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I am not saying no more mags - I just wanted to fill in some of the history since it seemed people did not know it - I have had no inside knowledge of it for a few years now so what the plan is I could not say. There always has to be a yearbook, and I reckon a guide to the season is expected, but maybe that is all. Like I said, my inside info is history. You're right, though, fans could contribute (after all, the volunteers and cut rate writers before were all fans trying to help the club out) but someone has to have the job of co-ordinating all that. Linda Carroll has been writing for it the past several years but as the club historian she has other stuff to do, and that is the issue - it can't really be done by people being part responsible.

[ As an aside, I notice the Essendon , Carlton, Bulldogs and (that black and white mob) magazines sold in many news agencies around Melbourne. Why not ours? Spread the word, especially next year our (not the AFL's) 150th.

I'm a lapsed contribuor here under a new name and I just have to respond to this. The fact his girlfriend did not press charges did not force the cops to drop the case. They could have gone ahead anyway if they had court-worthy evidence. Where Neitz has it wrong is that there were no "witnesses" there was A witness who was judged unreliable. The cops felt the witness exagerrated what happened and if what the witness described had happened there would have been physical evidence. The case did not go ahead because she pulled out AND because the witness was thought unreliable. That is not to condone DV but the ominous tone of Neitz' entry is, apparently like the witness, gilding the lily.