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Rod Butterss pushing the AFL!!

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Butterss is again re-igniting a push for the AFL to play a match on Good Friday and is again requesting a Saints V Collingwood match...

Personally I feel there is little chance with the Channel 7's Good Friday appeal that has been a tradition for many years, we had more of a chance when Channel 9 had the rights...

What are your thoughts??


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Post: # 366749Post evertonfc »

I'd rather we band with Carlton - they'll want their slice of the organised blockbuster pie (only Collingwood x2, Essendon and Melbourne have one), plus there's a healthy....dislike/disdain...from each side.

75,000 at the MCG, assured. And please, can we have it at the MCG?

Either way, it has to happen. This is our chance.

Good Friday can be honoured by playing on this day - imagine the AFL offering to give $1 for every patron who attends to the Good Friday Appeal.

Could be huge.


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f*** Collingwood.

Give it three years and it would be "all their idea"....


Give it to someone else. Carlton, Richmond or even the dogs.


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i am not a religious man but feel strongly that good friday should be a day of rest


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Post: # 366760Post cowboy18 »

MC Euro Gusto wrote:i am not a religious man but feel strongly that good friday should be a day of rest
It's a fair point but surely one that's up to the individual?

Given that most codes of sport around the world schedule something for Good Friday (even Serie B in Italy) isn't it precious/presumptive to impose rest when many choose not to rest and reflect?

Or even believe?


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good friday the saints vs the demons at the mcg


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Post: # 366767Post bobmurray »

I thought we were trying to make Easter Monday a blockbuster gameday.

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Post: # 366768Post cowboy18 »

bobmurray wrote:I thought we were trying to make Easter Monday a blockbuster gameday.

:?:
Play on Friday and then again on "resurrection Monday" ?


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Post: # 366769Post Dan Warna »

<shrug> if they give it to us, they'll take it off us in a few years.

remember the dusk games? we pioneered that, but it was taken off us?
the guys HERE organised the wooden spoon tradition, now through eddie marketting, its collingwood who did it first.

we get spooned by the AFL more often than a $10 hooker on saturday night at the cross.

the AFL would love st kilda to just die and go away like fitzroy and southmelbourne.


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Post: # 366771Post evertonfc »

MC Euro Gusto wrote:i am not a religious man but feel strongly that good friday should be a day of rest
Yeah, I understand, but how much rest is 'rest'?

I work on a Good Friday. That ain't rest.

AFL has a statement to make and it can do a good thing for the community. And this club can lead the way.

I'd make it against Carlton, for certain.


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Post: # 366774Post Dan Warna »

who cares about good friday anyway.

most people dont even get overtime if they are on AWAs.

its just anohter working day for most lower income and service staff.

white collars get a break still.


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Post: # 366777Post evertonfc »

Dan Warna wrote:who cares about good friday anyway.

most people dont even get overtime if they are on AWAs.

its just anohter working day for most lower income and service staff.
Very true.

But I'd take a day of leave to go to the footy - and so would everyone else 8-)

St Kilda vs Carlton, MCG, Good Friday 2007.

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Post: # 366781Post cowboy18 »

evertonfc wrote: St Kilda vs Carlton, MCG, Good Friday 2007.

Make. It. Happen.

Would be a better outcome than the easter Thursday 2007 game vs Brisbane? :D


If you're talking 2008 easter, Good Friday falls on March 21st - I think that's before the season proper.


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Post: # 366786Post St Fidelius »

The NRL play on Good Friday...

So we are not setting a precedent, but again...

There will NO doubt be problems with Channel 7 with the television rights on Friday night

I feel that Channel 7 WILL not give up the Royal Childrens Hospital Good Friday Appeal for a footy match....That's my opinion...

They will not GIVE their right to a rival network...

IMO this will have to wait until the new bidding and I really don't know why Butterss is pushing this agenda now...

FWIW I feel the club has the right to deal with a club that first agreed with St Kilda's original push a few years back, AND THAT WAS COLLINGWOOD.

So really, this thread is not about who we should play, but more on if there is a chance of it happening...

But, again, I just don't see why Butterss is pushing this agenda now, whilst Channel 7 have the rights (or am I missing something??)
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st_Trav_ofWA wrote:good friday the saints vs the demons at the mcg
Perfect and if the lord has anything to do with it SAINTS win everytime :lol:


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Post: # 366926Post bob__71 »

Rod will at least get to connect with Gen Y next weekend with his light show.....hope its better than the saints.....Think we will get done by the blues


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Post: # 463143Post saintspremiers »

looks like Roddy didn't get his way on this, with the Carlton Hawthorn match recently proposed for Good Friday.

Any ideas why Roddy's voice wasn't seriously listened to by the AFL?

Westaway take note - it's not just getting the financials and spending ship shape, but having some say in how the AFL do things helps also!


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Post: # 463178Post st_Trav_ofWA »

i think the way we played this year may have taken our name off that game
remember we got the blame for the hawthorn snore fest ..expect us to get the sunday "twilight" games next year


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aussierules0k wrote:Good Friday is a RELIGIOUS day of celebration. We pride ourselves on being a multicultural society. Should all the other religious days of all the other religions be "off limits"?

Those who want to practice religion should be in church, those who want to go to the footy should be able to. If some ppl don't wanna go due to their god, so be it. Why should my life be interrupted by a group of people that believe unbelievable things? I'm sorry... men don't rise from the grave. If any of these ridicules religious claims could be proven, everyone would be a Christian. Can anyone prove that a man rose from the grave, or that another man parted a sea, or that a man can convert water into wine and walk on water?
Agree totally. yes we are a predominately christian country, however this should have nothing to do with it.

The most conservative, pious and religious of all christian countries, the USA have football on Christmas Day (NFL) which is just as holy as Good Friday.

We play football on Anzac Day (well two teams do anyway :roll: ) and this could be construed as offensive to the soldiers that died in just and unjust conflicts, however it is not seen that way.

Good Friday can be observed, but I am sure we would have footy on Muslim, Jewish, Shinto, Hindu, or Buddist religious days without batting an eyelid.
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Post: # 463229Post saintspremiers »

my comments weren't really about the merits of Good Friday Footy - since Ronnie carked it, the AFL has is now likely to play Good Friday Footy from the reports.....it's really about how RB's suggestion has been conveniently ignored by the AFL in favour of the Carlton/Hawks plan at this stage...

BTW I'm all for Good Friday Footy....as for the religious thing, most conservative/progressive strains don't mind people of other religions attending services/events etc, it's only the orthodox/fanatical elements that ruin it for everyone!


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MC Euro Gusto wrote:i am not a religious man but feel strongly that good friday should be a day of rest
me too.....this is still a christian society ffs.....


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stinger wrote:
MC Euro Gusto wrote:i am not a religious man but feel strongly that good friday should be a day of rest
me too.....this is still a christian society ffs.....
It is not a christioan society ffs - it is a secular society.

Christianity may be the chief fairy tale believed, but religion has noting to do with the state.


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Post: # 463358Post riccardo »

I understand this is a touchy debate, but some of the language being used is starting to become highly offensive to those with Christian beliefs.

Is it possible we could debate this without resorting to childishness?


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if he gets the gameday on good friday butters has my vote


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