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54 minutes ago, the rolling fog said:

Refer to Caroline Wilson's thoughts on 3AW yesterday about how cooked the leadership group at GC was

Of course it was, the 2 Captains wanted out. 

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    Wonder what May would be thinking now with GC 2-1 and us ZIPPO - 3. 

    Who the hell would have thought GC would be ahead of us on the ladder after rd3. 

    Bloody footy, BLOODY DEES. ?

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    Looking back over the past 3 weeks, I can’t think of a team we would have beaten. Port now look average. 

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    5 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    Looking back over the past 3 weeks, I can’t think of a team we would have beaten. Port now look average. 

    The MFC is still living in 2018....

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    1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    What was said?

    May certainly hasn’t won me over yet....

    Nor I, SWYL.

    "The wasted talent from the past is another ship that has well and truly sailed, but this time last year rookie senior coach Dew and his football manager Jon Haines began to put a series of new platforms in place in the realisation they had not trained hard enough over the summer, specifically where running was concerned.

    May was stung during 2018 when the players' skinfolds were posted on a wall in the club rooms and his number hovered around 70.

    Under new high-performance boss Alex Rigby, who replaced Justin Cordy last year, hard running underlined the Gold Coast summer and not one player now sits above a measurement of 50."

    https://www.smh.com.au/sport/afl/gold-coast-s-steven-bradbury-helping-suns-start-again-20190405-p51b5r.html

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    16 minutes ago, the rolling fog said:

    Nor I, SWYL.

    "The wasted talent from the past is another ship that has well and truly sailed, but this time last year rookie senior coach Dew and his football manager Jon Haines began to put a series of new platforms in place in the realisation they had not trained hard enough over the summer, specifically where running was concerned.

    May was stung during 2018 when the players' skinfolds were posted on a wall in the club rooms and his number hovered around 70.

    Under new high-performance boss Alex Rigby, who replaced Justin Cordy last year, hard running underlined the Gold Coast summer and not one player now sits above a measurement of 50."

    https://www.smh.com.au/sport/afl/gold-coast-s-steven-bradbury-helping-suns-start-again-20190405-p51b5r.html

    Just fantastic....

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    4 hours ago, dees189227 said:

    Dam we are back on the bottom 

    Stop worrying about the bottom of ladder... its Rnd 3, we won't be there  for long.

    Its where we finish the season,  that's the key.

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    On 4/6/2019 at 11:04 PM, dazzledavey36 said:

    He was right on our doorstep, instead we chose some giraffe spud called Filipovic.

     

    23 hours ago, Elegt said:

    Filipovic was the biggest dud ever, our recruiter should be sacked 

    Really, these terms spud and dud are unnecessarily offensive to use of anyone who has ever been placed on an AFL list. 

    Most have put in a lot of hard work getting there and during their time and should be respected for that.  Describing them in those terms does not.

    Yes, Flipovic turned out to have been a very poor option but not through lCk of effort on his part.

    And as an aside, Flip was as I understand it highly regarded by Max Gawn.

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    15 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Got in fresh young talent who are playing with such extreme enthusiasm. 

    And maybe give the coach his due ;)

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    The Dusty hearing is under way and the Tribunal members are  similar to those in the May case.  Given that the grounds are identical: optics, medical report, player reaction, potential to damage, hopefully we the Tribunal upholds the MRO decision.

    It will not be pleasant for the MRO if every time a 'big' club goes to the Tribunal that his decision is overturned ie Cox last week (with a totally different Tribunal).

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    7 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    The Dusty hearing is under way and the Tribunal members are  similar to those in the May case.  Given that the grounds are identical: optics, medical report, player reaction, potential to damage, hopefully we the Tribunal upholds the MRO decision.

    It will not be pleasant for the MRO if every time a 'big' club goes to the Tribunal that his decision is overturned ie Cox last week (with a totally different Tribunal).

    The AFL has enough problems with consistency without changing who is on the Tribunal week to week.

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    7 minutes ago, brendan said:

    No doubt he will get downgraded or get off completely 

    Typical, I would like an explanation of how this can be downgraded yet May's could not due to the 'look'.

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    4 minutes ago, Watts the matter said:

    Typical, I would like an explanation of how this can be downgraded yet May's could not due to the 'look'.

    Now only one week. Therefore an elbow to the face as you run past a player is equivalent to someone standing his ground and bracing for a collision with a player looking the other way. I rest my case: it's totally corrupt, irresponsible, inconsistent and [censored] disgraceful.

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    It’s getting harder and harder to enjoy AFL these days. Between the MRP, the favoritism, the rigged draw, the pathetic standard of umpiring and the rubbish rule changes, the enjoyment is really passing me by. 

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    5 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    It’s getting harder and harder to enjoy AFL these days. Between the MRP, the favoritism, the rigged draw, the pathetic standard of umpiring and the rubbish rule changes, the enjoyment is really passing me by. 

    It's getting worse with the media too.

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    On 4/7/2019 at 3:36 PM, DemonOX said:

    Wonder what May would be thinking now with GC 2-1 and us ZIPPO - 3. 

    Who the hell would have thought GC would be ahead of us on the ladder after rd3. 

    Bloody footy, BLOODY DEES. ?

    He should be thinking- can’t believe Dees wasted picks on me.. need to pull my digit out when I’m fit 

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    Of course Martin got a downgrade.

    Tribunal chairman David Jones first came to the attention of sporting tribunal enthusiasts with his landmark ruling that Barry Hall snotting Matt Maguire off the ball in a prelim was actually "in play". His ruling that "as a matter of law ... the incident occurred in play" for an incident that took place on a sporting field and not in a court of law gave a tantalising taste of the greatness to come.

    It was Jones who in the Essendon drug case managed to find that the "Essendon 14" were not guilty of taking thymosin beta 4 while simultaneously finding Steven Dank guilty of administering thymosin beta 4 to the Essendon 14. Truly a breathtaking achievement of creativity, imagination and perversity. A bold finding that lesser men would quail from. A finding that elevated his work to the realms of art and religious ecstasy. The Beethoven of sporting tribunal decisions.

     

    It was obvious in advance that finding an elbow to the back of another player's head constituted low impact was child's play for this titan of the bizarre.

    Of course Martin got a downgrade.

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    21 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    Of course Martin got a downgrade.

    Tribunal chairman David Jones first came to the attention of sporting tribunal enthusiasts with his landmark ruling that Barry Hall snotting Matt Maguire off the ball in a prelim was actually "in play". His ruling that "as a matter of law ... the incident occurred in play" for an incident that took place on a sporting field and not in a court of law gave a tantalising taste of the greatness to come.

    It was Jones who in the Essendon drug case managed to find that the "Essendon 14" were not guilty of taking thymosin beta 4 while simultaneously finding Steven Dank guilty of administering thymosin beta 4 to the Essendon 14. Truly a breathtaking achievement of creativity, imagination and perversity. A bold finding that lesser men would quail from. A finding that elevated his work to the realms of art and religious ecstasy. The Beethoven of sporting tribunal decisions.

     

    It was obvious in advance that finding an elbow to the back of another player's head constituted low impact was child's play for this titan of the bizarre.

    Of course Martin got a downgrade.

    Please don't bring Beethoven - a human being whose life was dedicated to the betterment of the human condition - into this. We're talking about corruption and the powers of corrupt persuasion. We're talking about the corruption of the very judicial system we falsely believe is sacrosanct. As Dickens wrote in Bleak House, our judicial system is a joke.

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    Trying to make sense of the AFL judicial system is like getting involved in Jarndyce v Jarndyce. It will drive you broke, or mad, or both.

    It's no accident that the AFL bring in "Tulkinghorn" Jones when they need a decision to go their way.

    On Beethoven. He dedicated his 3rd symphony to Napoleon. When he heard that Napoleon had crowned himself emperor, he was so enraged he tore up the score. When I heard that Jones was chairing this tribunal hearing, I tore up the comics pages of the Herald Sun.

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    2 hours ago, Jack son 5 said:

    It's getting worse with the media too.

    Yeah, listened to the age real footy podcast today, where good old Caro equated the mfc tanking to the Essendon supplements scandal. She took great delight on the back of the herald sun regurgitation of the sorry story, to vent her personal prejudice against the mfc, Cameron Schwann, chris Connolly, or all 3, despite actually no actual new evidence being released.

    gave me a pain in the head

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