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"Facts, schmacts. Facts can be used to prove ANYTHING that's even REMOTELY true." Homer J. Simpson

Do you know why we have a "decent" academy?

What is hypocracy? Government by hypocrites?

Max!!!#11

Yep.

Used to visit Bigfooty a lot. Now I just have a look once in a while. This thread helps me remember why I stopped.

You've been told why, and anything further would be an intrusion. Wonder all you like, but don't speculate, and don't fuel rumours. He's a human being first and a footballer second. If you really want him to get well and get back to playing good footy for us, you'd do well to remember that.

It's like watching Andrew Bolt: life is just better if you don't do it.

One guy in particular.

Thoughtful post.

Thank you.

Probably based on similar evidence.

Yes you do, if you're going to make comments like that. If you don't want to say what you know, you've got no business making them.

How some people are able to make these sweeping character assessments of people they don't know, or perhaps might have met in passing, is completely beyond me. Shits me to be honest. You don't like someone, fair enough. There are lots of people I don't like even though I don't really know them...

The role of a newspaper is not to take sides, it is to tell the truth. I know this is laughable in the case of the Telegraph (or any Murdoch paper) but it remains the case nevertheless. If you are calling them cowards for failing to tell the truth, then fair enough.

Get it right! The Dees' last premiership was in 1964, and the Saints won in 1966. Club mergers are anathema to Victorian supporters and the AFL knows it. They will do anything in their power to avoid them. Relocation is more likely but the AFL is showing little enthusiasm for it. It took 30...

That is classic illiterate News Corp "journo" stuff. Fabulous. Murdoch really knows how to pick 'em.

Brilliant idea.

It's a pretty common Belgian name, nothing particularly weird about it. At least it's not Kolodjashnij.

Would be related to Thorold Merrett the old Collingwood champ for those who can remember, so he has the breeding. Also it would be good to continue the Cobden tradition - Rantall, Rohan and now Merrett.

Managerialese is inappropriate on a football forum, or anywhere else for that matter. The English equivalent is "potential".

It's a bloody disgrace.;)

"His 303 AFL games is a Swans record." The Herald-Sun's usual meticulous attention to detail.....

To take it back off topic, I used the word defamation. Surely you are not suggesting there's no such thing as defamation in Australian law?

Well yes, but I'm far from convinced that these things really work in a sport like ours where the emotional component of performance and the role of team spirit are so important. These substances can really mess with that part of the psyche.

If the lack of soft tissue injuries is an indicator of drug use, how do you account for Essendon?

So you can then be sued for libel. A few years ago there was a thread regarding Dale Lewis's comments about recreational drug use among Swans players. There were some seriously defamatory statements on that thread, and they're all still there. Any defamation lawyer looking for some work could do...

Yesterday I put up a post questioning the legal status of some of the obviously defamatory statements on this thread, and it mysteriously disappeared. What the hell is going on?

A thoughtful, sober assessment. A rare gem on BF. Thank you.