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Speaking of footy show, err( no inference on footy), i wonder which  watering hole in Bloods area, old Sam drinks at starting with B and ending in Y, where one would go for private chinwags now.

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Apparently Sam Newman has done a 1 on 1 interview with Mick Gatto. Seriously who keeps leaking this stuff out? 

My god do essendon love hijacking the football season. Go away. 

Geez I have had enough. To all those turd fans yes I had sympathy a few weeks ago for him but don't turn it back on the journos and say it was there fault. They are just reporting the story that your club started. 

I can imagine Sam tonight about how it's all blown out of proportion and they did nothing wrong.. He will go on a rant and the crowd will clap. 

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The mind of Sam Newman ,,, the first Grand Prix in Albert Park was beset by controversy, from people wanting justification of the benefits, to the save Albert Park people, to local traders [censored] off that the punters were bussed right past them to the Crown casino doors, etc.

But the race itself was judged to be a success. In the immediate aftermath, Sam went on radio saying this: "It just shows .... never, ever, listen to the minority."

Good one Sam. The thinking man's fool. This interview will be full of leading questions, Barnum statements and thinly disguised swipes at the AFL and "the authorities" (you may substitute whichever authorities get on your goat).

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Sam probably agrees ' secretly' when sipping his Billycarte from the Marina to his luncheon appointment !! 

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20 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I'm amused that discussion on this thread has significantly dried up since the possible involvement of Mick Gatto was floated. Amazing how everyone goes silent when he's considered to be near.

I can't add anymore. To busy eating popcorn...

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19 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Looks like my posts were very close to the mark re the allegations being known to EFC some time ago, the demands and threats having some substance and that a settlement will be negotiated.  Tim Watson:

“I’ve been aware of this for a while, in as much as I had a conversation with someone at the club and they said, look at some point this may surface,” Watson told SEN...“This is what’s going on, it’s all broken down and there is a threat that they’ll take the information they have to the press...“There’s been a breakdown in the negotiations and then there’s been threats about, OK this is the course of action we will take now, from here on in..." 

Based on that, EFC going to the police seems a red herring.

...and as for Mick Gatto.  Calls a press conference to say I have nothing to say so watch The Footy Show tonight!: http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/underworld-twist-in-essendon-drugs-saga/news-story/4c891a2e0afe93b7eec2808d05d0b9df

I certainly won't be watchiing!

Mick ain't silly. He knows how to honour an exclusivity contract for XX $$. Mick and Shane may well be sunning themselves on the Maldives this weekend on the proceeds. Sam might even make that his next destination on street talk (the bag man??!!) ...hopefully on a one way ticket!

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15 hours ago, daisycutter said:

sam is the donald trump of the footy world

how prophetic was that.

watched the first 15min of tfs. sam came on with the donald wig, then sung his praises to all and sundry. couldn't watch any more. hasn't improved.

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Efc....just can't help but lie their asses off. Hilarious. 

Much dissention in this mob me thinks.

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1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Who, exactly, are you referring to? It's all very confusing now with the mob, the Dons, etc. 

Lol. Touché

I think one mob wants to run itself like that other 'mob' does ;)

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3 hours ago, daisycutter said:

how prophetic was that.

watched the first 15min of tfs. sam came on with the donald wig, then sung his praises to all and sundry. couldn't watch any more. hasn't improved.

Newman is exactly the kind of fool who finds people like Trump impressive.

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2 hours ago, Ted Fidge said:

Newman is exactly the kind of fool who finds people like Trump impressive.

A fool who has made a lot of money tapping into the prejudices of some. 

For all the fools who think he is original, hilarious and on the money with his opinions, I suspect that the majority regard him as objectionable or a fool.

They long ago stopped watching and listening.  

However, as Trump and the politics of division employed by so many politicians show, there is an audience for the Newman's of this world.

It is easy for those without humility whose ego feeds the behaviour.

It is also helps that they really don't give a toss what people think about their views or behaviour. 

All publicity is good publicity if it feeds their ego and bank balance. 

TV and media outlets don't care unless there is a public backlash that can impact the bottom line. 

In Vedic or Sanskrit literature, the world is in the age of Kali Yuga, the last stage or age that the world goes through before it ends. It is an age where personal and societal standards deteriorate and spiritual values are diminished in favour of the cult of individualism and materail cravings, Sam and Donald Trump fit perfectly in this age.

That aside, I only hope we win a flag before the world ends and I am still in this materail body to witness it. 

 

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The entertainment value of Trump/Newman aside, i really hope there is a more Nostradamus type future left for us all, perhaps without these creatures.Laying this to one side, Wallis certainly appears like a sturdy character, who has conviction, even though one would dispute his means justifying the end, however we shall see, or maybe we shall not What a cataclysmic start to the 2017 Season.....

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10 minutes ago, TRIGON said:

Potential philosophical poll for demonland...is craving a flag a) materialism, b) Spiritualism, or c) both?

As  Guru Bob once so famously said:

"When two big men fly for the ball... only one can find Nirvana"

 

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  • All gone very quiet...
  • Bombers gone to ground, after EFC Chairman 'clarifies' his statement that they did not have dealings with Gatto
  • Heppell withdrawn from Jonathon Brown's radio program (JB called EFC 'weak").
  • Nothing in the media yesterday except a rehash of the Gatto/The Footy Show story.  Not even in the HS!!

Don't expect to see many media appearances by EFC folk in the near future. 

Maybe what Elliot and Wallis had would expose the skeletons in the closet. 

I wouldn't be surprised if the media has been muzzled and told to back off!   Too much at stake for too many people!!

And no prizes for guessing by who! 

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On 9/3/2017 at 0:52 PM, Chris said:

Damon Johnson, associate editor at the sun was on MMM this morning and made a very telling comment. I think it was Eddie who made a comment along the lines of 'you guys have been behind the players throughout this' and Damon responded with ' I don't think we have been biased in our reporting, it was simply a case that Essendon had a story to tell and we told it, The AFL also had a story to tell and through Caro at The Age and they told  that one'. Of course they all went on to bad Caro, about the only Journo who has seen this for what it is form day one.

Excuse if I am being stupid but I always thought the job of a journo was to report on news, and in doing so present all aspects of the news and then let the reader decide, yet here is a senior editor of the Herald Sun openly saying they did not do that and they consciously chose to report one side a story!

Just coming back to this point. It annoys the hell out of me.

If the HS believe that the AFL were running their story through Caro, as a front, then surely the new story is exactly that. Why do the AFL need to go through a journo -- they have their own media people -- and why need to "tell a story".

What do the AFL have to hide? is the journo's obvious angle.

But the HS decide that the angle is to counter their rival by being a front for another player in the saga.

Yes, I know ... what do I expect ... of course all publications have overarching agendas. But this ethos of cheerleading, vendettas, and casual disregard for the truth is the damage done to journalism worldwide by Murdoch. And Damon Johnson and his ilk can't see a problem with that.

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