What did our Banner say & what did it originally say?

[Bucks5]

My wife claims that on triple M, Eddie said that he asked the cheer squad to change the banner for yesterday as it was in appropriate.

What did it originally say? And by the way what did it say on the day?

TIA

[Dr Alf Andrews]

Side A:
LIKE THE DIGGERS
WHO FOUGHT IN THE TRENCHES
WE'LL SMASH THROUGH THE
BOMBERS DEFENCES

Side B:
ANZAC HEROES-
Rembembered
Lest We Forget

This was the banner that we made on Tuesday night. However, Side A was vetoed on the morning of the match for some inexplicable reason. I suppose it would have been considered sacriledge to compare footballers to the diggers.

The irony of it all was that when McGough got presented with his best-on-ground medal it was said over the P.A. that the medal was
presented to the player who best personnified the ANZAC spirit.

The hypocrisy of all this just defies comprehension. The football industry and media hype has been comparing football to war since time immemorial.

This sounds like some misguided attempt on the part of The Club to appease the hyper-sensitivities of the R.S.L.

As a result of this piece of right-wing political correctness, Side A of the banner was blank.

I don't know whether this was Redneck Ruxton's idea or whether Eddie was afraid that it might be considered offensive. In any case, you reckon they might have told us BEFORE we went to all the trouble of putting the banner together on the Tuesday night.

If ANZAC Day is so bloody sacred, then why the hell do we play a football match at all. Back in the olden days it was just a Dawn Service, a march and then an all-day piss up with lots of games of two-up. Nothing so vulgar as football even entered the equation.

I say let the diggers have THEIR day. Play the bloody football on Saturday. The A.F.L. is ultimately the guilty party ... for letting football be used as a vehicle for right wing jingoism.

Football is football.
ANZAC Day is ANZAC Day.
Don't mix the two.

[BJ]

The Banner..........
I was quite excited about it.. It was my idea.... see the cheersquad forum!
But unfortunately, in their ultimate wisdom, somebody decided it was 'disrespectful'... To the diggers- ?? I don't know.
To be told that your slogan won on ANZAC day and to see a blank banner was really dissappointing.
To the cheersquad who made the banner on Tuesday, I say thank-you and am sorry that all that work was wasted.

BJ

[junkboy75]

I agree dr andrews. to not allow a banner that compares footy with war, and then have a medal that personifies the ANZAC spirit is pure hypocrisy. the AFL must decide one way or another.

"..we flew at them as a hawk to his prey, passed through them in the disordered state in which they were, separated them into two distinct parts and then tacked upon their largest division.." -- Captain Cuthbert Collingwood, 1797

[Black_White]

But....wasn't it Eddie that asked for it to be changed? Not the AFL. This was an internal CFC matter so we cannot blame our normal whipping boy Jackson.

-Craig

[Rosewall Woman 3]

Hey BJ, ask for the "old" banner and fold it away and bring it out in 50 years or so. I thought it was great and my congratulations go to you. I told everyone around me what it should've said!!!