ANZAC Day Footie
Apr 14th 2008, 8:49 am
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ANZAC Day Footie
Do they always choose the worst teams in the AFL to play on ANZAC day for sympathy reasons?
Apr 24th 2008, 2:09 am
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Re: ANZAC Day Footie
Looks like they've chosen the same numbnuts again 
Apr 24th 2008, 2:44 am
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Re: ANZAC Day Footie
You still talking to yourself 
Apr 24th 2008, 2:54 am
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Re: ANZAC Day Footie
interesting article on ANZAC Day Footy in The Age today
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinio...152362081.html
"It was in 1960 that the RSL allowed games to be played on Anzac Day after a number of Saturday games had been washed out. It agreed to this on the condition that all gate takings went to the war veterans. But, as we know, all goodwill gestures are prone to exploitation.
Note the advertising hype in the lead-up to this year's Anzac Day clash and you will see how marketing strategists are attempting to conflate the Anzac spirit at Gallipoli with the fighting spirit on the football ground. It is for this reason that football supporters ought to be wary of football clubs attempting to reduce the Anzac spirit to a jingoistic token that can be stitched alongside the numerous corporate logos on the modern footy jumper.
As in the lead-up to every Anzac Day, we hear of groups planning to disrupt Anzac Day ceremonies to highlight all that is wrong with war. I can see why they would want to do this. But rather than disrupting the Anzac parade, their cause would be best served by turning their backs on an event that uses our diggers as a marketing device.
I will be attending the dawn service this year, but I will not be going to the footy. Somehow, the real meaning of Anzac Day has become distorted by slick marketing campaigns designed to pass footballers off as war heroes. This, for me, is to lose sight of the real picture of war."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinio...152362081.html
"It was in 1960 that the RSL allowed games to be played on Anzac Day after a number of Saturday games had been washed out. It agreed to this on the condition that all gate takings went to the war veterans. But, as we know, all goodwill gestures are prone to exploitation.
Note the advertising hype in the lead-up to this year's Anzac Day clash and you will see how marketing strategists are attempting to conflate the Anzac spirit at Gallipoli with the fighting spirit on the football ground. It is for this reason that football supporters ought to be wary of football clubs attempting to reduce the Anzac spirit to a jingoistic token that can be stitched alongside the numerous corporate logos on the modern footy jumper.
As in the lead-up to every Anzac Day, we hear of groups planning to disrupt Anzac Day ceremonies to highlight all that is wrong with war. I can see why they would want to do this. But rather than disrupting the Anzac parade, their cause would be best served by turning their backs on an event that uses our diggers as a marketing device.
I will be attending the dawn service this year, but I will not be going to the footy. Somehow, the real meaning of Anzac Day has become distorted by slick marketing campaigns designed to pass footballers off as war heroes. This, for me, is to lose sight of the real picture of war."
Apr 24th 2008, 3:19 am
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Re: ANZAC Day Footie
For the 4th year in a row I'll be watching my son play against Fawkner juniors for Moreland City in the Anzac Cup,
It's not Aussie rules though
It's not Aussie rules though
