Play Nice Still no evidence against Melbourne re: tanking

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The AFL already have their results of the investigation they are just conveniently pushing it out so that Melbourne can still have their wonder draft this year and won't be sanctioned making them shit for another decade. Unfair to the rest of the comp yeah because if were anyone else the investigation would of been done and dusted by now. That being said, I actually don't mind it because I'm sick of putting up with Melbourne just being so shit for so long, they are a blight on the competition.
What's the bet they will make their sanctions for the next draft or two, which really won't be of that much relevance anyway after this yr they will of have a truckload of young talent come into the club (which they will probably stuff up too actually).
But your side still can't beat ours, surely you can't be sick of us being shit.
 

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Again, you have zero evidence for any of those accusations, try again. Plus, this investigation was started by Brock McLean's vibe, and he's just as much a meathead as Fev is, so why the double standards?
Yet you also have no evidence about coercion or other matters.

The Melbournians in this thread have attacked the existence of the evidence released by the newspapers but then said those very same people who gave evidence were coerced based upon those same newspapers reports.

So Melbourne people:

Is it a case that:

(a) You believe the "facts" reported in the newspaper are not what the people said;
(b) You believe the "facts" reported in the newspaper are what people said but that evidence isn't credible because it was coerced.

in any event, where is your evidence for coercion.

Now wait for the stream of vitriol from Melbourne supporters to spew out like Versuvius.
 

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Also it would probably look better for Melbourne if McLean was the only player who has given evidence to the AFL. We know this is not the case.
There's absolutely no suggestion anywhere that players were instructed not to try to win or that they didn't try to win - in fact the exact opposite has been reported. Players have reported that Bailey told them he would be experimenting with them in various positions and Wilson reported that players rallied at 3 qtr time (as they normally would) and tried to win the Richmond game. If the "evidence" is based on player testimony Melbourne is in the clear. Connolly and Schwab can't tank, players didn't tank - the key testimony comes from Dean Bailey.
 

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Melbourne never had a former player die from a drug habit picked up at the club you douche:thumbsu:

lets look back and see how many other west coast players escaped drug offences and there are quite a few :oops:
Had a couple almost ruin their lives through gambling though. Probably not the only ones there either
 

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Look it's easy to see why Melbourne is garnering little sympathy in this matter - supporters boasted about tanking and the how the players acquired with early draft picks would inevitably lead to premiership glory. Watts, Blease, Strauss, Scully, Trengove, Gysberts, Tapscott - yeah that turned out well didn't it? Then we've got half-wits posting images of Oliver Wines in this thread.
 
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Still no Melbourne supporter tells responds to the evidence for the allegations of coercion. If that evidence is Caro and her articles it's funny that these Melbourne supporters are calling her a lying --- on the one hand when she was reporting about tanking but then quoting her as a source of their allegations of fact of coercion.

It's just more arrogance from Melbourne supporters, the same supporters who in 2009 were bragging that they were going to get that extra pick because they had tanked.
 

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Still no Melbourne supporter tells responds to the evidence for the allegations of coercion. If that evidence is Caro and her articles it's funny that these Melbourne supporters are calling her a lying --- on the one hand when she was reporting about tanking but then quoting her as a source of their allegations of fact of coercion.

It's just more arrogance from Melbourne supporters, the same supporters who in 2009 were bragging that they were going to get that extra pick because they had tanked.
Way to be selective. What I find funny is that there are just as many oppositions supporters accepting her earlier articles but questioning the most recent one. Can't have it both ways.
 
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Way to be selective. What I find funny is that there are just as many oppositions supporters accepting her earlier articles but questioning the most recent one. Can't have it both ways.
Well I still haven't an answer from Melbourne supporters to the question I have raised.

Melbourne supporters are putting their fingers in their ears and screaming, "I'm not listening, I'm not listening, it isn't true" yet when she reports something they are comfortable about it becomes gospel......
 

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Well I still haven't an answer from Melbourne supporters to the question I have raised.

Melbourne supporters are putting their fingers in their ears and screaming, "I'm not listening, I'm not listening, it isn't true" yet when she reports something they are comfortable about it becomes gospel......
Not necessarily, sure there are a few who act like that but there are just as many opposition supporters taking the opposite point of view that Carro's earlier articles were damning but the most recent one is questionable. Thing is to believe the most recent article you kind of have to accept the earlier ones. personally I've taken a speculative look on all her articles, I expect there is an element of truth to all of them aside from the blatant opinion pieces. Either way we'll find out what's really going on on the 19th. This thread is just going in circles though.
 

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Not necessarily, sure there are a few who act like that but there are just as many opposition supporters taking the opposite point of view that Carro's earlier articles were damning but the most recent one is questionable. Thing is to believe the most recent article you kind of have to accept the earlier ones. personally I've taken a speculative look on all her articles, I expect there is an element of truth to all of them aside from the blatant opinion pieces. Either way we'll find out what's really going on on the 19th. This thread is just going in circles though.
One of the first sensible posts I have seen in this thread from a Melbourne supporter for some time.
 

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I think it's funny they interviewed Jono O'Rourke about the possibility of staying in Melbourne with GWS circling. "Yeah I'd love to go to the Bulldogs."Even though Melbourne have a pick before us. I guess it's Wines who is already giving up on having a decent career as he is sucked into a club where losing is acceptable.
Haha - dude you go for Footscray - never heard about stones in glass houses? 1 flag in 90 years compared to 12 in 114.
 

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And you want us to give Melbourne empathy....
No-one's looking for your empathy, it means SFA to us. We're merely pointing out the clear flaws in your emotion-driven arguments with logic, reason and, some of us, by posting photos of Ollie Wines.
 

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Have the AFL got your attention now?
Great to see BF isn't confined to teenage trolls, WA secessionists and wannabe journalists and lawyers but also people with delusions of grandeur who think because they post something on an internet forum that equates it to now being the official opinion of the AFL. :rolleyes:
 
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