biggestred

Get rid of all of it Bring back the under 18s and reserves The only entertainment i want is 4qs of footy.

Haha fair. Just because we lost to them this year. Should change it probably

Ive been reflecting for the last few days, and while im disappointed in how we played on saturday, something has been gnawing at me. so i did a bit of quick research. we have a pattern of losing to much lesser teams and it costing us at the end of the year. 2018 Lost to st Kilda (finished 16th) – missed top 4 (instead of 3rd), end up playing away to wce in prelim 2017 Lost to dockers at mcg (finished 14th), lost to kangaroos twice (15th) – missed finals by % 2006 Lost to carlton twice (3 wins) – finish 7th 1 game out of top 4 2004 Lost to hawks (4 wins) – finish 5th, a game out of top 4 1998 Lost to dockers (15th) – finish 4th instead of 2nd ive pretty much just looked at finals years and losses to teams who finished bottom 4 (wasnt much point looking at 2012 for example) if we ever want to be a REAL force in september, we have to make sure we dont drop these games. of course, what if, what if. but off days in may cause problems in september. Edit - left out 2002 (should have beaten adelaide in that final) and 2000 - we didnt drop a silly game in 2000 and made the GF. Shock horror.

Im pretty sure you're correct. But it was also sold as "can help equalise the comp"

Imho i think they need to get rid of the minimum salary cap. Carlton are paying (minimum) 93% of what richmond/wce/hawks are spending. They should be able to pay their players next to nothing and use the rest of the money to make huge offers to free agents. Who is to say lynch wouldnt have gone to carlton if they could pay him 2mill instead of 800k at rich?

Tom lynch has apparently chosen richmond as his destination. Gold coast lose a key forward and get worse Tigers get one and get better Seems fair

Who pays for his treatment?? Definitely shouldnt be brayshaw. Or freo. The taxpayer shouldn't pay for this either.

Sorry, not a facial surgeon

It seems we are in fierce agreement on the second point.

You literally said hed been all over the media for the wrong reasons.

Yes gaff deserves less weeks than bugg because the media like him more.

And what track record was that?? Mills was the first time he was suspended

This time next year brayshaws teeth and Jaw will be fine. Gaff will still be a piece of [censored].

The prospect of this has me extremely excited. I may need to sit down. Will chuck $$ at the club to make this happen

Nfi why essendon would want to bring this all up. Demetriou is just gonna say "i knew it was them and i rang them to stop them getting in [censored]" And theyll just say the doping program was huge and they should have been rubbed out as a club for 2 years so really we saved your asses and everyone will laugh and essendon

Well the drug saga came to light as a result of an investigation into organised crime. Which it would seem bomber is also mixed up in. Doesnt seem like too much of a leap to me. Not to mention that clearly his thinking on the matter of substances going into the body is obviously totally skewed.

I agree. I also have essendon mates saying how disgusting bancroft gate is...

Heres an essay topic for you The Bancroft ball tampering saga is a darker day for australian sport than essendons drug scandal. Discuss.

The afl are still protecting themselves by protecting essendon. Because NO ONE wants the full story to get out.

The question is - are they dodgy because they test lots and get lots of positives Or Are they less dodgy because they test lots and find more drug cheats than a sport like, say, soccer which has less than token testing and very few positive tests as a result?

Yes that sounds familiar doesnt it

But like They would have been better off if they had done a deal

Honestly if you were an essendon fan how stupid would you have to be. The reason the afl was trying to do all that [censored] is TO save essendon. Who should have been kickdd out of the comp for 2 years. Burnside is a human rights lawyer, not a wada code lawyer (a code the players signed up to remember) Popcorn

Not overly enthusiastic... i certainly dont love him or even respect him in the same ballpark as the rev or even bails

Id be beyond wild if he coached at the dees. [censored] it took me a whole season to warm to melksham and hibbert. And they are a long way from my favourites no matter how good they are. This was a systematic black ops hidden doping program that required the players to sign waivers and leave club premises to have the injections that were imported from china and Mexico with "no records" of any of it. Their punishment has been extremely light.