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  • ItsAllGoodes
    Regular in the Side
    • Dec 2003
    • 675

    Leaping Leo is still kicking goals...or flying high...or grabbing the headlines

    Article on Leo's success in the stockbroking world

    'Leaping' Leo Barry grabs stockbroking medal
    Red and white till I die
  • ScottH
    It's Goodes to cheer!!
    • Sep 2003
    • 23665

    #2
    I wonder if his share prices go around and around, before he locks them in.

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    • stellation
      scott names the planets
      • Sep 2003
      • 9718

      #3
      Originally posted by ScottH
      I wonder if his share prices go around and around, before he locks them in.
      Andrew Wilkie reminds me a lot of a politician version of Leo Barry. Runs around making a commotion, pretends he's going to go right but goes left in the end (just like we all knew he would).
      I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
      We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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      • mcs
        Travelling Swannie!!
        • Jul 2007
        • 8149

        #4
        Originally posted by ScottH
        I wonder if his share prices go around and around, before he locks them in.
        "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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        • wolftone57
          Veterans List
          • Aug 2008
          • 5835

          #5
          Bloody Capitalist

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          • Untamed Snark
            Senior Player
            • Feb 2011
            • 1375

            #6
            Originally posted by stellation
            Andrew Wilkie reminds me a lot of a politician version of Leo Barry. Runs around making a commotion, pretends he's going to go right but goes left in the end (just like we all knew he would).
            Chillin' with the strange Quarks

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            • jono2707
              Goes up to 11
              • Oct 2007
              • 3326

              #7
              Jason Ball is also a stockbroker, and I think Teddy was looking at that option post-footy?

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              • ShockOfHair
                One Man Out
                • Dec 2007
                • 3668

                #8
                From practising one percenters to becoming one.
                The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news

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                • Bloodthirsty
                  On the Rookie List
                  • May 2013
                  • 607

                  #9
                  You'd think these guys would be able to figure out that stockbroking is just a game that we're fooled into believing actually has value to the world. The devastating irony of Citibank sponsoring my favourite sports team p@@@@@ me off every time I go to watch a game, but a few rounds of beer later and I forget that I know any better.
                  "Take me down to the Paradise City where the grass is green and the Swans win pretty."

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                  • Triple B
                    Formerly 'BBB'
                    • Feb 2003
                    • 6999

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Bloodthirsty
                    ....but a few rounds of beer later and I forget that I know any better.
                    I guess little Tommy Waterhouse was betting on the same thing happening.

                    Alas...
                    Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09

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                    • Auntie.Gerald
                      Veterans List
                      • Oct 2009
                      • 6474

                      #11
                      pykey too !!
                      "be tough, only when it gets tough"

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                      • Primmy
                        Proud Tragic Swan
                        • Apr 2008
                        • 5970

                        #12
                        Leo is still surprising the public. I love it.

                        I would also like to point out that one of our redandwhiters actually reads the stock page!!!
                        If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood

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                        • wolftone57
                          Veterans List
                          • Aug 2008
                          • 5835

                          #13
                          Merchant Bankers are not called Merchant Wankers for nothing and Stockbrokers are called 'Dollar High rollers' which means they make millions one minute and lose it again the next. The stockmarket is the most accepted form of gambling in our society.

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                          • Bloodthirsty
                            On the Rookie List
                            • May 2013
                            • 607

                            #14
                            The problem is that people just pass through educational structures which are designed to make people think a certain way, get a piece of paper, and hey presto, they're an expert and must be right about everything because they are repeating was was told to them. Stockbrokers, doctors, lawyers - their opinions and thoughts are moulded for them during their studies, and then they are bought afterwards. We have to stop assuming that people in these professions are automatically the smartest and most knowledgeable people in society, because that is simply not true. We should recognise that it is the people who think for themselves and question these trillion-dollar structures that are to be lauded.

                            Whenever the people at the SCG try to give me those cardboard goal clappers to win $1000, I just say (to my friends only - 'cos don't want to be rude to the person) that Rockefeller can go shove his blood money up his ugly @@@. Then I head straight to the bar.

                            Aside from that, I love going to the SCG to see the Swans. I always have the best time.
                            "Take me down to the Paradise City where the grass is green and the Swans win pretty."

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                            • jono2707
                              Goes up to 11
                              • Oct 2007
                              • 3326

                              #15
                              Oooh awesome - instead of celebrating a former Swan legend who is making something of his life after footy, lets do a bit of capitalist bashing! Yay....

                              Well done Leo for excelling in your second career. It's good to hear, instead of the old 'broken down ex-footballer rues how awful his life now is' storyline.....

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