DozzyIs Andrew Demetriou A Communist Thug?
August 19th 2008 02:26
I don’t think there is footage available of Andrew Demetriou watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony, but I reckon ‘Gomez’ was on the edge of his seat mimicking the moves of the Chinese drummers with a fierce intensity. Demetriou recognises a kind of genius in the brutal Chinese rule, he may even have taped the performance so he could practice the choreography with a hairbrush in front of the mirror. Dishing out his own lashing for each mistake. These are his kind of people.
The parallels between the two regimes have become such a distraction that I’m ready to accept the notion that Adrian Anderson is actually just a CGI simulation of a human. Not quite the stretch it may seem when the AFL come clean and admit that, like the Beijing fireworks display, this was a move of necessity as there is no possible way humanity could have spawned someone so lacking in basic human emotion.
If you look closely, it’s all there; the dismissal of criticism, the strained relationship with the press, the uneasy grasp on the concept of free speech. When you study the AFL’s reaction to Tassie’s bid for an AFL team there’s even shadows of another, possibly dodgier, Communist regime.
Of course I’m talking about the faceless men of the Soviet Union politburo that sat in the nosebleed section in Rocky IV. In that story Ivan Drago was blessed with the finest in facilities yet was eventually defeated by a midget who’d kept himself trim by bench-pressing farmhands. As well as those disadvantages Rocky’s only company out in the Siberian wasteland was a mouthy imbecile that he had to put up with because he was getting fresh with the bloke’s sister.
It was true underdog stuff.
Tasmania has a similar battle on its hands, although it would be fair to say that the top dogs of the AFL could be a far sterner test than the comparatively weak-willed Russians. So far Demetriou has treated Tasmania’s proposals with barely concealed distain, like a juiced up bouncer claiming it’s ‘member’s night’ while he scans the crowd for someone better looking to let in. And there, about ten rows back in the queue, is a short skirt with a bleached smile and a fast developing population who goes straight through the velvet rope under the name ‘GC17’.
It’s enough to make you contemplate a code change.
And that maybe the only way the Tasmanians ever get the attention of the AFL, especially considering their fanatical drive toward expansion in any region that has little, if any, care for the game. You’ve got to hand to them, they’ve introduced the term ‘it’s not a sport, it’s a business’ so seamlessly that it’s doing for supporters of cash-strapped Melbourne clubs what ‘collateral damage’ has done for casualties of war. That is, explaining away devastating losses as an unfortunate by-product of what has to be done to achieve the greater good. If that oxygen thief, Wayne Jackson is to be believed then this ‘greater good’ is the demise of a few superfluous Melbourne teams. In this respect you’ve got to give the Chinese Government some credit, at least their methods of oppression are attached to a sense of the past and tradition. It’s a real worry then, when Andrew Demetriou could barely muster the energy for a nostalgic glance over his shoulder as he sent his old club, North Melbourne, out for a slow bake in the Gold Coast sun.
Luckily, Demetriou didn't count on the power of the underdog. Did he forget Stallone made a career out of releasing the same movie six times? There must have been something in it Andrew...
The parallels between the two regimes have become such a distraction that I’m ready to accept the notion that Adrian Anderson is actually just a CGI simulation of a human. Not quite the stretch it may seem when the AFL come clean and admit that, like the Beijing fireworks display, this was a move of necessity as there is no possible way humanity could have spawned someone so lacking in basic human emotion.
Of course I’m talking about the faceless men of the Soviet Union politburo that sat in the nosebleed section in Rocky IV. In that story Ivan Drago was blessed with the finest in facilities yet was eventually defeated by a midget who’d kept himself trim by bench-pressing farmhands. As well as those disadvantages Rocky’s only company out in the Siberian wasteland was a mouthy imbecile that he had to put up with because he was getting fresh with the bloke’s sister.
It was true underdog stuff.
Andrew Demetriou
It’s enough to make you contemplate a code change.
And that maybe the only way the Tasmanians ever get the attention of the AFL, especially considering their fanatical drive toward expansion in any region that has little, if any, care for the game. You’ve got to hand to them, they’ve introduced the term ‘it’s not a sport, it’s a business’ so seamlessly that it’s doing for supporters of cash-strapped Melbourne clubs what ‘collateral damage’ has done for casualties of war. That is, explaining away devastating losses as an unfortunate by-product of what has to be done to achieve the greater good. If that oxygen thief, Wayne Jackson is to be believed then this ‘greater good’ is the demise of a few superfluous Melbourne teams. In this respect you’ve got to give the Chinese Government some credit, at least their methods of oppression are attached to a sense of the past and tradition. It’s a real worry then, when Andrew Demetriou could barely muster the energy for a nostalgic glance over his shoulder as he sent his old club, North Melbourne, out for a slow bake in the Gold Coast sun.
Luckily, Demetriou didn't count on the power of the underdog. Did he forget Stallone made a career out of releasing the same movie six times? There must have been something in it Andrew...
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the sooner he goes the better
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In the land of Corporate Gain you can see him growing in size visible as his pay packet grows - luckily he can afford a personal tailor to make his suits
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