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    Justice for the ( Essendon ) 34

    Except it wouldn’t have proven anything, because only an idiot would have recorded illegal injections in the same document as legal ones. If Essendon had produced a spreadsheet of legal injections and supplements, everyone who’s now asking where the spreadsheet is would instead be pointing out...
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    Justice for the ( Essendon ) 34

    You might if Andrew Demetriou called you falsely saying he had evidence that Essendon was doping and you panicked instead of calmly checking the records against WADA's list of banned substances. It's true that what exactly happened to the records that Hird believed existed is unknown. But Hird...
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    Justice for the ( Essendon ) 34

    They didn’t declare the supplements and injections because they didn’t have to. Later the requirement would change, but at the time the forms said only, “We recommend athletes consider declaring any substance used in the last seven days. Not declaring use may affect results management...
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    VFL 2026

    An orca is a species of dolphin, so it works. Congrats to Frankston on a great win!
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    Research Random Footy History article thread (Trove/Google etc)

    I've found a bit more - not much, but the reason Farmer didn't play is that he declared himself unavailable for state footy that season. This article from 26 June says that "Farmer notified the selectors yesterday that he would not be available for the trip to Western Australia"...
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    VFL 2026

    Similar problem here - I get the result "403 Forbidden". It was a great site so I hope this is a temporary problem. For the moment it is somewhat possible to navigate the site via the Wayback Machine, but the pages for pre-1897 stats still aren't loading properly for me there either.
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    VFL 2026

    The way the byes are structured is absurd, but Round 7 is Port Melbourne's first bye, not counting the competition-wide bye for the SANFL v VFL game
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    VFL 2026

    In that case I don't know as my source is the VFL broadcast page here, so one or the other is wrong: https://www.afl.com.au/news/1479966/watch-your-team-smithys-vfl-broadcast-guide
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    VFL 2026

    This week the ABC is broadcasting Sandringham v Box Hill. Usually the ABC will cover a Saturday afternoon game, but this is the one exception for the first half of the season.
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    VFL 2026

    Hope so, that would be great and also rather a surprise
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    VFL 2026

    It does seem unlikely. Also seems unlikely the AFL would bother suggesting such a thing. Despite the implication of the article, it seems more likely they're introducing it for all clubs as a way of cutting down the number of standalones. Yeah, that's why it's concerning. Can't imagine the AFL...
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    VFL 2026

    Is it possible the licence fee would be a change that just applies to the AFL clubs? There was a report in the Herald Sun near the end of March that I am not currently finding with Google (what I saw at the time was a picture or scan taken from the print edition) that made it sound like it would...
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    VFL 2026

    The loss of an appreciation for the history of clubs is a real shame. And it doesn't help that the AFL has tried to erase the history of the VFA, to the point of suggesting, via their support of Colin Carter's book from a couple years ago, that it's the VFL/AFL, and not the VFA/VFL, that's a...
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    SANFL vs. VFL 2026 -- State Match Wrap-Up

    Good write-up, nice look at the history of the match-up as well
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    VFL 2026

    That was a great game to watch, and it may well end up being the best game of Gather Round once again.
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