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  • KTigers
    Senior Player
    • Apr 2012
    • 2499

    Originally posted by dejavoodoo44
    I've just been chatting with someone, who had around twenty years experience as a casino croupier and dealer. Her worst customer in that time? You guessed it: Eddie McGuire. Apparently, one night when the Broadmeadows Battler lost $80,000 was the lowlight of her career.
    Let me guess. He wasn't a good loser. Melbourne has him and we have Alan Jones. What have the good folk of Melbourne & Sydney
    done to deserve these losers?

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    • 56-14
      Warming the Bench
      • Dec 2015
      • 260

      Originally posted by dejavoodoo44
      I've just been chatting with someone, who had around twenty years experience as a casino croupier and dealer. Her worst customer in that time? You guessed it: Eddie McGuire. Apparently, one night when the Broadmeadows Battler lost $80,000 was the lowlight of her career.
      Lowlight? Eddie losing $80K - is she a Collingwood supporter?

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      • dejavoodoo44
        Veterans List
        • Apr 2015
        • 8570

        Originally posted by 56-14
        Lowlight? Eddie losing $80K - is she a Collingwood supporter?
        Eddie lost $80,000 and largely blamed the dealer. She was the dealer.

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        • dejavoodoo44
          Veterans List
          • Apr 2015
          • 8570

          Originally posted by KTigers
          Let me guess. He wasn't a good loser. Melbourne has him and we have Alan Jones. What have the good folk of Melbourne & Sydney
          done to deserve these losers?
          Though there's probably more dissonance with McGuire; since he tries to maintain the image, of an affable bloke who is still in touch with his working class roots. Whereas with Jones; his persona is more of a bitter, ranting old man, so it's no real surprise, to hear that he shouts at staff and engages in vendettas.

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          • Untamed Snark
            Senior Player
            • Feb 2011
            • 1375

            Originally posted by dejavoodoo44
            Eddie lost $80,000 and largely blamed the dealer. She was the dealer.
            To avoid the swear filters, I'll just say the guy is an absolute collingwood.
            Chillin' with the strange Quarks

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            • KTigers
              Senior Player
              • Apr 2012
              • 2499

              Originally posted by Untamed Snark
              To avoid the swear filters, I'll just say the guy is an absolute collingwood.
              Poor old Ed. No one told him the reason they build casinos is so that when you walk out of them you have less money
              in your pockets than you walked in with. If he keeps going back enough times he'll be able to reacquaint himself on
              a more permanent basis with his working class roots in Broadmeadow, or whatever "battler" suburb he claims to come from.

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              • sprite
                Regular in the Side
                • Jan 2003
                • 813

                Wonder if Eddie Fatguts had moan about the coin toss tonight???
                sprite

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                • Faunac8
                  Senior Player
                  • Mar 2014
                  • 1548

                  Classic comment on the Insiders program on the ABC this morning
                  “ Peter Dutton is the Eddie Maguire of politics “
                  You know you have made an impression when you officially become an insult ????

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                  • S.S. Bleeder
                    Senior Player
                    • Sep 2014
                    • 2165

                    Originally posted by Faunac8
                    Classic comment on the Insiders program on the ABC this morning
                    “ Peter Dutton is the Eddie Maguire of politics “
                    You know you have made an impression when you officially become an insult ????
                    That must make Bill Shorten the Gillon McLaughlin of politics as well.

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                    • Faunac8
                      Senior Player
                      • Mar 2014
                      • 1548

                      Originally posted by S.S. Bleeder
                      That must make Bill Shorten the Gillon McLaughlin of politics as well.
                      I think it was more referencing them both making derogatory and ill thought comments about people with disablities. Not sure how your comparison relates.

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                      • Bloods05
                        Senior Player
                        • Oct 2008
                        • 1641

                        Originally posted by Faunac8
                        I think it was more referencing them both making derogatory and ill thought comments about people with disablities. Not sure how your comparison relates.
                        It was never intended to.

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                        • Mel_C
                          Veterans List
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 4470

                          On one of the footy shows last night they mentioned how GWS aren't happy with the removal of COLA and that it cost them keeping Shiel and Scully. Their CEO had a go at the Vic clubs for pushing for its removal.

                          Eddie responded and said that he was in favour of the introduction of COLA but that it should be only for young players on $50,000 and not for Buddy to have 3 maids! This guy is unbelievable!!

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                          • S.S. Bleeder
                            Senior Player
                            • Sep 2014
                            • 2165

                            Originally posted by Mel_C
                            On one of the footy shows last night they mentioned how GWS aren't happy with the removal of COLA and that it cost them keeping Shiel and Scully. Their CEO had a go at the Vic clubs for pushing for its removal.

                            Eddie responded and said that he was in favour of the introduction of COLA but that it should be only for young players on $50,000 and not for Buddy to have 3 maids! This guy is unbelievable!!
                            Strewth. He's a real Jeckle and Hyde isn't he. So he's now saying we should have COLA, just not to the extent that we had previously?

                            The handling of the COLA by the AFL has been atrocious. I think the 10% is a little more than what is required by the northern clubs in order to make them equal with their clubs in football states but 0% leaves us severely disadvantaged, especially now that all clubs have academies.

                            If the AFL was competent, instead of ripping COLA out from underneath our feet, they would have incrementally reduced the COLA every 3-4 years and periodically assessed its effect on us.

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                            • aguy
                              Senior Player
                              • Mar 2014
                              • 1324

                              If I recall correctly it was replaced by a rent assistance scheme for players on less than the average afl salary. I don’t remember exact details but there is still a COLA light of sorts Isn’t there ?

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                              • 707
                                Veterans List
                                • Aug 2009
                                • 6204

                                Originally posted by aguy
                                If I recall correctly it was replaced by a rent assistance scheme for players on less than the average afl salary. I don’t remember exact details but there is still a COLA light of sorts Isn’t there ?
                                Yes, Buddy can only afford one maid now :-)

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