Jara

Alf - Thanks for reminding me - My God, that original article was a horrible piece

Thanks to those who liked the article. As was obvious, a lot of the info came from my regular reading of Demonland and Ology.

To those who didn't like it, a lot of what you say, I agree with. I'm not sure where I stand on the amnesty business - 'no case to answer' and an apology for the harassment would be a fairer result, but I'll take anything. With the other articles published today, perhaps there is a change in the atmosphere which can only benefit us.

Carrot Top - yes - I agree - wish I had done more of a rant. As I said in another post, I wrote the article in a rush not long after Caro's piece, but the issue had kind of gone off the boil by then (I'm a slow writer - not a journalist's a-hole, alas), so the editor said they'd reconsider it if and when things hotted up.

After the latest idiotic revelations (as if we ever needed any inducement to fumble the ball!) , I had started to write a much stronger piece - opening line was: "I barrack for Melbourne and I'm as mad as hell." (Actually, I think my original article was a bit stronger - I had a choice paragraph about Brock and his connection to the Morans, but that seems to have got the chop - probably defamatory) Stopped when I saw they'd published the piece this morning.

Nutbeam - if you are in fact my wife, you should be at work. If you are me, then the situation is more critical than I could have imagined.

Cheers

Sure as hell not IRW!

I bet you Adrian Hyland reads demonland.

That article is basically a compilation of a portion of the more considered posts in this very thread.

Hey Jose - you're right - I am a regular reader, but rarely post - do a lot more over at Demonology - just wanted to get something in the press to restore some sense of balance to the outrageous reporting of this issue, and hopefully influence the AFL's considerations

One thing I should explain - (rather hastily) hastily wrote and submitted the article in a fit of pique over a month ago - had pretty well forgotten about it - didn't think they were going to publish it - credit to them for doing so, but I'd write something different now, having seen how pathetic the so-called evidence is. Fumbling the ball? Jeez...

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A

It's the seizing of our computers that worries me most, not what some moron like McClean has grunted (god I hate that guy - remember the idiot boasting about his family connection to the Morans?).

I suspect we're not the best run club in the league - who knows what our d%*head administrators have put in writing?

I daresay every other club has been employing their computer people to go through their records deleting like crazy.

Congratulations!

(Must admit, I couldn't remember which premiership it was referring to or where I read it - the posts about the tanking inquiry and Wilson seemed to go on forever - I think I just typed in Sheedy premierships - thought it might have been one of the eighties ones - forgot it was in the Flanagan article - anyway, I've spent more time replying to you than I would have in looking for it, so we'll stop there)

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Thanks jnrmac

Google? What's that?

Nah, was sitting there googling for a while - so many references to Sheedy popped up, I got sick of looking at the old bull-frog, so I thought I'd drop in here, say hello and take advantage of yr collective wisdom to find the answer

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Afternoon all - I'm a Demonologist, just dropping in to check up on something.

I'm trying to write an article about this whole tanking garbage from the supporter's perspective- been scrolling through trying to find where Sheedy admitted 'tanking' of a kind when he played mainly young players and won a premiership - would anyone be good enough to point me in its direction?

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J

Occasional reader only, first time post, but I felt moved enough by this episode to want to say something.

I don't know enough about Liam's personal situation to comment one way or the other, but I am seriously concerned that we are losing respect within the indigenous community, which may have serious ramifications (the main one being that they won't want to come and play for us) The criticism dished out to Davey here appals me; he's never been anything but a faithful servant of our club.

Haven't read all of the posts, but has anybody mentioned the sacking of Ian Flack? People I know say he was a wonderful go-between between the indigenous players and the club.

Social justice issues aside, there are so many great Aboriginal players running around at present, it would be a disaster for our future success if we were to lose them (and before somebody jumps down my throat, yeah, yeah, I know we gave a lot of support to Liam - I just don't know enough about what's going on in his head to be as angry with him as some here are - he's obviously having a bad time, and I do know enough about Aboriginal people to know that family is the most important thing to them)

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