george_on_the_outer

Brilliant! Well done Ash

Well they didn't have any clout as it turns out: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/supplements-saga/essendon-supplements-saga-push-for-senate-inquiry-rejected-says-greg-hunt-20170303-guqeyl.html

Caro has come out this morning telling them to move on: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/afl-20170224-gukxno.html If that isn't a message from Head office, I don't know what is. But listening to the tape it became obvious that the fools at Essendon thought they had a deal with the AFL, and they probably did. Trouble was ASADA is the prosecuting and penalty authority. If this was their "leadership" then all....players, coaches, supporters and sponsors have been severely led astray. And this was the same leadership who got them into the situation in the first place.

...and I guess this means Jobe won't get his Brownlow back?

It is important to remember that this hearing has nothing to do with the Essendon players, TB4 or anything else that Dank was supplying. It is about trafficking. To quote from the Age today: While he was cleared of three charges relating to administering the banned drug thymosin beta 4, the AFL anti-doping tribunal, under chairman David Jones, found to its comfortable satisfaction that he had sought to "traffick in [TB4], by selling, giving, transporting, sending, delivering and/or distributing to a third party or parties, namely the Essendon Football Club" between January 2012 and September 2012.

Other readers are not interested in the petty point-scoring that is occurring between posters. Stick to the subject

My bet is that Jobe will hand the Brownlow back before next week. That way 1. the AFL commission doesn't have to make a decision 2. Jobe becomes a martyr to the Essendon fans 3. Since the commission didn't make a decision to take it away, then Cotchin and Mitchell can't get the medal. ( will there be phone calls to Essendon from headquarters in the coming days?)

Billy is yet another remarkable example of the work of the development staff now at the club. Like Wagner, Hunt and Oscar, they are not yet physically at the level required by AFL, but they are able to play as required. In previous years he would have been thrown into the seniors with hope for the best. Lots of upside still with Billy, and if he gets anywhere near the level of his old man then we will have another beauty!

Pity is that too many can't kick drop punts with any degree of skill despite all this training time......

Keep the thread on track folks, or we will start handing out bans

Everyone gets the correlation between success and age wrong. Good players will still be playing at 27. Poor players won't be. So sides with lots of old players have lots of good players.ala Hawthorn, Geelong, North ( at the moment) That is not to say you can't have a good team of young players ( like ourselves, we hope), because it just means those good players will be around for a long time to come. What it does say is that if you have a team of young players year after year then you will not find success. In that case all you are doing is replacing poor players.

Large Polo on me fits perfectly. 181cm 76kg but broad shoulders. Quality good as well.

Speculation over for another 2 years..... http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-02-10/port-young-gun-wines-signs-twoyear-contract-extension?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS+feed%3A+AFL+Latest+News

I don't know about Macrae, but the Bulldogs are simply NOT going to be able to hold all their young players. Tom Boyd is taking a huge slice of the pie today and into the future, after Peter Gordon signed him up, when the captain and coach were removed. So how do they keep Bontempelli, Macrae, Wallis, Wood, Liberatore, Stringer, Hrovat, Talia and Picken happy on the list and under the cap? Like we have seen at GWS over the past couple of years, when Scully hogged all the salary cap. There will be some good players who have to be released.

James Tomkins supporting both Hawthorn and Melbourne?

Because they play cricket there in the summer. And if you visit during the winter you will see the whole ground covered with lighting to make the grass grow and recover from the previous weekends activities.

Yes we have an election coming up in November.......more fluff from the politicians I suspect. We can't train on the MCG, ( and before the 15 year olds respond ), cricket is played there during the pre-season!! And during the season use is limited due to games being played there with the grass needing recovery afterward. Why would you locate the football department to the MCG and run training sessions across the rail and road tracks? Why would you have your weights, physio, medical and recovery areas located 500 metres away? Why would you put the coaches away from where the players are?

Looks like the guys over at Big Footy are planning a bit of a reception....... http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/j-day-at-the-g-round-13-v-gws-dees-board-meet-up.908378/

I'd be a worried passenger/pilot if the re-fueller had loaded the jet with Avgas. ( Designed for piston engines, jets run on avtur or JetA1)

Analysing the information provided, it shows that the MFC is now thinking strategically, instead of fighting to stay afloat in the short term. They have identified the problems with the Bentleigh club, particularly location and demographic base and ongoing profitability. Even with a capital injection it would not provide long-term return on investment. Relocation to a commercially viable location is the obvious answer, but in order to do that would require even short term borrowings....buy a site, sell Bentleigh club. I think it was the Beaumaris hotel which would have fitted this criteria recently, but how do you do it financially? On its own the Bentleigh club couldn't do that, so the MFC is the logical "banker of last resort". Transferring to Casey would not be an option per se, because poker machines have limits in each area. To keep the licences they stay in the zone for which they are allocated. Good to see that the club in all aspects is thinking about the future.....