I have mixed feelings about this being on the front page of the herald sun at this stage, but it all depends on how the aftermath plays out.
Meh I say ■■■■ it and ■■■■ the afl.
They let the beast out of the bag and sold us under the bus.
let those ■■■■■■■ ■■■■■ have the start of their afl seasons ruined for the next 5 years.
Anything that hurts the afl brand i'm all for.
on our end, how can it get any worse ?
they gonna suspend us again ?
they gonna call us drug cheats even more ? just wait on the off chance we do well in the first half of this year, the ■■■■ stream of drug cheats will only magnify according to our success.
they gonna ruin our reputation even more ?
■■■■ the absolute ■■■■■■■ lot of em, and i hope it’s news til the start of the season, i want them and the afl’s rep tarnished as much as ours.
Full 18 minutes up (behind the paywall) on the Herald Sun website. Doesn't really reveal a hell of a lot. Might have strengthened my love for James Hird but that's about it.
Thanks for posting. Don’t know how I am going to sleep tonight after listening to it. All this going on while Hird and Bomber and Corcoran were getting a team on the field and looking after the players welfare. No wonder Hird is ill.
The biggest question is still what happened between this meeting & Little capitulating to the AFL a few days later. He came in & talked up his willingness to fight & even in that meeting he knew the threats & was still talking about fighting. What changed?
Paul little was as weak as ■■■■ in that conversation. Bomber was spot on we were being reactive. Poor Hird was showing great restraint and eventually through skill got little moving. So disappointed in little who kept talking in circles and was trying to manufacture some kind of bullshit outcome. This entire saga is a story of men in suits talking ■■■■…
Meanwhile, Patrick Smith is at it again. In an article of 23 February in the Australian on Hunt’s role as Minister for Sport, he refers to the sad attempt to bring the Essendon saga back on the agenda, dumps on J34 and Di Natale ( doesn’t know what he is talking about etc etc).
At the same time Chip tweeting Warner’s article and that it contradicts what Vlad had said earlier. Tracey has also tweeted the Warner article.
Can’t wait for Caro’s follow up.
Loved Bomber and Hirdy there, loved it! Little too, he was ready to take the AFL on at that stage. What turned it against us? Sarah? The charges?
My memory is a little hazy but was Sarah and the charges on the same day?
Back to the charges, the guys mentioned an injunction, I would have thought that would have been the natural thing to do against that phony charge sheet released by Dillon? Was it just the timing, they didn’t have enough time to obtain an injection against the charge sheet?
This is the biggest miscarriage of Justice since Lindy Chamberlain. Hopefully now there will be a full Senate inquiry at least. I want someone to do some jail time over this…I’ve been unable to follow the footy since Hirdy “resigned” - it just leaves to bad a taste in my mouth. Maybe now, at last, the worm has finally turned. I really hope so.
The biggest question is still what happened between this meeting & Little capitulating to the AFL a few days later. He came in & talked up his willingness to fight & even in that meeting he knew the threats & was still talking about fighting. What changed?
This x10000000000000
Can’t remember the timelines off the top of my head, was this meeting prior to “Sarah”, the charges and the Presidents meeting?
Extracts of the conversation being played on Sky News, reckon this is going grow legs now, the stench is becoming too hard to ignore for polies/journos
In those two exchanges you see the magnitude of David Evans’ folly in going along with the AFL. The ■■■■■■ assumed we were guilty as sin and went along with everything his bum chums Demetriou /Gil said.
That’s what sunk us, ultimately IMO - we ■■■■■■■ sat on our hands for 6 months playing out that farce from the AFL/ASADA whilst we could have been actually getting down to the bottom of what actually happened.