John Crow Batty

I thought it was us playing in a Carlton disguise last night. Disfunctional forward line, poor decision making and poorer disposal.

How can anyone have any faith in a trial conducted in secrecy? Even the most serious criminal trials are openly conducted. I only thought these things happened with dictatorships. No one knows the guts of the evidence presented.. So how can anyone agree with the decision in any form? The tribunal has been shown in the past to be loose with interpreting the rules when it suits the AFL. It is all sham and nothing will convince me otherwise.

All good fun. Great to see our players having some belly laughs. I wonder iif there were some blue bits edited out?

Yeah, if Worksafe investigate and find them guilty, the fine will be likely easily covered by a couple of tin rattles. No suspensions, sacking or lost PP's here. The only hope for justice is WADA taking over the prosecution. There will be less chance of meddling by vested interests for outcomes in the international arena.

Not incompetance. They got shafted.

ASADA will be wasting their time appealing. Better pass the ball to WADA.

From the begining I expected something like this. ASADA had no friends except a few in the media. When every party that had an interest did very little to help their cause there was not much chance. That includes the AFL politicians State and Federal plus the bulk of the media. IF WADA and ASADA wish to continue they won't get much help or co-operation.

If we don't hear anything for a couple of days, there will be interest in the not selected from round one.

Let's hope it's not one of ours.

The appeal is from ASADA back to the AFL tribunal in the first stage.

Story going around there may be more than these two involved. We have to stay tuned.

A guilty verdict would have upset the apple card for the AFL too much for their liking. The intention was always to hold a sham court and the next move is to ride roughshod over WADA/ ASADA. By the time it is over the whole issue will become irrelevant.

Is anyone surprised?

Like any other small specialised niche industry. All know what their competitors are doing and even share information if suits them.

That in a way explains some of the resistance from Hird and Co. Though thoroughly guilty, they feel miffed that they are singled out and others get away Scott free.

You are right. A positive statement has to be made and hit a club hard. Not just picking on non entities like Saad who are an easy soft target and ignore systematic abuses by clubs who are the real problem.

Is it possible they were contaminated from tainted mutton?

If Collingwood ever did have the high moral ground it must have been stolen goods. At the very least obtained under false pretences.

Being stoned at our games would induce paranoia and early onset psychosis at a faster rate than usual. Bad experiences and the weed do not mix.

In this modern skewed world I think more would be shocked if a player was photographed smoking a legal cigarette. Seem to be a bigger no no than strange exotic drugs and alcohol binges these days. I am sure the media would spout outrage similar to something like what happened to Shane Warne.

Maybe that's the mysterious Mexican potion Dank was also alleged to have given Essendon players? Now these two can blame their plight on eating too many beef tacos and enchiladas at Mexican restaurants.

I will be just glad he finally got on the park for his debut and stays injury free. I don't expect more win or lose on this occasion from him.

Let's see some solid football from him before we go there again.

We have a couple of big advantages in this game. Home ground advantage plus playing a travelling interstate team. I hope our guys are switched on. We need to atone for the weak efforts masquerading as practice in the NAB cup. I don't want relive the Brisbane game from a couple of years ago.

This is an old practice. British bomber pilots and crew in WWII were given "wakey wakey" pills to keep them alert during missions. Messed with their minds and bodies bad but no big deal considering they only had about 50% chance of surviving the war.