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Thank God nobody ever did these for us in our dark years, lol
They are masterpiece productions though
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That's the thing: they have to be absurdly careful as long as quite anyone from the supplements period remains at the club in any position within the football department or club hierarchy. They have to keep anyone who knows anything completely on side to keep them from blabbing, NDA's be damned.
Imagine wanting to cut someone, renegotiate someone's contract, only to have their manager say, "Um, I don't think we'll be doing that. You know how Dyson talks, right? It wouldn't even be obvious that the leak came from my client, which of course it wouldn't and my client would NEVER violate a legal agreement, don't be absurd." Imagine there being members of the hierarchy who have protected themselves by building their own dossiers on what went on, timelines, dates, names; "I'm not going down if I can take you with me!"
It's completely unworkable until they're through it; essentially, Andrew McGrath represents the 'line' as far as players go. Players obtained this side of his career are 'safe' as far as the club's concerned; players picked up before him are suspect, because they might know something second hand, before the clamps properly went down.
What's accountability when you're all watching the other guy with a bomb strapped to your chest?
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Pure gold from the Herbatron.
Weird though, over on the * board, there's a specific thread for "We are Essington", and the latest was posted last night. Not a single response. Have they given up?
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I was watching On The Couch with Dyson. They made some excuse about injuries to the bombers* and how they were 2nd behind the eagles. Were they referring to the amount of players on their injury list as, I was under the impression we were behind the eagles in using the 2nd most players this year. I know that doesn't equate to most injuries at the moment but I was unsure what context they were referring to on the show for injuries...
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Eagles have 17, Bulldogs have 12, us and Collingwood have 11, * have 10.
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They didn't even ask if they could be the new laughing stock of the AFL. Just ripped it away from us. Rude!
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That's brilliant.
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They (the AFL) will play the long game with Hird.
Stepping into coaching mid-season due to an unforeseen senior coach retirement. Extenuating circumstances, they couldn't go picking up someone from another club, yada, yada.
That will quietly roll into an assistant coaching gig next year.
Then the way is paved for a return to senior coaching in 2024 when Essendon conduct a review, sack Rutten and launch a campaign to reconnect with their "glory days".
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Yeah thought so and if I'm not wrong, the severity/significance of our injuries is a bit worse than the Pies, not sure about the Dogs.
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they're like shit movies with great soundtracks........
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gotta hand it to * the way they've got me through some pretty dark times with my own club............
Top-four surprise packets: Which teams are youngest this season? - Top-four surprise packets: Which teams are youngest this season?
All year they've gone on about how young they are and it excuses some of the poor play. Adelaide are younger and * were lucky to just pip them.
We are not that much older. Neither are Sydney or Fremantle.
One of these things are not like the other.
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All year they've gone on about how young they are and it excuses some of the poor play. Adelaide are younger and * were lucky to just pip them.
We are not that much older. Neither are Sydney or Fremantle.
One of these things are not like the other.
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I think losing his job (taking redundancy), COVID and 6000+ days for * have really taken the toll on his mental faculties. Other than his love for * he used to go all right as a journo, now he's twisted and evil, and a rambling mess.
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he was as good a long form sports journalist as was going around - some of his pieces on the history between clubs (particularly carlton/*) were extraordinary - I feel he has gone rogue nowadays because he no longer has overlords at establishments to keep him on the mainstream publishing line.....
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