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[Magpiespower]

Pretty sure the Today show news caption should've been AFL legend Robbie Flower and not ALF legend...

 

[pastmyprimus]

Sad news about Robbie Flower. A real gentleman of the game, and one of the smoothest movers on a footy field I've ever seen.

 

[Phhht]

Hird strongly believes he and the players are innocent and have not taken performance enhancing drugs. I haven't kept up with the situation but why do people assume that they are guilty? What are the facts that the public do know?

No one knows for sure what evidence ASADA has that they believe warrants the issueing of SCNs. EFC and Hird keep appealing to court to get the evidence thrown out. This we are told is becoz EFC and Hird believe they are innocent. You can make as much sense of that as you like.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

There is a big footy link on this: http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threa...d-official-statements-updated-june-27.994265/

 

[pastmyprimus]

The Crows failed attempts to lure coaches and players from Port remind of the bloke at a pub who thinks he's really hot shit but keeps getting knocked back from women he approaches, and then tells his mates he wasn't that interested in the first place.

 

[Port 2004]

cRowie: Gorringe didn't pick Port his management would have rung both Adelaide clubs & the crows probably said nah he'd be 4th or 5th in line of rucks we are looking at, so the he picks Port

I know for a fact that the Port players, or one in particular, knew 1 month ago that Gorringe wanted to come to Port. I would strongly suggest that Gorringe himself had a big say in which club he wanted to go to. Stupid is just being the crows ambassador that he he does so well and trying to minimise the damage.

 

[philreich]

Sad news about Robbie Flower. A real gentleman of the game, and one of the smoothest movers on a footy field I've ever seen.

Apparently prostate cancer!!!! I know everything possible is being done to find a cure for this insidious disease: hopefully the breakthrough comes sooner, rather than later!!!

 

[pastmyprimus]

Apparently prostate cancer!!!! I know everything possible is being done to find a cure for this insidious disease: hopefully the breakthrough comes sooner, rather than later!!!

An incredible amount of money is being pumped into finding a cure for this and other forms of cancer. You can donate your money to a lot of worthy causes, but cancer research is high up on the list.

 

[Steve Dore]

Apparently prostate cancer!!!! I know everything possible is being done to find a cure for this insidious disease: hopefully the breakthrough comes sooner, rather than later!!!

You don't die suddenly of prostate cancer, especially when it has been successfully treated 14 years ago. He died of heart failure. He was suffering from cardiomyopathy and had heart surgery earlier this year.

Not diminishing the dangers of prostate cancer but if detected early enough it is curable. Get checked gentlemen.

 

[philreich]

You don't die suddenly of prostate cancer, especially when it has been successfully treated 14 years ago. He died of heart failure. He was suffering from cardiomyopathy and had heart surgery earlier this year.

Not diminishing the dangers of prostate cancer but if detected early enough it is curable. Get checked gentlemen.

Fair enough: one of the guys at work told me it was cancer. Yep: wise warning - these things can strike anybody at any age.

 

[70sDinosaur]

Hird strongly believes he and the players are innocent and have not taken performance enhancing drugs. I haven't kept up with the situation but why do people assume that they are guilty? What are the facts that the public do know?

If Hird believes that, he should welcome the investigation and the opportunity to argue his case. Instead, he has chosen the coward's path of trying to have the investigation struck down on a legal technicality.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

....Get checked gentlemen.

I tried.

Awkward is when a female doctor lubes for the back end, reaches forward and you go to work on the front end and then she says that's not appropriate you have to leave.

#nohappyending

 

[raman]

I tried.

Awkward is when a female doctor lubes for the back end, reaches forward and you go to work on the front end and then she says that's not appropriate you have to leave.

#nohappyending

Force of habit, eh?

 

[PA88]

No one knows for sure what evidence ASADA has that they believe warrants the issueing of SCNs. EFC and Hird keep appealing to court to get the evidence thrown out. This we are told is becoz EFC and Hird believe they are innocent. You can make as much sense of that as you like.

Is it possible that ASADA do not have evidence of what the injected substances were but are acting upon the practice of those injections and because Essendon cannot appropriately declare the substances? Is it possible that Essendon were foolishly trusting the people that were sourcing the substances and administering those substances, and thus do not believe they were morally choosing to cheat the game?

 

[bomberclifford]

Now there's an image I wasn't expecting to have over my morning coffee.

#dingledangledongle

 

[Killer Power]

North have officially moved to get both Waite & Higgins as FA's. They really think they are close to having a tilt.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Force of habit, eh?

Hot chick, rubber gloves, lube..

What's a man to do?

#dingledangledongle

 

[sog35]

North have officially moved to get both Waite & Higgins as FA's. They really think they are close to having a tilt.

You can absolutely understand their thought process. Those two should get a prelim final loss under 10 goals.

 

[Stewart2Austin Reborn]

Is it possible that ASADA do not have evidence of what the injected substances were but are acting upon the practice of those injections and because Essendon cannot appropriately declare the substances?

Sort of. Not knowing exactly what they took is against ASADA rules. So they can ping them on stuff like that.

Is it possible that Essendon were foolishly trusting the people that were sourcing the substances and administering those substances, and thus do not believe they were morally choosing to cheat the game?

Define 'Essendon'. Are you talking the board, James Hird, the players or what? James Hird knew for sure. The players should have known but probably trusted their medical staff enough to not even give it a second thought.

 

[Portology]

You can absolutely understand their thought process. Those two should get a prelim final loss under 10 goals.

True, they're very usually out injured or (injured and suspended in the case of Waite) at that end of the season.

 

[70sDinosaur]

You can absolutely understand their thought process. Those two should get a prelim final loss under 10 goals.

Good old North.

They have one decent season after years of mediocrity and reach a PF after finding themselves on the soft side of the draw and the delusional fools think they're a premiership threat.

It's Richmond 2001 all over again.

 

[Comettski_1]

Good old North.

They have one decent season after years of mediocrity and reach a PF after finding themselves on the soft side of the draw and the delusional fools think they're a premiership threat.

It's Richmond 2001 all over again.

The difference between us and the Roos is huge. They seem to be trying to build towards one big year - we seem to be building towards a dynasty.

 

[Jim Dixon]

Dean Robinson walks out of court with $1,000,000 in Essendon damages after the Bombers settle the lawsuit that Robinson brought for wrongful dismissal.

link

There had been speculation Essendon had offered Robinson $800,000 to settle his year-long case but it's understood the final figure is closer to $1 million.

Robinson's lawyer Grant Walker, of Madgwicks Lawyers, simply said: "The matter is resolved."

Robinson, dubbed "The Weapon", had initially sought $2 million, including damages, for allegedly being the "scapegoat" of the club's 2012 supplements program. He was stood down on February 5 last year when the Bombers self-reported to the AFL and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...lose-to-1m-20141002-10pg11.html#ixzz3F2dqYn00

So what gets me about this story is the timing. If Essendon or Hird successfully appeal the ASADA case, I would have thought it would leave the Bombers wide open to being liable to Robinson's claim. If they are settling, perhaps they really believe an appeal has a good chance, although the only lawyers I've seen say that have had Essendon and Hird for clients.

The other thing is Robinson's nickname "The Weapon"; what sort of flog nickname is that? It's always brought up in every news story I've read about him.

 

[Grave Danger]

Good old North.

They have one decent season after years of mediocrity and reach a PF after finding themselves on the soft side of the draw and the delusional fools think they're a premiership threat.

It's Richmond 2001 all over again.

I was thinking more like Brisbane under Voss - complete with taking on a Carlton head case.

 

[Mangus Onfries]

Anyone see Tex tweet yesterday?
" free agency hey..."
He's since deleted it. Could be nothing, could be something.