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Thought about this too. There was a big build up in the press before the Broadbridge game.....I can remember no such build up around Port before this game.

Painted scare crow.....and trotting out the 'big' angle...no creditability. Ugh. Ed: sp

Saturday Friday arvo. Off topic, sort of: I live in Nth country Vic, and usually drive to a rail head and train it to the 'G. Discovered today, all the services I could use are replaced with buses....FFS. My Sunday suddenly got a lot worse; might not happen.

Port are debuting 6 or 7 as well, so.....

Roos gets my vote too. Easily.

Better question: why was he there? Jurrah walked out on the club 6 months ago. Time to let go?

Got 2 Brownlow votes. (It is Valenti we are talking about?)BUT lets not go over this again. Just do a search for him and you'll find massive discussion about him. I and plenty of others rated him highly, plenty here didn't. So be it. Done now.

The minds....hahaha....good one.

Support, emotionally? Sure. Footing the legal bills? FFS Get a grip. Absolutely not. Ed: I have been a member for x years; MFC should pay my parking fines. FFS

Android version?

Concur.

And your point is..............? As they say in US TV shows........is there a question there.........?

Who.....no, sorry, who cares?

Absolutely agree. Hartlett is quality, but he also went at a very low/high draft pick.....can't get them all. Also, his history of shoulder injuries at such a young age is a real worry.....happily port's not ours

Alas no. MFC has a history of puting all the AFL listed players to bed before the final series. (I disagree entirely btw.) So they may well finish minor premiers (bet the odds are short for this), but premiership? No.

And Bailey safe at the crows. From crows website: Crows chairman Rob Chapman says Bailey will retain a behind-the-scenes role at the club despite him being banned by the AFL from having any match-day or one-on-one coaching involvement with any Adelaide player until after round 16.

Connolly will be back. From McLardy: After similar consideration, Chris Connolly has also accepted his sanction in the best interests of the Club. Chris is an outstanding football person whose contribution to the game and our club over many years has been immense. Chris will continue as a Melbourne Football Club employee following his suspension. Ed: spelling

McLean has little or nothing to do with the whole saga. His comments were less damning than Fev's and they are both bogans. The AFL received substantiated evidence elsewhere (CW? multiple ex-MFC people, who knows) and acted on it. McLean may have given them the fog to get the investigation happening. Unless something similar happens with Carlton or the filth, or whoever, this is where it will stop. (Perhaps Whispering_jack, as an officer to the court will come forward re Carlton board member's? comments to him. If he did, then the Carlton board could be directly implicated. Now that would be something!!)

I guess that rules out the performance enhancing ones, anyway.

Heresay is not evidence. And quoting off the record chats will likely end her career, such as it is. Bollocks, unless you consider carrying out an absurd, obsessive smear campaign on a club and individuals is her job. And no, we won't be scarred for life.

Podcast of a 3AW talkback with Dwayne Russell in charge, from early November, 2012. Stopped listening about 6 minutes in when CW joined in Save yourself.

Agree re CW. Actually, I think Roy Masters had her cooked. She stated that the NFL were the major targets in the drug inquiry; Masters coolly explained how she would have absolutely no idea (with no access to the information) how much either code was implicated. Cooked. Just shooting her mouth off. And she bleated on about there being "lots of evidence" against Melbourne. Other than the single line quoted from CC, there is none. Shouting it louder and louder will not make it so. Just making a self grandiosing goose of herself; talk about self-important. Media outlets should be looking at their contracts with her.

Make no mistake, there has been an unprecedented attack on the MFC by the Age and CW. FWIW, I belief the "tank" image in the age this morning is defamatory. Also the use of the MFC logo in such a scenario to be in breach of copyright (trademark). An unprecedented attack! No other media outlet has published with the same vitriol, condemnation, judgement. There is some time to go on the issue; not the least being legal action by individuals

From Ralph:"Insiders said yesterday that Schwab was hardly mentioned in the 1000-page dossier which detailed allegations over a stretch of games from late in 2009. But while a negotiated settlement still looks a likely outcome, Melbourne sources were defiant last night about accepting penalties. The club was adamant it would not be bullied, and was determined to protect employees ''both past and present''. Despite speculation the Demons could accept a fines of several hundred thousand dollars and a short ban, possibly suspended, against former coach Dean Bailey, no agreement has been made." And "A Melbourne spokesman said last night the Demons were yet to receive an official set of charges or penalties from the AFL's acting football operations manager Gillon McLachlan. Melbourne has been told by top legal experts is has an extremely strong legal case, which includes significant doubts about the manner in which interviews were conducted and whether they would stand up in a court of law. The AFL's burden of proof falls on the club to prove its innocence, while in a court of law Melbourne believes it would be certain to win." The slant is very different. Aint that hard.

This the whole point: 99% of coverage/opinion/reporting on this issue has been by CW. Jon Ralph gives a very different slant on things. VERY different indeed.