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La Dee-vina Comedia

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  1. While I understand what you're getting at, don't forget all players upon induction into the AFL are also told exactly what they are expected to do with respect to checking everything personally with ASADA. So while you are correct that they might find it hard to stand up to their Essendon boss(es), by not doing so they ultimately did stand up to their AFL bosses.
  2. Similarly, Ron Barassi junior. I appreciate that RDB is still with us, but that shouldn't prevent us being creative enough to identify an appropriate award in his honour. If there is already something awarded in his name, then I'd like to know what it is. PS: Ditto Robert Flower
  3. Actually, I wouldn't mind a regulatory authority investigating whether Luke Hodge actually uses that food preparation service (is it called Light and Easy?) They may be a perfectly sound option for the average human being but I find it hard to believe a professional AFL footballer could survive on those products alone.
  4. Sports people do things and take things that improve (or, if you prefer, enhance) their performance all the time. That's why they take protein supplements, eat massive amounts of food and train with weights. I'm not defending the EFC - they had a responsibility to ensure that their players only took legally approved performance enhancing products. And the players, too, had a personal responsibility to ensure what they took was legal. Did what they take do anything to improve their performance? Who knows (although I've said before I doubt it - I think Dank is a charlatan and should be behind bars). But that's not the point. If a product or practice is banned - so be it. The user wears the consequences.
  5. So, if a player is second-best on ground in all four finals, he will accrue 4 x 4 x 2 (four matches x four votes x two coaches) = 32 votes. If a player is best on ground in three winning matches, he will accrue 3 x 5 x 2 = 30 votes. I think the 3 x BOG will have been dudded. But he will likely have a Premiership and Norm Smith Medal to console himself with.
  6. I think the concern about Gatlin is less about the "lifetime benefit" and more about the lack of a "lifetime ban". To badly paraphrase, to get caught doping once may be regarded as misfortune but to be caught twice looks like carelessness.
  7. Do you mean the AFL waiting to make a decision? Or Jobe waiting to decide whether he'll hand the medal back? Or something else? Either way, whether the appeal is based on a technicality or not, isn't that decision, once it's made, the definitive result?
  8. Well, yes...and no. The term "public schools" derives from the concept of schools such as Brighton Grammar, Scotch, Xavier etc being open to the public at large. Just as long as (a) you can afford to send your child there, (b) your child is of the correct gender for a single sex school and (c) there is available space in a school with high demand. And if you live in Melbourne, often the second most common question you'll get asked in life is "Which school did you go to?" which in the olden days (think 1950s and 60s) was really asking you two other questions rolled into one (did you come from a family who could afford to send you to a "public school"? and what's your religion?)
  9. Does anyone understand what motivates those posters who continually change their user names? Disclosure: I will be listed as having 2 user names, but only because I corrected the spelling of the first one.
  10. I really hope you're a female poster*. If not, I'm not sure what you're suggesting about Dom Tyson with that name! *Either way, you best stay away from BBO.
  11. Anybody want to admit to being one of the posters who constantly criticises public school boys? Some of ours are doing OK.
  12. If the CAS decision is re-affirmed, I don't see how Watson can keep his medal. What would be particularly galling if I were Watson or an Essendon supporter is that I suspect the supplements did nothing to help him or the team. So, a 12 month suspension, widespread opprobrium and three or four wasted years may well have been for nothing. While I don't condone violence, should an Essendon supporter one day decide to take out his frustration against Dank in a physical form, I really hope the media ignore protocol and run with the headline "Finally, the fan has hit the sh!t"
  13. You might have to be a Victorian to fully appreciate this comment from Titus O'Reily Titus O'Reily ‏@TitusOReily 11m11 minutes ago One of Essendon's banned players Tayte Pears, has retired to become a firefighter in Victoria's scandal free emergency services.
  14. I suspect as a Moderator he suspended himself.
  15. To be able to notice potential draftees, clubs need to have a group of talent spotters. I vaguely recall something being written or said about Melbourne not having the resources or structure in place in the Daniher and Bailey years (and maybe the Neeld years) to have a properly functioning team of spotters. (Terry Wallace has also talked about how amateurish Richmond was in this regard when he was coach there.) I expect one of the great improvements under Peter Jackson has been a better structure to put talent spotting on a sounder footing. Drafting players such as Hunt, vandenBerg and Wagner are the results of otherwise unknown players being noticed by the right people.
  16. That's an interesting opinion. I didn't see TFS but The Age today reports on the same matter and refers to the Hurley interview. The Age story gave me the opposite impression about Hurley's feelings.
  17. Did he actually say that Dawes and Pedersen are list cloggers AND both should be delisted? If he didn't add those last five words it's an arguable proposition. If he did add the last five words, it is still arguable, but on more tenuous grounds.
  18. I'm just trying to work out how this message gets relayed. Does the club say to the players, "We think you're cooked and therefore you won't win. We're telling you this because we have to tell our supporters not to come. But go out there and try hard anyway."
  19. Usually it's the club taking the risk when they appoint a coach. However, in this case, Roos took the bulk of the risk. His reputation could have been severely tarnished should his time with us gone completely pear-shaped. So, I don't begrudge him whatever he was paid.
  20. Have done some research. It would appear that Garry Baker won the Best First year player award in 1974 having already played a couple of seasons with the Bulldogs. However, he's the only person I found who would appear not to be a true "first year player". I had thought someone like Brian Wilson or Peter Moore had won the award. I was clearly wrong.
  21. I vaguely recall (though could be completely wrong) that back in the 70s or maybe 80s, we were awarding "best first year player" awards to experienced players who had joined us from other teams. To illustrate the point while ignoring the question of merit, it would be the equivalent of, say, Heretier Lumumba winning it last year. So, there are at least six different ways this award could be made. Using 2016 as an example: most votes in the B&F for a player new to the club but not new to AFL football (in 2016 the best result in the B&F from an "import" was Tom Bugg. He wouldn't have won, because he scored fewer votes than others who would be eligible.) most votes in the B&F for a player drafted to the club in the most recent draft who is new to AFL football altogether and who played his first game in 2016 (Josh Wagner would have won on this criterion.) most votes in the B&F for a player drafted to the club, who is new to AFL football, but has been on the list for one or more years and who played his first game in 2016 (eg, Jayden Hunt) subjective assessment of eligible players under each of the options described above. My personal preference is the third dot point above.
  22. Surely he has a size 17 boot. Biggest at the club, I would have thought.
  23. The full table is on the AFL website here
  24. Not quite - Petracca got two votes and Oliver one. A more satisfying way to look at it is that Melbourne is the only club with two players getting votes.
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