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    Coach Adam Simpson Megathread est. 2017 - Staying for 2024, Lyon’s Cryin’

    I think one of the big problems Simpson has is that he tried to prove everyone else wrong and stuck to his old game plan, telling the players it still worked. And then blaming injuries for the failure. Imagine if your coach tells you what we are doing is the duck's nuts, having it blow up in...
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    Coach Adam Simpson Megathread est. 2017 - Staying for 2024, Lyon’s Cryin’

    It's pretty apparent Simpson has struggled to adapt to how footy transitioned from the keepy-off style he favours to how it is played today. And I think the club as a whole got complacent and focused too much on non-football issues. ie Changing out the team song or having blowup dolls island of...
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    Autopsy Negatives vs Hawthorn

    The sad fact is the team we had out there was our best 22. You cannot talk about guys that are injured or can't stay in the park for more than a couple of quarters every three weeks. They don't switch, or spread, and they are played out of position, either they can't follow instructions or, more...
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    Tribunal told Bombers texted each other about ‘Thymo’ injections

    To me It's pretty obvious that the then Essendon coaching group doped. it's not so obvious how many of the players knew/realised and endorsed it. The more it goes on and the more these transcripts leak out you have to wonder just how "duped" some of the players were.
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    ASADA hits back: Essendon doping scandal: Shane Charter's admission 'gold' (Fairfac, Dec 4)

    Lol this just needs to get to the tribunal now so we can then get on with a year of "debating" the outcome.
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    Essendon players could sue

    My personal thoughts is that most of the players probably didn't realize what was going on when it started. Then they were reassured everything was above board. So what happens then do you go to ASADA and say i might have been given banned peds. Or do you go to the club you have trusted and say...
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    Infraction Notices Issued for 34 EFC Players: The Age, 14/11

    But this is not the case at Essendon which a well organised program of injections on a regular basis. The players if they had concerns would had plenty of time to phone the 24 hour hotline the fact they didn't is the puzzling thing. There could be many reasons why they didn't but i surprised...
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    Charter underwrote bought peptides were not for human use

    Everything does point to 34 players being injected with the same compounds thou doesn't it. Why wouldn't it be that way it was a squad wide program after all. You don't give half placebos and the other the goodstuff do you.What you do is get everyone on board who consented to be part of the...
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    Charter underwrote bought peptides were not for human use

    So the fact that you only source of employment as an AFL footballer is the club that drugged you and that it's likely to end your career if you spill the beans would have no bearing on your thought process. Ryder left other guys have been de listed but still if your suspended for 2 years your...
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    Charter underwrote bought peptides were not for human use

    Ultimately we only have the players word that they did not intend to cheat but that is what happened whether they wanted too or not. It doesn't matter what they thought does it. All that matters is what actually happened and from what iv'e seen the most likely thing is that they were injected...
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    Show Cause Notices v2.0 sent out by ASADA

    I bet if it had been a group of players who got together outside the club and ran a program off their own bat like this they wouldn't be on an AFL list. It would have been done and dusted by now with the club washing their hands of the affair after some sort of AFL inquiry about governance. The...
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    Show cause notices to be reissued by Monday

    The players shouldn't be treated as a block but who knows what going to happen. Some players knew they were being doped i'm sure and others probably believed everything was ok It all depends on how strong the evidence is and whether the players accounts back up their version of events vs that...
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    Is THIS what the AFL wanted?

    If a player is unhappy and has no free agency system then the spectre of restraint of trade raises it's ugly head. The clubs for years have treated the players like cattle while expecting loyalty as well .Many of the old coaches haven't adapted to the new way of doing things and aren't savy with...
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    1994 v 2004 v 2014 All Australian Sides

    the current players are no worse or better than the older era players just trained differently. I once asked Robert Harvey at a junior club function would diesel williams get drafted today and he said probably not. But our current brownlow medal winner and Kennedy from the swans are almost...
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    Cox states at least 10 players used banned stimulants

    With the Eagles you can see a major change in attitudes about drinking and drugs over the course last 20 odd years. Once No one really cared what players did in their own time so long as they were right on game day. WADA barely existed and not really at all for non Olympic comps. Things were...
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