The Official Douchebag Hall of Fame (American, shows, quote, Lute)

sweet_nothing · 04-12-2009, 02:10 AM

Liam & Noel Gallagher, but I think Liam is a little bit of a bigger d bag

Thrice · 04-12-2009, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

Liam & Noel Gallagher, but I think Liam is a little bit of a bigger d bag

Super huge D-bags....got a live CD and they are ****s.

Bulldog · 04-12-2009, 04:52 AM

Introducing Rodney Marsh, the biggest d1ckhead ever to masquerade as a sports pundit.

Zarko · 04-12-2009, 05:08 AM

I'll match your own obscure British reference with my own Australian one...

Robert Walls - Ex Coach, Player, and current commentator/columnist for Australian Rules Football. Other than being a bias wanker, and generally garbage at his supposed job, the height of his douchebaggery came while coaching the Brisbane Bears, ordering players to beat up another player during training for an error he had made the week earlier in the game.

**Janszoon** · 04-12-2009, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Zarko

I'll match your own obscure British reference with my own Australian one...

Robert Walls - Ex Coach, Player, and current commentator/columnist for Australian Rules Football. Other than being a bias wanker, and generally garbage at his supposed job, the height of his douchebaggery came while coaching the Brisbane Bears, ordering players to beat up another player during training for an error he had made the week earlier in the game.

That guy even looks like a douchebag.

Zarko · 04-12-2009, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

That guy even looks like a douchebag.

Yes, he does have all corners covered.

I cannot name a single person I know, nor know of a poster on BigFooty (Aussie Rules forum) who actually thinks this bloke ISN'T a douchebag.

4ZZZ · 04-12-2009, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Zarko

I'll match your own obscure British reference with my own Australian one...

Robert Walls - Ex Coach, Player, and current commentator/columnist for Australian Rules Football. Other than being a bias wanker, and generally garbage at his supposed job, the height of his douchebaggery came while coaching the Brisbane Bears, ordering players to beat up another player during training for an error he had made the week earlier in the game.

Well Zarks as a Lions fan so therefore by extension an ex Bear I have a huge soft spot for him. He was behind the recruiting of the Great Voss and (as much as I consider him one of the greatest imbeciles I have ever had the displeasure to meet) Jason Wankermanis so he has something going for him. I would not want to call him a douchebag to his face either. He is a massive man.

I do agree though. The beating up of Strempel was ridiculous and Walls takes the criticism of players to the ridiculous a times.

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UNIDENTIFIED: We pulled the boxing gloves out and we made a big circle and we put Strempel in the middle of the circle and we let him go a round with one player and then dropped that player out and then we put another player in to go another round.

UNIDENTIFIED: What do you do? I mean you're 21 and your coach tells you to do something so you have to do it.

LUISA SACCOTELLI: Former Brisbane Bears' players recalling what happened at one particular training session with coach Robert Walls in 1991.

UNIDENTIFIED: You know, you really started to feel sorry for him. You thought maybe it was a little bit overdone.

UNIDENTIFIED: Just seeing everyone's face change. The longer it went on, the less people wanted to step in. They realised enough is enough.

LUISA SACCOTELLI: The person in charge was former Brisbane Bears' coach, Robert Walls. His former players recalled the incident as part of a re-enactment for an official AFL Players' Association video about past players' memories of the sport.

Former Brisbane Bears footballer Robert Dixon produced the video and was at the training session when Rob Walls decided Shane Strempel needed to be taught respect.

ROBERT DIXON: He sent us on a lap and we came back and there was a bunch of boxing gloves on the ground and so we were all thinking, you know well something's going on here and Rob had some really interesting training drills at the best of times, but this was something a bit different. And he picked eight of the biggest blokes that played, fortunately I wasn't very big so I didn't get picked, and sent Shane in the middle and said look, this is maybe the only way we're going to get some respect from you or the players and sent one at a time in for two minute rounds.

So, the first round was obviously an even fight because Shane was up to it and he was a big bloke himself and could box but by the time two and three came around it was tough for him to even hold his arms up so it became a battle from thereon in.

LUISA SACCOTELLI: So what state was he in by the end of it all?

ROBERT DIXON: He was pretty groggy. He had copped a bit of a pounding and he had blood coming from his nose. He had problems with his teeth. So it was a fairly severe sort of punishment, I suppose.

LUISA SACCOTELLI: It was a strange disciplinary attempt even by the standards of a decade ago, according to AFL Players' Association's CEO Rob Kerr. He said if it happened today the Bears would have breached their duty of care to Strempel and would be legally liable, at the very least for breach of contract.

Well, now the coach has turned commentator. These days Robert Walls is a Southern Cross radio broadcaster, using their airwaves to mount his defence.

ROBERT WALLS: You know, it was a controlled, safe situation. I was always near him. The players knew that they don't throw hay-makers or round-armers. It was boxing/sparring situation because they'd been taught that. He never got knocked over. He never got cut. They are heavy gloves that they wear and at the end of it he walked in with everyone else.

LUISA SACCOTELLI: Rob Walls on Melbourne Radio. But his former charge Robert Dixon says he's spoken to a lot of the players involved and they see it differently.

ROBERT DIXON: It was a fight and that wasn't unusual and sparring wasn't unusual, but this was a bit different given that it was survival for Shane at the time. He was defending himself.

LUISA SACCOTELLI: Well Robert Walls said that it was a highly controlled situation, it was only sparring, he was there the whole time to make sure that the player was safe. Is that how you remember it?

ROBERT DIXON: I mean it was controlled in as much that they were, he was there and it was controlled as much that we were in a circle and at any one stage it could have been called off.

LUISA SACCOTELLI: The players interviewed for the AFL Players Association video recall Brownlow medallist, Brad Hardy, intervening to call a stop to the boxing.

ROBERT DIXON: Brad Hardy, who was nearing one of the last guys to go in, basically said that's enough Rob, I think that means he's had enough, which stopped the whole incident.

LUISA SACCOTELLI: I think he said, "We'd better stop or we'll kill him". Is that accurate?

ROBERT DIXON: Well it's accurate to Michael McLean recounts the story in the video and that's how Madge heard it. I have a feeling that it was probably the last time in AFL football that you could get away with such a thing.

COMPERE: Former Brisbane Bears' player, Robert Dixon, with those memories he can't let go.

4ZZZ · 04-12-2009, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Zarko

Yes, he does have all corners covered.

I cannot name a single person I know, nor know of a poster on BigFooty (Aussie Rules forum) who actually thinks this bloke ISN'T a douchebag.

Christ. Don't foist that crap on these people

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LoathsomePete · 04-12-2009, 09:46 AM

A part of me believes that it's all an act that she does for the cameras and radioshows to make money like in that Boondocks episode because she really has absolutely NOTHING good to say about ANYTHING that isn't American or Republican. I can honestly say I've had some fantasies about disemboweling her.

Now I'm not a left wing liberal by any means, I criticize them just as much as Republicans, but I get so frustrated by people who blindly follow any party and agree with everything that particular party says or does.

Zarko · 04-12-2009, 10:05 AM

Reminded me of this douche...

Not because I like the Beatles at all, she's just a stone cold douche.

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04-12-2009, 04:52 AM	#23 (permalink)
Bulldog why bother? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 4,840	Introducing Rodney Marsh, the biggest d1ckhead ever to masquerade as a sports pundit.

04-12-2009, 05:08 AM	#24 (permalink)
Zarko Barely Disheveled Zombie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 1,196	I'll match your own obscure British reference with my own Australian one... Robert Walls - Ex Coach, Player, and current commentator/columnist for Australian Rules Football. Other than being a bias wanker, and generally garbage at his supposed job, the height of his douchebaggery came while coaching the Brisbane Bears, ordering players to beat up another player during training for an error he had made the week earlier in the game.

04-12-2009, 10:05 AM	#30 (permalink)
Zarko Barely Disheveled Zombie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 1,196	Reminded me of this douche... Not because I like the Beatles at all, she's just a stone cold douche.