Carlton’s $10m pokies windfall undermines "Carlton Respects"

Mickstar · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:40 pm **Posts:** 7647

BamBam7 wrote:

My Nonno and my old man used to love playing the pokies together. Every family function at a bistro they'd throw 20 bucks in.

Sometimes they'd win, sometimes they'd lose, but they always enjoyed it. It was bonding time for them.

Why do we have to focus on the small percentage of people that can't control themselves?

Would you be against a car sponsorship because some idiots drive like maniacs and kill innocent people?

Do we refuse to have anything to do with Macca's because some people eat too much and become obese?

It's not like the club is actively jamming the pokies down our throats, like the constant Sportsbet ads, or Draft King's ads in the USA.

At a certain point, you need to let people be adults and make their own decisions. I fear this obsession with sterilising society is going to come back and bite us on the bum eventually.

Yeah , let people run there own lives .

SurreyBlue · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:32 am **Posts:** 10718

BamBam7 wrote:

My Nonno and my old man used to love playing the pokies together. Every family function at a bistro they'd throw 20 bucks in.

Sometimes they'd win, sometimes they'd lose, but they always enjoyed it. It was bonding time for them.

Why do we have to focus on the small percentage of people that can't control themselves?

Would you be against a car sponsorship because some idiots drive like maniacs and kill innocent people?

Do we refuse to have anything to do with Macca's because some people eat too much and become obese?

It's not like the club is actively jamming the pokies down our throats, like the constant Sportsbet ads, or Draft King's ads in the USA.

At a certain point, you need to let people be adults and make their own decisions. I fear this obsession with sterilising society is going to come back and bite us on the bum eventually.

Sidefx · **Joined:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 1:55 pm **Posts:** 7008

GreatEx wrote:

I am not calling for anything to be banned, I am pointing out the fallacy that sport cannot exist without gambling. I don't know why people are finding this so hard to understand.

Fair enough.
History has proven where there is sport there is gambling, that will never change, human greed will see to that.
And history has also proven where there is sport there is sponsorship and usually it is the companies supplying the vices as they have the most money - tobacco, alcohol, gambling or in your example, oil.
He has a point (as well as a business to protect) and so do you, I guess you just have to be comfortable with which one goes against your morals the least.

camel · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2025 10:25 am

Our pokies are a stain on the club and the club knows it.

Carlton was one of the first clubs to end an association with sports betting agencies.

Carlton stands up with a straight face and send its players and coach out to say Carlton Respects means something.

All while benefitting from pokies and the problems they bring, including the association with family violence.

I understand the financial benefit the club has taken from the pokies and the at times financial lifeline that has offered us.

I want the club to be better. If it's going to keep telling us that Carlton Respects is genuine, then the pokies have to go.

bluedog · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2025 8:55 pm

camel wrote:

Our pokies are a stain on the club and the club knows it.

Not to mention our association with Barkly Smokehouse and That's Amore.

Carlton’s $10m pokies windfall undermines "Carlton Respects"

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