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My banal response matches some of the posts on the subject. Civil matters are entirely outside the ambit of the AFL's salary cap provisions. As for a pre-schooler, I wish I was that young again.

wrong, wrong wrong.

Maybe so, but we beat them by 70 points didn't we?

I don't think Webber is that way inclined

How did we beat this mob 2 weeks ago?

Like I said, if you stick your head up over the parapet on here, its likely to get shot off. Lucky I have two heads.

Nice to know you have such an intimate knowledge of the process and dialogue which goes on between player, coach and doctor. Unbelievable.

Really????? Amazing

Finally some balance. Unfortunately, if you stick your head up over the parapet on here, its likely to get shot off. People can hate Essendon as much as they like. As I have said on other posts, next to Richmond, their the team I loathe most. But the young men who were suckered into this debacle should not be pilloried to the extent they are. Well said.

Really???? That's put a different slant on things.

Um Yes. I think that is a good idea.

Jesse already has a "lovely" girl and apparently they're often seen together at Jack Watts' place.

If he says that, then I agree he is gone

Picket, to some extent I agree with you. However, let's just let him have an off season break, come back refreshed, put it a full pre-season, we win the first few games of 2017 and just before we play the filth, he makes the big announcement that he is re-signing. If something like that does not occur, then I would say he's gone. I hope not and hope I am very wrong, but what you say makes eminent sense. Just that I think your timeline is a little awry.

My snout in WA tells me, there is no way Jesse will go to Freo.

Weideman will grow naturally and with a full, professional pre-season under his belt, he could well be ready

What Chook? I'm still trying to find it

Being magnanimous as he is, Chris gave them to me. But I have misplaced my wig and make up bag, not to mention my Gossard wonder bra and stilettos, so I can't make it. I just can't afford to ruin my brand.

Great point. It was not all that long ago we cut Junior and Brad Green before their value could be understood. We cannot quantify what damage that did to the fabric of our club at the time and we have paid for it ever since. Jack could be an added bonus, both on and off the field that may well be incalculable for the future.

On the vast pages of this topic I have repeatedly said I absolutely hold no sympathy or empathy for the Essendon Football Club. As a Melbourne Football Club member and supporter, I loathe what they did or how they chose to administer the substances they did intravenously to their players (their employees) However, whatever you consider to be the culpability of young men, whether AFL briefed or not on the drug code, they were entitled to be accorded a safe workplace. In my view they were not. As far as I am concerned, the EFC should have been banned from the draft, following the serving of suspensions, for at least a period of 5 years. Instead, the AFL consider, subsequent to the bans being handed down, the players and the club have served their time, so the line in the sand has been drawn and we start again. Except in this case, the EFC get a prize draft pick in 2016, with the potential to trade that prize for perhaps an even greater prize of a seasoned star. All I am saying here is YES, throw the book at Essendon and give them as a body corporate, a powerful sanction - remember when Diamond Joe lagged us for salary cap breaches? What was our sanction back then? Way over and above, by comparison, what Essendon has received. But for individual young men, in my view they have been harshly treated. The EFC failed to give them a safe workplace.

Yep, the bloke doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. At least he's not alone.

My only point about the Justin Quill article, which you have clearly chosen to read selectively, was his opinion on the strength of negligence claim. Nothing else.

Hird actually ignored the advice of his Lawyers.

Justin Quill. "Leading Sports Lawyer" says this: Players should explore legal options Of course he wouldn't know either as he is just a mercenary Lawyer

Ughhh!!!!!!!!!