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19 hours ago, Supermercado said:

Funny that this would get another run just before Gold Coast get a priority pick. Can't wait to be lectured about how it's karma for something that we did 10 years ago, when nobody but Nathan Jones and the bootstudder are left.

Also, this line is a flat out fabrication based on the transcripts the Herald Sun posted earlier in the year. Nowhere in the two transcripts they put up does he say this:

 

 

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The Hun doing something unethical? Perish the thought!

I remember 16 years ago being pulled out of a train wreck outside Ballan (one that was said to have looked like another Granville and that was deemed miraculous in that no one was killed). Complete with an arm that turned purple from the bruising from the injury I had just copped, the first thing I was greeted with after emerging from the overturned carriage was a Herald Sun reporter sticking a mike in my face. 

Charming people.

 
19 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Always amazed me that Richmond never got done. They were far more blatant at Tanking. Wallace admitted it in interviews. 

Said he did nothing in the coaches box at times, so that they would lose, in order to get Cotchin

Wilson never said a word though in the Aged...

Carlton? It was the worst kept secret they tanked for 3 years, everyone knew it and noone cared. Collingwood, Hawthorn, West Coast etc etc

3 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Carlton? It was the worst kept secret they tanked for 3 years, everyone knew it and noone cared. Collingwood, Hawthorn, West Coast etc etc

Agree Dr. But Wallace as Coach, actually said it, and as you say. Noone cared...

 
4 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Agree Dr. But Wallace as Coach, actually said it, and as you say. Noone cared...

Yeah so did Libba Snr when he was an assistant at Carlton, used the words 'we were trying not to win'. No action taken on them either.

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2 minutes ago, Red and Blue realist said:

Yeah so did Libba Snr when he was an assistant at Carlton, used the words 'we were trying not to win'. No action taken on them either.

Yep I remember it all

Wallace was the Senior Coach and NOTHING happened

Bailey was treated like a Convicted man


4 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Yep I remember it all

Wallace was the Senior Coach and NOTHING happened

Bailey was treated like a Convicted man

From memory we had a media deal with the HUN until the early/mid 2000s then switched to the big paper, and had Martin Blake embedded in the club for a couple of seasons and he wrote some great articles. Anyway when the tanking mess started the HUN went very hard like they had a vendetta, from us changing a few years before. Surprisingly when Essendon got done for drugs the HUN had a media deal and tried as hard as they could to get them off.

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9 minutes ago, Red and Blue realist said:

From memory we had a media deal with the HUN until the early/mid 2000s then switched to the big paper, and had Martin Blake embedded in the club for a couple of seasons and he wrote some great articles. Anyway when the tanking mess started the HUN went very hard like they had a vendetta, from us changing a few years before. Surprisingly when Essendon got done for drugs the HUN had a media deal and tried as hard as they could to get them off.

Rupert is a Bomber Supporter. That helped them

we had both The HUN and Wilson ripping into us

they loved it

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