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So has anyone who won a Brownlow been found guilty of snorting coke on game day in their Brownlow year?
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Play Nice Is Gil really this much of a fool? Jobe's Brownlow and the commission's "hard" decision.
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So has anyone who won a Brownlow been found guilty of snorting coke on game day in their Brownlow year?
Gill has been sucked into Essendon's sob story and probably scared of Essendon's take everything to court attitude. If the AFL had any integrity or balls they wouldn't be letting Watson keep the Brownlow medal and wouldn't be letting Essendon have all these early draft picks. Gil hasn't done much wrong but his handling of the Essendon drug saga has been nothing short of gutless. Failing to discipline a football club that still claims to be the victim and is showing no signs of remorse or having learnt it's lesson, instead letting it profit from this situation.
There's a right and a wrong here and Gil is burying his head in the sand.
May as well scrub the word fairest off the Brownlow medal's title and give all the eligible players a Brownlow. Nothing fair about Watson winning the brownlow or Essendon having pick one in this years draft.
There's a right and a wrong here and Gil is burying his head in the sand.
May as well scrub the word fairest off the Brownlow medal's title and give all the eligible players a Brownlow. Nothing fair about Watson winning the brownlow or Essendon having pick one in this years draft.
Watson should have given it back ages ago. ****** hell mate, you've won a best and FAIREST award, and you've subsequemtly been found to have been using performance-enhancing drugs at the time. And don't the WADA rules say that any award or victory achieved by a doping athlete is null and void automatically?
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The original CAS decision ordered awards be stripped, the only thing that's in the AFL s hand is wether to award it to the runner(s) up the stripping us out Of the AFL s hand, it also applies to the club awards, as Essendon is a signatory through the AFL
The dilemma for Gil is he knows they should strip Watson of his medal, but if they do this, for the first time the AFL will be seen to be taking a stance against illicit drugs. Up to now, they've pretended there's no problem.
He thinks doing the correct thing is brave, I think not doing the right thing is gutless.
He thinks doing the correct thing is brave, I think not doing the right thing is gutless.
Bomberblitzer
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Hahahahahahaha.
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why dont u idiots ask child support to take his kids off him
actually apply that to all 34 players ,Hird ,Thommo, The doc, the bootstudder,the tea lady,better still mass trial,lynch the lot burn their kids at the stake
raze their houses, whats enough for the nuff nuffs
cotchin brownlow would rank up there with Hardy and Dipper as worthy winners
actually apply that to all 34 players ,Hird ,Thommo, The doc, the bootstudder,the tea lady,better still mass trial,lynch the lot burn their kids at the stake
raze their houses, whats enough for the nuff nuffs
cotchin brownlow would rank up there with Hardy and Dipper as worthy winners
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That's were Bob Murphy was so brave. He knew the medal wasn't his, so he returned it to the rightful owner.
Something Jobe hasn't done for quite some time. Perhaps Jobe can take a leaf out of Bob's bravery
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Your one nuff nuff
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Sounds like you need to go cold sober.
Has to be satire surely
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Its such a clean cut decision I don't understand the problem....
Him and his team mates were found guilty of doping on the actual year he won it, so doped up him and doped up those around him got him an empty medal.
Im surprised he'd even want to keep it, it must feel so hollow and undeserved.
A real man would have handed it back.
Him and his team mates were found guilty of doping on the actual year he won it, so doped up him and doped up those around him got him an empty medal.
Im surprised he'd even want to keep it, it must feel so hollow and undeserved.
A real man would have handed it back.
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Essendon supporters, you just never know
You're talking about a group of people who still find the clashing jumper issue puzzling, so we shouldn't be surprised.
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Horses get positive drug tests all the time and while they lose the prize money the betting has been resulted long ago and that is that.
The Brownlow would be no different. Not a factor at all.
Bet the AFL wish they knew the Mitchell news was going to break this morning. Could have stripped it after the appeal failed last night and everyone would have forgotten about it already!
No doubt he is an idiot, but he is a well paid idiot.
gavaniacono
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Gil is a smarmy shifty slimy person but certainly no fool. His single objective is to optimise the financial boon that is the AFL. Outcomes will be micro managed on a case by case basis. Integrity takes a back seat to the Single Objective. His recent comments on the difficulty of the Watson case is a clever ploy to make him appear human, and prepare the way for a decision that will either upset people here or there. Like a politician Gil knows most people dont follow the issues closely and are easily distracted and manipulated. Far from a fool he is a master.
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Has anyone yet realised that this isn't Gil's decision to make?
It comes to the AFL Commission, which Gil would normally be a part of, but in this instance he is not.
In fact, he has publicly stated he would back whatever recommendation went to the Commission as far as whether to strip the medal is concerned.
"What I've said is that I would step down from the Commission and lead effectively the prosecution and lead the recommendation that went to the Commission and then they would make a decision and he would be represented and have a view, whichever way it goes,"
It comes to the AFL Commission, which Gil would normally be a part of, but in this instance he is not.
In fact, he has publicly stated he would back whatever recommendation went to the Commission as far as whether to strip the medal is concerned.
"What I've said is that I would step down from the Commission and lead effectively the prosecution and lead the recommendation that went to the Commission and then they would make a decision and he would be represented and have a view, whichever way it goes,"
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Who, Gil? His statements are just political speak. That doesn't make him an idiot. He would've known if CAS decision was upheld, Watson wasn't keeping his Brownlow.
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Can you explain to me what punishment has to do with it?
It needs to be taken off him as he is not eligible to have it. That is not punishment.
Bomberblitzer
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Can you prove his performances during that year were somehow enhanced?
Drezdyn
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Jobe should have the brownlow medal taken off him, and it should be given to Moana Hope. Forget the drugs; he only won it because he's a privileged, white, cis-gender, hetero male.
I'm sure he'll be fine with that outcome.
I'm sure he'll be fine with that outcome.
How about - he scored nearly twice as many Brownlow votes as in any other year he has played?
He had more disposals, goals, clearances, contested possessions than any other year.
It's the only year he didn't miss a single game.
Now, this could be co-incidence. Every player has a career year sometime. But......
He's been accused of taking drugs for the 2012 season and the 2012 season only. Sure looks enhanced to me.
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