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Melbourne Football Club - 2000 Premiers

Straight Sets Simon
in Melbourne Demons

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23 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Ricky Nixon explains how he rorted salary cap

Hand over the cup now I say. I think we were legit in that small window of integrity between our salary cap excursions in the mid to late 90's and our tanking in the 2009/10. 

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    All this does is make you wonder what other dodgy dealings were done under the table, and how stiff (and probably stupid) we were for our salary cap sanctions in the late 90s.

    It also highlights what a bloody loose unit Ricky Nixon is.  Why bring this up now?  Hasn't brought himself under the spotlight in any other way recently, I guess.

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    Annoyingly clever. Didnt technically break any rules at the time.

    Blame the afl for this one. They should have been stronger on everything salary cap.

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    9 minutes ago, biggestred said:

    Annoyingly clever. Didnt technically break any rules at the time.

    Blame the afl for this one. They should have been stronger on everything salary cap.

    the way the afl rules are set and administered they probably did break the rules, but the afl were either too dumb and ignorant or plain gutless (or both)

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    19 minutes ago, Nasher said:

    All this does is make you wonder what other dodgy dealings were done under the table, and how stiff (and probably stupid) we were for our salary cap sanctions in the late 90s.

    It also highlights what a bloody loose unit Ricky Nixon is.  Why bring this up now?  Hasn't brought himself under the spotlight in any other way recently, I guess.

    They probably still go on a lot.

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    3 hours ago, Earl Hood said:

    Hand over the cup now I say. I think we were legit in that small window of integrity between our salary cap excursions in the mid to late 90's and our tanking in the 2009/10. 

    They wouldn't give it back 'Earl'...lost it out there in the universe with Jobe's Brownlow.

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    We were hardly salary-cap angels ourselves.

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    It might be hard to believe this now, but there's a fair chance senior people at the AFL in 2000 didn't understand that Internet thingy and had no idea what a domain name was.

    (Some might also wish to argue that thee's a fair chance that senior people at the AFL in 2017 don't understand the Internet.) 

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    9 hours ago, rjay said:

    They wouldn't give it back 'Earl'...lost it out there in the universe with Jobe's Brownlow.

    What, the dog ate our premiership cup and flag?

    Oh it's  all ok, they are in Gil's draw. 

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    2 hours ago, Demonland said:

    The questions is; would you want to win that premiership this way 17 years later?

    Yes.

    That 13th flag has been a bugbear, happy to win our 14th this year. 

    And I hate Essendon.

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    18 minutes ago, ManDee said:

    Yes.

    That 13th flag has been a bugbear, happy to win our 14th this year. 

    And I hate Essendon.

    Absolutely 100% agree

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    2 hours ago, ManDee said:

    Yes.

    That 13th flag has been a bugbear, happy to win our 14th this year. 

    And I hate Essendon.

    In these days of Trumpism anything is possible when it comes to the news cycle.

    I am beginning to warm to this idea. Give me a few days and I will believe it.... give it a few weeks and it will be a fact on Demonland.... two months and it is widespread alternative truth ..

    Yeah... let's rewirte history ......... after all that is what EFC are doing re the gang of 34 !!

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    11 hours ago, Demonland said:

    The questions is; would you want to win that premiership this way 17 years later?

    No.

     

    i actually want to be happy on the day it happens. Not 12 years old bawling my eyes out all night

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    No it wouldn't be our premiership and I wouldn't want it now. The AFL can strip them of the premiership and draft picks though if they want, I've enjoyed seeing them down! :P Annoyingly the fans still have their arrogance. 

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    On 2/21/2017 at 0:14 PM, ManDee said:

    Yes.

    That 13th flag has been a bugbear, happy to win our 14th this year. 

    And I hate Essendon.

    They were fined for cheating the salary cap in 1993 as well. Should have lost the flag then too.

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    Firstly - with absolutely no evidence whatsoever (fake news !) I would be surprised if any club was clean on the salary cap and the like in those days. I don't think it was a matter of "if"  - more like "if you got caught".

    Would I take the premiership ? In a heartbeat. Would it give me any real joy ? Meh......

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