AFL - Round 2 (non MFC Games)

[What 18,810]

We will beat Essendon like we do every season.

On another note, Brisbanes off-season recruits have not looked very good through 2 rounds.

[robbiefrom13 887]

Might be time to get the boys on Thymosin Beta 4. As long as we don't keep records we are allowed to take it

Precedent has been set

yes, it has. It may be thought a jokey comment today, maybe, but is it really?

Why would any of us watch Essendon games? Every time they have any success, HH's comment must spring to mind. How can anyone be sure the year-long (?) drug regime hasn't been a contributing factor to any success current Essendon players ever have? Who can really say for sure how Essendon players won this game?

I am holding on for WADA to knock those cheats (principally, the club bosses who did it) out of the game - otherwise the precedent will just keep on presenting, keep on whispering its promise...

Remember West Coast's premierships? Only this time, the elephant in the room's been named, and excused; presenting supporters and club officials with the question arising out of the Essendon precedent, and clear knowledge of the methodology for getting away with drug-cheating. No rule change is going to close this gate. The players will never escape the shadow.

If Essendon's not totally stopped, why would you watch any AFL?

[pantaloons 2,019]

How about the Gold Coast as a headline? Spoon-fed the two easy beats of the competition first up to get them off to a nice start, and they're 0-2. If they finished bottom two or three I'm sure it wouldn't please the AFL.

[SaberFang 7,151]

How about the Gold Coast as a headline? Spoon-fed the two easy beats of the competition first up to get them off to a nice start, and they're 0-2. If they finished bottom two or three I'm sure it wouldn't please the AFL.

Don't worry, they'll get a priority pick to help them out.

[ILLDieADemon 804]

God I hate Essendon

[dees189227 12,367]

well that just sucks. I flew up to canberra watch our team only play a half, get sunburnt and come home tonight only to find that essendon won by 2 points. how does that happen. Hawks should have flogged them. Then I read frawley has hurt his pec again. Now turd is talking up the bombers top 4 chances.

Then I hear the cats are on the bootm. Geez do you think Mitch and Rivers are saying to each other what the hell, we have been here numerous times, this isnt meant to happen now.

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

yes, it has. It may be thought a jokey comment today, maybe, but is it really?

Why would any of us watch Essendon games? Every time they have any success, HH's comment must spring to mind. How can anyone be sure the year-long (?) drug regime hasn't been a contributing factor to any success current Essendon players ever have? Who can really say for sure how Essendon players won this game?

I am holding on for WADA to knock those cheats (principally, the club bosses who did it) out of the game - otherwise the precedent will just keep on presenting, keep on whispering its promise...

Remember West Coast's premierships? Only this time, the elephant in the room's been named, and excused; presenting supporters and club officials with the question arising out of the Essendon precedent, and clear knowledge of the methodology for getting away with drug-cheating. No rule change is going to close this gate. The players will never escape the shadow.

If Essendon's not totally stopped, why would you watch any AFL?

I actually met some Bomber supporters recently who said they will not support the club until somebody puts their hand up and says it was me. Pretty good i thought.

[grazman 7,405]

How about the Gold Coast as a headline? Spoon-fed the two easy beats of the competition first up to get them off to a nice start, and they're 0-2. If they finished bottom two or three I'm sure it wouldn't please the AFL.

I'm not sure the AFL will be too upset with their investment, there was a lot of latent support for a team on the GC and they're not as dependent as someone like GWS to be spoon fed success. There's only so much the AFL can do to manufacture this anyway. The real concern for the AFL is that GWS have a player on their books that isn't in their best 7 or 8 midfielders and is on over a million a year and they can't even get 8k to turn up to watch them in Canberra (not that Campbelltown attracts much more). The only way they draw a decent crowd is when they play the Swans and they're badly outnumbered. The club will need substantial financial support to be viable and while its good that players like Cameron are committed, they're undoubtedly worried about a raid on their stocks (starting with Boyd) when cashed up clubs come a knocking. All clubs go through bad patches and GWS simply cannot afford to have one or what little support they have (and from a Canberran's point of view most of their supporters are the half in half out types who aren't really that entrenched in the game) will simply dissipate to watch some other team that's winning.

[45HG 1,539]

Not sure why people think/care about whether we will cop it this week.

Number 1, we may well deserve it,

Number 2, you can always not listen,

Number 3, it probably won't happen because you've got Geelong, Port and Carlton at the bottom, a "courageous" Essendon, a winless against two hacks Gold Coast and the focus from our match would be on the remarkable comeback from the up and coming side not the rubbish effort from the perennially rubbish team.

[P-man 13,366]

God I hate Essendon

What makes it more difficult to stomach is having to hear about how their supporters have "been through so much". I actually laugh whenever I hear it. Been through what, exactly? Having to watch their team get kicked out of the finals? How trying that must have been. So brave.

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,687]

If I were an Essendon supporter I think after that Hawthorn game I'd completely understand the term "comfortable satisfaction".

Is it too much for us to hope for a similar feeling some time soon?

[Sir Why You Little 36,955]

Yes the Drugendon "Hero Worshipping" in todays media is just hideous

Please WADA do something. You are our last hope...

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,687]

Yes the Drugendon "Hero Worshipping" in todays media is just hideous

Please WADA do something. You are our last hope...

Yes the Drugendon "Hero Worshipping" in todays media is just hideous

Please WADA do something. You are our last hope...

Seems like you're confusing WADA with the Jedi knights.

"Help me Obi Wan Kanobi. You're my only hope."

[Sir Why You Little 36,955]

Seems like you're confusing WADA with the Jedi knights.

"Help me Obi Wan Kanobi. You're my only hope."

Exactly right!

We need a disturbance in the Force..

[Moonshadow 17,675]

I actually met some Bomber supporters recently who said they will not support the club until somebody puts their hand up and says it was me. Pretty good i thought.

Wadda, I think they may have tempered their stance considerably since the win over Hawthorn and near beating of the Swans last week. Amazing what a bit of success does to help supporters put the bad experiences behind them.

Edited April 13, 2015 by Moonshadow