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Specifically, that ASADA were about to descend. On "a" club. Who knows which club? I'm not saying that it's YOUR club, David. Of course, if it were -- hypothetically speaking of course!! -- I'm confident that they would find absolutely nothing. By the way, are your shredders in good working order? I'm just asking to make conversation.

He's trying to prove Demetriou guilty, of setting up EFC and victimising the golden child Tird. What the fool doesn't understand is that Demetriou is guilty of protecting EFC and minimising the damage. Demetrious is a heavyweight in more ways than one, and I'm sure his cross examination will reveal a lot more, and damage EFC more, than this fool would want. Already the defence lawyers are calling it "Operation Backfire"

Gee ... I wonder if "Melbourne lawyer" Jackson Taylor is actually a duffle coat wearing, mouth breathing nuffie and diehard Essadon supporter.

He's said to be a hard man .... hard as nails .... for days at a time...

I absolutely get that. From my occasional forays into Church City, a short 5 minutes of listening to 5AA is enough to harden one against those two clubs forever. (well .... for a while anyway.) I can't imagine what a steady diet would do to one's mind. Something like this, probably: However, we must look at the big picture. Provincial difficulties must be risen above and the long range, objective view be held. And that is, clearly, that a certain few clubs must never be given an inch. Must always be held in contempt if not with outright hatred. In no particular order: Carlton, Essendon, Collingwood, for reasons that are too obvious to need writing here. Hawthorn, Geelong, Sydney also deserve no quarter. Adelaide, Port Adelaide, as already discussed. Richmond, for being Richmond. St K, Footscray. For being contemptible losers, and Footscray even more for winning in '16 and breaking that stereotype. F***** losers. North, same reason, but without the winning part. GCS and GWS. "Vlad's folly". One for not winning enough and one for winning too much. Freo for being anonymous and taking up space. WCE and Brisbane, for beating us in the past. The f****** b******s. That's all I can think of for now. But no true supporter of Aussie Rules can go too far wrong following the above chart of who to hate. How much hate, you ask, and how to apportion? As a rule of thumb, or when in doubt, remember this: too much is not enough. GO DEMONS

Well, it's out of their hands. Freo called up and asked very politely if Tirdy could come and play with them. And the AFL looked up his record and discovered that after recklessly dumping the AFL into its biggest scandal in 100 years, he did some coaching for a prominent footy club, AND last year he presented the Norm Smith medal! Fully rehabilitated! Back to normal! It would be wrong for the AFL to continue to victimise Tird given that some other organisation saw fit to grant him those second and third chances.

Poor old Joel, down to his last $40 million! It's uncanny how companies with phantom clients and phantom income end up getting into strife.

The kid did look good. But we're not going to have Majak Daw playing in key defence every week. That opened up a lot of opportunities that a better team wouldn't have allowed. Having said that ... good on you Bayley, and GO DEMONS

EFC: welcome to Essendon, Jake. We do things a little differently here. Get these ... er ... "dietary supplements" into you. Jake: duh .... supper? suppel ... duh ... what for I eat dial supper? EFC: don't worry about the details, mate. It'll put hair on your chest. Jake: duh ... okay NEXT: (two weeks later) EFC: Jake, did you eat those dr-- ... those supplements? Jake: .... yeah!!! Jake eat good ... kind of ... nearly ... EFC: hmmm .... maybe we'd better go back to the injections.

What, Hird botched water allocation in the Murray Darling basin too?!? There is no end to his wilfulness and degeneracy.

You're on the right track, Ron. If you keep up the good work, you'll be loathing 17 clubs like the rest of us.

That's because Port have told him he's got to be more like Joe Daniher. Fast learner, our their Jack.

If you drink enough, you'll find that he does!

Three pages now. OP will be pleased. It's hard to eke out the responses in the off season but JW is a faithful topic guaranteed to draw us in regardless of time place and circumstance.

What is this, pre-season training for MFCSS? A bit of practice self-flagellation so you're primed and ready to go in round 1 if he kicks a bag?

In days of yore, we had to do that. Shirts vs skins. Of course some days it was so effin' cold it didn't matter even if you had a shirt on or not.

When coaches and clubs start jumping up and down that there are jumper clashes and it could cost someone a flag!!! then I will believe it is an issue. Until then it just the typical AFL bullsh!t inconsistency and making it up on the run. The last time I heard clubs grumbling was when the AFL themselves engineered a clash between us and the umpires!

Round 3, 2017 Round 20, 2017

1. Dank probably won't show up 2. His "legal team" will be straight out The Simpsons 3. as an appeal, it won't be a re-hearing of the case. So no introduction of new evidence. It hinges on whether the AFL applied their own rules properly. 4. if the ban was quashed, the AFL drug tribunal can sit again and ban him again. No "double jeopardy" because they're a sporting tribunal, not a court. 5. either way, what sporting club wants to attract the kind of attention that Dank brings? So, a circus, but not the expose that many of us would like to see.

I wonder what the international audience of 2.5 trillion people in 1,250 countries will make of the comp putting a drug ringleader on the main stage? What a showcase for the game!

His lawyers and "legal advisors" are usually class acts. This could be very entertaining, assuming it even gets to the starting line.

Not much danger of him spilling the beans at a sportsmans night as he has threatened that umpteen times and never done it. The kind of people who would fire shots into his house are not the kind to worry about what he'll say at a sportsmans night. they're more worried about what he'd say to cops, lawyers and govt investigators. Hence the gunshots. They're not into subtle.

Remember that ASADA only found out about Dank as they were tipped off by the Aus Crime Commission who were investigating organised crime and bikie gangs. This guy Dank appeared on their radar and the trail led to Essendon. The rest is history. (The ACC had plenty on the drugs used at EFC but for legal reasons ASADA couldn't use it and had to start their investigation from scratch ... after the shredding machines got burnt out from over use.) One day the ACC report may be tabled in parliament. I expect it will be eye opening. The gunshots fired into Dank's house? Strangely reminiscent of warnings given by crime/bikie gangs to other crims ...

What was he buying, magic mushrooms and calf's blood?

Right now Gil is in his study sitting in a leather upholstered chair in front of a roaring fire. Nursing a huge balloon of brandy, smoking a Cuban cigar. Congratulating himself and contemplating how he has managed to steer his prodigal son back to bigger finals attendances the path of righteousness.