Please pick me
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Please pick me
OK, here is the scenario:
You are an AFL player, 28 years old, have a drinking problem and likely to be delisted by your club. You spent most of the year playing very average football in the reserves. You still want to play AFL - a 2 year contract of $200,000 a year would be nice.
What do you need to “leakâ€
You are an AFL player, 28 years old, have a drinking problem and likely to be delisted by your club. You spent most of the year playing very average football in the reserves. You still want to play AFL - a 2 year contract of $200,000 a year would be nice.
What do you need to “leakâ€
summertime and the living is easy ........
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You forgot to add that you didn't start playing senior AFL until you were 22 so your body has only had the wear and tear of a 24 year old.
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so what?
so the guy wants to play afl? he is in melbourne top 5 players. this crap logic that 'he cant get a game for the 16th team so he must be no good" is crap.
everyone knows didak is collingwoods best player and "cant get a game"
the guy is out of favour. disillusioned. depressed with playing with a bunch of complete pansy duds for 5 years so probably turned to the bottle. so what. can he be rehabilitated? probably.
lets judge him on the following:
fitness + endurance
speed
agility
strength
kicking skills
injuries/resilience
attitude to training
attitude to the team and other players
attitude to alcohol
lets judge the guy on his merits over the next few months. as alan jeans said "not many choir boys win premierships".
look id love iit f we had a whole team of sam fishers (great bloke, great player) but that is completely unrealistic. we cant have a whole team of leigh fishers (great citizen but very ordinary football player).
sometimes you need a bit of mongrel.
so the guy wants to play afl? he is in melbourne top 5 players. this crap logic that 'he cant get a game for the 16th team so he must be no good" is crap.
everyone knows didak is collingwoods best player and "cant get a game"
the guy is out of favour. disillusioned. depressed with playing with a bunch of complete pansy duds for 5 years so probably turned to the bottle. so what. can he be rehabilitated? probably.
lets judge him on the following:
fitness + endurance
speed
agility
strength
kicking skills
injuries/resilience
attitude to training
attitude to the team and other players
attitude to alcohol
lets judge the guy on his merits over the next few months. as alan jeans said "not many choir boys win premierships".
look id love iit f we had a whole team of sam fishers (great bloke, great player) but that is completely unrealistic. we cant have a whole team of leigh fishers (great citizen but very ordinary football player).
sometimes you need a bit of mongrel.
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Re: Please pick me
[quote="Gershwin"]OK, here is the scenario:
You are an AFL player, 28 years old, have a drinking problem and likely to be delisted by your club. You spent most of the year playing very average football in the reserves. You still want to play AFL - a 2 year contract of $200,000 a year would be nice.
What do you need to “leakâ€
You are an AFL player, 28 years old, have a drinking problem and likely to be delisted by your club. You spent most of the year playing very average football in the reserves. You still want to play AFL - a 2 year contract of $200,000 a year would be nice.
What do you need to “leakâ€
Flying the World in comfort thanks to FF Points....
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If you were 28 years old and unfortunate enough to be stuck at a club that is going nowhere but backward you would be stupid NOT to put yourself on the open market.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
If you are not engaging AI actively and aggressively, you are doing it wrong.
You are not going to lose your job to AI.
You are going lose your job to somebody who uses AI.
Your company is not going to go out of business because of AI.
Your company is going to go out of business because another company used AI.
- Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
If you are not engaging AI actively and aggressively, you are doing it wrong.
You are not going to lose your job to AI.
You are going lose your job to somebody who uses AI.
Your company is not going to go out of business because of AI.
Your company is going to go out of business because another company used AI.
- Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA
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Thank god Harvey didn't think like that back in 2000ace wrote:If you were 28 years old and unfortunate enough to be stuck at a club that is going nowhere but backward you would be stupid NOT to put yourself on the open market.
ROBERT HARVEY A.K.A The Great Man, Banger, Harves, Ol' Man River...
384 games, 4 B&F's, 3 EJ Whitten Medals, St.Kilda Captain, 2 Time Brownlow Medalist, 8 Time All Australian, 2nd Highest Brownlow votes poller.... The greatest of ALL TIME!!
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He was thinking like that, but who would pick up, a washed up 2 time brownlow medalist?Armoooo wrote:Thank god Harvey didn't think like that back in 2000ace wrote:If you were 28 years old and unfortunate enough to be stuck at a club that is going nowhere but backward you would be stupid NOT to put yourself on the open market.
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[quote="Armoooo"][quote="ace"]If you were 28 years old and unfortunate enough to be stuck at a club that is going nowhere but backward you would be stupid NOT to put yourself on the open market.[/quote]
Thank god Harvey didn't think like that back in 2000[/quote]
Sir Robert must have known he would be knighted if he stayed.
Thank god Harvey didn't think like that back in 2000[/quote]
Sir Robert must have known he would be knighted if he stayed.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
If you are not engaging AI actively and aggressively, you are doing it wrong.
You are not going to lose your job to AI.
You are going lose your job to somebody who uses AI.
Your company is not going to go out of business because of AI.
Your company is going to go out of business because another company used AI.
- Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
If you are not engaging AI actively and aggressively, you are doing it wrong.
You are not going to lose your job to AI.
You are going lose your job to somebody who uses AI.
Your company is not going to go out of business because of AI.
Your company is going to go out of business because another company used AI.
- Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA