Do we the wider footy public support Essendon as per Little's comment today?
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Why do you reckon they didn't bother answering the EFC calls? They were leaking stuff to media outlets as well. And, asada doesn't have to explain anything to the efc. That's what Little fails to comprehend.
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Let's be perfectly honest here - if the records of what substances were injected into the players' bodies had not magically disappeared, the ASADA investigation would not have taken so long. The only entity responsible for the investigation taking so long is Essendon. The same organisation was insisting just 2 or 3 weeks ago that the players just wanted closure, one way or another. Now closure is at hand, all they want to do is challenge through the courts; a process that could take 18 months. I'm guessing closure is the last thing anyone at Essendon is hoping for now.
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If they hadn't of knifed Evans, it would of been resolved by now. At least he had the brains to acknowledge the errors and fix it asap.
Little: The club requested that today’s game not be negatively affected by the obvious and significant distraction to our players and their state of mind. Consequently our legal team requested that the posting of these show cause notices occur next week so that we could better assist our players in handling this traumatic development in their careers.
But, umm, wait, like, wouldn't that negatively affect next week's game???
They wanted it to end ASAP as well, just not this way and not now. Other than that it was good to go, but now with the way they have gone they have forced Essendon to take action that they could have taken nearly 12 months ago if they really felt the investigation was wrong but whatever yeah quick end to it for the players sake.
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He's an absolute nutter. And he's telling pork pies. One minute telling the essendon faithful 'in the unlikely event show cause notices are issued' only for us to now discover him having requested ASADA not send SC notices this week because they had a game.Little: The club requested that today’s game not be negatively affected by the obvious and significant distraction to our players and their state of mind. Consequently our legal team requested that the posting of these show cause notices occur next week so that we could better assist our players in handling this traumatic development in their careers.
But, umm, wait, like, wouldn't that negatively affect next week's game???
Has anyone checked if Little is still the full quid? Some of the things he is saying is reminding me of Lloyd Bridges character in Hot Shots 1 & deux.
"We will fight them... here"
"thats Minnesota sir..."
"Damn it thats the beauty of my plan boy...we fight them here and get to have a spot of ice fishing as well...we will bring their families over teach them how to ice skate...tape their favourite shows they won't miss a thing"
"We will fight them... here"
"thats Minnesota sir..."
"Damn it thats the beauty of my plan boy...we fight them here and get to have a spot of ice fishing as well...we will bring their families over teach them how to ice skate...tape their favourite shows they won't miss a thing"
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the wheelers who owned asia on a shoestring, aka lonelyplanet spent about 10million putting this on at Arts Centre. MaddAdam is quite the fan of opera and Die Walkure and came back from Belgium specifically for a front row seat above the orchestra pit for this production. evo is stuck to Jerry Ryan's How to Train Your Dragon
I have support for Essendon Football Club - as an institution with over 100 years history. The current administration should remember that. They should come clean, apologise, and then work to win back the support of their fans and the respect of the football community.
He's probably laughing his arse off from all this.
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Simon Madden sitting back on the board waiting to play exactly that card. When all the shit has hit the fan, when Little is gone, when Hird is gone, he'll step up and, given he has the respect of the whole footy world, rebuild.
evo
Let's hit the f*ken road!
Sorry blackcat...I tried and I tried and still could not decipher that post. Vanity projects?
The_Reaper
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He's saying that Little is fighting this out because he's proud of being a fighter
evo
Let's hit the f*ken road!
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Thank you good translator. I was trying to see how it worked in with my post. I get that he is this way inclined but the stuff that is coming out of his mouth is contradictory so Im thinking he cant remember what he is saying and is not quite there. Thinks he selling the public a story but that story goes something like in my post above.
yeah, just see the boards from all the AFL teams. they are vanity positions for the boardmembers. Then if the media put a microphone in front of you, double vanity. OK, so David Evans might have a bit of stress. But dont think that Paul Little does not love this shit and the opportunity to stick it to other chairmen and women. They live for the fight and the win. they thrive on it.
Ah righto. But my point is that while he is doing that he is saying some pretty dumb shit. "Confident of no show clauses...we told ASADA to delay them"
"Thats the beauty of my plan boy"
and a bit more.
the profile, the job, the respect of some constituency. its a recognition you wont get interviewed by AFR or by Lateline business or ABC Inside Business or Stephen Bartholomeusz on Business Spectator, he will just never get the cheerleading or applause at an annual meeting for Toll like he does at Windy Hill
suppose working in non-rehearse spin is not his thing. he aint a politician on his feet. he would have had to work with pre-scripted notes and talking points at worse. now he has a bare page of one-line legal phrases to make digestable to non legal joe public. don watson or a prime minister speech writer would have a hard job making palatable
True true. But I would have thought not mentioning the fact that you asked aSADA not to issue them now, after lamenting how long the investigation has taken and that you were confident of no show causes were going to be issued someone would have toll'd Paul that those things don't mix
The_Reaper
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It's hard to keep a straight story when you don't have a leg to stand on.
The contradicting statements from the bombers - President, Coaches, mouth-piece commentators, lawyers and ex-players borders ridiculous.
I'm sure that the Golden boy is well studied (from his wife) in the lawyers golden belief that any argument can be mounted and won in court - regardless of whether it is morally correct or is in fact true justice.
A win in court for them, even if on a technicality, would mean they could play victim and state categorically that they aren't drug cheats and they have been targeted in a smear campaign - regardless of whether this is actually the case.
I found it quite hilarious that Bomber Thompson stood in front of the media the other day became quite aggressive and rallied everyone to support the players and do what is best for them....
If only he and his club had done that last year.
Too Little too late.
