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Unlikely, they're as clean as they come down at Windy Hill.

[censored] of the highest order, and that arrogant goal makes me despise him even more. In fact, I despise pretty much every Essendon player.

North's skills are atrocious. Skills seem to be down across the league, actually. How do teams like North and Richmond play finals with talent like this?

In no universe does Hannebery leave Sydney and join Melbourne. Give it up folks, it ain't gonna happen.

Oh how wonderful, Gil and Little sitting together tonight. What a shame you can't rig the outcome at CAS. And Tim Watson, high fiving Hird as he walks past. "Thanks for injecting my son with unknown substances, champion!"

[censored] useless, North. I can't stand this bunch of pathetic pretenders and I can't stand the drug cheats. I'll be watching Netflix tonight.

Yep, all too often you see the Nick Malceski retirement-fund top-up types, sadly.

Yikes. And I thought the last two weeks were demoralising.

Fantastic news! The young brigade are all on board.

Brilliant!

Methinks the players know the AFL manipulated the last result in their favour, but now that the result is in the hands of WADA (who will be desperate to make an example of Essendon for the disgusting arrogance they've shown throughout), they realise justice will actually be served. It's no coincidence all the leaks immediately after the last hearing had players [censored] themselves, yet mysteriously a week before the result was announced, all the commentators began gleefully boasting their "opinion" that players would get off due to lack of evidence. Most notably Tim Watson. Funny that. Independent tribunal my ass.

According to Caro, it'll be here in 2016 with a maximum of two years of draft picks allowed to be traded (ie, in the 2016 trade period, clubs will be allowed to trade picks for 2017 and 2018 only.) I guess the idea is to help clubs rebuild faster? Thank goodness Roos will know what he's doing when this is introduced, as he's been campaigning for it for ages.

Surprisingly anti-Essendon article from a Fox affiliate! http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/robert-craddock-says-the-truth-of-the-essendon-doping-scandal-is-yet-to-be-uncovered/story-e6frf33l-1227352669865 Good read though, and gets to the crux of the issue. Just because we're sick of this scandal, doesn't mean it should just "go away" like the AFL/Essendon want it to. It needs a conclusion and there needs to be justice. Most of all, we need answers. CAS sentence the players, could be anything from 2 year bans to the whole team being banned.

If Essendon are flat this weekend and play with no intensity, I'd say they're cooked mentally. Won't finish out the season.

LOLNew rules now, players. Can't puppeteer everything in your favour anymore.

What delightful news to wake up to, simply delightful. The drug cheats will go down in flames. They have no control now, and their propaganda machine with Murdoch can't change the outcome now. Mwahahaha!

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-05-11/hamstring-surgery-for-unlucky-magpie-nathan-freeman We're not the only ones who have bad luck!

What the hell happened to the team from round one? Attacking, fast, dangerous. Could cover up our mistakes and poor skills because we kept the ball moving forward to our crumbers. The moment we face good opposition we disintegrate into the Neeld team.

Will make an excellent playing coach in few years, no doubt about it. Hopefully he can keep going in the ones for another year or two still.

Calling it now :Saints have overtaken us.

Always knew these 3 weeks would be tough, but it's matches like these that define us. I'm sad to say our definition is quite clearly pathetic.

Umps seem to get their favourite pets which are always looked after. Richmond, Essendon, Sydney. NEVER us though.

So we get a great run on to our attacking fifty with fast ball movement end to end, then as we finally get the ball just outside 50, instead of playing on quickly we hold for 10 seconds and give every opposition player the chance to flood our forward line. The kick then gets spoiled, turned over, and Sandy scores a goal. Game over. Dumb, dumb, dumb football. ANB looks nice though, but he's surrounded by idiots.

We finally get a mark inside 50 and Michie completely blows it. Horrible kick to teammate which goes over the line for a behind. That's why he isn't playing seniors.

Being absolutely murdered this quarter, only thing keeping us in it is the windy conditions making goals impossible for both teams. 4 set shots this quarter all missed for Sandy. We're screwed.