You missed my point I am not but my wife and kids are - I find any religion hard fathom - I just say I am to fire up Synbad in Stuff

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Spot on...Good Friday isn't even a holiday in Italy ! Easter Sunday is far more significant. Lets stop footy on Easter Sunday...

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Go to http://www.snoutslouts.org/ for a look at the mighty GFC...

Wasn't there some kind of Easter last weekend as well... or is it this weekend?

Better scrap footy altogether just to be safe.

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Really not living up to your name there crusader...

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

Blues on Good Friday starting 2009, you know it makes sense.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

My old football (gridiron) coach always wondered why the analogy kept missing its target.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

Interesting story. The 1966 Grand Final fell on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), the holiest day in the Jewish calender. Ian Synman was playing for St Kilda at the time. Being Jewish, he was conflicted as to weather to play or not.

He went to see his Rabbi, who told him that as this was the pinnacle of his 'profession' (even though it wasn't his full time job), and that it was what he had been striving to achieve all his life, that he should play.

If my memory serves me correctly, Daniel Bradshaw chose to miss a final (against Carlton) for Brisbane because his wife was giving birth.

As I see it, different people have different conflicts, and have to make choices around them. We can't cater for everyone. Given that we now recognise Australia to be multi-cultural and multi-religious, and that less than 50% of Australians call themselves Christians, it seems to me that we should allow people to exercise that choice.

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Mens sana in corpore sano.

Bring back the laurel wreath logo!!!

christians dont get Easter off from playing sport in Israel though.. neither do Muslim Israelis get their days off... But everyone gets saturday off...yes?

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But its not a problem for me. as im not Catholic,, and my easter is on this weekend not the weekend that the game is proposed on...

I just see a wrecking ball.. knocking over everything for money....
And i see people spending less and less time with their families in a society thats all about McDonalds fast food.. video computer games and alot of bored people who need to force others to work on a day they want as a holiday to be entertained...


Its pitifully depthless really...

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What's this thread about? Playing on Good Friday or abolishing Good Friday?

Because the way I read it, the ones that are saying we should play footy on Good Friday are saying so because the population is not wholly Catholic.

Applying that logic, would mean no Good Friday as a religious holiday, therefore no footy on Good Friday.

Not sure what Swanny is on about. You can't have it both ways.

We are either a Christian society who celebrate Good Friday or we are not.

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.

Republicans take the day off on the Queen's Birthday apparently



Blues on Good Friday. Let's get it over the line!

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I make sure im working on the Queens Birthday.......i

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i dont understand the less family time argument - it was dragged out last time this debate raged on.

what if going to the football is a family event for some families?

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

You prefer to work than spend time with your family?

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

I would much rather spend my time at the footy with the kids than stay at home eating fish and watching movies about Jesus that were made in the 60's or if you live in Melbourne the good friday telethon . And surely in these days of flexible working hours those that do beleive can take the day off and those that don't can still go to work .

Do you work on your holy days

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Where is it written that thou shalt not 'celebrate' Good Friday with a game of footy? I can't see why sport and a Christian celebration must be deemed mutually exclusive.

If i wanted tro celerate the Queens id be off to the Mardi Gras wouldnt i???

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The fact that you are asking where does it say that you cannot celebrate GF with a game of footy indicates that the significance of GF is lost on you because no-one celebrates GF.

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.

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"Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?" Billy Connolly

If Carlton were to play on Good Friday I'd celebrate.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa