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nature and conduct of investigation was lawful.

if they lose they will just appeal anyway

Court ruling could shape James Hird's future Still waiting for a wet lettuce.

A quality article from Luke Ablett - How Sydney Swans built The Bloods culture

if essendon win this case and asada are told to stop investigating it will be the biggest disgrace.

my essendon supporting mates seem to think that this will be their great day of victory - the day its all over and they get off. they wont be impressed on monday when asada re-issue show cause notices

Lose and the bombers will just appeal. Win and asada will issue show cause notices anyway

the point is the hawks got the highest compensation possible for buddy and won a flag so they should stop whinging about getting pick 19 for him

dont forget that was straight after their first round draft pick. it was pick 19 because their first round pick was 18 BECAUSE THEY WON THE FLAG. if they had finished last they would have got pick 2 for him.

sooooo the bombers sacked him for recruiting the guy who ran an unsafe and illegal supplements program, and for not ensuring that program was safe and legal. BUT they ran a safe and legal supplements program (according to them) therefore; either he was unfairly dismissed (because the program was safe and legal) or they ran a dodgy program.

the thing they forget about whilst they continue to be unhappy with the AFL and ASADA is that they caused the problems by injecting their players with unknown substances. the end

this is yuk. i still believe the draft order should depend on how many games a team has won in the last 5 years. would discourage/eliminate teams pulling the plug early on a season due to injury etc etc either that or on years since the flag was last one (start up clubs exempt for the first few years)

shock horror.

the guy is good, dont get me wrong, but hugely over-rated.

im sure the other 17 coaches would have loved to have a years paid holiday in france too

RUOK?

the problem is this: he says there that he wants free agency after 6 years and that every player should have the chance to win the flag. but that isnt equalisation. all you will see is MORE players going to the stronger clubs and chasing flags. no one will want to play for a weak club so they will leave in droves to play for a strong club and the gap will get bigger.

Jonesy is an interesting one (off topic i know) Out of contract next year getting no respect from wider afl community when he would walk into every teams midfield has played in 2 finals in 2006 with us and will be 27. why would you not leave and chase finals and a flag, and play in a team that wins most of their games? youd be happier because youre winning and possibly on big $, and if you win a flag youre set up for life pretty much.. he might even get an AA gong playing for a successful club! the weak get weaker and the strong get stronger.

UHHH its YOUR club who is slowing the whole thing down mate. And not much wrong means they did SOME wrong. IF you want it over, stop the court cases and answer the show cause notices!

that was like watching melbourne

the 2nd half was absolutely feckin mag-ni-fi-cent [censored] off you drug cheats

these drug cheats dont deserve to be playing

"There are several ways the club could help Ryder and McDonald. One would be to tell them what drugs the player was given before he impregnated his fiancee. But Essendon cannot do that. The club has chosen the course of denial and delay and to this day does not know what exact substances were administered, even though chairman Paul Little continues to blindly insist his belief that nothing banned was involved." Wowee

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/essendons-blame-game-over-paddy-ryder-another-sign-of-a-club-off-the-rails-20140905-10d0l6.html Caro! Best one yet.

Rumour is Paul Roos had a chat to him about coming to the dees.