The trouble is the AFL have shown themselves too compromised and conflicted to deal with it fairly. The AFL has until now wielded absolute power and have time and again proved to be grubby fixers interested only in the bottom line.
Certified Legendary Thread 34 Essendon* Players suspended for doping violations - No opposition fans. Check OP for thread rules
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Agree with Big Sim.
The tribunals/governing bodies have to be impartial because the AFL has shown that they can't be trusted.
The tribunals/governing bodies have to be impartial because the AFL has shown that they can't be trusted.
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I was being facetious.....gosh.....
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too add to the pain jobe wont play the rest of the season! boohoo...
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Captain gone, coach going, president strapping on the life jacket....
Who will Goddard point at when everyone is gone.
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I greatly dislike (hate is too toxic a word) Essendon but always had a lot of time for Jobe Watson, he strikes me as a good bloke whom unfortunately has to take the on field baggage for the crap Dank and Hird bought to that footy club.
Reckon just about any other person would have cracked under the crap Jobe's had to endure as a captain in the last 36 months or so.
Hopefully he plays on, doesn't deserve to go out on an 110 point loss, but I feel he has probably played his final game of footy.
Would like to think most of us Carlton board posters show Jobe a modicum of respect if he retires, he was a worthy Brownlow winner and a great player for many years.
LanceRomance
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The tainted brownlow? Mmm nah.
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None of this would have happened to Jobe if he was still on the 'special' needles!
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I am not sure many Carlton posters would be of that opinion DVB.
I don't feel sorry for drug cheats
LanceRomance
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I agree with a lot of what you are saying but he won his brownlow in a year that his team are being tried for drug cheating.
Jobe seems like a genuinely good guy and I do feel sorry for him. I feel he was conned in to this
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You'd fit in well over on the * board.
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To be honest, I think Ben Cousins Brownlow was more tainted than Jobe's was/is, given the horrible stuff Cousins was reported to be willingly taking at the time, winning the Brownlow medal with a black eye after a night on the gear/tiles a few days before, is a pretty distasteful image, Jobe was naive and a victim of poor club governance, but a drug cheat, nope, not in my book.
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I personally think Watson comes across as a person with a sense of entitlement
Of course he's a drug cheat! If Essendon cheated, then Jobe is a drug cheat.
Did he say NO to hundreds of off-site injections into his stomach? Did he do his duties as a leader of that club and seek more information? Did he advise the other players not to accept the injections?
No, no, and no.
Did he say NO to hundreds of off-site injections into his stomach? Did he do his duties as a leader of that club and seek more information? Did he advise the other players not to accept the injections?
No, no, and no.
I cant bring myself to forgive the chambre shirt.
Jabba73
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Can't agree with the worthy bit. The award is for the best and fairest player.
Nothing fair about an advantage gained from taking illegal substances.
Count me out DVB - no time for drug cheats. The only Essendon player I respect is Zaharakis who said no to getting injected.
Jobe can get stuffed!
Sick of hearing about how brave he has been, how he's such a good leader. If he were a leader, he would have said no in the first place.
Suspend him and give Charlie to Cotchin and Mitchell.
Sick of hearing about how brave he has been, how he's such a good leader. If he were a leader, he would have said no in the first place.
Suspend him and give Charlie to Cotchin and Mitchell.
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He was a leader. He led them straight into Danks opium den of peptide's.
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Sense of entitlement/ went to xaviour, it's really the same thing.
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A worthy winner?
He won it under the influence of PEDs. If he had any integrity he would have handed it back long ago.
As a leader he has failed in spectacular fashion, he should have lead from the front and said "no" but decided to play along. No asking of questions, just lifted his jumper up willingly. I don't believe he has a shoulder injury, he's either come to his senses and taken a voluntary suspension just in case CAS slam them, or is simply just too gutless to front his team mates any more. Alternatively, he could have had enough of Hird and decided to sit out as a matter of protest, the club covering him and supporting his action because Hird has them by the balls. Sack him and he could just as well spill the beans, or get a rumoured $6m payout.
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None of this would have happened if Jobe said no to the special needles.
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