Nothing precious about it at all.
Just ■■■■ reporting.
It’s actively singling out a club that.
Did nothing wrong at the time, beside maybe poor governance.
Which in looking at the broader competition as a whole, seems to be the standard for the majority of clubs.
West coast: Drugs Culture
Collingwood: Recreational drug use & Do better report
Hawthorne racial abuse of players (rug sweeping report)
Melbourne: Tanking scandle
Carlton; Salary cap breaches
Adelaide: players camp
To name a few, every club has or had governance problems
And it is also preventing said club from trying move on.
Thats all no biggey
It’s literally just the most recent photo of Sam Fisher in the AAP database where he was playing footy and was the main focus of the photo.
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I understand that, but hey they had 16 other teams to choose from, over his 12 year career and that is the photo they choose.
Come on it was deliberate but, who cares.
I just find it quite, unironically bad.
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Brewer’s Droop to Smart Arse. Love it😄
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Same as when they show Buddy highlights. Its always the same goal against the bombers who can’t catch him 
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Can you believe the change in tone…from today’s article regarding the most influential person at each club this century.
ESSENDON
Kevin Sheedy coached Essendon until 2007 (his 2000 premiership doesn’t technically count in this century), returned as a board member and helped create the Dreamtime at the ‘G concept, which grows by the year. Yet it is hard to go past James Hird for his impact across this century as a football champion – seven of his seasons in this century, two of his best and fairests, two All Australians. He was a teen heart-throb, footy megastar, media identity and then a brilliant young coach who was unwittingly dragged into the ASADA scandal by other parties. What could have been for Hird if those influences had not arrived at the club? He was keen to coach Essendon as recently as 18 months ago, but now seems lost to coaching forever.
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The next step is to sheet the blame onto those running the AFL at the time: FitzPatrick; Demetriou, and McLachlan
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ASADA sour grapes over Bol, passing on information on Bol’s phone records.
It was evidence at a CAS case by another athlete, which would otherwise have escaped Australian media attention,
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Today’s HS - A Jon Ralph special!!
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Oh my…
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“Enemies become friends”…
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I’m not forgetting.
Fark them all.
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And the release from WADA during this hearing that Bol’s case was not a false positive but a case of a soiled sample because they took to long from the collection of the sample to conduct the doping test. This reflects poorly on the operations of SIA.
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Trent Cotchin playing for Ballan today.
Hope he cops some stick about being a token Brownlow medalist.
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Isn’t he the one that sympathises with Jobe?
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Yep
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Couldn’t care less, the princess should have just outright refused to take it. As for the other turd, he deserves a bath in substances the colour of the club he represented. Carnts both of them.
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It does reflect badly on SIA but not because the sample was “soiled”, whatever that means in WADA jargon. Firstly the amount of EPO was close to the limit of detection for the test. Secondly the Analyst was found to not have sufficient skills to discriminate the peaks on the PAGE scan. Independent testing and review of scans could not verify or support a positive finding. Thirdly the scan was not able to discriminate between the peaks in the scan for naturally occurring EPO and the synthetic variety
So SIA Approved Test Lab failed, SIA supported their Lab’s result. WADA tried to mitigate the problem and maintain the Bol suspension. But Bol’s lawyer, with compelling evidence from experts in PAGE analysis disproved the original result.
A lot of damage done but no consequences towards the Regulators, again
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