SaberFang

Geez next week's fixture is infuriating. Every team in the top 10 can bank a win, either playing another team in the top 10 or playing rubbish teams like GC, STK, WB or Carlton. We can't afford consecutive losses in the next two weeks, simple as that. We'll be out of the 8 in short order.

Yep, we're not out of the woods yet, but we only have ourselves to blame. We should never have dropped that game against St Kilda, which has put us under such great pressure. Winning 3 of our last 6 is so much more daunting than only needing 2.

I noticed this a few weeks ago as well. The media cream themselves fellating Collingwood when they beat Carlton by 20 points on the weekend. We pump Carlton by 109 points and the media fall over themselves in a race to proclaim us downhill skiers that haven't beaten anyone good. FMD the media bias is ridiculous.

Nope, nope, nope! He's a bust we fortunately avoided. Saints will play hardball for him, but his value is very low. Not even close to a first rounder at this point. Saints fans must cry themselves to sleep knowing who went at #4.

I reckon Seven manipulated the audio to reduce the booing; it was deafeningly loud at the ground and outweighed the cheering by a substantial margin.

Gotta wonder if Collingwood regret bringing in Wells and Mayne on $500,000+ multi-year contracts?

Don't underestimate the ways Collingwood can get around the salary cap with their high profile recruits.

Annoyed about the timing -- we really need them to lose against Adelaide. Now they have an extra motivation to cause an upset.

I will say -- it'll be interesting to see if we return to consistent form with Hogan back out of the side. He's obviously best 22 but it's hard to deny that, during our strongest patch of the year (Gold Coast to West Coast), neither Gawn or Hogan were in the team.

We used two first rounders (Oliver and Weideman) in the 2015 draft. We don't need to use any first rounders in a draft until 2019.

Just don't let Fremantle have him!

Search 'Jake Lever and Daniel McStay' in Google and open the article at the top from there.

How are GWS going to pay all these players with contracts ballooning to that size?

He would slot straight in, he's going to be a special player. Wish we'd found a way to get him back in his draft.

A bit like politicians calling speed cameras "road safety cameras." It was an illegal performance-enhancing drugs regime, not a [censored] "supplements saga." I wonder how large the bonus was for the PR spin doctor who pulled that term out of their ass.

He's a few branches short of a tree, is Robbo.

Ah, the good old days, before "journalism" became endless clickbait and product placement disguised as an article (and usually not declared in the addendum).

You know the media has an agenda when they start telling you who and why you should feel sympathy for someone. I reserve my sympathy for people I feel deserve it. James Hird is most definitely not such an individual.

Herald Sun in overdrive taking advantage of the whole situation by running a sustained Hird the Golden Boy narrative. Shockingly transparent stuff.

Just another classic Gillon "Dealmaker" special.

The whole thing makes me sick. The entire narrative that News Corp have attempted to form around the Essendon players is disgusting and hypocritical beyond belief.

So Jobe's refusing to give back the actual medal? Makes his pathetic pontificating about how much he was a man of honour and intergrity even more vomit-worthy, if he cut one of Gil's famous deals to keep the medal in exchange for a PR statement. And makes the AFL even more pathetic. To echo the above, I'd give this corrupt corporation (barely consider it a sport anymore) away were it not for the Dees.

What's the point of doping to win an Olympic medal? Wouldn't that be the most hollow victory imaginable? It's like using warp pipes to beat Super Mario Bros.

Surely that's the end of it, then?

Pathetic, the guy is clearly just wasting everyone's time now and has no intention of following through on the appeal. Basically he knows the system and knows how to waste everyone's resources; he's just disrespecting the whole process. In the real court system, Magistrates can just throw out vexatious litigants and prevent them from pulling this crap. Clearly this works differently with the AFL Tribunal.