Mark Robinson in the Hun intimated in his article about Cousins that the AFL had a lot to think about with Cousins and Dick Pratt and whether he should be allowed to head the club - and flower off you flowering tool!



























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I drive a Jeep Wrangler................. I love her so much, but bloody hell she cleans me dry on the petrol.

$80 will do me about 340km's

But what really frustrates me is that we are made to spend $50 on groceries JUST to get a discount for petrol so we end up paying the price we should be paying in the first place anyway.......................

Most of the people who go to Coles or Safeway ONLY BECUASE THEY WANT THAT DISCOUNT VOUCHER are usually families who are just trying to make ends meet! And they are quite clearly the ones that these companies are targeting!

But it's ok.................... Cardboard boxes are a much bigger issue these days.

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Big Footy has spoken...

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=388304

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Bruce Mathieson was one of the guys who came up with the supermarket/petrol discount scheme! Seems wherever you go you're never going to get away from the Carlton influence across the business world and how it affects our daily lives.

As for the Jeep - I'm jealous! MacGyver was my boyhood idol and i always wanted to emulate him in driving a Jeep. Alas - the Mazda Tribute will have to suffice.

Name one industry where there isn't a duopoly?

(two big companies with no real competition and then nothing else)

retail

coles vs woolworths

airline

star alliance vs one world

petrol ?

i am sure it is the same - two big companies setting the price.
BP vs???

music companies?

sony vs emi.

if they are dead set keen on making competition then go after those industries as well.

I will be only supporting visyboard by the way - keep on fighting Dick.
We're behind you.

So we're going after people over civil offences now are we dear Fatprick?

Hell, serial cheater Ron Evans and Spotless had a good run via the AFL didn't they Fatprick.



Mind you, this is not suport for what Dick has done. In my opinion he deserves what he is getting and more.

But Fatprick sitting in judgement on people? Now that is funny.

People asking for Carlton to be punnished becuase of Pratt's outside football dealings are just pure nut jobs wanting to bring Carlton down..

This Visy price fixing took place between 2001-2004, at a time Dick Pratt wasnt even involved at Carlton in any capacity, little own President...
If worst comes to worst, Dick Pratt may choose to step aside and a new president would be appointed. But for people to suggest Carlton to be stripped of draft picks because of this, its just pure and utter lunacy.

Not surprisingly, the most vocal anti Carlton people are supporters of scum heap teams like Collingwood, Essendon*, Richmond and St. Kilda whose clubs have done jack shizen (in terms of premierships) to take advantage while we've been down, and are now pooing their pants knowing Carlton is on the ride once again...

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He does. A red one.

Let's not forget that Dick does a heap of philanthropy - a lot of good things for a lot of people. He made a mistake, and he said that ultimately the buck stops with him, and he apologized to all those that were affected by a possible price rise.

FWIW it may have been management below that did the deed but the 'buck' stops with him. I suppose there are no excuses though. He will bounce back though. He has been contrite about it all and is prepared to take his punishment.

So let's wait and see. There's a lot of huff and puff at the moment and that's understandable, but people could be making too much of it by saying that he shouldn't be President.

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That's what I'm talking about!

Apparently it was quite alright for Ron's company to gouge the living bejesus out of the public at the MCG with Pies at $4, Water at $4 and beer at $5.

Although apparently Ron Evan's excuse for the beer being so expensive was the cost of the 30 cent cardboard beer trays made by Visy.

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[quote="DownUnderChick"]Mark Robinson in the Hun intimated in his article about Cousins that the AFL had a lot to think about with Cousins and Dick Pratt and whether he should be allowed to head the club - and flower off you flowering tool!

always fascinates me, how sports writers get themselves into all sorts of bother when they stray into areas which have no relevance to what they are paid to do.

the AFL does not have to do anything

if cousins has breached his conditions to play, then WC should sack him..simple as that...nothing to do with AFL

if Cousins is sacked he has to try his luck at getting somewhere else...wether now or at some time in the future ...not likely for all sorts of reasons...again nothing to do with AFL

the ACCC fine is a civil matter and not a criminal matter and therefore does not influence directorships etc.

if the AFL think it can do anything about DP, then they are sadly and miserably mistaken ! CFC is a coy by g'tee, it is a legally independent entity and the AFL has no influence .... I dare them to try..... it would be bloody and ugly and the AFL would loose more than it would gain





























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http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 11,00.html

Now the fatprick is on the act:



get [REDACTED] you @#$%&! idiot.

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Pfft.. Fatprick... Another dipsh*t article coming from the same man who claimed Carlton would've sacked JK had he not agreed to go to the Toastars....

You gotta admitt, Fatprick is good for the ennvironment... thats another article for the compost heap..

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We have to be careful not to excuse what Pratt did as what he did was extremely wrong, and not a minor infraction. He delibrately ripped the public off through his price fixing. This lead to him earning signinficant profits. Any other person and we would be jumping up and down. Imagine if this was Eddie!

I certaintly have a diminished view of him now. Not sure how I feel about him being president now.

Australia is the land of the government mandated "Duopoly/Oligopoly".


You want to do something about it - elect a government that will do something about it - instead of whinging about "rip-offs".

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Patrick Smith is still banging on about Pratt's suitability as Carlton president. Now, I'll admit that the price-fixing rorts at Visy are not a great look. But, apart from that I cannot see what this has to do with the position of Carlton president.

When Smith vigourously defends the Eagles sacking of Cousins he can offer hard facts and solid reasoning for doing so.

When attacking Pratt's suitability for presidency at Carlton he lacks any solid foundation for holding this position. This is a copy of an email I sent in to SEN just now <hungryforsport@sen.com.au>...



Maybe he's just dirty that Carlton have won 16 grand finals and Essendon* have only won 14 grand finals???

Maybe he's just dirty that his team under achieved c1999???

Maybe he's just scared that Carlton will get to premiership #17 first???

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Or maybe he is just an old flowerwit!

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What Pratt did was obviously wrong, but I don't have a black&white view of these things.

The Victorian Government was perfectly happy to have a monopoly on lotteries for decades. A monopoly on casino's was also approved by the Government. Petrol pricing is mysteriously similar across all the chains. Coles and Woolworths are quietly being allowed to buy up liquor licences and split the market between themselves. Qantas and Virgin's airfares are very, very similar just about all of the time. Both major political parties do all they can to ensure a third or fourth party is never allowed to challeng their position.

and so on and so on.

So he did wrong, and is being punished. But does his behaviour make him any worse than the people involved in the above scenarios?