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We have 3 tall defenders, not sure I follow the reasoning behind this one.

My understanding is that we were looking for an experienced senior assistant to take over Goodwin's role, as well as be there for him in support. It was in regard to Sanderson (this from the HUN): "MELBOURNE has joined the race to secure Brenton Sanderson as an assistant coach. The Demons are hunting another respected football strategist to support new senior coach Simon Goodwin ahead of his first season in charge next year." Perhaps that's now McCarthy's role, but my reading of it is that we're still one coach down.

Goodwin was, technically, senior assistant.

http://www.aflplayerratings.com.au/Ratings/Player/113171/Steven-MOTLOP

Only real surprise out of today's announcement is that Dawes wasn't included. Would have thought that he'd be one of the first cabs off the rank. A couple of others as well ... Newton for example, hard to see how he has a future, so why delay the inevitable? Of course, I could be wrong on both counts!

Motlop: Plenty to like, a few concerns, especially this season. Needs a change? 2016 Season 1 Haw Made mistakes at times. One goal but efficiency well down overall. 3 2 GWS Started well but effort petered out. Fumbled at times and didn’t hit the scoreboard. 3 3 Bris Best game for year netted 10 inside-50s, two goals and five clearances. Handy return to form. 7 4 Ess Two goals and buzzed around. Four inside-50s but failed to lay tackle. 5 5 Port Even performance. One goal and set up a couple of others. Handy without starring. 6 6 GCS Three goals, great ball use and seven inside-50s a highlight of a solid and steady performance. 7 7 WCE Huge effort. Three goals in second term put a gap on Eagles. Ended with four and six inside-50s. 8 8 Adel Huge again with four goals, four inside-50s and creative ball use. 8 9 Coll One goal from three effective disposals in first half and ended with five for game. Horror day. 1 10 Carl Blues attacked him physically and he couldn’t handle it. Only Cat not to lay a tackle. 1 11 GWS Chipped in for two goal assists but was up and down. No goals or inside-50s. 4 12 NM Celebrated 100th game with a freak soccer goal. Not huge stats but work-rate good. 4 13 WB Scrounged two goals in second term and ended with a heap of possessions. Work-rate strong. 7 14 StK Horrible. Invented new ways to perform clangers. Back to VFL? 1 16 Syd Edging closer to a spell in the VFL after failing to fire for fifth straight match. 3 17 Frem Despite healthy stats impact not enormous but work-rate looked much better. 6 18 Adel Impact not huge but fact he had seven tackles suggested work-rate first class. 6 19 WB Three goals and two goal assists but importantly tackle pressure again good. 7 20 Ess Wasted some ball and was one of two Cats not to lay a tackle. One goal. 5 21 Rich Hammered for three quarters then got on the bandwagon late. Kicked 1.4. 4 22 Bris Career-high five goals and set a few up. Close to Cats’ best along with Menegola. 8 23 Melb Two goals but for most part was pretty well held by Jetta. Seven tackles. 5 QF Haw Quiet first half but lifted in second with two goals. Eight effective disposals. 5 PF Syd When it was his time to go he didn’t. Trade talk to commence. 1 2015 Season 1 Haw One of the Cats better performers because was willing to take the game on. 7 2 Suspended. 3 GCS Returned after club suspension to kick two goals and be a presence around ball. 7 4 NM Five inside-50s and some hard running but didn’t hit the scoreboard. 6 5 Rich Five inside-50s, a goal and some hard running kept him involved. 6 6 Coll Three goals, three inside-50s and some hard running. 7 7 Syd Two first-half goals but faded later. One horrible skill error stood out. 5 8 Carl Tagged out of the game by Armfield. Didn’t hit the scoreboard. 3 9 WCE Has to get better with defensive work, which is non-existent at times. 5 10 Ess Bounced back with a four-goal, four-tackle performance. That is his benchmark. 7 11 Port Well held but got off the chain to kick two goals from limited chances. 5 12 Melb Cats’ best. Two goals, seven inside-50s and five clearances. 8 15 NM Could not get into the game at all. Three kicks not enough. 1 16 WB Returned to form with three goals and seven tackles. Easily among best. 8 17 GWS Best afield performance. Looked dangerous every time he went near it. 8 18 Bris Good form continued with eight inside-50s, a goal and two goal assists. 8 19 Syd Run and creativity again helped side to victory. Five-inside-50s, one goal. 7 20 Haw Not a great night. Didn’t kick a goal and rarely a factor forward of centre. 3 21 StK Among best with 14 CPs, eight inside-50s and seven clearances. 8 22 Coll Three kicks in first half. A cold performance in his hot and cold season. 3 23 Adel On day contract signing was made public didn’t have best game. 4

You're right - and might like to look into Exercise Induced Asthma (EIA), also referred to as exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB). Well-known, and for a long time, long before steroids etc. were available.

"Conclusions: Compared to the general population, an increased risk of asthma diagnosis and treatment was shown for athletes involved in endurance sports. This might be due to a better medical surveillance and treatment of these athletes. ..... Taking socio-demographic differences and smoking habits between top athletes and the general population into account, our study suggest that medical surveillance and treatment in Germany especially in top athletes involved in endurance sports is better than in the general population." https://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1710-1492-6-31

This is just rhetorical BS. Information on who does what and under whose imprimatur is readily available.

You're presenting yourself as the expert on all things WADA and CAS, but you don't know how the TUE system works?

Wiggins having injections under the TUE system as administered by his sport (UCI) have/had nothing to do with WADA or CAS, so not sure why you bring it up.

Demonland logic.

The fact that he had operations in both ankles at the end of 2015 would suggest that he was dealing with some kind of injury issue throughout 2015. Thought he had a couple of really solid games after he came back in - before the concussions etc. etc.

He has minimised this sort of debacle.

Also McCartney, from his one season at Essendon.

Hasn't helped Sepp Blatter and his pals, and didn't help CAS when the same Federal Tribunal laid into them in 1992. Pathetic. We're getting to Pauline Hanson/Trump levels of conspiracy theory and ignorance here.

... and independent of it (including funding) since the 1994 restructure. Following on from an appeal ... "In 2003 the Swiss Federal Tribunal dissected the current organisation and structure of the ICAS and CAS, concluding that the CAS was not "the vassal of the IOC" and was sufficiently independent of it, as it was of all other parties that called upon its services, for decisions it made in cases involving the IOC to be considered as true awards, comparable to the judgements of a State tribunal."

Making sweeping statements with nothing to back them up and no expertise in the field in question is not being pedantic.

It's like talking to a Trump supporter. I give you a link to 601 scientific articles on TB4, and you try and claim that " there is no scientific proof ..." There is EVERY proof that these substances work, though once again, you're completely missing the point as to HOW many of these products work when used as PED's. Valid scientific research that establishes that "this product enables faster recovery from muscle injury" is all that's needed for the likes of Dank to [censored] up their ears and start injecting it into athletes. That list above from the PED site covers the benefits of TB4 as established by scientific research.

Follow the thread.

Thas just BS Saty. You're just throwing around wild generalisations and sweeping statements with little or no actual understanding of the processes involved in substances being banned (or not).

This is a really simplistic, even ignorant comment, and whether it's deliberate or not, disingenuous. First of all, not all banned drugs are directly performance enhancing. For example, anything that enables better recovery after training or playing is in no way "performance enhancing", but clearly enables you to enhance your performance through more training. There are any number of masking agents that are banned that offer zero performance enhancement, but are banned for obvious reasons. Even some weight-loss products are banned, also for obvious reasons (just ask any cyclist) Same story with anything that "artificially" speeds up recovery from injury, which is one of the benefits of TB4, which is what the Essendon players were banned for. Secondly, there is never going to be any direct research into performance enhancement of any performance-enhancing product apart from vitamins and the like for really obvious reasons. No funding body or scientific organisation would fund research into anything to be used an illegal product, nor would any credible researcher put their name to such a study (enter the likes of Stephen Dank). On the other hand, there is a LOT of research into Thymosin beta-4, the product that Essendon players were banned for, and you can wade through any of these 601 articles and get back to us on what you find. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term="thymosin+beta(4)"[nm] Or you could go to any of the sites peddling PED's, where you'll find the benefits of TB4 (or one of its forms, especially TB-500) spelt out in full, and tell us whether any of this would give anyone who took it an advantage in any way, shape or form: Desirable effects of TB-500: differentiation of endothelial cells (blood and lymphatic vessels) growth of new blood cells keratinocyte migration collagen deposition decreases inflammation in various tissue types decreased inflamation in joints increase muscle growth increases in endurance and strength relaxed muscle spasm and improved muscle tone repair damaged heart tissue following a heart attack healing of ulcers and lesions (including stomach and intestinal ulcers) increased exchange of substance between cells overall tissue repair faster healing of wounds repair of tendons and ligaments improved flexibility of joints prevents the formations of adhesions and fibrous bands in muscles, tendons and ligaments promotes hair growth protects and restores neurons after brain injury

Examples?

There may not be much more to post. Under the circumstances, would be happy with any/all of that, though not sure what we have to offer to get some of these deals done. We're not going to get anything much for Dunn/Grimes/Garland.

Taking an untried 18 y.o. ruck through the draft would be an even bigger roll of the dice. For what it would cost us, surely worth the punt.