Redleg

You would have to be, 8-10 is going to be hard to get. We are coming from a long way back.

Earl Spalding.

I don't think we would be too happy if they both star and we got SFA for them. As a free agent Beamer was rated as crap by the AFL given our compo.

Brisbane reporter on SEN was really talking Beamer and Stef up this morning. Hope they don't embarrass us.

Anyone going to Renmark?

Ah yes of course.

What's that?

There is luck in footy no doubt. Blues fall over the line against GWS who were killing them and then play an uninterested Swans side. They tank to buggery and don't get investigated. They have no injuries from the weekend or before that. Judd gets half of his Visy money in injury payments and gets his whole 3rd party payment and we are told no 3rd party payment to try and keep the number 1 draft pick of the year before. They have a supporter who helps them get 360 pokie machines to set themselves up again. Yeah there is luck in footy alright.

If they were on bananas they would be good players.

As usual the injuries start to mount, before we have even started. Blease is the latest.

Most critical thing IMO is disposal improvement. We are very poor in this area and unless we improve, the rest won't matter. The next issue is our gameplan in so far as it relates to creating the loose man and forward setup.

Disagree on Collingwood, they would have done exactly the same.

I smell a piece of banana bread with that coffee BB.

It is very hard to justify an appeal to the Courts when you are found Not Guilty of the one thing you are worried about. The Appeal could in the end, even after winning it, lead to further investigations and a reversal of that finding. When all you have been given in the end, is a stupid penalty, as the whole footy world agrees, for a comment by a staffer and a fine that will be paid by the roof body anyway, how the hell can you take it further? We are not looking stupid in this, the AFL is. Now the calls are for AD's head. What does that tell you? The only injustice in this whole thing is that other clubs are not being investigated, despite overwhelming evidence. The "Offsiders" show just said via Whately, that the AFL does not want to and will not take this further, for some hidden reasons. He said the media have been told unlike the Brock/MFC situation, if you want us to investigate go and get the evidence. Whately rubbished this in light of the Brock/MFC investigation and given the Footy Classified segment. A simple comment gets the MFC done over, but for the other clubs blatant admissions by Coaches and Players is ignored and the public/media is told to go and get the evidence. Whately said, investigate like Melbourne and you will get the evidence. The AFL refuses to do so. No integrity at all.

I think he got offside with the Coach early on and that was it for his year.

Anyone notice who was the Lions best player in both games and kicked a supergoal to boot?

No, they probably value their jobs.

Do you think a Coach has ever said anyhting to the players they regretted? It was said in a private meeting and but for a bs investigation would never have seen the light of day. He even said to the AFL it was a joke and he is the only one who can know that for certain. It was used as convenience, to put a bloke out for 12 months when a salary cap rorting Crows CEO got 6 months. Go figure. I wonder if a Coach should be investigated and charged with attempted murder for saying to his players, go out and murder these bums. Some things don't really mean what they seem to.

I have now spoken to 2 journos on different papers, who feel that the AFL will do what it can to stop a Blues investigation. Maybe a Chairman of the Commission who is a former Blues captain has something to do with it or 360 poker machines, but whatever the reason there IS no integrity in the AFL at the moment. What is more perplexing is that the press will not even discuss it. It is obviously a no go zone. The question is why and then how it effects their integrity as newspapers.

It is amazing when you think of the possible stories that could come from the show and nothing.To not have a single mention of it is staggering.

Spoke to him at the family day and he said the girls don't like it. I think it may be gone soon. BTW he is just the nicest boy, always friendly and happy to chat. I hope he becomes a star for us, enjoys team success and shoves it up a few people.

I tried but they were out of bananas. Not the first time it has happened either. I had a pineapple and lemon crush instead. Quite good too.

Didn't see any spots on Sellar.

Solely on yesterday, you would have Sellar before Pederson.

Touche.