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  1. AFLQLD

    Moved Thread Best term to refer to Essendon's 2012-2016 scandal?

    The best ever way to refer to this was actually the North Melbourne board’s thread during the saga: James and the Giant Breach. Funny, clever, inoffensive.
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    Play Nice WADA v Essendon 34: Guilty, 2 Yr Susp. (backdated to Mar 2015). Affects 17 current AFL plyrs.

    It must be Festivus. We are up to the airing of grievances. Who is going to try to pin Robbo.
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    WADA finds high tb4 levels in Bombers pair.

    My team has no forwards. My team has no money. My team loses many of its young players. My team gets almost no national exposure. My team is treated like a supermarket by other clubs wanting to top up their lists. My team has the worst training facilities in the comp. My team is a long...
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    So what about the truth? Essendon focus discrediting the process not the findings!

    Agreed. ASADA do not have to "share" evidence. I don't know where this idea came that they do. ASADA have collected evidence that prompted Show Cause notices. Players now respond to the notice with the evidence that they, as diligent professional sports people would have at their, or their...
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    Hird considering Legal Action - The Australian - Oct 3rd

    You are overqualified. We all are.
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    Hird considering Legal Action - The Australian - Oct 3rd

    Hird - yesterday's man trying to remain relevant.
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    Hird offered to quit the game

    Who cares about Hird now really, except his fanboys. 2013: Essendon Senior Coach James Hird 2014: Banned former Essendon coach James Hird 2015: Disgraced former Essendon coach James Hird 2016: James who? 2020: Which former Essendon coach was banned from the game in disgrace following a...
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    Wayne Carey - 99.9% sure of no infractions

    Wayne Carey has been talking to fogdog.
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    Koch: Hird should have been blacklisted

    There are a few Essendon supporters who have accepted the club did wrong and know that more sanctions could be coming. They are supportive of the club yet acknowledge this shameful period in the club's history. Give those people a break when you come across them. Sadly there are many who simply...
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    "Superb Player, An Ugly Truth" (Great Article)

    This part here: "Essendon people can't afford to be wrong about their love for him. Those that idolise him have invested their pride and hearts in it, and to stop believing in Hird is to stop believing in the part of themselves they have given. It means trashing years of worship and rewriting...
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    NRL ASADA announcement at 4pm

    I think it is becoming apparent that ASADA are playing a much longer strategic game than many Essendon fans seem to think. ASADA didn't happen to stumble on Sandor's infraction yesterday, they simply chose to deliver the notice yesterday. I think you can safely assume that Sandor's infraction...
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    NRL ASADA announcement at 4pm

    Dank probably told Essendon that Sandor was on the CJC and Essendon thought...hmmm, we like the cut of his jib. Get him to come and trial with us. He sounds like our kinda guy!
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    The Stage Managed Essendon PR Campaign...

    Essendon's PR strategy long ago abandoned any hope of rebuilding its reputation among outsiders. This has all been about ensuring the rusted on supporters stay loyal. The club's reputation is in the gutter everywhere else and they know it. It needn't have been like this though. Essendon got...
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    Demetriou confirms that ASADA investigation re players still ongoing

    This is the same Little who swaggered in talking all tough about the AFL and a couple of weeks later caved meekly? Yes, he'd know.
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    Not Yet Official (but apparently likely) - Bombers out of finals

    Essendon have shot to the top of the power rankings. And...you are up to speed.
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    AFL imposes deadline on negotiations

    Mad? I'm furious!
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    "Whoever knows side effects of drugs is duty bound to come forward"

    Is Talking Footy aired in Mexico? Someone there might know. Or Essendon could have...you know ...not injected drugs with unknown effects into players. There was always that option.
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    The one text message that proves Hird and co are a bunch of drug cheats

    Clearly 'Doping for Dummies' is the one book they didn't read but should have! Chapter 1: Don't hire dodgy sports scientists Chapter 2: Avoid off site drug injections Chapter 3: Random Mexican drugs are not for you Chapter 4: Keep copies of every letter or approval from anti-doping authorities
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    If we are innocent , why are why accepting penalties????

    This thread might have felt much more at home on the Essendon board. Because out here in the real world we define innocence somewhat differently.
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    Astounding result and reaction from last night

    I don't think it was an astounding result because Essendon are not a bad team at all. They just had terrible leadership in the club that took them down this disastrous path. But the players can play. Carlton struggled a bit under pressure as well which helped Essendon. It was actually a good...
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    Hird postmatch press conference 24/8 [Vid in OP]

    Darcy is a complete and utter sycophantic Hird fanboy. He is embarrassing to listen to. I don't object to commentators making reference to the pressure Hird is under or talking about the tough environment that he is coaching in (all of Hird's doing in my opinion). Hird clearly is under...
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    Hird postmatch press conference 24/8 [Vid in OP]

    Knowing what sort of skullduggery Dank seems to get up to it probably means exactly what it says. Perhaps he broke into the basement at ASADA late one night and had a snoop around! Or maybe he just meant that he pulled some information about permitted substances out of his arse!!
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    Leigh Matthews - on Hird's PR advice

    Absolutely. The PR incompetence has been almost as staggeringly bad as the "governance issues". It hasn't just been PR amateur hour, it is almost as if they were completely clueless about PR crisis management at all. Almost every step of the way, they have dug themselves a deeper hole. Have...
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    Carlton v Bombers - Danger Game for AFL?

    Typical Essendon!! Adding to the bird problem at the MCG.
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    James Hird - Australian Football Hall of Fame

    Hird is also featured in the Australian Sports Museum at the MCG, or at least he was a couple of years ago when I visited. There is a holographic image of him in a mocked up locker room talking about his love for the game etc. I wonder if that is still there and if so might need an overhaul. It...
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    Carlton v Bombers - Danger Game for AFL?

    Throw that streaker from the State of Origin into the mix. Just to create a bit more chaos. I can live with fans booing, yelling etc. but no violence. I would like to think we are all better than that.
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    The Cult of Hird in Essendon fan speak

    Sam Newman? I honestly can't decide if he is permanently drunk, slightly mentally challenged, actually insane or in the pocket of Essendon. Perhaps all of the above. He comes across as an absolute foaming mental case. Really, having Sam Newman in your corner does you no favours!
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    Removing the stain -will this be the defining moment in Essendon's history?

    I think Essendon has damaged its reputation among other clubs' supporters for a decade such is the scale and depth of this scandal. It has certainly completely overshadowed the latter part of this home and away season. Some Essendon supporters will say they don't care what others think of...
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    The Age - The Science of Stephen Dank

    I would expect that the texts would be the absolute killer blow if they were to be made public and would condemn Hird to a reputation far beyond redemption? If it isn't already beyond redemption. It seems that the AFL are simply firing each of their big guns in turn until the white flag goes up...
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    The Cult of Hird in Essendon fan speak

    This is as neat a rebuttal of this whole "just a bit of poor governance" nonsense as there has been. Essendon have failed ethically. And for this they stand condemned by the rest of the football community.

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