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The urging of former AFL Players Association legal adviser Graham Smith that the AFL remove itself from WADA is in the same category. Does Smith seriously suggest the global anti-doping organisation, covering all the sports from all the nations of the earth, is conducting a witch-hunt against those who play the eccentric game of Aussie rules in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon? From Tim Lane's article

What the mr hired senior and the rest of the ess side don't explain to the rest of us is, WHY asada are out to get essendon, they would have us believe, that asada's persistance is borne of spite, nothing else. Really?

Yuk!

No. Could not bear watts in a good team, he will be a star.

Could not agree more. Loathe hawthorn

I hope he is ok, his is a journey, I wouldn't wish on anybody.

Absolutely, the Bronx cheers were embarrassing, sinking to the levels of essendon supporters booing their own. We are better than that, surely

Still smiling, flag is hoisted, all is good.

Gets mentioned plenty in my house!

Just read a Matt murnane's articles on the age site after the last nab challenge, and feel utterly depressed about football. "Frawley has slotted into hawthorn' s backline with ease and next to Brian lake have allowed Gibson freedom to run and create." "Mitch Clarke today showed the cats supporters not only his goal kicking assets but his effect on Hawkins, setting him up to kick multiples." And lastly, "Melbourne' defeat against a 3rd rate bombers team was only equal to the saints 106 point defeat by hawthorn." Cheerful days Thanks Matt for the reminder

I heard a discussion on sen a week or 2 ago, discussing reasons for poor carlton membership. Plenty of unimpressed supporters rang up with stories way worse than anything I have read on here.

And where do they get room in salary cap?

Mmm, a mixed marriage, hope you've got the potential offspring sorted

"Not all were happy with the state of play and it's believed it played a significant role in the resignation of two recently retired board members." I am 100% satisfied from my information, that there is NO truth in this.

And development of young players was below par

Another thing that was quite shocking to hear last night, was how bad the relationship with the scorpions has been over the last few years. PJ and Roos both said how happy they are with the new cases coach and that he is on the MFC payroll. The expectation now is that the alignment will actually add to the development of players rather than be counterproductive. So many things were broken, it's no wonder we have been so bad.

Yes and to hear that the football department has not always been considered first priority,; that the top heavy management structure could have 1.7 mill wiped from it, and have no ill effect on the operation of the club. Infuriating.What was going on? And while I'm at it, to see the lucrative and effortless revenue stream from gaming, and to wonder at the equivalent on carlton's balance sheet...infuriating!

Roos did a brief q and a with HL and Frost and then Petracca and Bradshaw, 'on the couch' he dubbed. H said he was impressed with professionalism of club, expected it to be way behind Collingwood, Frost happy to be back home in melbourne, living with family and having a break from footy at the end of each day. Petracca commented on big gap between tac cup and afl, brayshaw concurred, reminding us of the footage of Christian near death experience on day one of preseason! Lyndon dunne's little boy had his demon jumper on with 14 and 'Daddy' on the back. Too cute! PJ talked about 10 year strategic plan and others have said, it includes 6 pillars he talked about 3. 1. Fans. In the attempt to engage new fans in growth corridors, heartland has been ignored. More focus on inner East and bayside suburbs 2. Branding, linking MFC with the city of Melbourne. Interesting that he said that the facts that we were the original club in the competition, we wrote the rules of the game, and that we bear the name melbourne, is not WHY we are great but why we NEED to be great. That we have a sort of responsibility to the city to be great. We can expect more efforts to strengthen links between the footy club and the city of Melbourne going forward. 3. Footy, others have covered this, aim to make finals 2016. Roos compared this preseason to the last, in that 38 players had completed benchmark 25 sessions, compared with only 25 last season. These comments aren't meant to be a verbatim account, so excuse any shortcomings please

Me too!

Hope someone has told the club, they can't improve unless it receives feedback. I heard collingwood give their 50 year members a new set of teeth.

First thing I noticed

Very, very sad, been hoping and praying for a better outcome. Rest in peace Phil. I'm sure Cricket Australia would have preferred not to have knocked the AFL off the front page on draft night.

Saw watts running around the tan at about 8.30am

He has been deluded since day 1

I'm hardly a source of information either, but I was told at about the same time as the above post, very reliably, that Mc Cartney will be announced on Monday as our dev coach. it was from his work with Goodwin at essendon, that made him decide to come to the dees- he really rates him. Hird wanted him, but was rejected them for obvious reasons.