ManDee

For me sport, professional sport is about winning within the rules. I accept that to win, rules will be pushed to the limits. I understand grey areas. I hope my team (our team) pushes all the limits within the rules. There is no way that the EFC stayed within the rules. They have broken multiple rules from good governance to workplace health and safety to accurate record keeping to administering unapproved and potentially harmful substances to young men in their care. For these reasons the club must be punished and severely punished at that. As Beeb stated earlier the players are responsible for their part in this appalling blight on our game, and a very real punishment must be meted out to them as well. The AFLPA have not done enough, and should be calling for penalties against the EFC . Workcare should do its job, and that will mean severe punishment for the EFC and its directors. The AMA should examine the role of Doc Reid and deal with him. Hird should be banished from the game with his name removed from the records, if ever anyone in this saga deserves to be persona non grata it is James Hird. Then & only then can the AFL and the competition move on cleansed, cleansed but tarnished. I will continue to expect teams to push boundaries, but to never break them.

Two new Bombers arrive at Windy Hill. or Hey Jobe, those drugs have some weird side effects, I've grown wings and my legs fell off! I know its poor form to quote oneself but as no one else said it I had to.

I just love all this pre-season footy talk. After the Escort a V8 XR Falcon then the ultimate XA GT Coupe, that was a rocket, I wish I still had it, glady swap my Beema.

Welcome Jules, I have car envy. Would have gone for a red one myself.

Nice work Fork. Some may wish to delete some of those posts.

Clint, I think you may be running fast and loose with the truth here. Just fess up, and say. you got me.

Did I say Kim, I meant Jim, or should I say Lord James le Turd.

The Sporting Globe? I remember reading about Greg Parkes 37 disposal game at CHF inc 24 marks! Against Essendon 1970

Reminds me of the North Korean photoshop fails Kim says remove the legs or your family die!

I had an Escort, 1.3 litres of unadulterated power, it even had rally stripes! I dreamed of having an MG B.

He would have been a Stag man.

Did the directors sign off on this annual report? Are they mad? (rhetorical)

I want to know if they have next weeks lotto numbers.

Ah, the Rootes Group, loved that name. Hillman Minx's Hunter's and Arrows, didn't Maxwell Smart drive a Sunbeam? Don't think any living dee supporter is as old as you OD, premiership vintage for me 1957.

Don't think old King Solomon had seen a smart phone or a Humber Super Snipe.

I think he is one. a person who lives on the labor of others; parasitic loafer. Edit: or maybe... the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.

I think I went to school with him, good old Mal, I saw him crash a motorbike into a cow once. Think he works for Lloyds.

I tried this diet (or similar) last year, I was bursting with energy. It was a bit hard to maintain so back to old habits. But people noticed my increased run and endurance. (Tennis)

Now all we need is for the umpires to wear lime green so they don't clash. Remember that Breast cancer match the umps and us in pink! aarrgg!

Great, I had a veal pharma the other day and it was under cooked, who do I complain to?

Poor old Col Sylvia will be missing most of the pre season with an ankle. Just needs that pre season and he'll be a star. Might never happen. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-11-18/delayed-start-for-sylvia

So if I get booked for speeding and then can produce a photo of a speedo showing 55kph that means I'm innocent of speeding. This is so ridiculous it beggars belief. This Dank fool is staggeringly stupid, what amazes me is that the EFC brains trust could not see it for themselves. If Dank truly could get the players off surely by now he would have done it. This is the most incompetent ruse I have ever seen. The media mostly have been inept, worksafe apparently MIA and the sound of shuffling deck chairs is deafening. If in trouble, fire your best shot first. I feel that EFC Dank and Hird have already done that. Now we have the smoke and mirrors pantomime. Time to dish out some pain.

So you haven't heard the rumours.

They have a few ex Dees at the Hawks don't they?

So that is a 2:1 ratio of scumbags to legends.