AJB ✡️

Teacher. Australian. Evertonian. Also #gotiges 🐯

[AJB ✡️ @AJB1878]

We still doing these @FinKitch ? #Spiritoftheblues

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@_3emeOeil Queue for the lifts

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Thank god for Noah Mraz #gotiges

[Jonah Platt @JonahPlatt]

FIFA world cup semifinals: THE JEW VIEW.

Four countries left. One question that actually matters: Who should Jews root for?! Let's see...🤔

A completely objective, deeply petty, historically rigorous ranking.

🇫🇷 France:
✔ Expelled the Jews in 1182. Let them back.
✔ Expelled them in 1306. Let them back.
✔ Expelled them AGAIN in 1394. Practice makes perfect.
✔ Framed the only Jewish officer on its General Staff for treason (the Dreyfus Affair) — a trial so antisemitic it inspired a journalist named Theodor Herzl to invent modern Zionism.
✔ Then Vichy France helped deport 75,000 Jews to the camps.
⚽ Points for: 3rd largest Jewish community on Earth. Accidentally created Zionism. Excellent kosher wine.
📂 Current form: Record antisemitism. Aliyah applications through the roof.

JEW VIEW SCALE: 4/10 for inventing modern Zionism (by accident)

🇪🇸 Spain:
✔ Invented the Inquisition (1478). Nobody expected it.
✔ Then 1492: convert, leave, or die — fifteen centuries of Spanish Jewry ended with one royal signature.
✔ The expulsion decree stayed legally in force for 476 years.
✔ Spain revoked it in 1968. Yes. THAT 1968.
⚽ Points for: Offered citizenship to Sephardic descendants in 2015. Only 523 years late. Great tapas (we checked — not kosher).
🇮🇱 Current form: ~40,000 Jews left, and a government going for Western Europe's gold medal in anti-Israel hysteria.

JEW VIEW SCALE: 1.5/10 for knowing what they did, but refusing to admit or talk about it. Ok

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England:
✔ Invented the blood libel — Norwich, 1144. History's worst export.
✔ First country in Europe to expel its ENTIRE Jewish population (1290). The ban lasted 366 years.
✔ In 2025, Jews were murdered outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur.
⚽ Points for: The Balfour Declaration. 5th largest Jewish community in the world. Readmitted the Jews in 1656 because Cromwell heard we were good for business — flattering AND insulting.
🥯 Current form: Despite scyrocketing record of antisemitism, multiple shootings, stabbings, and bombings, the North London bagels are holding the line.

JEW VIEW SCALE: 3/10 – "giveth the blood libel, giveth the Balfour"

🇦🇷 Argentina:
✔ Opened the door to thousands of Nazis after WWII. Eichmann. Mengele. A whole retirement plan.
✔ In 1994, the AMIA bombing killed 85 people — the deadliest attack on Jews outside Israel since the Holocaust.
✔ Iran and Hezbollah. Still unpunished.
⚽ Points for: The Mossad caught Eichmann in Buenos Aires anyway — thanks for the address. Largest Jewish community in Latin America. Current president studies Torah, wept at the Western Wall, and says he wants to convert. The most philosemitic head of state on Earth.
✡️ Current form: From Nazi haven to "is the president having a bar mitzvah?" in one generation.

JEW VIEW SCALE: 7.5/10 for “character development”

So, who are YOU rooting for?

[AJB ✡️ @AJB1878]

@Richmond_FC @nibhealth Was it really not worth taking a second pick in the MSD just so Campbell Gray could maybe return in Rnd 22, most likely through the 2nds?

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@7AFL Whole side is better when he is in it.

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@quagbar @EFCOptimist Dont do it mate

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@_sjblack Can you please find out about Jack Ross. Hope he’s okay!

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@Richmond_FC @nibhealth And to think I was actually looking forward to this week’s report.

Herbert wouldve been handy with an extra selection in the mid-season draft.

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@syifafea Not a proper die as the 4 and 3 should be opposite

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@Tigercastpod Butters is amazing but id personally rather keep investing in the draft than giving up a lot of picks. Especially if HVH is available for us.

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@EFC_Home When he signed he was the only one making things happen. And then we didnt play him much last year. Strange calls.

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@jpends_ @FollowEverton Now do Sunderland

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@JontyRalphsmith @Tigercastpod @beeck_marcus @JontyRalphsmith Do you think it was the right pick for us at pick 2 or were there better options? I really thought Herbert would go earlier.

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@aflratingsPete Most of the young guys we want to get games into are injured. 6 out of the 8 we took in 2024 draft are out.

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@Jasperc53 @FootyStuffYT How does he compare with CDT?

[Ben Gulliver @gulliver_ben]

#EFC record this season with and without the most common back 4:

Option A: Mykolenko, Keane, Tarkowski, O'brien
Games: 19
Wins: 5
Draws: 6
Losses: 8
Points per Game: 1.11

Option B: LITERALLY any other combination back 4
Games: 17
Wins: 8
Draws: 4
Losses: 5
Points per Game: 1.65

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@VinnysCorner1 2012 FA cup semi final 😢

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Smillie quad tear 😭

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@RFC_Centre ‘Manage’ Hopper again?

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@stats_feed He also said it was a worthy expense