Redleg

I quote the words of that great AFL President Eddie, " if Melbourne didn't do what they did as many other clubs have also done, they would have been the joke of the AFL".

Gee you are really depressing. See if you can find anything at all positive about the club.

Just got back from speaking to Kurt and he says we have nothing to worry about. He said if we were tanking we would have played PJ on Brown in the last quarter against the Tigers.

I am going out to interview Kurt Tippett to get his inside view of the tanking persecution.

Good post. Have an investigation and then make public, private comments made three years ago which have until today had no concern to the AFL and then deem that disrepute. Wonderful!

I agree with your disagreement.

I think the reference to "at all times" makes motive irrelevant actually.

Coercing and threatening witnesses.

Can we therefore condone tanking or throwing games for whatever reasona club sees as beneficial as long as it is not to get a better draft pick?

Had a banana foster for dessert tonight with cherry Garcia ice cream. I can't work out why my pants feel tight. Yesterday my Doctor told me to watch my drinking, so I am off to find a bar with a mirror.

Yes I covered that in the word fixture, with its myriad of advantages and disadvantages.I think the word fixture is meant to mean " arranging a list of games " not " assisting with the fixing of them".

Won,t we all be lost when the footy starts and this crap is behind us.

Is there any evidence, we just don,t know? Interesting point on draft tampering. You are right, the AFL draft tampers with its fixture, allowances,extra large lists for some, etc. Also resting players affects matches and is draft tampering as well. Taking players off late in a game is also affecting results and would be draft tampering. The rules and definitions are basically flawed and the AFL wouldn't, want them exposed.

Next you will tell me they see you coming and going.

Jay Clark hosted MFC game day lunches this year. Nice that he is biting one of the hands that feeds him. I would imagine he will lose those gigs this year.

Well I am here in Hobart and the locals tell me that there was no tanking; we were just no bloody good. They know their footy.

Been wearing banana coloured polo tops. Getting many admiring glances from the ladies. Shocking news for morabito. Going to be hard for him.

And the Berry Street Home is actually next to the MCG on the punt road side.

I am on a cruise ship with WJ and wives and am told there is more speculative crap on the investigation today.

One thing we all have to accept is that we don't know exactly what the AFL have. Everyone is speculating.

Is it too much for the following question to be asked of the AFL by the MFC? "Why after clearing us at the time, have you launched another investigation purely on the say so of a former disgruntled player, who never said we tanked, but rather that the club was experimenting and not making winning the be all and end all, yet not investigated other clubs whose coach, assistant coach and players have said their clubs tanked to get draft picks and certain players"? Next question, "why have you singled out the MFC alone, for this lengthy, costly, disruptive, heavy handed investigation"?

I have cancelled the banana smoothies for the same reason.

Yes.

We didn't see any more ex Dees or current ones either.

Off to a restaurant with the WJ family to celebrate his anniversary. Should be some good Dees discussion held. At dinner the other night we saw former Dee great Tangles Walker, hopefully tonight we might see another former Dees great. This is what my life has turned into, meals with WJ and hopes of seeing Dees players to chat to. Wonder if Hugh Hefner's life is any better?