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tough shlt...not their call. All Appeals to CAS are De Novo. End of the day they agreed...All over red rover !

but no longer relevant

Call me naive but I cant see it being a "real' pressure game unless the opponents are of quality. Im not suggesting we take the game for granted but I really can't see Essendon putting too much pressure on too many teams especially early in the season.

More likely the other way

That last point is Putin them in their place

Nothing will clear their names now. What they should be doing is admitting they f'd up, that they understand what went wrong and is wrong, that they want to put this behind them and get on with the year ( whatever that is for them ) and to come back fitter and wiser to the next preason....and oh yeah......Sue the shlt out of Essendon for whatever they can get ( and donate 50% to a charity ) Never happen I realise

The players havent thought this through very well I dare say. Not at the beginning, through the journey , or now. The slimey EFC are still fending off using the players as the shield now. What a despicable club

I would have been more impressed had he the gumption to stand aside from the rabble and go his own path. He hasnt. Not overly happy that he's at Melbourne at all.

hence my comment some pages back about potential scouts looking for digs in South Holland lol

I'll stick with whats agreed now

Last year appeared the consolidation of defensive /negating skillsets etc. or How to minimise damage for Dummies etc. but it essentially lacked the flip side of a coherent well drilled and understood ( read habitual ) attacking style to actually score. This will hopefully be the difference this year....going the other way.....towards the scoreboard

I played nice...agreed to 40...( not his suggested top of 50 )

shhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!

Is Milkshake a party to this tomfoolery ?

I dont mind any of them ( hands shaken )

This nails it I think.

I'll go a slab of VB he doesnt kick 40 this year !! up for it ?

It was suggested he could retire. I agreed. He could. He's no fool. Why , if you know you're cooked push the body into permanent damage.

Exactly

And makes a lot of wrong ones. They are cheats. Simple as that. He's still painting them as victims. Bullshlt. "Clearing their names of what, exactly? Of being naive, unlucky and harshly treated?" Not this at all. They have been labeled drug cheats, not just by manyhere at DL , or out there in the General Public but by ASADA/WADA and CAS Get it right Mick "Nobody thinks they were “drug cheats” in the pejorative sense. No matter which way this appeal goes, nobody’s view will change on that." Actually Mick thats EXACTLY what the view of quite a few, especially those that matter, is !! "De novo (Latin, meaning “anew”*) is a form of double jeopardy—forbidden in criminal law—that allowed the World Anti-Doping Agency to rerun the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority’s case, to introduce fresh evidence and to change emphases, having learned from its mistakes." Here hes really starts showing either ignorance or bias (or both ) De Nov o does indeed mean NEW. And just like any retrial its a new trial. This is not a criminal trial being replicated in teh same court after a verdict. Get it right Mick ( again ) "The appeal will swing on whether it retained this right after the AFL changed its own anti-doping code in 2014." Actually, Mick, no it doesnt , come on mate keep up !! There are 2 and ONLY 2 aspects ; Jurisdiction and Appropriateness of the Laws employed. CAS have Jurisdiction and no one questioned the laws in fact all parties agreed. "One thing is that Watson would get to keep his Brownlow Medal." This will be down to AFL skullduggery if he does. "This appeal actually strikes me as the result not of rational consideration but of aggrieved players and their various backers arguing in frustrated circles at the injustice of it all to the point that they talked themselves into it." Au Contraire, quite a rational decision, just not the players ! The Insurance company is trying to mitigate a payout.. Again Players are fodder of their own creation. Injustice of it all !!! ??? FFS Mick lines up in front of goal, kicks away across the face and out of bounds on the full !!

We'll agree ..as you suggest.

They all deserve each other. Sheedy...Hird....just a big love in

Searched Greenwood ..and ...Capital. Found Greenwood Capital... Website and everything !!! Wasn't hard. That's the point.

I call him a showpony because screamers was the only thing he did well. Being a link....fail.. Kicking to advantage....fail. Turnover ball AAA+++

Classic argument against stats. He won't be missed. Filth will already wondering I can imagine. Ppl need to wakeup to what makes a player,not a selfishshow pony. a lying one it appears.