Lucifers Hero

I meant the thing that shines in the sky!

Do you think CS will take his desk with him!

Has anyone noticed that the 'race that stops the nation' is imminent! The Age sports pages hasn't. Any tips for Tuesday? Oh, btw the sun will rise tomorrow!

Maybe CC never got over (or accepted) that DB was appointed coach instead of himself and he still wanted to exert coaching influences...afterall at the time the coach (CB) reported to the football manager (CC) so CC would have seen it as his job/right to tell the coach what to do. Thankfully the reporting structure has now been changed.

Can't put you on ignore Robbie F...I generally like your posts so don't want to miss what you have to say...but I wouldn't mind if you guys called a truce.

Not if the repetative, tedious posts from Hazy, ADC, Robbie F et al are removed

ooooooohhhhhhh! Does this mean the Karma Bus is heading in Kurt's direction

Try Dee-p Sh!!

Snap!

And Brock is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unless the AFL have offered him immunity in return for the 'truth'

Some HOPE! Maybe, just maybe the NSC has left the building: http://www.theaustra...-1226507834798Patrick Smith putting the heat on AD and AD holding his line re 'no-team tanks' To read select the title from the link and paste into browser

Decided to google the said Haddad: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/former-un-officer-takes-afl-bet-role-20110412-1dcnd.html April 2011. Looks like a very draconian data base the AFL has. Haddad doesn't seem like someone to be trifled with...wouldn't like to be one of the 'witnesses' being interviewed atmo. No wonder the club may feel that past/present staff are being 'heavily coerced'. He sounds like one scary dude.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/trying-times-with-a-team-that-wasnt-very-good-20121031-28k86.html An encouraging article by Martin Flanagan in the The Age. BTW: Is there an opposite to the 'Midas Touch'. If so we have it! Or, is it just the Norm Smith Curse that just won't leave us alone!

Can you speed up the clock H-T...I don't think I can wait that long to know if the tanking thing affects the draft and our Viney pick...I don't trust the AFL to not manipulate the rules to suit themselves...

This quote from the article is both reassuring (MFC on the front foot) and very disturbing (staff are being heavily coerced): "The Melbourne board has continued to mount a defence, which is being led at board level by director and respected lawyer Guy Jalland. Directors remain concerned past and present staff who have given evidence to the AFL's investigators were heavily coerced."

This is the latest article where she comments on things of interest in this thread. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/we-tried-to-stop-tanking-20121031-28kea.html

Easy peasy BB: http://www.taste.com.au/holding.html

Ah...check facts here Doc. Connolly was one of the applicants for the job. He and CS were groomsman at each others wedding so if they wanted someone 'who sang from the same song book' it would have been CC as coach. The dumbest thing we ever did was make the unsuccessful applicant (CC) boss over the successful (DB). DB never had a chance.

You missed the point. I said he had to go. Read the rest of the paragraph: is about not blaming Dean about now squibbing, if he has.

In his book Jimmy says he wanted to get rid of CS as well as DB after 186 but Garry talked him out of it, saying the club couldn't withstand the fallout from sacking both the coach and CEO. We are now seeing the consequences. On DB now squibbing...I felt he had to go but not in the way it happened. At the time DL was awash with good wishes for him and how he had shown a lot of dignity. He is that sort of guy. He is still acting with dignity. I don't think he has a vendetta against the MFC. He is an honest guy telling the truth. He probably held out as long as he could with the 'experimenting with players' stand. We shouldn't blame him.

If the Vault story is true, this will go one of 3 ways: 1. No case to answer & a wrap over the knuckles - Now unlikely 2. The AFL will punish the Club and maybe a lot of legal sh_t follows - Bad for everybody. Off-field stuff always affects on-field results. 3. The Club & AFL strike a deal to punish the culprits and the guilty walk the plank - real test of fortitude for the looking-after-the-boys-club culture. Time to focus on winning games folks, If guilty let them walk (or push them)!

This really made me LOL! Its such a little story to DL's that there are 14 pages of posts today and counting...

Just when we thought it couldn't get worse: an annus Horribilis!

Good news. Found this bit interesting: '...He ( Spencer) impressed with his competitiveness and second efforts and, although he has a heart-in-mouth kicking style, further improvement will create much needed selection pressure in the ruck...' Looks like no freebie games for anyone in future! All to the good.