News Writ issued by Melbourne lawyer against Mike Fitzpatrick and Gillon McLachlan over saga conduct.

[yodellinhank]

The shakier and the more dodgy the process is found to be, the more the finding of "drug cheats" looks like a manufactured result. How can that be bad for the players?

Because for Jordan Ridley it means SFA

 

[Beerfish]

How can that be bad for the players?

They've been punished for 3 years before then sitting out for another. I'm pretty sure they just want to get on with whatever is left of their playing careers without this shit dragging on and on and on.

 

[Beerfish]

Because for Jordan Ridley it means SFA

And this.

 

[sameolds33]

Because for Jordan Ridley it means SFA

who's Jordan Ridley?

 

[Beerfish]

who's Jordan Ridley?

Jesus..

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/14-jordan-ridley-an-exciting-prospect-worsfold-2-2.1152864/

The future.

 

[sameolds33]

They've been punished for 3 years before then sitting out for another. I'm pretty sure they just want to get on with whatever is left of their playing careers without this shit dragging on and on and on.

Depends on what is said, really. If it shows the process to be wrongful, thye could get a big payout from the AFL at the end of it to make up for the 3 years of hell they went through as pawns in the optics game.

 

[Beerfish]

Depends on what is said, really. If it shows the process to be wrongful, thye could get a big payout from the AFL at the end of it to make up for the 3 years of hell they went through as pawns in the optics game.

They've already been compensated. They just want to play football.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

If they had recorded discussions with someone from AFL/ASADA then fair enough but this is no evidence of anything. Don't even think it's that newsworthy.

 

[sameolds33]

They've already been compensated. They just want to play football.

yes, and they can. But for those now out of the system - and there were 34 of them, they might well want answers from the AFL, especially when it doens't involve them doing anything further.

 

[Beerfish]

yes, and they can. But for those now out of the system - and there were 34 of them, they might well want answers from the AFL, especially when it doens't involve them doing anything further.

 

[yodellinhank]

If they had recorded discussions with someone from AFL/ASADA then fair enough but this is no evidence of anything. Don't even think it's that newsworthy.

It certainly doesn't add as much as -

Andruska’s notes taken from the same meeting spell out what that outcome would be: “Deal with AFL — support staff sacked, points off, players off.’’ Essendon coaches would lose their jobs, Essendon would be stripped of premiership points and dumped from the finals series and the players would escape sanction.

This was the deal ratified by the AFL Commission three months later.

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does to the argument I think is being made. But it adds noise to it and probably puts it all back in the spotlight.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

All the HTB foamers who believe that Hird/Thompson were some sorts of evil geniuses might need to heed this particular line:

"THOMPSON:

You know what we have to do, mate, we have to find out what actually happened. Don’t f--king believe what’s in the report."

Lol, what do you think he response would be?

"Oh yeah sure, they just happened to have themselves on tape saying the right things... obviously staged"

You cannot, CANNOT, argue with conspiracy theorists. You can't.

 

[Autobahn]

just look at the bunny people

This power animal should have won Nicholas Cage an Oscar.

 

[efcboy]

So there are other recorded meetings that are yet to be released and the AFL may be exposed as corrupt.

Everyone knows the AFL is corrupt. All this will do is serve to make the masses hate Essendon for longer as they are over it.

Yay, like there isn't enough hate already, this happens on the eve of a season when we're supposed to have clean air. "None of these people are at the club any longer, they can do what they want and they must've done it without club knowledge" some people say - it doesn't matter, the public will hang it on the club regardless of whether it's true.

Gil and Co may get dragged through the mud for a bit. So what? They have thick skin, are not stupid and are made of teflon.

This is serving no purpose.

Demetriou and Fitzpatrick are gone. Next up get rid of Gill and the competition is in a better place. Hopefully his brother who's a terrible commentator goes as well. What a joke the mclachlins are.

 

[84859300]

All I heard for 18 minutes was Bomba eating what sounded like 6000 calories...

 

[2one2]

Only vaguely interesting thing in all this is that Gil doesn't know what salacious means

“There is nothing new in this other than salaciousness and this and that, from a group of people who are clearly aggrieved at the situation.”

 

[JayJ20]

I can't believe people are sucked in by this.

This is unrelated to Essendon 2017.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Where was this partitioning for an inquire at the height of the saga? too little too late now.

 

[Beerfish]

Quite.

 

[yaco55]

Posted at the beginning of the thread, that Taylor's court action was part of a bigger master plan, to force a Senate Inquiry - The word revenge has been spoken about freely in this thread - Mick Warner has balls and nothing fires up individuals like having your AFL final's accreditation stripped in 2013.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Posted at the beginning of the thread, that Taylor's court action was part of a bigger master plan, to force a Senate Inquiry - The word revenge has been spoken about freely in this thread - Mick Warner has balls and nothing fires up individuals like having your AFL final's accreditation stripped in 2013.

Might sound like a stupid question but will the club and players get some kind of compensation for the way the saga was handled?

 

[windyhill]

How pathetic, " secret tapes" , " more to come". You had your chance Hird et.al, you fell asleep at the wheel, please **** off all of you. "Secret tapes" how more pathetic does it have to get ?

 

[MiguelM]

Might sound like a stupid question but will the club and players get some kind of compensation for the way the saga was handled?

No it is over. Players have been compensated. Nothing will happen, all this does is bring up old wounds.

Also ZERO chance of changing public opinion, even if there were tapes of AFL blatantly lying the foamers would just say we deserved it anyway. None of the court action by Hird ever got anywhere and that was when they said there was a good case.

 

[JayJ20]

Might sound like a stupid question but will the club and players get some kind of compensation for the way the saga was handled?

That's exactly the point.

We're not going to get draft picks. We're not going to get an automatic inclusion in finals. We're not going to get money.
We're not going to change public or even our player's opinion. The players have already done their time.

It's literally just revisiting what has passed. Why is it necessary to release this now, just as we are starting our preseason games? It does nothing. The secret tapes reveal what's not a secret. And here we are back on the front cover. Ridiculous

 

[Eleven 38]

It's got nothing to do with the club or the players or the fans, this is about individuals involved.

No amount of telling them not to do this will stop them.

Best thing to do as fans is to ignore it and just try and get back to enjoying watching the boys play footy.