Posts by Jonathan Clark12

Roger Allen3 said:What a total disaster of a draw, absolute garbage.

When you're actually playing well, there’s no such thing as a bad draw.
It all just comes down to how much our own guys screw up.
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zok19 said:To me, Paolo Di Canio was a legend on the pitch. I watched him back in his West Ham days and he was nothing short of phenomenal... as for who he is now, I don't care to get into it.

He’s a fascist first and a footballer second. But since he’s a fascist, why should I bother caring about his football career?

I’d change my avatar, but I’m completely out of ideas.

Duje Draganja-prodana got it, and honestly, who needs that kind of energy in America? We have plenty of those types already. 👋

Good grief, who went ahead and deleted my thread last night?😬

I haven't really been following how this tournament has played out
Did Liverpool just embarrass international football as expected? 😉

stoneisland said:I used to think Duje Draganja made the right call since nobody in this country was holding him accountable, but once he claimed "sports reasons" were the deciding factor, I lost all respect. Honestly, he can go straight to hell.👋

Who is going to swim the relay now? 🙄 What kind of "sports reasons" could possibly justify this? 🙂

Apparently, his name is going to be Duje Keleb Draganja.

I think "Keleb" means shark in Arabic or some other language.

Actually, in his own language, "Keleb" just means a damn sheep.

What a joke. It’s exhausting watching a hero like Ante end up behind bars for trying to build this nation, while these cowards turn their backs on everything just to save their own skin.🙂

robybaggio said:Haloooooooooo! How old are you people supposed to be? Duje is probably only 21 or 22, basically just starting out. Insuring your entire life at 21? And then what? Heading straight to a retirement home by 30? He’s got his degree; he’ll find work. With his track record, plenty of companies would jump at the chance to hire him... Honestly, Duje... it's always easiest to just "take the money and run."🙄

The easiest path is being a lowlife.👋

unnamed sent his regards from the general office 👋

Rita said:Sara, thanks. They don't have a clue about anything beyond those patriotic clichés and swallowing whatever our sensationalist journalists shove down their throats.
By the way, thousands show up here for a high school swim meet, yet you can't even snag a ticket for a college football or basketball game. Even when a stadium holds 80,000 people, our top-tier pro leagues can't even fill those seats across an entire weekend of games in the whole country. It's pathetic. Damson made a good point asking where all these players are—they make more than decent money and then just leave the country anyway. If they actually had to change their citizenship, most of them would jump at the chance in a heartbeat. But really, what does it matter? 😁

You deleted my post but left this garbage behind. 🤮

mellowbadger8 said:What makes you all such jerks? Every university in the USA would hand a full ride to an athlete of his caliber. Did you actually think we were footing the bill for him? Give me a break.🙄 Or did you think he paid his own way?

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placidcanyon16 said:If it’s really that easy, why don't you just head over to the States for five years to clear your head?

Because not everyone has Duje's bank account to afford a degree in America.

They're just talking out of their ass. 👋

lonemarlin said:It’s my first time on this forum, so I figured I’d jump into the fray. People keep bringing up athletes moving abroad, but I don't recall any of them being a true national icon like Duje. Some mentioned that swimming doesn't really have a club circuit or major meets, yet it was precisely those types of events where Kožulj made his living. I remember when he could pull in two wins in a single two-week stretch—makes you wonder if there's actually any money to be made in swimming at all. With Duje, he’d show up to one big meet a year and probably walk away with a fortune for every appearance.

Just learn how to write properly and maybe people will actually notice you.🙏 🙏 🙏

Duje Draganja-prodana, I heard rumors that things are about to get pretty ugly down on the waterfront in Miami 🤮 🤮

mellowbadger8 said:I haven't bothered reading any of this thread or even a single article about John Doe’s descent into hell, but I'm fully behind him. He’s given plenty to a country that likely hasn't returned the favor in any sporting or financial sense. Honestly, John should just take whatever he can while he can; life is short and patriotism is usually overblown. People give up their American citizenship for much less than what he's facing, 😉 and you can't exactly pay the bills with fame and a pat on the back.

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Bradley Ramos11 said:rustystag7, a quick favor: please stop putting double exclamation points after almost every single sentence. It feels like you're constantly yelling at me, kind of like how Ivica Blažičko sounds when he's calling a game. 😁There are other punctuation marks available—periods, question marks.

Dana Anderson4, my question about why they’d go out for ten times the amount was meant to be rhetorical, so there wasn't really a need for an answer. Still, thanks for the clarification; you've enlightened me. 😁

Back to Duje: I've already shared my thoughts on this. Duje made a smart move, just not a moral one. Unfortunately, in today's world, being smart and being moral rarely go hand in hand.

duje is a total jerk, and that's the end of the discussion.
We condemn jerks simply because they're jerks, regardless of which state they're from. 👋

Brian Booth75 said:Duje, you made the right call.

If this country can't step up for its elite athletes—and let's be real, there's plenty of money floating around in insurance and corporate sectors—then why shouldn't Duje just take that Qatari passport and go?

Idiots. 👋

Carl Brooks22 said:... check today's edition of ESPN (Sunday, 11/13/05). There's an interview with the guy behind Janica and Ivica—assuming you can figure out who that is—on the middle pages, and he touches on Dujin's decision.
I'm not going to sit here and summarize the news for you. Either read it yourself or have your guardian walk you through the internet...

Give me a break. You're just as delusional as the pathetic liars you follow.
The interview is on CNN too, and he explicitly said he would never do that. 👋
Stick your sports papers where they belong, and save the "I'm older and wiser" routine for someone who actually cares, kid.
I've been paying my taxes and bills for decades, so why don't you just get lost?

Zemljanin said:The father and coach of multi-time Olympic medalist and world champion Janica Kostelic is hiding in my thread under the alias Gips... clearly failing the basic comprehension test.

A sample size of 65% out of 23,000 people, plus 66% in the New York Post, is more than enough data for me to work with... at least until a referendum is called.

sorry, I wasn't reading what you wrote, that's why I called him gips
but it looks like you've added him to your imaginary list too
I know firsthand that Gips doesn't support this at all, which is why I don't care about your fake posts; I guess I was right not to read them in the first place
I refuse to trade insults with liars, so 👋

quietcobra30 said:So you're bringing up ExxonMobil just to get under my skin? Thanks.

Clever move, I guess.
Nothing surprising or particularly low
for a kid like you.
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