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Emma Q has posted her roundup, confirming what pretty well everyone has been saying. Hard not to smile. A bit of luck coming our way for a change? MELBOURNE It's hard to muck up picks two and three, but that St Kilda chose Paddy McCartin over Christian Petracca suited the Dees perfectly. They weren't difficult choices, but they did some good work later on in the draft. Billy Stretch was rated a first-round talent by some, might be the most professional kid in the draft, and improved enormously this year. Some clubs had Oscar McDonald, the brother of Tom, ranked well above the 50s, and it a little surprising that the super-solid Alex Neal-Bullen made it through to pick 41.

Matthew Hammelmann - was already mentioned in a draft thread as being a player "of interest" to us.

6-8 wins, finals a possibility next year. Lots of variables in that, though I do feel, with the positive steps that have been taken off the field (coaching, development), and the quality of the players coming in, sooner or later it's going to start to turn.

When it's like this, yes. So far so good. Now, let's try and get through the pre-season more or less injury free.

Not the only ones. Harmes, Hunt, Mitchie, Riley. With the new additions we've got about 10 players going for 2 spots. Survival of the fittest, will be an interesting couple of years.

All orchestrated by the AFL marketing/PR department to keep things "exciting". Wouldn't read too much into it. In spite of the public posturing, St Kilda were always going down this road once Boyd ended up at the Dogs.

Paige Cardona ‏@paigecardona 44m44 minutes ago Christ almighty.. Viney, Petracca, Brayshaw, Neal-Bullen with Toumpas, Salem & Stretch on the outside and all of them feeding Hogan. WOW!

Great for the MFC - not to shabby for Casey either ... someone should put up a Round 1 Casey team. How long before the first intra-club?

Gotta be kidding! McDonald at 53. Great for the boys.

McDonald to slip???

Shocking. A tragedy for all concerned. Has resonated internationally - right across all the UK papers of course, but even the French papers are carrying the story in their online editions.

http://watchafl.afl.com.au http://watchafl.afl.com.au/schedule/day_view Official AFL international streaming site/service. I have a yearly subscription, but usually the out-of-season events (e.g. NAB Cup) are free. Showing start time from 9H30 CET.

He forgot the 3 in front of that.

Would be just as surprised if McKenzie slipped as well.

Class. Z Cars.

Time is on his side.

Yes.

VW Beetle.

I have a bottle of Tarax orange in my little collection of ancient beverages.

A (nicely) reasoned analysis of the information that can be drawn from the photo in question (from the thread on BF): 1) Whoever is holding the vial is holding it between his thumb and index finger giving you some idea of the size of the vial. It is likely to be a 2 ml vial so no it wouldn't be one of the ones supplied by Alavi. Also being from July 2012 you would expect that the first supply would be long gone. 2) The concentration appears to read in the "thousand microgram" concentration range (x3 0s visible and mcg is microgram) so it is likely to be at 1000-9000 micrograms/ml (or 1-9 mg/ml). Typical doses of Thymomodulin appear to range from 80-120 mg so the vial wouldn't contain enough for a single shot (well assuming that it is at 10,000 micrograms (no-one would ever use those units, you would state it as mg) and the vial contains 2 ml of extract then you would need 4-6 vials/dose.) Interestingly TB4 is used at the 2-4 mg/ml range .............. 3) The photo was taken after Dank "discovered" that TB4 was prohibited and after he tried to manufacture documents saying that Alavi produced Thymomodulin. If Dank is capable of producing fraudulent backdated paperwork for the purchase of Thymomodulin then it would be logical to conclude that he would also be capable of producing fraudulent photos for its presence at the EFC. Ditto with the "Spreadsheet" which appeared a day after the fraudulent paperwork 4) I am still yet to see a single reference to "immunostimulation" during the design or implementation of the program. If this was going to be the "cornerstone" of the program then you would expect it to be extensively discussed in the correspondence between Dank and Hird/Alavi. Instead we hear about soft tissue injuries, and recovery from injuries in general, not players fighting off the flue ........ There is so much which stinks about the "Thymomodulin" story that it is laughable that anyone could take it seriously .........

Barry was an elite junior player, and came down to Melbourne through the Evonne Goolagong Cawley scheme. He initially went to the tennis high school in Box Hill North, but then got sick of tennis (it's a solitary sport) and went to St Kevin's, where he got interested in football.

As if this wasn't laughable enough already ...

Actually, no again. The Festina riders were forced out of the Tour that year by the Tour promoters. Individual riders were sanctioned - though most for only 6-8 months - but there was no UCI ban of Festina, and the Festina team continued to race (with non-suspended riders). Once again, to my knowledge, there have never been any WADA-connected bans of teams, and it certainly hasn't happened in cycling. Will be interesting to see what happens at Essendon. As has been pointed out already, this is a first. It was partly in response to the Festina affair (amongst others) that WADA was setup and the penalties and rules started to get much tougher.

Bizarre, certainly in comparison to this: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cycling/lance-armstrong-banned-from-charity-ride-20141024-11ay5s.html "Lance Armstrong, who has been banned for life from cycling after admitting to doping violations, can't participate in a South Carolina charity ride this weekend that would have reunited him with former US Postal Service teammates, USA Cycling ruled. While the third annual Gran Fondo Hincapie in Greenville, South Carolina, on October 26 is not an official race, it constitutes a cycling "activity" that is "authorised" by USA Cycling. As a result, Armstrong can't participate, the organisation said. The World Anti-Doping Agency's code says a banned athlete can't compete in an authorised competition or activity in "any capacity" during a period of ineligibility."

Correct. And something the AFL are no doubt aware of.