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The general public are getting edumacated after 2 years and it's turning in our favour.
BTW where's Caro? (Dank starting to play?)
What next?
From memory, and I have no idea why I remember anything about the 'woman', but she usually goes on holidays around this time of the year.


Just as a sad unrelated note. When I swipe the word "around" on my Samsung, I constantly get "AOD" instead as the suggested word :(
 

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I dunno, but this is a dig at the ex wife yeah?

Rohan ConnollyVerified account‏@rohan_connolly

Problem being a media troll without journalistic credibility or indeed expertise in any field at all is it leaves you only with a big mouth

Glenn Barfoot ‏@axeman215772
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@rohan_connolly Rita is a disgrace! She comes across as vindictive & uneducated! Sad, she's given too much editorial leeway!

Michael Cahill ‏@MichaelCahill
2h2 hours ago
@rohan_connolly Wow!!! Take that Caro!!! Roh Roh goes BANG!!!

Rohan Connolly ‏@rohan_connolly
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.@MichaelCahill In no way am I talking about Caro with previous tweet. She has enormous journalistic credibility, and I've always said that.
 

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I dunno, but this is a dig at the ex wife yeah?

Rohan ConnollyVerified account‏@rohan_connolly

Problem being a media troll without journalistic credibility or indeed expertise in any field at all is it leaves you only with a big mouth

Glenn Barfoot ‏@axeman215772
4h4 hours ago
@rohan_connolly Rita is a disgrace! She comes across as vindictive & uneducated! Sad, she's given too much editorial leeway!

Michael Cahill ‏@MichaelCahill
2h2 hours ago
@rohan_connolly Wow!!! Take that Caro!!! Roh Roh goes BANG!!!

Rohan Connolly ‏@rohan_connolly
2h2 hours ago
.@MichaelCahill In no way am I talking about Caro with previous tweet. She has enormous journalistic credibility, and I've always said that.
I don't know but it'd be humorous if it was. It actually makes sense why Rita is so against EFC...
 

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Given the subject matter of some of the most recent posts, I thought it was about time I dusted off my trusty Fauxfacts Media b/s article generator again. I plugged in some of the latest events, plus a couple of past Fauxfacts articles, and it came up with what's below.

FAUXFACTS NEEDS TO SEVER TIES WITH WILSON

Caboose Media - 12 December 2014

The unmistakable conclusion from its chief gossip columnist’s awkward and ill-timed silence is that Fauxfacts Media can never truly put the past behind it until it officially severs its ties with Carowhine Wilson.

Regrettably, the scars will take many years to heal before the media industry and the wider community can begin to forgive Wilson for her selfish and cavalier treatment of an issue that instead demanded cool-headed and unbiased analysis. The reality is that she is finished in her present role.

Fauxfacts Media must sack her and finally end her excruciating attempts to assassinate the character of one of the icons of Australian Rules Football and shred the reputations of one of the country’s most famous sporting clubs and its players.

Caboose Media understands that, as the dispute between ASADA and the AFL and Essendon entered another pivotal phase on Friday, the view among a number of her colleagues was that Wilson had already been ordered never to write on the saga again.

But the lumbering efforts of Fauxfacts Media’s management to deal with the issue appear to have muddied the waters. There is now confusion as to where the truth lies amid rumours of a gap year, the sack and a blanket ban on any more of her flights of fancy. In some quarters, it is also being alleged that matters are being made even more difficult by Wilson’s trademark refusal to begin making a series of belated apologies for her litany of errors.

Senior executives at Fauxfacts simply must move on Wilson, and not least because of her apparent unwillingness to put the company first. It is alleged that her private attitude has been one of growing anger and hostility and, while her handful of remaining confidantes at Fauxfacts insist she has moved on, this is not the case. There is even talk of a siege mentality. Other sources speak of increasing signs of delusion.

Having already had to deal with the spectre of colleagues’ internal fury with Wilson spilling into the public domain, Fauxfacts Media management are understood to have been examining the company’s legal position extensively over recent weeks. Matters are said to have come to a head last weekend when Wilson allegedly insisted that ASADA would not lose its Supreme Court bid this week to subpoena witnesses – and that she needed to write a week-long series of articles to this effect.

While it still remains unclear as to exactly how many times Wilson has breached her contract, and violated the Journalists’ Code of Ethics, what is obvious is that Fauxfacts needs to cut its losses.

The organisation has ill-advisedly afforded Wilson so much slack on so many occasions in the past that there was always going to be a time when its blind loyalty, and the strange cult of its gossip columnist, was going to come back to haunt it.

It is understood that the company hoped that a period of leave in the middle of the year would help her return 'a less troubled person' and that her urgent, mandatory enrolment in a training course on the issue of drugs in sport would assist her newspaper to move forward. It is alleged that the view of some at Fauxfacts was also that Wilson needed re-education on the basics of verifying unproven information provided by sources, especially those motivated by toxic levels of self-interest.

But none of this appears to have proved successful. Wilson’s refusal to accept responsibility for failing to ever tell the full story of the hopelessly bungled and politically motivated investigation of Essendon has allegedly now led to chaotic confusion about how Fauxfacts should cover the story in its final and most telling moments.

If Wilson actually thought she was smart to relentlessly and personally pursue one of the most successful, articulate and intelligent footballing figures in history in James Hird, then she has simply outsmarted herself. Her dangerous obsession with Hird and her bizarre personal attacks on his wife, Tania, have only underlined her own stupidity.

And, if Wilson wanted to be respected for her coverage of what now looks likely to end in one of the biggest debacles in the AFL’s history – as was originally her right – then she should always have been prepared to tell all sides of the story.

If she still insists on believing that the main person at fault is a man who ironically has always looked like being the least culpable, then her reputation is beyond repair. Worse, if she still can not see let alone concede that it was her responsibility to repudiate the wild allegations about uncontrolled drug regimes, “all those needles”, a captain who took banned drugs, and a stream of “mysterious … and dangerous” supplements, then she simply does not deserve to ever report on sport again.
 
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I dunno, but this is a dig at the ex wife yeah?

Rohan ConnollyVerified account‏@rohan_connolly

Problem being a media troll without journalistic credibility or indeed expertise in any field at all is it leaves you only with a big mouth

Glenn Barfoot ‏@axeman215772
4h4 hours ago
@rohan_connolly Rita is a disgrace! She comes across as vindictive & uneducated! Sad, she's given too much editorial leeway!

Michael Cahill ‏@MichaelCahill
2h2 hours ago
@rohan_connolly Wow!!! Take that Caro!!! Roh Roh goes BANG!!!

Rohan Connolly ‏@rohan_connolly
2h2 hours ago
.@MichaelCahill In no way am I talking about Caro with previous tweet. She has enormous journalistic credibility, and I've always said that.
Despite the horror show that comes out of her mouth Rita is easy on the eye. We've all made that mistake Roh Roh. You always spew that you could have had that a2m train with you mates instead of marrying them.
 

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Despite the horror show that comes out of her mouth Rita is easy on the eye. We've all made that mistake Roh Roh. You always spew that you could have had that a2m train with you mates instead of marrying them.
Woah woah woah let's not bring appearances into the discussion, that's mysogynist, sexist, bogan behaviour that belongs in a bygone era...........oh it's a compliment? Well carry on, good sir:drunk:
 
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Text message from Shane Charter to the ABC yesterday.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2014/s4147884.htm

The millions of dollars of solicitor's fees and distraction from the great game of AFL has consumed the last two years and needs to draw to a close. ASADA needs to radically overhaul the processes and procedures of their operation to ensure outcome based investigations. Having detailed knowledge of their methodologies and testing, I would offer my services pro-bono to help develop a fair playing field for all athletes.


Maybe I am going out on a limb here Shano, but I wouldn't expect a call any time soon;)

 

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another post (short for a change;)) from Bruce Francis that had me grinding my teeth for a while

ASADA wanted to ascertain who was responsible for the supplement program. Robson testified that Reid, the physios, conditioners, Dank etc reported to Dean Robinson and Robinson reported to Hamilton full stop. ASADA used square brackets and added [and Hird].


The are four types of brackets
- round, square, angled and curly. Each have a different use. Square brackets
are used to capture words added by someone other than the writer or speaker.
Obviously, I had to know about the use of square brackets to pick up the
duplicity. By using square brackets and adding [and Hird] any reader, including
former judge Garry Downes, would believe Hird was in charge. A tiny change to
the evidence but a monumental outcome for Hird. For some inexplicable reason
Hird and the assistant coaches were on a different branch of the organisation
structure from the football department. That meant Hird had no responsibility
whatsoever for the supplement program. He had no right to interfere. That's why
Hird referred Dr Reid to Hamilton when Dr Reid had a problem. Hird wasn't
prepared to encroach on Hamilton's territory - particularly as Hamilton was on
the Essendon executive and Hird wasn't.


THE BOTTOM LINE IS,
CHANGING ROBSON'S EVIDENCE ENABLED THE AFL TO BAN HIRD FOR 12 MONTHS. THAT TINY
SLEIGHT OF HAND BY ASADA COST ESSENDON ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS
 

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Wonder what their reason was? (for adding [Hird] to Robson's evidence) Hard to see it as other than a fix.

to suit AFL narrative & hand them the scapegoat? remembering we know they pressured ASADA to leave bit's out of the interim report that didn't suit.
 

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I do not mind Rita. When she starts on us i just tune out as she is a Hawks supporter and it is just rubbish supporter bias crap. Apart from footy she has some views on the world in general that are pretty sound, just dont bother tuning into to her footy views as they are one eyed Hawthorn.
 

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to suit AFL narrative & hand them the scapegoat? remembering we know they pressured ASADA to leave bit's out of the interim report that didn't suit.
Martin Hardie confirms James Hird was told by the club he had to be made a scapegoat.

Bruce Francis claims in his article the official chain of command was that Doc Reid, the physios, conditioners and Stephen Dank all reported to Dean Robinson, and Robinson reported to Paul Hamilton.

Meaning Hird had no responsibility for the supplement program, and that would be why Hird, when Doc Reid told him he had a problem with what was going on, was referred by Hird to Hamilton

By changing Robson's evidence, with the addition of Hird's name to a chain of command he really wasn't part of, made it possible to scapegoat Hird.
 
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I do not mind Rita. When she starts on us i just tune out as she is a Hawks supporter and it is just rubbish supporter bias crap. Apart from footy she has some views on the world in general that are pretty sound, just dont bother tuning into to her footy views as they are one eyed Hawthorn.
Given she's on a program generally dedicated to footy that makes her pretty worthless
 
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