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Exactly. Look at Stringer. Plenty of "I told you so's" around now, but at the time, no-one knew if he could come back from a badly broken leg or not. So, come draft time, caution prevailed and he slipped a little.

No, helmets don't stop concussion in sport any more than seat belts stop road fatalities. FFS.

I'd suggest you do one of two things: a) provide us with links to the studies and research that validates the above b) delete your post

Hasn't stopped you.

He posts here all the time. Visit the Watts thread.

Don't know that we'll be dropping JKH with Kent out.

Could be anything, especially at VFL level. He could have been given a run-with role, moved back (where the ball/game wasn't by all reports), rested ... maybe someone has some more specific info, but by anyone's standards, 15 disposals in a half of footy is more than decent. Follows up on being the highest possession-getter the week before, so he seems to be responding. Certainly rather that than a Harmes getting only 9 possessions (might also be a story behind that of course ...) Just feel Jimmy T will turn out fine, maybe even more than fine. It takes some players longer than others for it all to click, especially mentally. Of course, I could well be wrong ...

None of us are shareholders. You've got tickets on yourself. We saw (again) yesterday arguably the best player of a generation: Nat Fyfe - wasn't even taken in the first round. The draft = informed guesswork. Very happy with Todd's work.

Yes, I know, but it's odd to find one of these little critters within the confines of a forum such as this. I don't know, should Demonland only be open to Demon supporters? After all, there are plenty of other forums on the net where trolls opposition supporters can contribute their 2c.

Must have missed that bit. Where in the Tribunal's ruling does it find ASADA's case "hopelessly constructed"? All the tribunal found was that they couldn't be sure that the plant that makes TB4 actually made TB4. BTW, who the hell are you???

Short of a positive test or a confession, it will for ever remain so. The best we could hope for is "comfortable satisfaction".

Which is just an opinion. Yours. As such, it's not "certainly" anything.

On a team-wide scale, they're on their own. As much as anything else, because they were the only ones who gave the good Mr. Dank free rein.

Not just the court of public opinion. Of course we tanked - don't think that part of it was ever a point of contention. The contentious part was why we were being penalised and no-one else was.

From what I can see, not too many seem to share your view. The outcome at the tribunal turned on one decision, whether or not it was TB4 that left the plant - that manufactures TB4. Once that domino didn't fall, none of the others followed.

I'd agree with that.

My god, that's what's known as a footballing lesson! Hard to not be impressed by Fremantle, the unrelenting pressure is something to behold. But ... how long can they keep it up?

No they weren't, because we could never have had Wines and Grundy .... Been thrashed over here ad nauseam, the trade of Pick 3 for Hogan was part of the deal that let Viney slip to pick 26 and gave GWS a clear run at the first 3 picks. In any case, it's all irrelevant. Hogan is a once in a generation player, the kind of player you can build a team around (as Chris Connolly remarked today ...). Whatever we had to pay was worth it.

Stretching it. White confessed because he was at US Postal and was effectively named in the USADA Armstrong case as Rider 9. Hodge stopped riding in 1996 so a) way past the statue of limitations of 8 years and b) to my knowledge, no samples (both A and B) are stored from that period.

No. It looks like he has a calf injury that didn't come good in time.

... from someone constantly questioning Watts' toughness. Not to mention, hiding behind a continually changing user name. Neither particularly brave.

Nah, too menacing. Met her once ... still not quite recovered. Intimidating.

Not sure what you mean. If it's the retrospective testing for the 1998 Tour, that was for EPO (not blood doping), it only concerned Armstrong and O'Grady, and these weren't official tests (no B-sample for example) so there were never any associated penalties or charges. Hodge and Matt White never tested positive, even retrospectively. Both confessed to doping after their retirement.

Even the point your making isn't so much about witnesses, it's about evidence. There were witnesses who presented testimony in the Armstrong case, but the nail in the coffin to some extent was that there was documentary evidence of transactions: bank details, emails etc. ASADA also had plenty of documentary evidence, seized files etc. etc. The bulk of their case was accepted, just not that the substance that's at the heart of it was what it purported to be. If you assume that what left the manufacturer in China was in fact TB4, then it all plays out very differently. ASADA also called a number of witnesses e.g. in regards to the spectrometry tests.

I would suggest that it's the people hearing the cases who made the difference.