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COMMISSION TO MEET ON JOBE'S BROWNLOW 4.52pm 12th Oct 2016 "The AFL accepts and acknowledges this Tribunal ruling and the AFL Commission repeats the statement it made when the CAS finding was handed down in January earlier this year - the AFL is fully committed to clean sport, for the sake of all players from all clubs in our competition". That's a statement that doesn't leave a lot of wriggle-room.

I'm pretty sure the WADA rules are that all awards have to be handed back. Another one for the legal eagles out there...can the AFL be fined for bringing the AFL into disrepute?

Robbo can write??? ManDee's on the money...it was Robbo doing the colouring in.

So Essendon consider this "manifestly unfair". No contrition exhibited there! They obviously have no qualms about 'bringing the game into disrepute'.

Cough test?

Developing nicely, way ahead of the output levels I was expecting at this stage.

Melkshem and Hurley would be great injections for next year's backline. Sound inclusions, lamentable terminology.

Viney, Oliver and Wines. Echuca would've had a fairly decent midfield.

With the added insight grunt to feed him and better targets to hit, is 2016 going to be the year that Jack's assets really start to shine through?

I think Essendon will get great value from their two first picks and they're both pretty safe selections. We've been a tad more speculative - Oliver's relatively light exposure to top level competition and Weideman's ankle issues - however if our bet comes off we've set up the forward line beautifully and have added a really explosive mid/forward. This will make us a really hard side to contain.

Hmmm...just like Santa he may struggle to get to Darwin (or a town like Alice). May struggle in the interstate games in WA and QLD too. All will be OK though Dee Dee if they're night games.

On a more serious note what I like about Parish is that he seems to have the speed of thought and awareness that will make teammates around him flourish.

Aye, but he's not drawing a long bow.

At which point Liz Hurley may take him as well.

If he can spell ABBA backwards we should take him!

O'Rourke Parmintar Agarn Where TheHecks TheBall

If opposition scouts and its managers are reading opposition fan forums to gain insights into who they should be drafting and trading then god help them (although if you're Barry Prendergast then it would help).

Agree with stinga's thoughts re the Dane Beams Defection P.S. Does anyone else think that this thread title sounds like the kind of name that a late 60's early 70's pop band would have adopted?

Beams to Brisbane, MC to Collingwood, brisbanes first round pick to Melbourne. (Oh yeah)

Great thread this: deserves it's own theme song.

Dear Gillon and that other bloke you hang around with (Ewans, or something like that), Last year I told your predecessor that we were stuffed. He didn't agree, but to be fair on him he was on a lot of junkets at the time and it's hard for us blokes to multi-task and/or think abut problems that are so so far away. He said we had Paul Roos now so therefore we weren't stuffed. But now Paul himself has come out publicly and said we're stuffed. Further to that, Joey-Boy from Demonland has come out and declared that we're stuffed - actually verbatim it was "we are stuffed" because all Joey-boy communiques are delivered in 3-words. Redleg also says we're stuffed. So that (including myself) brings the four-horsemen together - to prevent the apocalypse happening could we please have a fireside chat post haste about how you can help contribute to our un-stuffing" Warm regards Peter

I will have to move on then, illuminated by the hijacking of Tonatopai's Demonland account, and compounded by a Rachel Weisz impostor recently trying to become my 'friend' on Facebook, that the 21st Century is a time of digital disappointment.

Dammit Redleg, can't even trust the Interweb anymore!!!

Is this the right thread to protest the shutting down of Tonatopia's poetic input to Demonland. It may not have been everyone's cup-of-tea but did it deserve the "Vogon poetry" treatment?