Carlton AFLW Review - Half Gone

[ElwoodBlues1]

re cliques, happens in the mens game too. Think about the story about why Malthouse chose Maxwell as the captain of Collingwood - to unite the cliques.

Same at Geelong with Harley....results show you can still have success with cliques if you know how to manage them.

[Thryleon]

Cliques are everywhere.  Jack Martin is straight back into the team every time for a reason.  Fisher, Martin and Cripps have a little tight nit group going on, and Id wager they play more than not.

It happens everywhere.  Usually you got to be good as well as in the clique, but if not it can help you get a game.

[LP]

Cliques are everywhere.  Jack Martin is straight back into the team every time for a reason.  Fisher, Martin and Cripps have a little tight nit group going on, and Id wager they play more than not.

Not sure fans disagreeing with MC decisions is hard evidence of a clique! ;D

[ElwoodBlues1]

Not sure fans disagreeing with MC decisions is hard evidence of a clique! ;D

True...the MC have provided plenty of evidence over the journey that just plain stupidity at times in selections is more of a natural occurrence than anything suspicious. However Zac Fisher went through a period where he couldnt get near the footy but was persisted with and Id be tempted to suggest having the Captain as your best buddy at the club didnt do him any harm in terms of keeping his place in the 22.
re: Martin...test will be when his contract expires, no way he should get a new deal given his erratic form and the fact he only plays 2/3 of the season due to injury if his career continues like it has over the years. If he got a 2-3 year deal then fans would be asking questions....

[Thryleon]

Not sure fans disagreeing with MC decisions is hard evidence of a clique! ;D

No, it isn't but they aren't all the same either.

Eddie, Jeff and yarran had a little clique going with mitch Robinson too back then.

Ive seen them at every team ive ever been involved in across my sporting life and the one thing ill tell you is that whilst they don't dictate who plays they can influence it, and they aren't necessarily bad things either.

The best teams are simply one giant clique.


This circles me back to my original point.  Women are no more or less capable of this caniving behaviour than males are.

I think that males are less likely to flip flop surrounding it.

[DJC]

When Lods asked me if I’d take on a moderator role, he didn’t mention that it was very like trying to herd cats ?

How does a thread about the review of our AFLW program take in Jack Martin’s contract and imaginary cliques going back to the days of the three amigos? ?

We have one board for AFLW topics.  Let’s try to limit the discussion here to women’s footy … or should that be non-male footy?

I hope I haven’t sent this thread off on another tangent ?

[northernblue]

When Lods asked me if I’d take on a moderator role, he didn’t mention that it was very like trying to herd cats ?

How does a thread about the review of our AFLW program take in Jack Martin’s contract and imaginary cliques going back to the days of the three amigos? ?

We have one board for AFLW topics.  Let’s try to limit the discussion here to women’s footy … or should that be non-male footy?

I hope I haven’t sent this thread off on another tangent ?

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[Thryleon]

When Lods asked me if I’d take on a moderator role, he didn’t mention that it was very like trying to herd cats ?

How does a thread about the review of our AFLW program take in Jack Martin’s contract and imaginary cliques going back to the days of the three amigos? ?

We have one board for AFLW topics.  Let’s try to limit the discussion here to women’s footy … or should that be non-male footy?

I hope I haven’t sent this thread off on another tangent ?

here i was making a case for females not being treated like inferior backstabbers because the men do it too, and using tangible examples from our own sordid past to do so, and then seeing it become a moderation point.

This is how you fight for women not to be denigrated and being treated with the respect they deserve.

Am I from a different planet or something? Or has the world gone politically correctly stupid?

[LP]

Am I from a different planet or something? Or has the world gone politically correctly stupid?

Obviously not, obviously so!

You've read too much into the commentary, and then built an argument that is somehow trying to justify one wrong with another!

[Thryleon]

Obviously not, obviously so!

You've read too much into the commentary, and then built an argument that is somehow trying to justify one wrong with another!

no the stereotype of catty females form bitchy circles is what im challenging.  Guys can be bitches (and are) too.