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3 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

There is one significant difference, though. It seems that Australian sportspeople caught doping are presumed by most Australians to be innocent until proven guilty whereas non-Australian sportspeople caught doping are presumed by most Australians to be guilty until they can prove their innocence.

 

2 hours ago, old dee said:

You may never speak words more true than those  LDC

So very true

Cannot help but wonder if in a few years we will be reading about all the disqualifications from the recent Rio Olympics.

The performance of a certain female swimmer definitely raised my eyebrows and sent me off looking for her past performance record.

On the Wiggins affair just like the Bombers it needs to be made an offence for the player  to ingest something without proper records. This might stop the fiasco of the dog ate my homework excuse.

Finally what does this say about the recent dominance of the UK in track and road cycling. Naively I was thinking that the sport had cleaned itself up.

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    5 hours ago, daisycutter said:

    cue saty telling us how incompetent/corrupt/politically-influenced ukad/wada are

    "I'm not pro-drugs in sport, I just wish to undermine all the agencies who protect us from drugs in sport."

     

     

    4 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    There is one significant difference, though. It seems that Australian sportspeople caught doping are presumed by most Australians to be innocent until proven guilty whereas non-Australian sportspeople caught doping are presumed by most Australians to be guilty until they can prove their innocence.

    Just remember .... he's SIR Bradley. That makes him half Aussie to start with. The mother country!

    Now take those Chinese!!! swimmers. And those Russian!!! weightlifters. You can see from just the look in their eyes and see they're drug cheats. You don't even need a tribunal or an investigation.

    It's clear someone in Team Sky went rogue. Just look for the person for whom everyone looks the other way and pretends they don't even exist, while attacking every other person or institution involved.

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    35 minutes ago, Ted Fidge said:

    "I'm not pro-drugs in sport, I just wish to undermine all the agencies who protect us from drugs in sport."

     

     

    Just remember .... he's SIR Bradley. That makes him half Aussie to start with. The mother country!

    Now take those Chinese!!! swimmers. And those Russian!!! weightlifters. You can see from just the look in their eyes and see they're drug cheats. You don't even need a tribunal or an investigation.

    It's clear someone in Team Sky went rogue. Just look for the person for whom everyone looks the other way and pretends they don't even exist, while attacking every other person or institution involved.

    Someone?! Mate there looks like a number of then went rogue, to many people involved for it to only be the Doc and Wiggins.

    I used to love the big cycling events, finding it harder and harder to stay engage. They don't seem like they really want to clean it up entirely or can't. Along with the questions on moto doping now days. 

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    What I would like to know is how do a couple of fruitloops and ne'er-do-wells like Alan "Mr Objectivity" Hird and Bruce "Not at all unhinged" Francis have the clout to get up a Senate Estimates Committee?

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    1 minute ago, Cards13 said:

    I used to love the big cycling events, finding it harder and harder to stay engage.

    The sanctimony of Team Sky combined with their propensity to create huge amounts of smoke while at the same time claiming there is no fire, makes the whole thing as suspect as it was when Armstrong was running the show.

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    1 hour ago, Ted Fidge said:

    The sanctimony of Team Sky combined with their propensity to create huge amounts of smoke while at the same time claiming there is no fire, makes the whole thing as suspect as it was when Armstrong was running the show.

    British cycling and TS sanctimonious attitudes T Fidge.

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    See the bombers have raised ticket prices for Anzac Day by 50% must need to pay the legal bills, such a disgrace of a football club 

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    5 minutes ago, brendan said:

    See the bombers have raised ticket prices for Anzac Day by 50% must need to pay the legal bills, such a disgrace of a football club 

    Well it is the biggest game of the year (as seen through the eyes of the EFC) ^_^

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    1 hour ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    Well it is the biggest game of the year (as seen through the eyes of the EFC) ^_^

    And Gil and his corrupt cronies still "award" this prestigious fixture to the cheating bastards.

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    11 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

     

    So very true

    Cannot help but wonder if in a few years we will be reading about all the disqualifications from the recent Rio Olympics.

    The performance of a certain female swimmer definitely raised my eyebrows and sent me off looking for her past performance record.

    On the Wiggins affair just like the Bombers it needs to be made an offence for the player  to ingest something without proper records. This might stop the fiasco of the dog ate my homework excuse.

    Finally what does this say about the recent dominance of the UK in track and road cycling. Naively I was thinking that the sport had cleaned itself up.

    IMO DJ big sport is too rich and the rewards are too great for the majority of participants to resist drugs.

    The majority of sports are now tainted.

    I have for some time had no interest in the  Olympics, cycling, soccer and professional USA sports.

    I am a MFC fanatic and that is the only reason I have interest in the AFL. I seldom watch teams other than the side playing the Dees. If the MFC failed to exist I would have no interest in the AFL.

     

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    12 hours ago, Ted Fidge said:

    What I would like to know is how do a couple of fruitloops and ne'er-do-wells like Alan "Mr Objectivity" Hird and Bruce "Not at all unhinged" Francis have the clout to get up a Senate Estimates Committee?

    There are enough fruitloops in the Senate to make everyone feel at home.

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    13 hours ago, Ted Fidge said:

    What I would like to know is how do a couple of fruitloops and ne'er-do-wells like Alan "Mr Objectivity" Hird and Bruce "Not at all unhinged" Francis have the clout to get up a Senate Estimates Committee?

    Kimberley Kitching is a die hard bomber I believe. And don't forget Lindsay Tanner, current president and ex-ALP polly

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    Off topic I know but now that Essendon have axed general admission tickets to their Anzac day match and increased reserved seating prices by 50% I am so hoping that our Anzac eve match draws a bigger crowd.  

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    3 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    Have they announced a reason for upping the ticket price? 

    Putting some $$ in the bank for Jake Carlisle pending claim. 

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    17 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    Have they announced a reason for upping the ticket price? 

    Bills for cheating?

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    24 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Bills for cheating?

    That was my assumption. I wasn't sure if they've tried to justify it some other way. 

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    1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    Have they announced a reason for upping the ticket price? 

    A gift to their long suffering supporters for sticking with them through thin.....

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    16 hours ago, Ted Fidge said:

    What I would like to know is how do a couple of fruitloops and ne'er-do-wells like Alan "Mr Objectivity" Hird and Bruce "Not at all unhinged" Francis have the clout to get up a Senate Estimates Committee?

    They may well be careful for that that they wish !! ^_^

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    Upping the price like that and there being no General Admissions makes a mockery of what that game is supposed to be about.

    It was supposed to acknowledge (and at one time, honour) what ANZAC stands for and to give the everyday citizen that goes to the dawn service, has breakfast a chance to then go and watch a game of footy. 

    It is now the preserve of the well heeled and well organised.  Lost all its ANZAC meaning at the altar of greed (and drug cheating). 

    I hope our ANZAC Eve game always embodies the ANZAC spirit where anyone can get in and it stays a game for the regular 'Joe'.

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    19 hours ago, Ted Fidge said:

    What I would like to know is how do a couple of fruitloops and ne'er-do-wells like Alan "Mr Objectivity" Hird and Bruce "Not at all unhinged" Francis have the clout to get up a Senate Estimates Committee?

    Just further to this, i read that Coates was trying to be moved as well, could be trouble brewing in Australian Sports officials Circles, and i don't mean for the better. All to do with Oz's recent performances me thinks. 

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    Just to top it off, good to see half the TWSNBN players making it into the AFL Top Fifty for this year. Alright though if Melksham and Hibberd make it next year of course

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    8 hours ago, jnrmac said:

    Kimberley Kitching is a die hard bomber I believe. And don't forget Lindsay Tanner, current president and ex-ALP polly

    I know this is stating the obvious but, Regardless of the Pro EFC chest beating  and investigation into ASADa it doesn't change the facts Easendon don't have records what they injected players with nor the fact ASADAs investigation was found legal in the high or supreme court (sorry for my ignorance) nor the fact they were found guilty in the swiss high court. 

    Just sour grapes and im enjoying it.

     

    Personally im still waiting for james horss truth to come out that will prove essendon innocent......

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    LH  et al

     

    We will remember them

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    On 3/2/2017 at 8:06 PM, Ted Fidge said:

    What I would like to know is how do a couple of fruitloops and ne'er-do-wells like Alan "Mr Objectivity" Hird and Bruce "Not at all unhinged" Francis have the clout to get up a Senate Estimates Committee?

    Well they didn't have any clout as it turns out:

    http://www.theage.com.au/afl/supplements-saga/essendon-supplements-saga-push-for-senate-inquiry-rejected-says-greg-hunt-20170303-guqeyl.html

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