrogance and delusions of grandeur of the average Canberran.

 

[Perth Red]

You're the idiot who doesn't know the definition of a city and thinks there's a conspiracy between Ch9, News Ltd, NRL and ARU to not put an NRL team in Perth.


Pot. Kettle. Black.

You're an obnoxious wanker.


Canberrans were the only people in Australia to vote "Yes" on that racist referendum. Aborigines in NT voted "No". Sums up the arrogance and delusions of grandeur of the average Canberran.

Are you red neck merkins still voting for Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce? lol

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Are you red neck merkins still voting for Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce? lol

What is it to you?

Barnaby Joyce isn't a Queenslander. He's been the MP for New England since 2013.

Do you know where that is?

 

[Maximus]

Canberrans were the only people in Australia to vote "Yes" on that racist referendum. Aborigines in NT voted "No". Sums up the arrogance and delusions of grandeur of the average Canberran.

Wrong.

Regions with a high proportion of Indigenous Australians overwhelmingly voted yes in the referendum – including the community where prominent no campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s family is from.


In the Northern Territory seat of Lingiari, which takes in Alice Springs and where 40% of the population is Indigenous, 58% voted against the voice and 42% voted in favour.

But 74% of the 11,000 people that live in Lingiari’s remote areas voted yes, according to figures provided by Labor MP for Lingiari, Marion Scrymgour.

The highest vote in support of yes was in Wadeye, at 92.1%. The Tiwi Islands voted 84% in favour, and Maningrida recorded an 88% yes vote.

Only one of the 20 mobile remote polling booths in the seat recorded a majority no vote.

In Yuendemu, the community home to the family of Price, shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, three in four people voted yes.


McCarthy pointed out early polling results from Queensland showed on Palm Island, where the population is 93% Indigenous, three in four voted yes.

On Mornington Island, where 77% of the population is Indigenous, McCarthy said 79% voted yes. And in Lockhart River, where almost 80% of people are Indigenous, 66% voted in favour.

Indigenous communities overwhelmingly voted yes to Australia’s voice to parliament

Polling catchments where Indigenous Australians form more than 50% of the population voted on average 63% in favour of the voice

www.theguardian.com

You proved my point, that you're the arrogant know-it-all.