View Full Version : The Eagles drama What would you do if it happened to our great team?
NUMBER1LIONSMAN
23 Mar 2007, 02:33
I can't imagine how the Eagle supporters must be feeling right now. Its a pretty sad thing to have happen to a club, let alone a reigning premier.
What if it happened to our Mighty team?. How do you think you would cope with everything that is going on?
I know we have had our fair share of heartbreak and drama at our club but nothing like we are witnessing with the West Coast Eagles.
All I can say is I Love my team and after what has been happening with the Eagles it makes me appreciate my team just that little bit more.
Go Lions :) :thumbsu: :thumbsu: :thumbsu:
It is hard to say.
I think I'd be pretty pissed off with the club if they had known about significant issues like this for a number of years but failed to take any decisive action.
I think that I'd have plenty of sympathy for the player involved. Not a nice place to be in when you've got to sort yourself out in front of the entire country. Not saying that he would be welcomed back with open arms, just that you'd want him to right himself asap.
The one bloke who seems pretty admirable in this whole situation is Bryan Cousins. To be the public face of all of this takes some courage. I'm sure that the family is absolutely torn at the moment and I feel for them.
Grimreepah
23 Mar 2007, 11:10
I can't imagine how the Eagle supporters must be feeling right now.
... especially considering West Coast have put together an excellent young team, that could achieve great things over the next 3 to 5 years. To have that seriously jeopardised would be very disheartening.
These things happen. No matter what, they just seem to happen. I can't condemn the Eagles for what any of their players may have done in their personal lives and I wouldn't condemn our club under the same or similar circumstances. The club has to work it's way through for a better future and the supporters must do the same.
They would still be the Brisbane Lions. The team I support.
Lady Lawrence
23 Mar 2007, 11:49
in a way it has - we have been through some adverse publicity, been ripped apart at the seams etc etc. Yes drugs are diferent to the Akergate Affair and The Mal Saga but we have been there with the London stuff the Cresswell incident, the South Australia incident etc etc. All bad things and all badly reflecting on our club. But we have come through it, and so will West Coast. If internal people are found to have been hiding or covering up their knowledge of this I am sure heads will roll. Important lessons will be learnt from this and all will eventually move on and move forward from it. Come next wekend when the season starts this will be the lining of the budgie cage.
... especially considering West Coast have put together an excellent young team, that could achieve great things over the next 3 to 5 years. To have that seriously jeapardised would be very disheartening.
Two things on that:
- It shows how blessed we were that our senior and leading players were reasonably level-headed. Voss was obviously a great leader due to more than his football ability. But the fact is, he was drafted because he was a precociously talented teenager that we had first dibs on. Ben Cousins was drafted for exactly the same reasons. Had the circumstances been reversed, we may well have been having this discussion in early 2002.
- It gives even more evidence to what a special player and person Chris Judd must be. To go into a club as a young and impressionable teenager living away from home, when some of your highest profile teammates had less than perfect lives away from footy, and still become an exceptional footballer and admired for a levelheadness and maturity away from the game - that is a real credit to Judd.
(Edit - not just Judd either. Must remember that there's no suggestion that the majority of the Eagles team are also magnets for controversy. The 4 or 5 who are in the press for the wrong reasons are not representative of the entire playing group. That team won a premiership despite internal forces that could easily have torn them apart. Not a bad effort considering the circumstances.)
danielcanberra
23 Mar 2007, 12:24
The question is "What would you do?"
I wouldn't come on to BigFooty and go on and on and on and on and on and on about it...
If it was a player with whom I have a connection (eg some people on this board are player sponsors, friends or acquaintances etc) I would be supportive and try to be understanding.
(Edit - not just Judd either. Must remember that there's no suggestion that the majority of the Eagles team are also magnets for controversy. The 4 or 5 who are in the press for the wrong reasons are not representative of the entire playing group. That team won a premiership despite internal forces that could easily have torn them apart. Not a bad effort considering the circumstances.)
POBT a week ago on Melbourne radio (SEN) the journalist that brought this sorry saga to a crescendo (sorry can't recollect the name only know he writes for The Australian) said "Only SIX (6) players on the Eagles list are NOT into drugs. In fact he was very cavalier with the information and upon questioning about litigation from West Coast, he was confident he had the evidence to stand the processes of law.
Make of that what you will, but I suspect this has only scratched the surface of what has been going on at the West Coast Eagles
POBT a week ago on Melbourne radio (SEN) the journalist that brought this sorry saga to a crescendo (sorry can't recollect the name only know he writes for The Australian) said "Only SIX (6) players on the Eagles list are NOT into drugs. In fact he was very cavalier with the information and upon questioning about litigation from West Coast, he was confident he had the evidence to stand the processes of law.
Make of that what you will, but I suspect this has only scratched the surface of what has been going on at the West Coast Eagles
If upwards of 30 players from the Eagles are on drugs, then plenty of heads need to roll. I will take it with a grain of salt though. That is an enormous statement to make.
The Eagles can't sue him but the individual players could - however, without him naming names, they would be unlikely to succeed IMO.
maroon and blue
23 Mar 2007, 12:56
An individual on drugs is one thing , a culture is totally another. I would want scalps from the coach, admin down to players. A total clean out. But we are not the Eagles so this is easy to say.
Grimreepah
23 Mar 2007, 12:57
The Eagles can't sue him
Why can't the Eagles (ie. the club) sue him?
Chasing the Dream
23 Mar 2007, 13:03
in a way it has - we have been through some adverse publicity, been ripped apart at the seams etc etc. Yes drugs are diferent to the Akergate Affair and The Mal Saga but we have been there with the London stuff the Cresswell incident, the South Australia incident etc etc. All bad things and all badly reflecting on our club. But we have come through it, and so will West Coast. If internal people are found to have been hiding or covering up their knowledge of this I am sure heads will roll. Important lessons will be learnt from this and all will eventually move on and move forward from it. Come next wekend when the season starts this will be the lining of the budgie cage.
Adam Hueskes
Scotland Yard
Flights to Asia
Brawls in pubs
bells ringing????:o
We have had our fair share of dramas that have put us on the back page over the years. We would all do the same and try to support/defend our club over what ever allegations that surfaced.:thumbsu:
Why can't the Eagles (ie. the club) sue him?
Unless things have changed, corporations with more than 10 employees can't sue for defamation.
I guess the Eagles might sue the journalist's employer for misleading and deceptive conduct under the Trade Practices Act (I think Myer or DJs has something similar running through the courts at the moment) but in my decidely unlearned opinion, I doubt whether that sort of action is what the TPA is designed to allow. Could well be wrong though.
Why can't the Eagles (ie. the club) sue him?
Maybe because it's true and he has the evidence?
Otherwise why would anyone make such a statement on radio?
Grimreepah
23 Mar 2007, 17:29
Maybe because it's true and he has the evidence?
Otherwise why would anyone make such a statement on radio?
I don't think journalists necessarily let the truth get in the way of ratings.
There's a lot of rumours going around, so how do you know what is true and what isn't? How would this guy know this information?
OldLion
23 Mar 2007, 17:32
Watching while your club gets beaten up and put down by the AFL wasn't much fun .. rather a few 'white punks on dope' than 10 years of bullying.
Kochie 16
25 Mar 2007, 19:50
I agree with LL, We've had so many critics saying were goning down the chute because Aker open his mouth and Mal returned home to the P.I.G. Farm (Essendon Football Club).