Good Times Grimes

How bad are they?! It looks like something you'd find in a 6 year old's colouring book.

Can't wait to get a look at Taggert...I've only heard good things. Tynan on the other hand, like others have mentioned already, looks like he has bulked up a considerable amount since he was drafted. I think he'll be a gun, and a bargain for pick #52. Look at the size of those arms for a 19 year old: http://www.afl.com.au/Galleries/tabid/16430/GalleryId/2814/Default.aspx

I thought he was going to explode in 2006. Then again in 2007, 2008 and 2009. 2010, 2011 and 2012 I started the season thinking he was a smokey for the Brownlow. Will 2013 be his year? He better f^&(ing "explode" soon, that's for sure.

A very satisfactory result.

Fair enough. But it should be these individuals who are sanctioned, not the club as a whole. There has been a massive turnover since alleged tanking took place, with very few players or staff remaining from 2009. The club should not suffer for the actions of a few.

"A person, being a player, coach or assistant coach, must at all times perform on their merits and must not induce, or encourage, any player, coach or assistant coach not to perform on their merits in any match - or in relation to any aspect of the match, for any reason whatsoever." Taken from here

To put all the arguments in our favour into one post: 1. What IS tanking? You're allowed to experiment with players in different positions (Garland was at FF and Bate in the midfield this year, and we weren't accused of tanking!). You're allowed to send players off for surgery in the middle of the season to best prepare them for the pre-season. You're allowed to play young players to try and get games into them. You're allowed to drop senior players. There's no minimum number of rotations per game. Everything we did was within the rules. 2. The players were never told to lose. Sure, they may have felt like they were being set up to lose, and that the board wanted them to, but they tried to win. Even Wilson said so. 3. From the time of the alleged tanking, Bailey is gone. The assistant coaches are gone. Stynes is gone. The majority of players are gone. Why should the current players, coach and President be punished for things that they didn't do? 4. The AFL were the ones that dangled the priority pick in front of us. Of course a club is going to be tempted to get the priority pick if they are near the bottom. What incentive do they have to win? The AFL allowed this to happen. 5. Many of the witnesses are no longer working for the MFC. How can their testimony be taken as gospel, when many of them left unwillingly? They may have vendettas against the MFC because of the way that they were dismissed. I just don't see how we can be sanctioned for this. The MFC will win if it goes to court. To all of those who say that we won't take the AFL to court if they sanction us, I ask, why not? We have a case. We can't go down without a fight.

Changes have been made. Give Neeld a chance.

From what I have seen of Gawn (his 4 AFL games), he is a better player than Spencer IMO. I don't think any of Fitz/Gawn/Spencer are good enough to be a #1 ruck yet, so let's pray that Jamar doesn't go down in 2013.

Why do people keep reminding me of this horrible event?!

What about Fitzpatrick? Provided all can stay healthy, I think our ruck stocks are: 1. Jamar 2. Gawn 3. Spencer 4. Fitzpatrick I wouldn't be surprised to see Spencer go, although I would delist Davis and Jetta ahead of him.

He is not on our list until 2014.

If we're going to trade Gysberts, at least trade him for something that has a good chance of benefiting us!

They don't want to figure out that we 'tanked'. This is the perfect thing to take the focus off tanking. Hopefully the Herald Sun and Denham latch onto this concept and make everyone forget about Brock's comments.

I don't think you could go wrong with any one of Toumpas/Wines/O'Rourke/Grundy, but based on the fact that GWS WILL take Toumpas, I think Wines is the player that most fits our current needs. It's nice to know that we will definitely have a choice between at least two of these players, since Whitfield will be gone at #1.

Here is said article: Crows 'tamper' affair This should take the spotlight off us for a while. Thank you, Adelaide.

Cadel is looking pretty good at the moment. Through all the accusations that dogged Lance Armstrong throughout his career, I still believed he wasn't guilty of doping. I think the evidence now is unfortunately insurmountable, and Lance will from now on be known as a fraud, cheat, liar, whatever you want to call him. It's important to remember, though, that his charity has raised half a billion dollars for cancer research. It's because of this that I don't think I'll ever be able to hate Lance Armstrong, even though he will go down as one of the biggest cheats in sports history.

The Giants were big winners over the Cardinals in Game 7 of the NLCS, meaning that the World Series is between Detroit and San Francisco. Should be an interesting series; my tip: Detroit in 6.

James Sellar is probably sitting at home praying that this deal completely falls apart.

Koby Stevens is off to the Bulldogs, apparently. If anybody cares.

I can live with that. My grammar leaves a bit to be desired, though.

Just thought I'd give you a taste of your own medicine

Because we didn't lose anyone called Maloney .

Disappointing if true. Do we have to de-list a certain # of rookies, or is it a total number of players from the senior/rookie lists?

I guarantee you that being kept out of the ruck will result in him having a better year in 2013 than he had in 2012.