Redleg

Not such a bad comment. In the past our supporters have been depicted as Range Rover drivers, off to the snow, with patches on the elbows of their jackets. To now be described as rabid supporters, is clearly a description of a passionate following of a team that stands for something. I can live with that.

Sorry Wayne we posted at the same time. At least you provided the link to the whole article. I hope Sanderson knows something.

Sanderson has just backed Bailey to escape penalty as he is innocent, in an article on the AFL website.

Bloke on the right end in red, sitting down next to the pretty blonde with his hands not showing under the table, just has to be me.

Yes good article. We will know more about him when we see him in the NAB Cup.

Scandal, shock, horror. ASADA is now analysing my blood samples for PED's. Apparently unbeknown to me, my banana smoothie was laced with mexican banana extract, which is on the banned list and they are threatening me with a 2 year ban from this thread. I have engaged 2 genius investigators to get to the bottom of it for me, their names are Clothier and Haddad.

CW would report your last post as "Ben-Hur is an admitted arsonist and pyromaniac, who has admitted setting fire to a woman, has no remorse about it and in fact is quite proud of that disgusting and pathetic violent act, towards another human being and a defenceless female at that. Shame on you Ben-Hur, you deserve the full punishment of the law and my sources tell me you will soon be charged . In addition to his vile behaviour he displays homophobic tendencies comparing a man to a woman, this guy is clearly mentally unwell". PS. I have just been offered a job as a Journo at The Age.

The position of the AFL is shameful in this whole sorry episode. It created the priority pick system. Despite years of abuse of the system and complaints by the media, it endorsed and legitimised that abuse, actually making it legal under then AFL policy. It created a shameful rule, that allowed GWS to steal the young player we got for our Priority Pick in 2009, by giving him AFL money and contracted during the first year of his initial contract with the MFC. It then banned the MFC from doing what other clubs have been allowed to do, using a 3rd party contract to keep him. Despite then being the highest paid inexperienced player in the league's history, the AFL Ceo said it was our fault that we didn't retain him. The AFL then accepted their error with the PP system and abolished it. The AFL then chose to launch a tanking investigation of over 8 months so far, on the say so of a former, disgruntled, less than perfectly behaved player, who actually provided no evidence of the offence to the AFL. Despite admissions of other players and coaches and examples of similar behaviour of other clubs, provided by the media, the AFL refused to investigate other clubs or widen the investigation. The MFC which is the only club to have won 5 games under the PP system and lost a PP pick twice, costing them Nic Nat and another player in the other year, have received no credit for that. The AFL has started this investigation knowing that their rules on the subject were poor and that the system has failed. The AFL has heard other Presidents like Eddie say that the MFC would have been the laughing stock of the AFL if they did not do what others had done and what was approved of by the AFL The AFL has conducted the interrogation like rank amateurs and bully boys with probably unusable statements. The AFL runs a competition for the benefit of its member clubs that it admits is totally compromised by its fixture and various deals and concessions. The AFL at the moment appears to be in disarray. Despite the above the AFL has continued with this victimisation of one club and seemingly is intent on not losing face above all else and securing charges against the MFC and its officers. The AFL should be ashamed of itself. Print this Caro, you self-opinionated harpie.

Imagine seeing that banner just as you are about to have a banana smoothie, it's enough to make you think about having berry instead. Yuk!!!!!!!!!

CW - In legal terms we may have done nothing wrong and nevertheless we should be punished heavily. I might have to completely rethink my whole career.

Greg Denham rejoiced in the phrase that the MFC stood for nothing. Standing up to a bully is a great start. I don't see how the oldest sporting club in the world can do justice to its history, members, supporters, past players and officials, if it accepts a title as a match fixer. Any deal that avoids that, is worth considering, as long as it doesn't involve unfair treatment of its staff. I would imagine our players and the football community are watching our handling of this issue and it really is line in the sand stuff. How can you expect our players to fight if we are seen as a coward?

Someone said recently in a discussion on today's journalists, that in the old days they reported the news, today they try and make it. CW is probably the leading exponent of the latter.

Praise the lord.

That's great, a loyal servant of the club makes a joke according to you and you would have no symapthy if he got a life ban. On that basis the Essendon Coaches face death by firing squad.

I went out with a lovely Italian girl when i was younger and learned some italian. Maybe I should apply, I could hack people kissing my feet.

I have already taken up religion, I have been praying for a good outcome in the tanking saga.

One thing I know for sure and that is I haven't the faintest idea of what is happening or when it will.

Pretty quiet in the AFL these days.

Clearly not the post of a Melbourne supporter.

Bailey actually made a public comment. He said he coached to maximise draft picks. That could bring the game into disrepute if you took it the wrong way. A small fine for him and a small fine for CC for his silly joke could end it, with no finding of tanking. On the other hand Bailey's comment is open to another interpretation. He coached, trying every player even in different positions, to see who should be gone at the end of the year, thereby maximising the number of draft picks the club would have, by getting rid of players that he saw wouldn't make it.

I posed that scenario in one of my earlier posts. That would mean you could fine CS and CC for attempting to do something and the club and Bailey walk.

The closer the announcement gets to the Commission meeting next monday, makes me suspect it is likely a deal has been or is close to being done.

Bob can correct me if he knows but I think he would have and quite forcibly.

Well my recollection was obviously wrong.

Have to admit that has turned out to be a bad one.