Or for those familiar with the old Derek and Clive we could start with:

"Hello c..t"

somethig about Jane Mansfield rings a bell....

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That’s not a political statement — it’s a harsh reality, and we must act,” she said. “He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I support impeachment.”

This has been brought up on other forums that there is nothing in the rules to say a club must apply.
Yet Gil has stated the AFL cannot help a club unless they submit a formal application.
So which is it?
Interestingly in the Herald Sun today there was an article on Gold Coast needing an extra $2 mill in their salary cap to retain players and at the end it says that the Suns will apply for and receive a PP.

Lets set ourselves a challenge.
300 pages before the deadline.
So if we have 73 days we need about 4 pages a day.

pffft too easy kezza.
tell us about your childhood everyone.

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That’s not a political statement — it’s a harsh reality, and we must act,” she said. “He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I support impeachment.”

Surely the club will have a strategy to get the PP without having to do a written request for one.

Maybe we should send all the newspaper articles stating our dire position and needing an extra pick in the draft to the AFL to trigger Gil's requirements

Pity the bloke at the top of the AFL tree isn't named Colin - would be perfect.

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I'm shocked to be sitting here

Are they serious? In that case, surely Carlton deserves a salary cap exception as well, since it's hard to retain/attract FAs to the bottom team.

Spot on jump onto it immediatley and do due diligence for the club, this is how and Cain Liddle can earn his bickies.

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Go Blue Boys

Yes, which is it?

It will look especially silly for GC to get a priority pick whilst having "maybe" won 3 or 4 MORE games than Carlton.

If it requires a formal application, then I suggest Carlton will change their mind and put one in. When Cain made the decision a while ago the clubs on-field performances were not as pathetic as they are now. So we reserve the right to change our mind.

But again, an extra pick will do little unless we fix our deplorable medical and fitness regime. Something is fundamentally broken there, we need to get our best guys on the flamin' park.

I'll just put this one back in here.

We'll put in an application.

Nothing surer.

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

Agree an internal review and shake up of footy operations is necessary after the season from hell.
Of course it takes multiple circumstances as always for such a poor year.
Can anyone verify if we've ever won just 1 game in a season and which year ? thanks

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Go Blue Boys

My theory is that the AFL has told Carlton not to apply. There is no other plausible explanation.

It's a business and in business if you can take advantage of any legal grant, tax deduction or any other government assistance you are duty bound to do so in the interests of shareholders.

By not applying for a PP the club is acting negligently and it's about time members wrote in to the club and expressed their views on the matter.

I am sick and tired of this club, its Board and the executives empowered to run the club doing so in the interest of the AFL and its Brand. It's time to start making sound, rational decisions based on the best interests of their loyal and long suffering supporter.

No. Previous worst was 1897 and 1901 with 2 wins.

Twas always raining in Denley Moor...

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'People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.'
Soren Kierkegaard

We thank our good friends at St Kilda for putting off our first wooden spoon for 105 years.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Can you smell what we're cooking!!

Nobody in the media has said the PP is working the way it was supposed to. In fact they are all saying it is stuffed and helping create the two tier comp.
Of course teams at the top think it's wonderful but that's because they are skimming the cream and playing off n finals every year as a result.
I mentioned this elsewhere but I want to bring it up again (regurgitate it, come might say).
FA is in place so the players can move to the club of their choice. I get that but the compo system is what mucks it up. The AFL hands out the compo. What if there were no compo from the AFL at all but the cub of choice had to pay it? The player is still choosing the club but what if the club doesn't think he is worth it? What if the AFL dfecides Lynch is worth two picks, one top five and one top twenty and (Richmond) has to give them to the AFL who will then pass them on to the GCS? (Richmond), if they want Lynch badly enough, will pay. If not, Lynch has to nominate a second club, stay where he is or go to the draft. All of a sudden we have no free kick to a top club. Yes, they don't have to trade with the club because Lynch has nominated them as is his right under FA but they have to trade with the AFL to make sure Lynch gets is wish and the losing club gets a fair go.

We have already seen the F/S rule stuffed up because Geelong's past players were good producers of boys and they got too many free hits and ended up winning a flag on the back of them, so why can't the same point system be applied to the FA system?

I seriously want this to be discussed somewhere where it gets an airing in the press or whatever so if you think it's a good idea and you can twitter, tweet or otherwise message someone who might bring it up for discussion, please do it. I think all avenues have to be explored.

End of rant.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

Caroline Wilson has now changed her opinion. About 8 weeks ago she said Carlton didn’t deserve a priority pick, now on Footy Classified she stated, “Carlton will put their hand up for a pp and the AFL will say yes.” Both GC and Carlton deserve one? “Absolutely” although it seemed Caro was more emphatic that GC deserved one going by her tone.

Either way a pp at pick 18-20 basically amounts to very little when free agency/trading helps strong clubs. strong clubs can make their clubs stronger via free agency. GC should get a compensation pick for Lynch whether he goes in the draft or not. Present system GC gets nothing if he goes in draft.

PP needs to be pick 3 for Carlton and 4 for GC before trading even starts. The AFL don’t have the guts to do this though after the tanking allegations from over a decade ago

I think you’ll find if the AFL do hand an early PP it’ll go: CFC #1, GC #2 followed by the normal picks.

Let’s just hope they really think we’re stuffed and give both clubs a second PP pre round 2 or pre round one 2019.