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You've got it wrong. Rivers was completely demolished by Cloke on QB two years ago and we lost that game by 15 goals.

We now officially have two 426's. Mitch Clark (foot) 4-6 weeks Jack Grimes (shoulder) 4-6 weeks Dean Terlich (ribs) - test Jimmy Toumpas (ankle) 1-2 weeks Jack Viney (foot) 2-3 weeks

Does this mean that Vlad is going to break into a rage because the Bombers weren't open about this back in February and failed to fess up when the investigation was first announced? I mean, this is surely a major breakdown in governance that calls for the entire Essendon board to stand down in disgrace.

In what way are you right?

Not another Cameron Schwab thread.

Rubbish. We've already confirmed that Cameron Schwab was responsible for the flu and Jordie McKenzie's calf strain and everything else that goes wrong at the club. If it's not him, then it's McLardy or Neeld or the bootstudder. Take your pick but I'm really fickin mad at all of them. It's their fault. Bwah ...

Nice work after a 7 month witch hunt against the club that ended in a lunatic decision partly designed to save Vlad the embarrassment for setting the tanking controversy up in the first place.

You're onto something there.First thing I'd do is sack whoever recruited this Cook bloke with pick #12. Next thing is I'd sack the board that appointed the recruiting bloke. Anyone know their names?

You would be prepared to foot the bill, I assume?

If that's the case then perhaps he should have played 3 or 4 more games at Casey. Once you nominate for the senior side, you need to be match ready otherwise you're a liability.

Running a case in the Supreme Court against the AFL for a month would have cost us $1m and more if the judgement went against us. You would have been livid had we fought and lost. Range Rover would have blamed Schwab for not negotiating a settlement and Hazy would have been calling for the death penalty. Vlad would have had us playing home games at midnight in Snake Gully. Not smart.

I would be pretty sure that the club does record these games. After all, I'm sure someone reported earlier in the year that it was recording training sessions.

John Phillips was acting CEO for a while after Ray Ellis' departure. That makes it about 8 in 12 years of what were mainly the Szondy/Gardner period. Too much instability during that period. What a legacy it left us?

Apparently, when the needles went into the players' stomachs a few of them were grim faced.

The entire population of Renmark is less than 5,000 so its a fair attendance even if you factor in the surrounding districts. Of course, the fact that the game was broadcast on 5AA probably gave Port Adelaide supporters an excuse to stay home and listen to the game on their crystal sets.

So where do we sit on the NAB Cup ladder after all that?

Aaargh ... don't tell me Bailey got himself a job at the club again,? Please no!

The fact that someone tweeted this doesn't mean it happened.I'd like some corroboration that Gardner said these things before I jumped to any conclusions about him or about what was alleged.

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You really should do something about your lithp.

I guess we didn't come out with the chocolates and this was yet another of those bigfooty rumours that went horribly wrong?

First look at the 2013 Draft prospects

It's Jay Clark's turn today - Melbourne Demons indebted to long-suffering supporters. Ostensibly a story about how "vice-captain Nathan Jones says the team owes it to the club's long-suffering supporter base to improve this year", Clark pushes his way past the influx to the club of recruits and better training standards to inform readers of this incredible scoop: Earth shattering news indeed and thanks for informing us about this as otherwise we would never have known.

Welcome one and all to the Demonland Troll Party. They're all here at the same time waiting to be fed but please - nothing more than peanuts for this lot.

Ha ha ha - good one hoopla. Nearly fell of my chair when I read that. Surely, Fan is doing us a service by highlighting the problem at Melbourne which is that everybody wants to be a comedian. After all, Chris Connolly poked his head into a meeting one day and cracked a funny. Next thing you know, we're being investigated for match fixing. We were so good at match fixing that we needed an opposition player to goal from 50 after the siren to fix a match one day. You know the name of the new club song? "I started a joke" by the Bee Gees! Lead singer of the Bee Gees? A recently retired former captain. ha ha ha ....