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Brayshaw is quite good on both sides and pretty handy in traffic, I reckon he's gunna be a good player and very consistent Petracca is more talanted but I think he's going to be a burst player Might be Nathan Jones vs Dustin Martin

Trengove and toumpas have far too much theoretical upside to trade for a bad pick, watts and grimes might fetch a better deal I think our attacking game suffered because of our skill errors and Hogan being injured

Robbo is probably just passed out somewhere

I reckon nev would be the first selected each week, fast gaining the respect he deserves

Essendon's lawyer said that the if Essendon win this trial the players wouldn't give up the same evidence in interviews the second time around this is a blatent attempt to get off on a technicality by a weak gutless mob of idiots, any respect for the Essendon football club is now gone, they are a begging child I hope Middleton see's this for exactly what it is and overlooks any potential minor Issues from ASADA's point of view and allows Essendon football club to get what's coming to them

Do essendon have any chance?

Very impressive combination of speed and endurance for such a young man easily his most impressive attribute, he also has great footy smarts which I think is very important for that type of player

Yeah, I think that it was partly Jesse's idea to do things this way, he is giving himself every chance to come in on top of his game and show everyone why there is so much Hype I was told Jesse has some fairly old family members who wouldn't have been able to make the trip so debuting in Perth means they can make it along which I think is pretty special, great of the club to facilitate things this way for Jesse

Thanks for replying Redleg, that's very helpful! with a very limited knowledge of the legal stuff it's quite difficult to follow, would it be fair to say Essendon are going with a scattergun approach and hoping if they hit every element of the investigation they are bound to eventually find a hole?

my info is that Jesse will make his debut against West Coast infront of his family if he gets through this game okay. Roos and Mission basically told him he could play this week but strongly encouraged him to have a week at Casey first He's essentially been ready to play for a couple of weeks but the club is not willing to take any chances

Young QC questioning whether Parliament would have intended that AFL would be an "entrusted person" under ASADA Act to whom evidence from investigations could be disclosed I would suggest that the leaders of the relevant sporting body would and should be included in this

Closing submissions have just begun

To the lawyers of Demonland I have a question when Mr Middleton makes his decision after the trial will the case against Essendon be a consideration? in the sense that if he rules in favour of the bombers he is essentially letting them off on a technicality despite something terrible that caused them to be there in the first place? I personally can't see how this could be resolved unless ASADA is allowed to hand down show cause notices, the public will just continue to say, they are drug cheats, they got saved by a technicality

Basically just said on AFL 360 there is no way Asada can win this case, all this has proved is that the organisation was ill equipped for an investigation of this magnitude and then went on to say apparently the former CEO said an ASADA lawyer had expressed concerns over the AFL being present at Interviews and if it was a valid Investigation

Would we recruit him as a forward or a ruck more so? I rate him as a ruckman, not as much as a forward if we went with Wright we would have to be very accepting of the fact this kid could take 4-5 years as some ruckman seem too

Watched him first hands and in that game his attack on the ball was Viney-like, I was there with my father and some mates and we all commented on how hard he was going at it, mind you at the time we had no idea who he was thank god for the footy record

Very confident mccartin and Petracca are more likely than Wright

top 5 imo N.Jones L.Dunn D. Tyson D.Cross N.Jetta

3/4 for Shiel and Boyd who is believed to be extremely unhappy at the Giants

James Hirds approach is quick baffling, he has totally distanced himself from Essendon, done nothing other than point the finger at everyone else, claimed that Reid didn't believe the drugs were performance enhancing, but didn't Reid write a letter to the club expressing his concern?

Dylan shiel is still a big possibility to leave the giants, he is attracting alot of interest but we have the best cap room and pick to offer to trade Not huge on Sam reid, would rather tommlinson

What's the state of play?

Essendons case seems to be counter productive, not trying to prove innocence, trying to stall for time and hope ASADA have slipped up

Does an infraction notice means jobe will have to hand back his brownlow?

It would be tempting to use both our high picks at the draft imo, if we could get Petracca and Brayshaw, add that to viney, Hogan, Mcdonald, Tyson and co and we are starting to get a core that could take this club somewhere