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Source? Sauce? What sort of sauce? And I guess Gillon would be fully on board (and maybe offering some gentle persuasion) as the poor Druggies were so hardly done by. Source? Were R and M veterans, and if so would their departure free up quite so much?

Our ex-Jeremy thought he would get one there sooner ? Offer them Garland, but blur the writing a bit so they, in their confusion, think it was Garlett.

Cant remember the draft order, but who would you not have drafted in his stead?

SEN were all over the today - saying that they hope that Hird won't get booed when he gets up to present the meal, as it would deflate the day. They also said that he maybe should be welcomed back into the footy media FCS!! I guess Carey is there, and which is worse.....acceding to your whole team being drug guinea pigs in an uncontrolled, unregulated clinical trial, or glassing women? Well, I WILL boo him then cheer the winner of the award. He remains totally and unashamedly unrepentant.

So typical of Gil......reward the cheat.

With the emphasis on outside footy. He was the captain, leader of a club that attempted to cheat the system, and he either (i) knew exactly what was going on and failed to lead in his teammates' interest, or (ii) should have questioned, in the interests of his fellow players' health, why they all grew suddenly bigger, stronger and then later got soft tissue injuries like never before, whilst using 'unknown substances' injected in secret locations. Not a leader; not a victim (unless of his own delusion).

I was immediately struck by the hypocrisy reading today that Tim Watson was all over protecting players' health in the debate over concussions: where was he in the debate about players' health throughout the EssenDrug saga?

You surely couldn't be suggesting that there would be some sort of ill conceived knee jerk reaction from the knee jerks at HQ? Or give a free against you. Used to even be reportable long ago.

? do you mean more reliable (at this stage), or more likely to make it (which Brown has already)?

Max is surely not a fringe player ??

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A bit like (a then injury ridden) Scott Thompson going to Adelaide. Anyone remember did we get anything for him? Like Melbourne as in the capital of Victoria, or Melbourne as in MFC????

Pffff.....Bradman choked with a duck in his last innings when he needed a mere 4 to get a 100.00 average. Some Demonologists would no doubt be labeling him as a dud ?

Maybe the premise was that having him on our list would mean that he cannot play against us would in turn mean that we may eventually beat Norf. He seems to turn it on every time we play them.

I would see him as an 7.5/10 player. A good foot soldier but not a star. IF the price is right, yes. But not a must.

Don't forget too that his Brownlow eligibility has been protected. Maybe Gil knows that he is in the lead at this stage.

Even made GAJ pull a sickie rather than face JV.

Another one bites the dust ?

So good to get a goody (in fact more than one) from the Druggers, after Moorcroft, Heffernen etc

steve - did you enjoy the moment and enjoy the win, or are you more concerned that it, in your view, happened by accident? Enjoy the win. Neeld said we would be the hardest team to play against, though I think he meant under his reign, not half a decade later.

I agree fully, best game I have seen him play, yet ironically he could well be "managed" this week due to team balance and the need and (eventually) availability of a real ruckman. Also, there was talk at some stage of an injury. Any follow up on this?

I am not a lawyer, but understand that the requirement in a civil case is balance of probabilities. Still, does he know with what he was injected? Can Dank be subpoenaed? And what if Dank is and says he has no records? All very difficult.

Great work, Ash Wow....I always remember Jako and Jurrah as wasted (or unfulfilled) talent but I had forgotten just how good Sean Charles could have been had he stayed on track. Co-incidentally wasn't it dome form of wrist fracture that contributed to the demise of both Jurrah and Charles, taking them away from the stability of the club onto errant ways.

Vickery? ??