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They just won't accept the fact of their guilt. The legal profession must be laughing all the way to the bank. Essendon saga: Supreme Court writ lodged against Gillon McLachlan and Mike Fitzpatrick Still someone else's fault.

Gil - not only slimy but clueless and incompetent. Really - no idea what to do with it? Hasnt given it any thought? Hasn't had time to think about it? What has he been doing? Utter incompetence!!

Ja Herr Goebells.

Bont in my mind is unique and ahead of the other two. Can and has broken games (as will Oliver, Trac and Gus for that matter).

I am sure their pharmacist / coach could dispense something to sort that out.

Maybe this re emphasizes the need to insert (player name) instead of (he) when replying to a post that doesn't contain a name?

We need to learn how to beat St Kilda, North, EssUndone before we can be nearly satisfied and thinking about finals.

I didn't read it that way.........in fact I perceived irony and read the complete opposite. Yes......EssenDrug fans will see their guys as heroes, and no doubt Gil and his henchmen will go along with that (unless of course a poll suggests they should think otherwise).....but I hope most will be, to use an awful Americanism, rooting for Roughy.

Let's hope we can see at least one more Demon flag before it ends ? Things were looking pretty grim for the world when we last won - Cuban missile crisis, JFK vs LHO all happened in the year or so before that great day

The Brownlow converted to the Downlow on Gil's watch will be one of his legacy achievements.

No doubt if the situation were to arise whereby it would help the AFL to cement some other backroom deal.

Submitted in comments to The Australia after Smith's article, though not sure if they will censor it out. Patrick. One factual error, as I understand. You say "Hird, by his lack of watchful eye, forced Jobe Watson, the son of former champion Tim Watson, to hand back his 2012 Brownlow Medal.". By all accounts, Jobe may have relinquished the title, but surprisingly for such a prestigious ornament, reports have it that he claims he does not know where it is, so technically he has not "handed it back", suggesting dare I say some sort of secret back room deal by the AFL to not push the issue. A symbolic handing back only. Now I realize the suggestion that the AFL would ever indulge in any type whatsoever of back room deals must come as a total shock to anyone following AFL, but that, to me, is at least the appearance. AND Sorry, but AFL ASADA and WADA rules, signed off by the AFL and by those joining the prestigious ranks of AFL players, stipulate personal responsibility for all ingested or injected substances. Further the players (allegedly) signed in their ASADA declarations that they had not been injected with any unspecied substances. Nürenberg dispelled the defense "I was only obeying orders". The players were responsible, and signed false declarations. The club, and the "medical staff" by not keeping accurate records of what was given, when, and how much, violated all moral principles governing human experimentation as decreed in the Helsinki Declaration on a Human Experimentation. Worth a full read - easily found in full via Google .

so•ci•o•path (ˈsoʊ si əˌpæθ, ˈsoʊ ʃi-) n. a person, as a psychopath, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience. Whilst I cannot speak for him, I very much doubt that adc is equating Essendonism with National Socialism aka Naziism, but the use and repetition of the big lie is a point in common with Herr Geobells and with many sociopathic narcissists, those at Essendon, and AFLHQ included. It is also very common in Canberra, which interestingly is where the Golden Boy heralded from, if I recall correctly.

I think you may be stating the bleeding obvious: Gil cannot make tough decisions. He needs a Commission meeting, or a public opinion survey. The sort of witchcraft that mysteriously turn handbaggers into giant killers almost overnight?

It won't be until well after 18 - GW$ will obviously be in great need of several priority picks if they don't win the GF, but only one or two if they do. And of course poor old hard done by EssUndone will deserve some too.

There was one short comment somewhere that his run up stutter has changed a bit. Have you had a chance to watch his set shot routine? Can you or anyone else comment on the efficiency of any change?

I think the Sorbent would be a more appropriate place for him. Even though it hurts to to watch my Demons anytime, I cannot go to an EssUndone home game and can't even watch them on TV, whomever they are playing. So can't even watch any footy at all on Anzac Day. Hope they never reach a GF as it would be the first GF in 60+ years that I will not watch.

Gil the Gutless will be really pleased - saves him from making a decision. He will of course feign sympathy for poor Jab.

Obfuscating, like small children who have wronged, they just hope it will go away if they ignore it. Absolutely pathetic to get Jab to present a case, pathetic. Trying to shift the decision making.....FCS that is what they are paid, handsomely, to do. Make decisions in the interest of the game. Gil makes TurnBull look decisive, and that is damning with very feint praise.

Half full, half empty........or fully empty perhaps ?

Pretty damning stuff in that article.

Put him in the comfy chair and hit him with the soft pillow?

but not in good old Gil's AFL Pope Robbo certainly would I wonder if Sam Mitchell will repeat his injection dig at them when they next play? Would love to see Sam do his hallmark corking of Jab at the opening bounce.

Gil will be lapping this up and will use it as part of his justification for gutlessly failing to make a hard decision. "A prominent sports lawyer said we couldn't"

What I would like even more would be for us to shaft them, regularly, on the field too.