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I cannot believe that all the dailies are reporting the 'alleged' tanking of the Dees (who just were following the 'Masters of the Game', Carlton) yet the Club website is pretending that it is 'business as usual' and no need to respond to MFC members. Talk about 'Nero fiddling while Rome burns'! How about a few wise words Mr Connolly!

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I cannot believe that all the dailies are reporting the 'alleged' tanking of the Dees (who just were following the 'Masters of the Game', Carlton) yet the Club website is pretending that it is 'business as usual' and no need to respond to MFC members. Talk about 'Nero fiddling while Rome burns'! How about a few wise words Mr Connolly!

Thanks for joining 'Land. Your two posts are very memorable.

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I will still stand up & be counted as MELBOURNE! Regardless of how dissappointed I will be if this tanking is true.

Every club has done a dodgy...it just seems only a few get singled out especially be the media...

If we have done wrong then we should cop it...BUT I WILL MOVE ON!!! And I will still support as best i can.

I cant have any more negativity ruin this club.Even if it is proven to be our own individual insiders.

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I cannot believe that all the dailies are reporting the 'alleged' tanking of the Dees (who just were following the 'Masters of the Game', Carlton) yet the Club website is pretending that it is 'business as usual' and no need to respond to MFC members. Talk about 'Nero fiddling while Rome burns'! How about a few wise words Mr Connolly!

Don't scapegoat the pawn.

This was a decision taken by mostly all of us after the precedings od most top clubs doing likewise, inc Blues, Hawks, Pies, Saints, etc...

Lets not look for a sacrificial Lamb, but rather bombard the AFL & the papers with emails.

seeking a scapegoat is really giving up.

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Don't jump up and down and vigorously defend yourself against allegations until you are 100% of what the allegations will be.

Wisest course of action - let all the whistle-blowers blow and let the AFL say their piece then defend vigorously.

There could be nothing worse than standing up and saying " there was never an active plan to lose games" and two days later a memo surfaces titled "active plan to lose games". Let all the chips fall first I say.

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I cannot believe that all the dailies are reporting the 'alleged' tanking of the Dees (who just were following the 'Masters of the Game', Carlton) yet the Club website is pretending that it is 'business as usual' and no need to respond to MFC members. Talk about 'Nero fiddling while Rome burns'! How about a few wise words Mr Connolly!

At the moment there are the usual serial spammers and the easily led doing their best to fudge the situation for CS and CC on this forum.

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The best policy in this instance is to deny the issue oxygen. If it were not for Caroline Wilson, this 'investigation' would have already gone the way the AFL wanted it to, nowhere. To say anything, no matter what the context, is counter-productive.

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I cannot believe that all the dailies are reporting the 'alleged' tanking of the Dees (who just were following the 'Masters of the Game', Carlton) yet the Club website is pretending that it is 'business as usual' and no need to respond to MFC members. Talk about 'Nero fiddling while Rome burns'! How about a few wise words Mr Connolly!

Are you really that stupid that you would think that the club has not has leagal advise to just shut up......
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Dumb thread for so many reasons

If the club has, as reported, sought legal advice, do you think a big part of that advice would be - "say nothing"?

They have no reason to publish anything on the website, I think that's the least of their worries

Exactly

Mods - do we really need yet another thread on this? If it is okay can I start a "Thursday update on tanking alleged investigation" tomorrow?

Whilst a supporter of freedom of speech, this site is becoming as cluttered by redundant threads as 'ology was towards its end. It makes it difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff.

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I cannot believe that all the dailies are reporting the 'alleged' tanking of the Dees (who just were following the 'Masters of the Game', Carlton) yet the Club website is pretending that it is 'business as usual' and no need to respond to MFC members. Talk about 'Nero fiddling while Rome burns'! How about a few wise words Mr Connolly!

How about we let the club and the legal eagles assess any charges or allegations stemming from the report before making incriminating statements on the club website..... Perhaps you would prefer we admit tanking and run to the AFL Adelaide style hoping for clemency?

There is media hype from some bored journos that frequently rip on the dees, statements from a few guys with massive chips on their shoulders and a truck load of he said she said rumor and innuendo. Lets wait for the findings before we go making any kind of statement.

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Our warchest looks like it may go to lawyers rather then players :(

Because the Melbourne Fraternity would be short a lawyer or two I'm guessing - a stereotype I know but where there's smoke there's mirrors

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Didn't know this was a legal issue (yet). I thought it was trial by media and AFL

Wonder what Eddie would be doing

Don't we have a top media guy on the board (Russell Howcroft). Is he doing anything?

Eddie would call on The toothless black and white army to start a war.

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At the moment there are the usual serial spammers and the easily led doing their best to fudge the situation for CS and CC on this forum.

Could you please give us a run-down on what happened at the AGM the other night?

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Didn't know this was a legal issue (yet). I thought it was trial by media and AFL

Wonder what Eddie would be doing

Don't we have a top media guy on the board (Russell Howcroft). Is he doing anything?

In fact it is not trial by the AFL - they have said nothing of any interest so far.

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I don't know about the club but my head is well and truly in the sand. I'm in Myanmar atm and the interwebs are painfully slow and unreliable in this part of the world. For some reason land is one of the slowest sites I've tried from here, the only ones slower are the club and AFL sites. I'm suffering some serious withdrawals, I need a footy fix bad.

Never thought I'd say this but I really miss you guys, and the endless banter that is demonland. Don't miss any other luxury from home, but travelling for the end of the trade period through till after the draft has been hard so far and draft day is going to be a killer.

Anyway someone give me a spray for going off topic, then get back to pillorying ADC and this new bloke and I'll rejoin the conversation in December. Go Dees!

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Because the Melbourne Fraternity would be short a lawyer or two I'm guessing - a stereotype I know but where there's smoke there's mirrors

One of the club supporter groups is the Devils Advocates, made up of lawyers and judicial officers who support the Dees.

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