Clintosaurus

So it's the annual make David Hale look like Tony Lockett day tomorrow? Watch the spud kick 5 by half time.

CAS have named the 34 players. There's a thread on Big Footy with the names in it. Vitamins McVeigh - what a surprise.

Sounds like the NRL, where the same teams (Souths, Melbourne, Brisbane, North Queensland and a few others) get kissed on the dick by the referees every week and the Parramattas and Cronullas get kicked in the head every week. For 10 years I have had the belief that the NRL decide the top 8 before the season and the referees make it happen. Some of the decisions are basically cheating, and often you will see a fair try sent upstairs to the video ref in the hope it can be overturned.

The Pies recruiting has been outstanding, and their trading is generally pretty good too - they have done very well out of the Beams trade. Crisp looks a competent player and De Goey will be very good. Jason Taylor will hopefully be able to get similar results for us after working with Derek Hine. There are positive signs already.

30.5 on Tattsbet.

Not sure about Jesse but Ella definitely is.

We were good today. Brayshaw should not have been the sub, but I don't have an opinion on who should have been. The most disappointing thing for me was the many times we were out and did not use the numerical advantage. Too many times players ran forward of the play instead of shepherding for teammates to get them past the Crows players.

The pro-Bummer fapping in the media and especially on TV is unbearable and frankly embarrassing by those doing it. Even worse is Tim Watson commentates their games, and today none of the others in the box would say anything less than fawning about the Bummer players.

Geelong are rubbish. Enright looks like he has already retired and Bartel isn't much better. Even Selwood is having a poor game.

Besides North getting PUMPED, the non-MFC highlight for me was Hird getting booed by the Swans fans when he went down to the bench in the last 5 minutes of the game. I hope this happens every week.

Telegraph Hotel - $10 steins and burgers, if you like a younger crowd that does get a bit loose.

What a moron trying to argue something he says was not used isn't banned. Obviously it was used and this is the defence.

The same Warwick Hadfield who from time to time has said the players were injected with Thymomodulin. Sure Warwick - obviously believes what his mates Martin Hardie and Bruce Francis tell him. Is also mates with Hird so the lint reference is spot on. This Tuesday should be very interesting if there is a Bummers player on with Robbo. Be either giving each other a reacharound or crying.

It was nominated rookies today. Rookie listed players can be upgraded at any time for long term injuries. I'm pretty sure Aaron will be upgraded next and play on Saturday.

Should there be a MFCSS thread where all the whinging etc get kept to only one thread, and any posts that should be in there are moved from other threads to keep things constructive? It would save the first page of the board being filled up with 'why do we suck/who is to blame' etc of which there is always plenty.

There was a post on BigFooty where the poster understands a Winston Wolf type was called into EFC between Demetriou tipping off David Evans and EFC 'self-reporting'. No doubt the records of what was taken disappeared in this period. EFC know what was taken - it is an inconvenient truth for them and by 'losing' the records were hoping it would make it impossible for ASADA to prove it. Unluckily for the Bummers it will (hopefully) be proven that TB4 was used through the chain of custody from China to EFC, and that no other form of thymosin was used at EFC. They really do think their [censored] doesn't stink at Tullamarine - I'm not sure why they see their club as so special. They are not even in the biggest 3 clubs in Victoria, but do have a lot of supporters and former players in the media pushing their barrow. Amusingly they also have Bruce Francis.

They know what they took and so does ASADA. The records and the chain of custody are the inconvienent truth. Hird wasn't prepared to wait 3-4 years to be able to compete with Geelong/Collingwood etc, hence the Bummers players got huge quick, trying to fit 3 preseasons into 1. Turns out it was too quick and their bodies could not deal with the stress.

As long as we don't do any of this crap I will be happy - http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/essendon-encourages-fans-to-wave-jacket-plans-to-black-out-etihad-stadium-in-pre-match-entertainment/story-fndv8gad-1227232623962 What a joke of a club they are.

Truly magnificent, and highly likely to be totally true.

Well he did build Eastlink by himself.

Keen to be in this again - Pubercuts last year is Taco Standard Time this year.

There's probably more than a few Supercoach players who visit sites like this looking for info on players in their team or potential trade ins.

I thought Daniel Andrews was fairly strong in the belief that Hird should not be returning to coach the Bummers. What I thought was more interesting was that the two new members of the EFC board are very much in the Hirdashian camp and were very public in outlining their position before the election. Of course the Kool-Aid drinkers lapped it up. Are the fans of any of the other clubs so enamoured with a current or former player or coach like Bummer fans are with Hird? I don't understand it personally.

There's obviously some AFL involvement in all the puff pieces appearing. They too have a vested interest in the Kool-Aid drinkers buying memberships and going to games. Actually the worst article was this: http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-12-24/please-santa- ESSENDON Seriously, do you even have to ask what we want? It's as obvious as the red nose on you-know-who's face. We need every Bomber to be cleared over the supplements saga so they can – finally! – get on with playing the game, free from all distractions. And for Bomber – Thompson that is – to somehow find a way to work with Hirdy and the boys again. Yes, yes, Santa, we know you're not a miracle worker, but see if you can have a word with Him. In the meantime we'll do three Hail Hirdys … er, Hail Marys, and hope for the best. I nearly puked after reading this. Hail Hirdys - WTF??? Who writes this crap? No doubt Bummers supporters lapped it up - they really are a breed apart. Any other club and the coach would have their head on a pike, but everyone else has gone except Goldenboy. He wasn't even that special as a player in my opinion.

Brilliant news. Now to be playing some finals like Chunk got to do in his first season.