The Great Pretender

I think it turns out that WJ was right about Barry not weighing anywhere near the 78kg as claimed. 8k is more than 10% above the weight originally attributed to him and quite significant.

Did Adelaide really beat us in round 22? Not possible - we must have been tanking!

Nothing wrong with diversity. Bring it on.

Good luck you two blokes and take care when you visit the Crows tomorrow. They're more feral than the Port people.

Yes, it would bring some of the rats out into the public eye. I'll bet none of them work at the club these days and each and every one of them might not have left the club in happy circumstances. Does anyone know if club members will have access to the evidence at some stage? Freedom of Information?

I don't think the AFL can get us under any of the known offences so they'll have to make something up or pressure us into submission on spme pretence whilst, at the same time, buryingtheir heads in the sand about ten years of clubs trying hard not to win enough games to give up the priority pick. As my daughter says, "the AFL sux"

They were exciting times back then. Six games a week in Melbourne (including Geelong) and you could recruit players from wherever you wanted except that you had an exclusive local zone. No Vlad and the rules stayed the same from year to year and you knew who you were playing every week just by their colours which were constant. Sometimes, I wish ...

One should add that those are very much minority Demonland opinions at that. I think the connection between the tanking investigation and Cameron Schwab is a spurious one and not warranted by any of the evidence I've seen presented.

• After the Jordan McMahon game in July, 2009 Wilson appeared on Footy Calcified and was particularly aggressive towards Dean Bailey and the Melbourne Football Club over what transpired during the game which Richmond won after McMahon's 50 metre kick after the siren. It must have irked her to write this piece on 5 August, 2009: AFL boss backs Dees after loss • Remember that final round game of 2009 against St. Kilda that Melbourne was supposed to have tanked? The odds for that game were: Melbourne to win $11.00 St. Kilda to win $1.02 And some people are surprised that Melbourne failed to win the game?

Could somebody please enlighten us as to the date of the payment of the $10k vis a vis say, the date of the Jordan McMahon game? If the donation was made after that game then wouldn't the inference be that he made the donation notwithstanding the so called "tanking" or "experimenting" that was going on around him and that, as a consequence, he was lying when he appeared on On The Couch?

If you're talking about the wide definition of the word, we did it and every other club in a position to gain from the AFL's system of priority picks did it. If you're talking about the AFL's definition as stated by the AFL and its officials for a number of years leading up to 2009, its doubtful on the evidence so far that we can be found guilty of anything.

Does Tippett's old man get a job at GWS as well?

That might well be right but if we go down and the other seven or eight clubs involved in the same activity are not scrutinised for their activity then it would make those who control the game corrupt beyond description.

It's called a fire sale and demonstrates how the MFC values the player's services.

You might get your wish if the rumour about Petterd going to Collingwood as part of the Dawes deal is on the button.

I suppose we'll know very soon if he's going to stay at the club but I will be disappointed if he goes to Geelong or anywhere else for that matter.

Sweet dreams!

Would cost us far less than Farren Ray but there's no way one can predict at what selection he would be picked so how does one get him in the draft?

What effect on our compo has the fact that he recently shaved off that ridiculous moustache?

Followed up his round 1 performance with six goals this week. WJ, you could be onto something here!

It takes two to tango. Remember, it was MFC that decided not to finalise contract negotiations with several of its players. If we get bitten on the bum as a result, we can't complain.

Disappointed with how it turned out but still wish him luck with the court case. Can't see him changing his attitude to his football after its over if Port Adelaide does pick him up.

There's a discussion on Bomber Blitz about Jordan Gysberts but it also contains a post about Kelvin Lawrence which, if true, I suppose sums up why he returned home before the end of the season:- "Not sure I mentioned it at the time but just to further show how woeful Melbourne are... Kelvin Lawrence who recently "walked away" from melb FC was hardly the case, he had his papers stamped mid year when ge called in sick for training only to check-in on Facebook 30min later with his girlfriend at Melbourne aquarium! Fair to say the coaches were not happy when they found out!"

Do we want Stevens?

Bookworm Magpie Chris Dawes rises above game's blue-collar stereotype