Australian Rules Footballer Quits the Game Following the League’s ‘No Jab, No Job’ Policy

Australian rules footballer Liam Jones (pictured) has announced his retirement from the game in preference to getting double-jabbed, after the Australian Football League adopted a ‘No Jab, No Job’ policy. Jones has terminated his contract worth around 500,000 AUD per year. The Mail Australia has more.

The team had been in talks with Jones after he expressed hesitancy about taking the Covid vaccine.

But he refused to change his stance and get vaccinated, despite the AFL’s ‘no-jab, no-play’ policy. 

“I wish to announce my retirement from AFL football effective immediately,” Jones said in a statement on Sunday.

“I want to take this opportunity to thank all who have supported me throughout my journey, both personally and professionally. 

“I love the game and I’ll miss my teammates.

“I hope that people respect my decision and privacy – neither myself or my management team will be making any further comment on the matter.”

Carlton Head of Football Brad Lloyd gave thanks to Jones for his time with the club.

“We have been in constant dialogue with Liam in recent months and allowing him the time he needed to make an informed decision regarding his playing career,” Lloyd said.

“Liam confirmed with us today that he has made the decision to retire, and his wish for the specific reasons of that decision to be kept private – as a club, we will be respecting that.

“We thank Liam for his seven years of service to the Carlton Football Club, he earned every part of the 161 games he played, which included a complete positional transformation in the middle of his career, that could have only been possible with supreme dedication and hard work.

“We wish Liam all the best for the next phase of his life,” said Lloyd.

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helenf
4 years ago

Good for him, a man with integrity.

iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Or, simply, sanity!

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

Probably both.

helenf
4 years ago

So what is he, Daily Mail, vaccine “hesitant”, “vaccine sceptic”, or “anti-vax”? Pathetic attempt at discrediting him.

MizakeTheMizan
4 years ago
Reply to  helenf

“Principled” is what he is.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  MizakeTheMizan

Moreover, his actions will trigger very uncomfortable feelings among those who are getting jabbed just to go along, which is the majority. They will wonder what it is that makes someone give up that kind of money and living.

The small minded will dismiss him and mock him. But it will make many think a bit more carefully about jabs and the coercion involved.

Well done, him.

Gregoryno6
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Very uncomfortable feelings indeed. The resignations by a couple of Victorian police seem to have had some influence on the response by remaining cops to the street rallies. If Liam’s exit has a similar effect the AFL might be seeing some understrength teams running out in 2022.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

They’ll be understrength alright, when their vaxxed players are dropping like flies.

SimCS
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

As the saying goes, ‘it will sort the men from the boys’.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  MizakeTheMizan

I would also add – sensible.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Indeed.

Dermot McClatchey
4 years ago

Just 30 years old. He has no guarantee of finding employment- certainly not as a Rules Footballer- no guarantee of entitlement to pension rights, no guarantee even, in the Fascist Wonderful Kingdom of Oz, of being able to access unemployment benefits. He is a proper man, a brave man, a man who puts most of us to shame.

Fiona Walker
4 years ago

I don’t know much about this game but maybe a Florida/Texan-based NFL team might give him a try out? Would be good publicity if nothing else.

Dermot McClatchey
4 years ago
Reply to  Fiona Walker

I really, really hope that such an opportunity comes his way. Surely he’d be able to get the hang of what it takes to be an NFL running back. He deserves every good fortune which comes his way.

Will
Will
4 years ago

I am talking to the doctor tomorrow about being granted medical exemption for the non vaccines. I won’t be taking one, regardless of what the doctor says, because I live my life as though I have a vaccine induced autoimmune condition because that is what my daughter has. I will report back to the forum.

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Will

That will be interesting, given that you have a rationally unquestionable reason for refusal. (Mind you, everybody has if properly examined).

IanC
4 years ago

Someone actually downvoted that??

LeMac
LeMac
4 years ago

Australia is lost. How can their politicians ever turn back from their utter over-reaction? They went for zero-covid and it almost looked like a good call in the early stages, but then the ‘vaccines’ turned out to to be essentially worthless and they can’t bring themselves to change tack. They, along with other countries encouraging the experimental drugs they call vaccines, are trying to wipe out the control groups (unvaccinated) so they can’t be shown to have messed up their covid responses.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  LeMac

You are missing the obvious – this has nothing to do with C1984.

SimCS
4 years ago
Reply to  LeMac

The Aussie govt were always on a hiding-to-nothing with any zero-covid strategy. Why? Because the SARS-CoV-2 virus has an animal reservoir, so you can never eradicate it. If the so-called medical experts haven’t realised this yet, we need new experts. This is also the reason why we WERE able to eradicate Smallpox, as that virus has no animal reservoir, and only survives in humans. Smallpox is therefore NOT comparable to SARS-CoV-2.

The only way to effectively protect humans is via natural immunity, which means for those who do become ill, early stage medicinal treatment (as the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh did with their Test & Treat programme, based on Ivermectin. A state of over 200m people that’s now declared covid-free).

crisisgarden
4 years ago

That doesn’t sound like ‘hesitancy’ to me!

CynicalRealist
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

The propaganda machine has nothing in between ‘hesitant’ (they’ve not been bullied into it yet) and ‘anti-vaxxer’ (which they use as a term of abuse for someone who won’t be bullied)…

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

No. In the end I think just about everyone will be an anti-vaxxer!

tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

I have been jabbed for smallpox, TB, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, etc. I am not an anti-vaxxer.

But SARS-CoV-2 is a different kettle of fish altogether. The vaccines are untested and are now proving to be less effective than we were told. The whole bullying regime is despicable. I stand firmly against it. I am anti-lockdown, anti-mask, anti-bullying and anti-clotshot. But I am not a “denier” nor “anti-vaxxer” nor any other puerile insult they want to throw at me.

Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  tom171uk

“Anti-vaxxer” might just turn out to be the most life-preserving stance a human could ever take, and thus be transformed from an insult to high praise!

tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

In the context of this covid hysteria that may well be the case. But if the political machinations destroy trust in vaccines generally it will be detrimental.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  tom171uk

There is no earned trust, only blind faith and outright stupidity.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Or dead.

Alkanet
4 years ago

He appears to have no tattoos either so he is probably a freethinker. I wonder what the % of vaxxed tattooed is compared to unvaxxed untattooed?

Free Lemming
4 years ago
Reply to  Alkanet

Not sure about the comparison… but then I have a tattoo 😂

Alkanet
4 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Proof you’re not afraid of needles, that will upset the jabby jabbys like Piers Morgan and HMQ 😆

Free Lemming
4 years ago
Reply to  Alkanet

It’s a perfectly good question tbh

Paul B
4 years ago
Reply to  Alkanet

I expect about 10% these days, similar to the number who apparently cannot be hypnotised and who would stay seated in a Dr’s waiting room while the other 9 people there stood up every time a buzzer rang. Oddly, about the same amount as are left handed (I’ll admit to being biased there).

Leo Albert
Leo Albert
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

Yes, I’m left-handed and a complete sceptic who hates groupthink. I find it incredible doctors want to inject substances into people that interfere with their genetic immunity without even considering their current medical weaknesses or comorbidities. Very little is known about the long-term effects of spike-proteins on the immune system because all sorts of medical subdisciplines, like neuroscience or immunology, are very under-developed. Why should one be a guinea-pig for “The Science” when ignorance and experimentation characterises what immunologists know themselves?

Backlash
Backlash
4 years ago
Reply to  Alkanet

Good point, tattoos used to express individuality now they are just another confirmation you’re talking to a mindless sheep. Tramp stamps I call them.

Alkanet
4 years ago
Reply to  Backlash

I honestly suspect that the untattoed under 50s are more likely to also be ‘unvaxxed’ as they haven’t just followed the trend to be inked as a fashion statement. Someone could do a study perhaps (I’m all for the triple vaxxed being given a free tattoo to demonstrate their obedience – unfortunately many would accept this as a badge of honour and any comparison with Nazi Germany would be lost on them).

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Alkanet

A swastika on the forehead would be the real badge of honour.

CynicalRealist
4 years ago
Reply to  Alkanet

the tattoo offered to them should surely be of a syringe?!

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Alkanet

Good point.

Stephanos
Stephanos
4 years ago
Reply to  Alkanet

I don’t have a tattoo but I have been considering, not very seriously, about having the Athanasian Creed tattooed on my back.
In Latin, of course.
Not sure the wife would like that.

Free Lemming
4 years ago

“We have been in constant dialogue with Liam in recent months and allowing him the time he needed to make an informed decision…” – and he DID make an informed decision. Just wish there were more informed and far less ignorant.

helenf
4 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

The amount of pressure (coercion) he must have been subjected to to have the “vaccine” must have been off the chart. Take note, unvaccinated NHS England staff – I think this is what you can look forward to too. Hold the line, comrades.

Waffle
4 years ago

Dr Robert Malone recently posted these videos in a thread on twitter.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1459188859770650627

KidFury
KidFury
4 years ago

Great to see some principles. Of course it’s easier when you’re earning half a million a year than a 30k nurse.

Arum
Arum
4 years ago
Reply to  KidFury

Is it though? I’m sure this man has been under a lot of individual pressure, as a high-profile individual

Paul B
4 years ago
Reply to  Arum

It is. Being able to retire tomorrow and live comfortably allows for freedoms that those which couldn’t afford to feed their children do not have. I am fortunate to not have children and could survive 2-3 years on savings where I to take a more extreme stand, it makes it easier IMO. I’d starve before giving in to this disgusting assault on bodily autonomy but I wouldn’t make children starve.

KidFury
KidFury
4 years ago
Reply to  Arum

Yes it is. Is a single parent nurse going to lose her home and have no money to feed her children or take the jab?

I’m not saying what this guy has done isn’t admirable – it is. Hugely.

Fair Isle
Fair Isle
4 years ago
Reply to  KidFury

I’m a nurse and earn 70k per year. Based on principle and not being property of the state, I have decided to end my career. If the NHS mandates such tyranny then I no longer wish to be a part of it. Unlike most people I don’t just whine about the situation, I act on my principles. I urge others to do the same.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Fair Isle

Salute you.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  KidFury

Oh FO.

KidFury
KidFury
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

You fuck off you cunt

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  KidFury

It wouldn’t be easy, but a clued up person would have no other option. The vaccines are lethal and the main variable is whether they kill you early or a year so down the road. Not a great choice.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  KidFury

Yes it’s probably easier (but he is giving up something he probably loved and has worked all his life for) though I think others have interpreted this as you diminishing his actions in some way. Leaving that debate aside, I think the point to focus on is that we need high profile people to speak out and normalise the non-vaxxed position. The more that do, the harder it is for the position to be marginalised.

BeBopRockSteady
4 years ago

Step forward the real men of character.

Gregoryno6
4 years ago

Indeed.

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James Kreis
4 years ago

It takes a strong fish to swim against the tide.

Catee
4 years ago
Reply to  James Kreis

Absolutely
Even a dead one can float with it.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

And a lot of dead fish are. Dead and stinking.

Paul B
4 years ago

First time in 20 years something from the BBC has entertained me.

The BBC’s outgoing head of news has told LGBT staff they “have to get used to” hearing things “they do not personally like”.

“She was reacting to questions from the [Pride] network that implied people shouldn’t come across views they disliked. To me, it felt like she was having to explain journalism to idiots.”

miketa1957
miketa1957
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

I suspect it was almost exclusively the T people the head of news was referring to.

Paul B
4 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

‘Everyone’s annoyed at the T’s’

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

To me, it felt like she was having to explain journalism to idiots”

Except I don’t consider these people to be journalists nor do I consider the BBC to be an organisation involved in journalism. It’s a political campaigning organisation using journalism and entertainment as a cover. And I am not sure these people are all idiots. Doutbless some are, but suppressing views you dislike is a tool in their war and they well know it.

miketa1957
miketa1957
4 years ago

The team had been in talks with Jones after he expressed hesitancy about taking the Covid vaccine. But he refused to change his stance and get vaccinated, despite the AFL’s ‘no-jab, no-play’ policy.

So not hesitant then. Good for him.

TruthHurts2077
4 years ago

Aaron Rodgers
Kyrie Irving
Liam Jones
Novak Djokovic

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

What next for Equality & Diversity in Australasia?

Al T
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

This, maybe?

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BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Al T

A tactic, for sure 😉

KidFury
KidFury
4 years ago
Reply to  Al T

That’s genius

Judy Watson
Judy Watson
4 years ago
Reply to  Al T

Love it

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  Al T

Made my day thus far!!

kate
kate
4 years ago

https://www.bitchute.com/video/eigzm5TchMHf/
Update from Anna de Buisseret

Anti_socialist
4 years ago
Reply to  kate

I dunno about the legal approach, i’m losing faith, the more time goes by the more they look like fantasists at best & conmen at worst.

I was sucked in by Bernician at first, but he’s clearly a fantasist. Reiner Fuellmich holding public zoom meetings advertising his case to the opposition seems questionable, Anna certainly sounds like she knows the law. But the judiciary are captured & corrupt.

This will never end without people power, it will take revolution, not court papers, to turn this around. I think perhaps she’s also in denial in what we’re up against.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

You are correct. Courts and judges have been bought so no assistance from those cowards. It’s down to us.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

This court hasn’t been bought:

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-60845-CV0.pdf

US Fifth Circuit Federal Appeals Court ruled that Biden’s vaccine mandate was unconstitutional

Star
4 years ago

Austria is the “first” country to impose a lockdown on only the unvaccinated. This is how Russia Today are reporting the disgrace that will tarnish Austria from tomorrow. As far as I know it hasn’t been framed like that in the British media yet, but it probably will be – perhaps even before today is out.

The Independent has published a piece by Sean Gauleiter O’Grady, their associate editor: “Austria has the right idea – put the unvaccinated in lockdown“. The scumbag writes:

“Asking the unvaccinated to limit their travel and contact with others is one of the extreme measures that may have to be taken when health services start to collapse, and as winter draws in, that is becoming an increasing possibility across the continent”.

What a brave man.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Why would health services collapse if the vaccines work?

The Austrian unvaxxed – about 2 million – must ignore this decree and storm their Reichstag.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Enforcing a travel ban against us means (at the very least) either tagging resisters or “Papers!” at every train station and on every bus.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

If you are over there, you have my sincere sympathies.

Norman
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Not if your smart phone says no. And no smart phone is an automatic no.

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Sorry – but you are working on the assumption that this is governed by rationality.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

‘…extreme measures that may have to be taken when health services start to collapse…’.

Presumably as a result of ADE?

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

O’Grady desperately in need of a rope.

Cee Yoo Next Tuesday.

Star
4 years ago

Nice one Liam – you are indeed a brave man and an exemplary role model. “Just f***ing say no”, and you’ve said no. Respect!

Anti_socialist
4 years ago

I found this fascinating, Meredith Miller | SCA Session 78 – New Paths out of Trauma

Meredith Miller is a coach, author and speaker, helping people to self-heal after relationships with psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists and other manipulative characters. She teaches the mindsets, tools and actions to help others recover after narcissistic abuse.

I’ve pretty much given up on Reiner Fuellmich & his Corona Committee, I don’t know what he, is genuine or not, but it’s all going to be over before the courts even have a hearing. Still interesting to listen too.

isobar
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

I had high hopes of this but sadly it seems to have become an ‘all mouth and trousers’ event. When is something going to happen, if ever?

I am Spartacas
4 years ago

….

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago

Why keep his reasons private? He should excoriate this coercive and necessary mandate. He’s now a free man. He can say what he really thinks. I wish more athletes would use these big platforms they have.

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

EDIT: Should be: “coercive and unnecessary mandate.”

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

No ‘should’ – one of the major aspects of this is the right not to reveal personal medical information.

Norman
4 years ago

If Australia and New Zealand come out of lockdown the disease will rip through them all, vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. At the end of the day their levels of fatalities will be like most others who have locked down and released, as the complacent French, Germans, Danes and Austrians who were held up to us as shining examples of obedience to their leaders’ instructions.

Anti_socialist
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

I have a theory about Australia’s low covid,……………..

Humidity.

psychedelia smith
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

In the sage words of the great Neil Oliver.. This is not about what they say it’s about.

psychedelia smith
4 years ago

“allowing him the time he needed to make an informed decision regarding his playing career”

But absolutely under no circumstances an “informed decision” about what goes into his body. These people need to hang.

isobar
4 years ago

That’s just an excuse. I would have thought that he had plenty of time to make an informed decision. Good for him.

isobar
4 years ago


 

Authorities in Canada admit what their ‘vaccine’ passport system is for – to punish the ‘unvaccinated’ 

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/passportpurpose?e=6fe7ac95b6

Star
4 years ago

Just watched the Tesco Christmas video: spend like there’s no tomorrow, and don’t worry because Father Christmas has been vaccinated – he’s shown his papers – and therefore he won’t be locked up…

Meanwhile in supermarkets in Latvia from tomorrow, it’s prove you’re vaccinated at the door (using QR code or paper document) or else you can’t come in. How long do we reckon it will be until the same policy comes to Britain? Two weeks?

isobar
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

After the upcoming by elections, that would be my bet. ‘Infections are remaining stubbornly high, we must do something to preserve Christmas and New Year Celebrations’

Mike Oxlong
4 years ago

Considering the amount of sportspeople dropping dead with heart attacks, I’d say it was a sensible choice not to get jabbed.

Mike Oxlong
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike Oxlong

Good example – the flyweight boxer who went down after a double jab 🙂

isobar
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike Oxlong

Yes, here is a pertinent link;

Athletes dead or hospitalized after covid injections
https://drtrozzi.org/2021/11/08/athletes-dead-or-hospitalized-after-covid-injections/

Anti_socialist
4 years ago

Government-approved Covid testing firm faces watchdog probe over plans to sell swabs with customers’ DNA for medical research
There you are, I said this back in 2020! Check how many shares the cabinet has in genome sequencing companies. Mass testing = mass DNA data collection.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they have been taking DNA from babies as soon as they are born for the past 30 years or more.

Anti_socialist
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Notice how quickly the fuzz find serious crime suspects now (of course that’s not a bad thing) but how? DNA databases, mobile phone surveillance! There’s a lot they’re not telling us.

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Occasionally we see back-stage.

I am Spartacas
4 years ago

Another consequence, that is very typical for totalitarian states, is that people become radically intolerant for dissonant voices.”

Worth watching if you have a spare hour or so ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5bo_KFqgo

Star
4 years ago

In connection with the taxi fire outside the hospital in Liverpool, which killed at least one person, three men have now been arrested under the Terrorism Act. To judge from photos, it does not seem that any explosives were used, so this does not seem to have been a car bomb. The fatality may well have been of a person who was inside the taxi.

If the war between Daesh and the US and its satellites were what we are told it is, there would have been many terror attacks in Europe since last March (hit the enemy when it’s weak, and at its weakest points) which there haven’t been.

Over to George:

“Once when he happened in some connexion to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, ‘just to keep people frightened’. This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him.”

Anti_socialist
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Fan of Galloway?

The Mother of All Talkshows with George Galloway – Episode 126 (1.55 mark)

George is called out on his silence on vaccine passports, you won’t be surprised by his apathy. Apparently it’s no big deal. He’s “not that into you” because it’s not “THE” issue.

What about now?

LonePatriot
LonePatriot
4 years ago

Our healthcare system is about to experience a tsunami! Potential side effects of jabs include chronic inflammation, because the vaccine continuously stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies. Other concerns include the possible integration of plasmid DNA into the body’s host genome, resulting in mutations, problems with DNA replication, triggering of autoimmune responses, and activation of cancer-causing genes. Alternative COVID cures EXIST. Ivermectin is one of them. While Ivermectin is very effective curing COVID symptoms, it has also been shown to eliminate certain cancers. Do not get the poison jab. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com