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Maybe might hire Mick Gatto? He is very good at resolving intractable disputes for his clients. Then again other interested parties may get in first to hire Gatto as their resolution facilitator.

 

If Hird loses his case as many think he will, what will be his possible next move? I dont think his scheming mind will settle for a repeat dose of Middleton's justice as final. Any opinions?

I expect he'll run for parliament so he can get the laws retrospectively changed or ammended - Hird's Law

Either that or he'll declare Toorak an independent sovereign state and as such he does not recognise the federal or state laws - The Very Princely Principality of James Hird I (the suburb formely known as Toorak)

I expect he'll run for parliament so he can get the laws retrospectively changed or ammended - Hird's Law

Either that or he'll declare Toorak an independent sovereign state and as such he does not recognise the federal or state laws - The Very Princely Principality of James Hird I (the suburb formely known as Toorak)

He won't get many votes but that won't stop him from challenging the legality of the election after he loses.
 

Has anyone seen Hird's appeal papers yet?

I would be interested to see if he has asked for an injunction into ASADA's show cause notices.

I know he's SAID he wouldn't stop them ... but does anyone actually believe anything he says any more?


I think Tania's delightful!

i suppose a gag and some tape would be an improvement

i suppose a gag and some tape would be an improvement

I was thinking a glass of wine.. some pleasant conversation ... but no you have to go straight for the kinky [censored] dc. Bloody pervert - I'm outa here!

I was thinking a glass of wine.. some pleasant conversation ... but no you have to go straight for the kinky [censored] dc. Bloody pervert - I'm outa here!

thought you'd be watching the bogans on The Block, bbo
 

Has anyone seen Hird's appeal papers yet?

I would be interested to see if he has asked for an injunction into ASADA's show cause notices.

I know he's SAID he wouldn't stop them ... but does anyone actually believe anything he says any more?

I think that will be the case. Saying he wouldn't stop them was for public consumption only.

My feelings are with the Hird Family as they fight these terrible accusations.

I hope Tanya can take it on the chin and move on.


see the bombers have rejected ports pick 16 for paddy ryder?

id have thought ports best pick in the draft was about right for a star player who wants out and could pretty much leave for nothing whilst taking a bunch of cash from essendon too.....

My feelings are with the Hird Family as they fight these terrible accusations.

I hope Tanya can take it on the chin and move on.

You reckon that's where she takes it Biff?

Hird is waiting for Paul Little to leave the building.

That's my only solution to this insanity.

Really started to dislike Hird after he smiled at my wife at the Royal Show one year. She thought he was so lovely and I thought he was as cute as a button too. Now look how he's turned out.


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/essendon-ceo-xavier-campbell-took-peptide-melanotan-according-to-asada-interim-report/story-fnp04d70-1227079584643

hows the culture of the place??

a coach recommends and gives a drug thats illegal to buy to a staff member.

youve got to be kidding me

I sure as hell hope that PJ et al are absolutely 100% totally certain that this wasn't Goodwin

There was a ponce named Little

Whose toughness was so brittle

He lacked the balls

To make the tough calls

And got knocked over like a skittle

Has anyone seen Hird's appeal papers yet?

I would be interested to see if he has asked for an injunction into ASADA's show cause notices.

I know he's SAID he wouldn't stop them ... but does anyone actually believe anything he says any more?

He would if he could but he can't so he won't.

Hird is the only party appealing against Middleton J's decision - not Essendon and not the players who are about to be served with the fresh SCN's.

The test as to whether injunctive relief should be given is whether on balance it would be more convenient in the circumstances to give or to prevent the giving of the relief sought. To cater for Hird alone when everyone else in this scenario wants to proceed and have the SCNs dealt with (and we're talking about 34 players getting notices and not Hird himself) would not serve the balance of convenience.

ASADA will serve the notices, players will break ranks, deals with be done and if someone names Hird specifically as one of those responsible and implicated in the drug regime, the dike will be broken.

The Bombers will have their reason to sack him at a reduced pay out.

Almost game, set and match (other than the question of the fate of the players).

I really feel for Tanya at this time.

She is the forgotten victim in all this.


I really feel for Tanya at this time.

She is the forgotten victim in all this.

How true. Tanya is being painted as the Lady Macbeth of this scenario but in truth, the Shakespeare epic records nothing about the taking of copious notes about the things that transpired in the castle or upon the heath. Tanya doesn't have a dog called Spot either.

Former assistant coach Simon Goodwin came clean regarding his regrettable behaviour in his presentation to Melbourne and has won a five-year contract and the promise of the senior coaching job from 2017. Hopefully Goodwin sincerely regrets allowing the injecting regime to continue while he held a position of authority.

Interesting

 

Well we have all had bad words to say about Caro but she at least admitted she got this wrong.

True and very admirable of her but, as we know, it's not the first time she was caught out ... and caught out she was, which really made the admission necessary. Her problem was that she failed to get confirmation of Hird's sacking from a primary source and went with the story anyway.

Caro's main source of information is said to be the AFL itself and, in this case, her informant might have believed that Hird was gone but it seems that in the final moment the sacking didn't happen, perhaps on legal advice.

Caro does get things wrong from time to time. She's not infallible and, of course, she writes opinion pieces as well so whilst she might have flawed views from time to time, she rarely finds the need to apologise for those.

On the supplements/drug saga she's benefitted from some excellent journalists who work also for Fairfax but she recently got things badly wrong on the FDA status of AOD9604 and I don't recall her publishing a correction or retraction. Her agenda in this saga has been directed mainly at the golden boy and that's where in my view, she's been exposed the most (much in the same way that her agenda coloured her reporting and views on tanking).

At least, as long as the current hierarchy at Melbourne is in bed with the powers at the AFL, she's been reasonably soft on us. I don't know yet whether that's a blessing or not.

Well we have all had bad words to say about Caro but she at least admitted she got this wrong.

That puts her in my eyes way ahead of 99% of the others in the media

And I think she'll still be right :rolleyes::)

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