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Had to chuckle when he mentioned the clubs desire to be known as Melbourne rather than the Demons ... and then went 5-0 Demons v Melbourne.

"Fairfax Media has been told".  What a nice way to say that they listened to 3RRR this morning. (10.30 onwards)

26 minutes ago, Baghdad Bob said:

Interesting.  Roos almost seems superfluous.

Great management by Jackson.  Goodwin gets to coach this year and Roos takes the heat. 

Perfect.

As we've seen from the Essendon doping regime, oversight is never superfluous.  Not even almost.

The username history that was available via profile pages has very recently disappeared?

13 hours ago, stuie said:

Yeah, I guess I see it differently. I have a lot of sympathy for the players. We all know what footy clubs are like, you are expected to trust the coach, believe what he says and do what you're told. I can't help but feel that kind of pressure tipped most players into not asking questions and towing the line, even more so if they felt their careers were on the line.

I don't believe the players willingly cheated and were duped into it by the coach and whichever admin staff knew what was actually happening.

 

Playing thread catch up, but I had to comment on the bolded.  It's a line I've heard numerous times today and it grates each time.  Footy is a professional team sport and it has internal pressures just like all the rest of the team-based WADA signatories do.  In fact I'd assert that pressures in the international team-based WADA compliant sports far exceeds that of the average AFL club.  By willfully withholding information from ASADA (before we even get to the 'what were they injected with' question) the players have/had already cheated the most fundamental aspect of the governing anti-doping system.

Melksham.. not ideal.

I'm no lawyer d2014 but I'd revise parts of your post if I'd made it.

I tried to trace it to Hird but all I found was Goodwin to Dank.

4 hours ago, AzzKikA said:

 

I would think the club would know who the club men are, I'm guessing the ones that volunteer for everything, go the extra mile for the club, stay behind to work on their deficiencies someone that puts the club first.  Can you see Col doing those types of things, maybe Rivers but Col?

 

Well as said Col re-signed twice while we were cactus, with offers from other clubs.  He also spent a significant amount of time representing the club at the childrens hospital brightening kids days during their bad times iirc.  He's not the or our messiah, and he could have been even better than he was, but he contributed for 10 years.  Thanks Col (and Riv and Chunk).

2 hours ago, Demonland said:

Fixed. Can you please confirm? Unless you are ignoring me and can't see this post.

Ha! Fixed yes, thank-you.

Is there a colour selection available to admin to change the font colour of the text displayed for posts of ignored users?  (It's currently a slightly darker grey on grey background).

Change to black if possible, maybe?

17 hours ago, Jaded said:

All [censored] aside, we haven't won as many games in a season since Dean Bailey. Just saying.

 

With faaaar less FD budget, a fraying list, minimal player leadership and a poor recruiting team.

There have been some good points raised in this thread, the thread title included.

Nonetheless, it does appear than some are more equal than others.

Billy.

Bails did so much at the MFC, with so little support.  RIP mate.  Order placed.

Also, if there is no new content in a thread in the 'unread content' list and you select that thread (you cant select the dot because there are no new posts) it takes you to the first post versus the last post as it used to.  (Note- I modified the stream to show All Content so that newly read threads don't disappear from the list, they just get lose their bold.)

No..there was a button on the top right (labeled View New Posts) that listed all updated topics since the last time you pressed it.  If you had read one the topics between pressing the button, it become greyed out but was still in the list. Clicking on the title of a listed topic took you to the most recent post since you last clicked the VNP button. The new "Unread Content" works in a similar way, but the thread titles don't take you to the new posts, only the tiny dot.

Re first unread posts, it used to be that if you were logged in and then clicked the View New Posts (iirc) button, all topic titles would take you to the newest post in the thread.

Essendon players chosen 'at random' for evidence.

I'm just happy the king of peanuts Rhino Richards is gone.

I've been missing Rhino lately.

I blame the AFLPA.

Wow.. welcome aboard Joel!

I tend to agree they get the rub of the green. Walker was dragged off it in the 10 yard square a few years ago that should have cost WCE a Prelim. As it was Carlton who were the victims, didn't care much at the time. Same with North in recent Prelim there - decisive decisions went West.

Your stats warrant further scrutiny.

If there is a 1600 differential over 10 seasons that is 160 annually.

Most of the past decade they have been "better" than us; three GF and a flag v well....

0ver a season 160 FF translates to 7 a game. So if 50 frees were awarded in a game - maybe they would get 28, we receive 21. Generally better teams get more frees cos they are more skilled. Poorer sides less so, infringe more.

Frees aren't meant to be 50/50 in a match.

Agree, the critical ones appear to go their way.

Your Freo stats are interesting.

Agree with the thrust of your post radar, however for all games this year the average number of frees paid was 36 (35.76).

So with the Eagles at +7, that translates to a 21-14 or 22-15 type result. 50% more frees. Every game.

The numbers don't seem to add up. Eagles +1184, MFC -485, 1669 differential overall. ?