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The AFL Player Spectator: AFL Players In Late-Night Gang Bashing
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The AFL Player Spectator. Millionaires with a Year Ten Education. Thursday, August 03, 2006. AFL Players In Late-Night Gang Bashing. The Australian Football League is losing its battle against violent, out-of-control players. This weekend sees yet another bashing; this time it's Collingwood's. Stars making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Forward Chris Tarrant. And utility Ben Johnson. Have shown up just how weak and powerless clubs are in the face of Aussie Rules players doing exactly what they want.
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The AFL Player Spectator: More Footy Player Convictions
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The AFL Player Spectator. Millionaires with a Year Ten Education. Tuesday, January 17, 2006. More Footy Player Convictions. Nothing really scandalous, just everyday exceptionalism and contempt for society from Collingwood's Brodie Holland. Hoon) and former player Peter Hall. In the first incident, feted dancer (and eye candy man) Brodie Holland. People. People who don't play footy. People who aren't on the telly. People who don't have, err, niche appeal:. Brodie Holland - Product of a Well-Oiled. Magistr...
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The AFL Player Spectator: Aussie Rules Misbehaviour Market - An Introduction
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The AFL Player Spectator. Millionaires with a Year Ten Education. Wednesday, August 09, 2006. Aussie Rules Misbehaviour Market - An Introduction. As part of The Speccy. S campaign for a commercial online betting service for AFL players' court appearances. We started a proof-of-concept prediction market, where anyone can play for free. This post introduces the Aussie Rules Misbehaviour Market. ARM) to help you get started. First off, why are we doing this? The short answer is that prediction markets.
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The AFL Player Spectator: Footy Stars Plus Traffic Equals ...
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The AFL Player Spectator. Millionaires with a Year Ten Education. Thursday, July 20, 2006. Footy Stars Plus Traffic Equals . What is it with footballers that they refuse to accept that road rules apply to them too? Is it because they are arrogant, contemptuous, spoilt brats? Maybe it's their hard-wired need for thrill-seeking and risk-taking behaviour? Or is it simply that magistrates keep doling out laughable sentences, making a mockery of social expectations? His defence team ran the "pillar of the com...
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The AFL Player Spectator: Didak Misbehaviour a Shaw Thing
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The AFL Player Spectator. Millionaires with a Year Ten Education. Wednesday, August 06, 2008. Didak Misbehaviour a Shaw Thing. Just a few weeks after coming off his "special provisions" contract, troubled Magpie Alan Didak. Has been unmasked as the secret passenger yet again. No, not in a "hell-ride" involving a drug-dealing murderous Hell's Angel, but in Collingwood's growing Heath Shaw. But let's back things up. Alan Didak. And his confrontation with a taxi driver. Shot another one ( Kara Douglas.
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The AFL Player Spectator: AFL Exports Aussie Violence To Ireland
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The AFL Player Spectator. Millionaires with a Year Ten Education. Wednesday, November 01, 2006. AFL Exports Aussie Violence To Ireland. The AFL has used the International Rules series against Ireland to export our unique brand of off-field drunkenness and violence. In the first case of its kind, Brendan Fevola. In a carefully planned operation, Carlton. 1/11/2006). The scene for Operation Loose Cannon. The Irish barman, identified only as Paul. Walked blindly into his role in the publicity stunt by tryin...
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The AFL Player Spectator: Profile: Gary Ablett
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The AFL Player Spectator. Millionaires with a Year Ten Education. Saturday, August 27, 2005. With the recent press about the Ablett clan (both on the field. It's timely to go to the source and remember Gary Ablett. The man they call God - as arguably the best player. What is clear is that after football, Gary Ablett was prone to going on drug-fuelled benders lasting several days. During one such spree in 2000, he was holed up in the Park Hyatt with a young woman, Alisha Horan. Ablett had himself been giv...
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The AFL Player Spectator: AFL Players to Get Free Priority Taxis
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The AFL Player Spectator. Millionaires with a Year Ten Education. Sunday, April 10, 2005. AFL Players to Get Free Priority Taxis. Some local cab company has had a brainwave: let's make sure AFL players get first priority for taxi cabs. According to Yellow Cabs:. We think the public interest is best served by getting these role models off the street and into cabs quickly rather than them standing around getting baited and approached. (The Herald-Sun, 8/4/2005). Hey now, don’t be so harsh on Yellow Cabs.
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The AFL Player Spectator: Kerr Unleashed On Fearful Public
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The AFL Player Spectator. Millionaires with a Year Ten Education. Monday, February 26, 2007. Kerr Unleashed On Fearful Public. More jaw-dropping misbehaviour from serial offender Daniel Kerr. Throws a spotlight on the troubled West Coast Eagles. What the hell are they putting in the water over there? Daniel Kerr was scheduled to appear in Perth's Magistrate Courts tomorrow (Tuesday) over an earlier matter in which he was alleged to have been involved with a teenager copping a broken nose and missing teeth.
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The AFL Player Spectator: Andrew Walker Has No Shame
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The AFL Player Spectator. Millionaires with a Year Ten Education. Tuesday, August 19, 2008. Andrew Walker Has No Shame. In four years of covering the seamy underbelly of Aussie Rules misbehaviour, Carlton's Andrew Walker. Has set a new bar for shameless arrogance and contempt of wider society. His crime - driving whilst unlicensed - is relatively minor by AFL standards, but his flagrant disregard for the law is truly breathtaking. Why on earth would he think he could get away with being "confused"? Also ...
