The world has gone so soft: AFL to no longer reveal player weights, declares it inappropriate

[Hotdog60]

Re: The world has gone so soft: AFL to no longer reveal player weights, declares it inappropriate

I'm a boomer and we grew up without mobile phones and uber eats that's how we keep lean if you wanted to eat you had to go to your groceries not the other way around.

[Grantysghost]

Re: The world has gone so soft: AFL to no longer reveal player weights, declares it inappropriate

I'm a boomer and we grew up without mobile phones and uber eats that's how we keep lean if you wanted to eat you had to go to your groceries not the other way around.

Such a boomer thing to say...

Ha ok this is fun.

I'm the worlds biggest nerd, like seriously, however I grew up with sport sport sport sport sport and the local kids played footy every night in the park opposite my house in the winter, and cricket in the summer. I was ashamed by my lack of weight not the opposite.
As I sit here navigating Link through the forests of Hyrule I ponder : "Where did it all go wrong?"

[Boots]

Re: The world has gone so soft: AFL to no longer reveal player weights, declares it inappropriate

I have to say I think it's a really good idea. As a pretty 'heavy' guy, I think we need less focus on weight as a marker of anything useful about people's bodies. For that reason, ditching public reference to player weights is a good thing.

EDIT: Actually on second thoughts I'm not going to post my original anecdote, it will be perceived as too inflammatory in this thread I suspect.

[Grantysghost]

Re: The world has gone so soft: AFL to no longer reveal player weights, declares it inappropriate

I have to say I think it's a really good idea. As a pretty 'heavy' guy, I think we need less focus on weight as a marker of anything useful about people's bodies. For that reason, ditching public reference to player weights is a good thing.

EDIT: Actually on second thoughts I'm not going to post my original anecdote, it will be perceived as too inflammatory in this thread I suspect.

It will eliminate any weight based prejudice.

Or it will make the AFL look good.

[azabob]

Re: The world has gone so soft: AFL to no longer reveal player weights, declares it inappropriate

It will eliminate any weight based prejudice.

Or it will make the AFL look good.

Why do you want to know what a player weighs?

[Grantysghost]

Re: The world has gone so soft: AFL to no longer reveal player weights, declares it inappropriate

Why do you want to know what a player weighs?

Why don't you?

[azabob]

Re: The world has gone so soft: AFL to no longer reveal player weights, declares it inappropriate

Why don't you?

I asked first.

[Grantysghost]

Re: The world has gone so soft: AFL to no longer reveal player weights, declares it inappropriate

I asked first.

Good point.

I couldn't give a fat rats toss bag about players weights.

It's the cancel culture I hate.

We probably should cancel height too.

Then Caleb will be protected.

Wow, Caleb is the same height as Justin Madden. I have no idea how to tell now there's no official stats.

Removing the weights actually gives WEIGHT to the insane notion that this is somehow a measure of your humanity.

[EasternWest]

Re: The world has gone so soft: AFL to no longer reveal player weights, declares it inappropriate

Good point.

I couldn't give a fat rats toss bag about players weights.

It's the cancel culture I hate.

We probably should cancel height too.

Then Caleb will be protected.

Wow, Caleb is the same height as Justin Madden. I have no idea how to tell now there's no official stats.

Removing the weights actually gives WEIGHT to the insane notion that this is somehow a measure of your humanity.

Woop woop woop catchphrase alert

[Grantysghost]

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Woop woop woop catchphrase alert

I'll cancel you, leftist commie hippy soap dodger (I've run out)

Hey btw I send you a DM with a clip. Respond or I'll be hurt.

[D Mitchell]

Re: The world has gone so soft: AFL to no longer reveal player weights, declares it inappropriate

...I'm not going to post my original anecdote, it will be perceived as too inflammatory in this thread I suspect.

Aw, come on, you can't do that ! I won't be able to sleep tonight thinking what your anecdote might be. I have an early morning operation, delicate brain surgery, on a Marcus Bontempelli tomorrow, one slip of the scalpel and he'll have the mind of Toby Green. Spill it, the more inflammatory, the better.