I went down for a run at Whitten Oval yesterday, and the Dogs were training. During the running drills at the start they were split up into groups, but JUH was just paired with Arthur Jones. He looked fit to my eyes, no signs of poor conditioning.
That article also comments on football department resourcing; I counted 23 staff on the ground during that session yesterday. I’m not sure if that’s a lot these days, but it certainly looked like a lot to me.
Sounds like there will be no clear sailing at the Doggies this year. There’s a fraction too much friction.
Perhaps I am on my own with this one, but I struggle to actually identify what’s happened? Despite reading like 10 articles on the matter?
He rocked up to the preseason late after having a huge off season… Is that it?
The Bont!
Who knows if there is any truth to the gun story but plenty of talk that he is a meth head. Wonder how many strikes he is on 
There is zero truth to the gun story but 100% truth to the other. If he wasn’t best 22 he’d be gone.
Agree. You can 100% tell that the journos have been warned off and are dancing around the key parts of what’s actually the problem here. They’re only saying what they can.
Apparently thinks he is a gangsta.
Persian rugs a problem too.
From a direct sauce.
Strikes are irrelevant these days, Buddy was on 2 strikes for over a dozen years!
See. The policy works. Kept himself clean for 12 years
Clubs should be able to financially sanction players as the NFL and NBA can.
JUH would shape up pretty quickly if he was copping 5k for each training missed and team functions
For training a sanction sounds appropriate, but a club function? That decision should be up to the individual player.
From the sound of things, this decision to not attend shows the level of his disconnect with the club right now, there is no glossing over that and JUH has checked out of the kennel already. He will be floated on the open market, but once again the price will be bargain basement low. Time for us to pick him up, he is an undoubted talent and would look good in tandem with Caddy.
Essendon fan growing up 
It depends what’s in their contract.
I know some organisations have it stipulated they’re obligated to meet a certain amount of sponsor attended events. Which you’d imagine something as this would have been.
Juh is ■■■■■■■ himself out of a very lucrative afl career.
I don’t want him anywhere near Essendon
Kind of funny seeing someone with such a high opinion of himself completely stuff up his own career
What does it mean by “it is significantly in the AFL’s hands”? Have the Dogs asked for something?
Jamarra Ugle-Hagan’s playing future is in the hands of the AFL amid calls for the troubled star to be stood down, Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge says.
The number one draft pick has not played a game this season because of personal issues, and it is unclear when or whether he will return to action.
Prominent past players have led calls this week for the Bulldogs to stand down Ugle-Hagan after new vision of the 23-year-old partying emerged on social media.
“I try not to think about the social media side of things too much,” Beveridge said on Thursday.
"At the moment the decision-making in regards to Marra’s future and what that entails is significantly in the AFL’s hands.
“We’re waiting on them to do certain things and we’re continually interacting with them and working through it to work out what’s best for Marra.”
It probably comes down to legal eagles and what they can force him to do within the AFL Contracts.
If I was to guess I assume they want to stop paying him and cut him quickly. Naturally all that is to enable them to “work out what’s best for Marra.” Of course.
