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News Gillon McLachlan - appointed CEO of Tabcorp
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will Tabcorp take my bet on how long he lasts in the job? 
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'sport', is now just the product division of our gambling overlords
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f**k I had never made the connection between gambling ads & lending to pay back your debts ads
Not surprised, “cross promotion” works anywhere really.
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Ex-AFL boss Gillon McLachlan appointed new Tabcorp CEO
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Interesting.
I suppose years spent scratching the backs of gambling companies had to result in a return back-scratch eventually.
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Or just not as outraged as those who have an agenda against Gill or like being eternally outraged?
They've had parlay betting on horses at the TAB for as long as I've known about betting on horses at the TAB, be over 20 years?
Don’t ever forget that the gambling overlords exist at the pleasure of our politicians and sporting leaders.
They could banish them tomorrow if they wanted to.
The gambling isn’t the cause, it’s a symptom: everything and everyone is simply for sale.
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Spot bets when Harry McKay is having a set shot.
Can you bet on AFL games through TAB?
Gill moving to a gambling company is hardly a surprise. Ironically taking Sportsbet as the AFL's official gambling partner might have killed his new employers business. Unless of course Dillon is planning on dumping Sportsbet for Tabcorp and help out his former boss?
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I agree. Didn't Andrew Demetriou get a job in Melbourne
crown casino after leaving the AFL top job?
How dare you take Goodwin’s next job!
Also scored a gig at Blackstone,big players in real estate amongst other things.
Gil certainly made the most of his AFL junket to New York a while back.
Short video about 'good guys' Blackstone.
Gil certainly made the most of his AFL junket to New York a while back.
Short video about 'good guys' Blackstone.
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This is a really naive take.
By banishing the "gambling overlords" they would simply be replaced by even worse underground gambling overlords.
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Thx Hamish.
You don't see potential for benefit to Tabcorp in hiring the outgoing head of the AFL, given his patronage of his sucessor? Bully for you!
Also, nothing to worry about with gambling involvement in footy, its not like that precipitates a massively increasing financial incentive to tamper with results.
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Look I take your point, but Packer and Crown seem to have actually been the worse underground gambling overlords before they were banned.
Can't stamp out gambling but we can regulate it, and part of that os forcing McLachlan to behave as if he had morals.
If you think turning a blind eye to money laundering and letting people play the pokies all night is the worse thing that gambling overlords could do then again, very naive.
The "Sports industry" and betting are not really in the same category.
Unless, of course, you want to lead a very young generation of kids into normalising betting as a part of life.
Take your defence and stick it where it hurts. There is a very real reason why nobody is liking your posts.
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Yes.
Nafe Brown, Daisy Thomas and Fat Brownless are have played a huge role in normalising betting on AFL.
Every week they are on the box trying to connect with me using relaxed, casual language, meanwhile pushing multis and telling me how I need to bet with all my mates.
Sportsbet marketing department is doing some of Satan’s best work.
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This is pillar #1 of Sportsbet’s corporate strategy.
Who gives a rats arse what Gil decides to do now.
He's highly competitive for the role and on 1.5mil a year. Who wouldn’t take that. Good for him.
He's highly competitive for the role and on 1.5mil a year. Who wouldn’t take that. Good for him.
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The AU government is a bit weird sometimes.
Can’t play online poker for real money here.
But bet on sports? Yeah, go wild.
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If it means 8 year olds arent inundated with gambling ads Im ok with that.
We dont have cigarette and alcohol ads on during G rated programming. Gambling is just as damaging so should also be banned.
Our Fed govt no matter who is in power is totally gutless when it comes to this.
