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Apart from starting a new thread, (I don't want to do that) I wasn't sure where I could pose this question, I figure here is as good as anywhere...

Are we better than Melbourne?
 

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Apart from starting a new thread, (I don't want to do that) I wasn't sure where I could pose this question, I figure here is as good as anywhere...

Are we better than Melbourne?
Better theme song, better supporters, better jumper. They win on home ground facilities.

Overall, yes.
 

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After watching the games so far today.. i have a feeling we wont be on the bottom of the ladder at the end of the year.
I didn't need to see the other games to know this.
Better than *? Hell yes!
Better than Brisbane? Struggling to see how we aren't.
Better than Demons and Saints? Well that's closer, but I'm confident enough to say yes.
 

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Better than Brisbane? Struggling to see how we aren't.
No more obvious a case of taking the money while he could than Daniel Rich's this week.

Not sure if you saw his comments at the presser but verbatim on Brisbane's rebuild "I just hope that it's complete by the end of the 5 years" in the shakiest of voices ever.

Sounds like a guy who knows his club is still buggered but as long as he got his didn't really care.
 

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What Eddie has said reminds me a lot of what Chris Judd wrote in his book about the same topic. It seems the more that the AFL tries to be the responsible party the less that is done for the welfare of players. I agree with Eddie that the clubs are in the best position to help the players and that it is outright idiocy that they're never told which players were the ones failing tests. But then part of me believes that you'd have to be an idiot not to have some sort of an idea about certain players at your club were much more likely to be prone to it than not. For example, Judd sites on numerous occasions throughout his book that the WCE playing group (and coaching staff) were certainly well aware of what Cousins was going through before anything was ever done about it.

It's probably for the best that it is the Pies going through this publicly because given the size of their club they are the most likely club to be able to create change. Thus, I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Eddie were the party who leaked it to Robinson. No specific player names have been listed so it's not like last year with their two PED users.

I hope that nobody at the Carlton Football Club has failed a test but I think you'd almost have to be an idiot to think that there's not a distinct possibility. Though I do believe we've done a thorough job of ridding ourselves of those most likely to partake and that every effort is being made to create a strong and clean football club culture moving forward.
 

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Who do we think will take out the Rising Star nomination this week?

There seems to be plenty of contenders including Weitering. Oliver, Papley, Mills, Hewett or maybe Parish?

Didn't watch the game but I reckon Parish gets the first nod.
 

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Who do we think will take out the Rising Star nomination this week?

There seems to be plenty of contenders including Weitering. Oliver, Papley, Mills, Hewett or maybe Parish?

Didn't watch the game but I reckon Parish gets the first nod.
Got to be Oliver. Media and AFL desperately want good PR for Dees.
 
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