Mazer Rackham

AOD-9604, a drug they should have gone down for big time but ASADA mucked it up.

One of their clubs tried to cheat their way to a flag and the AFL helped them cover it up and then gave them a huge leg up to get back to full strength. And they have the hide to carp on about "integrity". Thanks FIFA. Sorry, meant AFL. Damn spell checker.

Dank had a thing going called the "AOD project". He had or nearly had Hird and Evans signed on as investors. Presumed to be a scheme whereby teams of athletes are injected with an illegal-but-somehow-legal drug turning them into supermen. Then sell the scheme to sporting teams all over the globe. Now why would anyone doing that NOT keep records even if only for the very prosaic reason of knowing exactly the minimum spend on the drugs to get the required effects. Key word that may explain all.

This is why coaches should have no say whatsoever in the rules of the game. Ultimately they are hypocrites. They aren't interested in the betterment of the game. They're interested in win/loss and little else. That's why we had sub players for a while -- coaches whined they were hampered by in-game injuries -- and then why we didn't have the sub player -- coaches whined they had a player sitting there doing nothing. That's why the bounce will soon be gone from the game. Those nasty crooked bounces upsetting all those clever set plays in the middle. Random bounce bad! (When the bounce goes, look forward to more congestion and ugly rolling mauls after each "tip off".)

They tried to cheat their way to a flag, but it is for the above reason that they deserve the eternal condemnation of the footy loving public.

Must be the porn mo

The computer does not lie.

All it means is that Wallace has watched more Pies games recently than MFC games.

Dank is the guy who gave growth stimulants to a rugby player who had had cancer, who later died of that cancer. If there's one thing cancer cells love, it's a growth stimulant. Dank also sued reporters who said he gave warfarin (a blood thinner) to Cronulla players. (Do you reckon they get many bruises?) He won the case but was awarded minimal damages because the jury accepted he had done much worse things! Who wants this bloke injecting ANYTHING into them?

They took drugs meant for horses and they took drugs meant for treatment of multiple sclerosis. Very very fortunate to only go down for TB4. Dank was reckless beyond belief and EFC and AFL have just stood back and let him get away with it.

If he took it further EFC might have to prove that their drug regime DIDN'T cause the kid's condition. Difficult proposition. Presumably they would then have to cough up a list of drugs that they gave. Can't see how it would be a criminal proceeding, I think reasonable doubt applies only to criminal. NLM not checking with/lying to ASADA is a sporting tribunal matter and the supreme court wouldn't care. They'd probably be more interested in whether NLM gave his consent.

I'd be more impressed if he went out and grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck, scored a goal, created a few more, generally revved up his team mates and dragged them over the line. Or died in the attempt. The kind of thing that Danger, Kelly, Grey, etc, might have done. Instead he jumper punched a plate of food. (It's a one percenter that doesn't show up on the stats sheet.) Then probably pointed at the broom cupboard and yelled at his team mates telling them how to hold the mop.

Smashing a plate of chips or whatever is the poor man's passion and leadership. Any idiot can take the easy way out and show pretend passion like that. Doesn't give him any points with me.

Two tiers. Vic/SA/WA play each other. Tas/NSW/Qld play each other.

Games that produced huge crowds. Games that the players loved. Ask the SA and WA fans if they thought it was just an exhibition game. It was popular with fans and players. The mysterious "injuries" occurred because the coaches hated it. "What has SOO got to do with my winning a flag?" they thought. The coaches killed SOO and shame on them. The AFL weighed in with laughable concepts such as the "Allies". Very tribal, AFL! NRL has SOO *and* international rep games. We have neither! The NRL shows what SOO could and should be.

When they realised who they were dealing with, the sergeant in charge went home to get his old Demons jumper (with 36 on the back) for an autograph.

I'm betting he either called security or asked how to join the Masonic chapter of the Illuminati.

I think this is covered under the "so brave" clause in the secret agreement between the AFL & EFC. (Probably Masonic.)

Fair go. He might be a dodgy pool builder or dodgy fence contractor or dodgy health pill salesman.

No Oscar???

You just never know. The MRP might fine C'wood for playing a man short.

Even if he did, he would allowed to. That kind of thing is covered under the drug code. Unless he tried to hide it which he wouldn't need to.

Well he's hardly wrong is he? The wailing and nashing of teeth that goes on in every game day thread here is laughable. The number of people who have had it forever with this club but keep posting must be over 40,000 by itself.

Dermott is your classic ex-player commentator. Doesn't put in the work, doesn't know the players, doesn't keep up with trends. And who's going to contradict what he says? He's got the ultimate comeback: "you didn't play at the highest level, what would you know?" Money for jam.

There, there, Mrs McDonald. No one's condemning Oscar to death. Just saying he needs more time to develop, in the twos.