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seems Telstra have stuffed up. AFL, Essendon and even MelbourneFC are down. Expect is making big news world wide. A whole club used performance enhancing drugs.

Compared with a poor team may have not tried their absolute hardest to win.

This is going to hurt the whole comp, guilty or not.

Edit: removed swear word. OOPS

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lol, now we know why they couldn't land at Wangaratta last pre-season...

Too high...

(NB: I really hope this is a misunderstanding, that a couple of guys have been seriously dodgy but not engaged in true cheating. The damage to the AFL and the damage to any club is simply not worth it for all the snarky jokes in the world. On the other hand, a part of me can't help but think, if this was Melbourne, we would die as a club, but if it is a 'power club'... well...)

 

And then there is the funny side...

'The Herald Sun last night submitted questions to the Australian Crime Commission, a leading law enforcement body in the fight against organised crime. In response, it said: "The Australian Crime Commission does not confirm who it is or isn't investigating."'

This is news?


How about providing the Bumbers the same respect as we, the MFC, wanted with the tanking issue! I love the bias, love your club and forget the rest attitude. But some perspecetive may be in order here, surely

Just a sideline issue but with Dank and the weapon's involvement with Manly do the Storm get their premierships back?

How about providing the Bumbers the same respect as we, the MFC, wanted with the tanking issue! I love the bias, love your club and forget the rest attitude. But some perspecetive may be in order here, surely

Funniest post in the whole thread... well played...

 

According to reports offsite injections taken place in the 2012 training program

giggity!

There covering their arse before they got caught

Guilty or not there is obviously an issue at Essendon of who is in control. As I posted on another thread doing an analysis of them as one their supporters so kindly did of us Hird has surrounded himself with insiders, his mates. There are divisive people in senior positions (one well known to us) because of Hird and as I said then and say again now it could well be his downfall.

Couldn't happen to a nicer club.

On another point, how will the players who took the whatever it was be identified? If there is action to be taken how will the culprits be punished, is there a record or will the club have to name a list...bet we could list who wouldn't be on it, Hurley, Watson, Heppel...


Well, Wilson has come out soft on Essendon, that's for sure.

Her article reads like Essendon are the victims of a clique within, that the senior people were so foolish to trust completely.

She's picked her targets - a handful of disparagingly titled 'Phys-edders'. Which is both denigrating to the elite sports science individuals allegedly involved, and to the profession of Physical Education, much like calling someone a 'retard' is denigrating to mentally disabled people.

Woaaaaaahhhhhhhh!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

The Herald Sun can reveal the off-site injections will form part of an investigation by the AFL and Australia's anti-doping watchdog into inappropriate use of supplements at the club in 2012. Sources allege organised crime gangs also have been linked to the scandal.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/essendon-facing-afl-investigation/story-fnelctok-1226570861343

AFL website back up and running...

Meanwhile, actually the most urgent matter in this is that some players may just be facing an incredibly harsh reality.

They may be guilty of agreeing to take performance enhancing drugs, however idiotically their signature was extracted.

They might be about to see their reputation and career destroyed, and all their past achievements wiped from the board. Not just in the public eye, but in their own - they will never know whether they 'really' were an AFL standard player.

They might not be able to earn an income from their profession, for up to two years.

Gotta feel for the dumb 22 year old who was just trying to make a good impression and saying yes to whatever he was told.

How about providing the Bumbers the same respect as we, the MFC, wanted with the tanking issue! I love the bias, love your club and forget the rest attitude. But some perspecetive may be in order here, surely

Are you for [censored] real?

Do you think they've afforded that to us?


AFL website back up and running...

Did it meltdown with all of the Bummer fans wailing??

Betting agencies have now officially withdraw Essendon from the market for the 2013 season. Including premiership, top four, top eight, and wooden spoon categories.

Source: dodgy but usually accurate-ish facebook page

Allegations of possible use of banned drugs, systematic cheating, secret injections rock mighty Essendon club

Dank quietly left Essendon last year amid the fallout from the club's dramatic slide down the ladder.

Melbourne Football Club has since knocked him back for a job in its own football department - perhaps a rare stroke of fortune for the tanking-accused Demons.

Can I join the above lovefest Stuie? There's nothing more joyous and likely to unite than another's misfortune. Especially if it Essendon. (Well maybe Carlscum)

Nah, Essendon is better/funnier.


You know the way our luck went last year we would have employed him and had this mess also fall onto our laps...our luck could be turning?

Glad to get confirmation he is not at the club!

Thank the lord!

A Melbourne Football Club spokeswoman yesterday confirmed Dank had applied for a job at the club. "He applied for a job at the club late last year but he was unsuccessful," she said. "He has never had any direct contact with the players."

Wonder if any of the Schwab haters knew about this at the time and thought we were stupid for not employing him...

 

How about providing the Bumbers the same respect as we, the MFC, wanted with the tanking issue! I love the bias, love your club and forget the rest attitude. But some perspecetive may be in order here, surely

Agree somewhat Demonsterative.

This thing could go on for months. (More than likely). And our club is facing its own investigation and possible charges if breached. Which is quite serious.

A Melbourne Football Club spokeswoman yesterday confirmed Dank had applied for a job at the club. "He applied for a job at the club late last year but he was unsuccessful," she said. "He has never had any direct contact with the players."

I'm more than a little controversy shy but is the spokeswoman saying Dank had indirect contact with our players? (just a paranoid joke)


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