Certified Legendary Thread Sympathy for *essendon - congratulations on '16 Wooden Spoon (RIP The Scales)

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I must say I had 1% sympathy for the players until I read that only one of them ever listed the injections on their medical reports where they have to list everything they had taken for reporting. They kept them secret. If they thought it was all above board why did they not list them? That's when my 1% vanished. Fugg em all.
 

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"They are not drug cheats"

Well Jimmy - wtf did you give them??? Tell the players you pathetic germ. What was pumped into them???
Yep. The number one question that Turd and the Turds at Windy Hill have failed to answer since this shit went down. :stern look
 

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That was a terrible interview. All of the questions were clearly pre-approved which gave no scope for actual interview technique with follow-up questions. It was just 50 minutes of Hird repeating the same thing in different ways.
I heard Holmes interviewed during the week when she was on the promotions roundabout and she was asked were questions pre submitted or any area off limits to her. She stated clearly no to both questions. I really doubt that Hird went in blindly. He has stage amanged everything else he has done.
 

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I heard Holmes interviewed during the week when she was on the promotions roundabout and she was asked were questions pre submitted or any area off limits to her. She stated clearly no to both questions. I really doubt that Hird went in blindly. He has stage amanged everything else he has done.
Hope she's got a Twitter ...
 

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Also, never have I been more embarrassed to be a former journalism student. I was taught they seek the truth and reveal the world's seedy underbelly for the good of the public. They fear no one and don't let prejudice or intimidation from outside influences affect the information that they provide.

Yeah ...

I'm sure there are current students and people involved in various media roles in this very topic. I have a very glass half empty view on how it operates in reality.
 

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Also, never have I been more embarrassed to be a former journalism student. I was taught they seek the truth and reveal the world's seedy underbelly for the good of the public. They fear no one and don't let prejudice or intimidation from outside influences affect the information that they provide.

Yeah ...

I'm sure there are current students and people involved in various media roles in this very topic. I have a very glass half empty view on how it operates in reality.
Mike Willesee was the best interviewer. ..could tell by his tone and faces he made what he truly thought of the subject without needing to say a word.
 

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I heard Holmes interviewed during the week when she was on the promotions roundabout and she was asked were questions pre submitted or any area off limits to her. She stated clearly no to both questions. I really doubt that Hird went in blindly. He has stage amanged everything else he has done.
If you have the right person asking the questions, you don't need to put anything off limits.
 

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Well I for one am glad *james had a chance to tell "his side of the story".

I now know why the players are not guilty, it's because they are against drugs and are fine human beings and because that nasty CAS just needed to send a message to the world.

And just in case I had forgotten, I was reminded that there were 34 of them.

Seriously, even Arthur Fonzarelli said he was wr wr wr ...wasn't right.
 

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Well I for one am glad *james had a chance to tell "his side of the story".

I now know why the players are not guilty, it's because they are against drugs and are fine human beings and because that nasty CAS just needed to send a message to the world.

And just in case I had forgotten, I was reminded that there were 34 of them.

Seriously, even Arthur Fonzarelli said he was wr wr wr ...wasn't right.
Wr ... wr ... wrongly proclaimed a victim.
 

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Well I for one am glad *james had a chance to tell "his side of the story".

I now know why the players are not guilty, it's because they are against drugs and are fine human beings and because that nasty CAS just needed to send a message to the world.

And just in case I had forgotten, I was reminded that there were 34 of them.

Seriously, even Arthur Fonzarelli said he was wr wr wr ...wasn't right.
Just thought it's worth mentioning again that there was 34 of them.
 

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My read on what I saw :

He pots Hamilton and Robson @ bummerland.

He pots Vlad and Gil for doing their jobs to protect the AFL brand.

Says Dank isn't guilty but then says he is guilty ?? Same as Robinson. He goes around in circles quite a bit during his 50 mins of drivel.

Drops Evans ( and ending friendship) as lying about his phone coversation with Vlad when he denies it. (Old news I know but it was great to hear it)

Doc Reid manages to dodge bullets........still baffles me.
 
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