2016 Non Crows AFL Discussion thread Part 2

[Bay62]

I can't like this enough.

Like Frontline or Utopia but set in the world of sports.

Would have it all

Sport, administrators, money, sex, drugs, incompetence, religious fervour, lawyers, egos, generational hatred..

 

[GameofSloanes]

Its a ******* joke that players should be woken up by 'drug testers' at 5 am when their asleep. Why cant they stand out the front of the club in the morning and grab them before training?

Most people would call the cops if someone was demanding to be let in at that hour

 

[Pdub]

There goes port's pick 6 for Hartlett.

 

[marvin]

Richmond?? Someone should do a concussion test on the bloke.

 

[SmegHead]

There goes port's pick 6 for Hartlett.

Look out for Dimma dancing up and down Punt Road, with a decent player next year he might avoid the sack once again.

 

[SmegHead]

There goes port's pick 6 for Hartlett.

Also, surely this kind of shit should wait until the season is actually over???

 

[Vhaluus]

There goes port's pick 6 for Hartlett.

So Prestia to Richmond, Omeara to Essendon and Swallow to Kangaroos? BRILLIANT.

So glad none of these guys are going to a top 4 club, gives me hope we can compete next year.

 

[Tex200]

Also, surely this kind of shit should wait until the season is actually over???

Totally the AFL's fault

 

[Tex200]

So Prestia to Richmond, Omeara to Essendon and Swallow to Kangaroos? BRILLIANT.

So glad none of these guys are going to a top 4 club, gives me hope we can compete next year.

Interesting that basket case clubs are getting headline stars to nominate their club.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

With the Whitfield case, people should have a look what happened to Rio Ferdinand, and he didn't deliberately miss a test was a complete accident and got banned for eight months. This should be much much more if deliberate.

 

[Deaneus!]

Interesting that basket case clubs are getting headline stars to nominate their club.

 

[Vhaluus]

Interesting that basket case clubs are getting headline stars to nominate their club.

Those 3 have entered an AFL team where their only role models are those that have jumped ships for piles of cash. It's hardly surprising that they have learned that money is king and are using that, rather than success, to make their decisions.

 

[Geoffa32]

Young players requesting a trade then nominating a club of choice.

Who needs Free Agency.......

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[Pdub]

With the Whitfield case, people should have a look what happened to Rio Ferdinand, and he didn't deliberately miss a test was a complete accident and got banned for eight months. This should be much much more if deliberate.

Whitfield didn't miss a test though.

 

[LiamPickering]

http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/4132272/bulldogs-request-opponents-for-ballarat-afl-games/?cs=12

 

[Punchy Bassett]

Whitfield didn't miss a test though.

Didn't he? I've been busy so haven't read story I thought the implication was he did....?

 

[Tyls83]

Young players requesting a trade then nominating a club of choice.

Who needs Free Agency.......

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This "I nominate"crap is doing my head in, may as well abolish the draft and then just let the kids "nominate" their club of choice

 

[Tyls83]

http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/4132272/bulldogs-request-opponents-for-ballarat-afl-games/?cs=12

Why do they want to play us there? Is that Pannell's hometown?

 

[Tex200]

The talent drain to Victorian clubs is well out of hand. It's not just Vic kids either, kids from all over the country are wanting in on the action.

Syd and GWS have various concessions to counter this. SA and WA clubs are caught in the middle. No one wants to be there and AFL won't assist given they a both traditional footy States.

 

[Pdub]

Didn't he? I've been busy so haven't read story I thought the implication was he did....?

Nah they weren't looking for him, sounds like he just texted his GF saying he hopes they don't test him. By the sounds of it, he had a migraine, probably took a pain killer that wasn't approved, had a freak out moment, but no one was trying to test him and he didn't miss any tests.

 

[Vhaluus]

Why do they want to play us there? Is that Pannell's hometown?

They want a side that is current top 8 for 'blockbuster status' and they know they won't get granted any Victorian teams there. I don't know the dimensions of the ground but I'd be willing to bet Sydney were excluded from contention because the bulldogs think the ground would suit them. Eagles will be spared because it'd mean even more travel for them.

 

[DoubleBlue2]

Why do they want to play us there? Is that Pannell's hometown?

I'd put a tenner on it that they asked for Port Adelaide and the journo messed it up.

Makes sense in a way as it will encourage fans to drive down and stay in Ballarat.

 

[aneale]

Young players requesting a trade then nominating a club of choice.

Who needs Free Agency.......

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JB has been banging on about this for 2 years. Why have contracts or FA if anyone can just walk and demand a trade to X.

About time the AFL levelled the field a bit with respect to trading. They should get more say than they do.

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[Vhaluus]

Nah they weren't looking for him, sounds like he just texted his GF saying he hopes they don't test him. By the sounds of it, he had a migraine, probably took a pain killer that wasn't approved, had a freak out moment, but no one was trying to test him and he didn't miss any tests.

Giving the kid WAY too much favorable assumptions there. He was hiding from the Illicit drug test, not performance enhancing for a start which rules out your migraine theory. Furthermore illicit drugs have a 3 strike policy so unless he has already used up his first 2 strikes there'd be no reason to panic, if he HAS used up his first 2 strikes on illicit drugs then it's probably not migraine medication that concerns him.

 

[weekend at bernies]

Look out for Dimma dancing up and down Punt Road, with a decent player next year he might avoid the sack once again.

If anyone can turn him into a spud Hardwick can...