ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

[Grantysghost]

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Imagine if Paddy Ryder wins the Norm Smith this season, he may just refuse to get up there.

[Murphy'sLore]

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Waaay too soon.

[soupman]

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Another example of the AFL (and most Australian sporting bodies tbf) completely misreading what their crowds want and arrogantly putting in something that suits their agenda best.

[Murphy'sLore]

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If the AFL think the majority of fans are ready to forgive and forget, they are in for an unpleasant surprise.

[Daughter of the West]

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If the AFL think the majority of fans are ready to forgive and forget, they are in for an unpleasant surprise.

Wouldn't it be amazing if the whole crowd got up and turned their back to the ceremony? Pity the poor NS winner though.

An absolute joke. In who's freakin' universe would this be considered a good idea? Like, really?!?

[Bulldog Joe]

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Wouldn't it be amazing if the whole crowd got up and turned their back to the ceremony? Pity the poor NS winner though.

An absolute joke. In who's freakin' universe would this be considered a good idea? Like, really?!?

All we really need is for the crowd to simply refuse to applaud the announcement(or boo it) of James Hird coming onto the dais to make the presentation.

This would still allow applause for the medal winner.

[Twodogs]

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I feel bad for whoever wins the NS. It's going to be really unpleasant for them. The Players' association should be arking up about this.

[soupman]

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I think it'll be a chorus of boos transitioning into cheers as the winner is announced. Very similar to the Travis Clokes goal against Collingwood except all the noise will be from one group of fans.

[Rocket Science]

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How utterly stupefying.

While they're at it they may as well appoint Jobe to award this year's Brownlow.

[Twodogs]

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How utterly stupefying.

While they're at it they may as well appoint Jobe to award this year's Brownlow.

Now that's good thinking. They could get shoeless Joe and Arnold Rothstein to award a prize to the player who tries hardest or makes the best effort in the World's Series while they are at it. The fact that neither are still alive isn't the biggest problem I can see with a plan like that.

[jeemak]

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The AFL doesn't have a culture issue according to Gil........

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/two-senior-afl-officials-resign-after-emergency-meeting-20170714-gxb8aj.html

I would suggest this, along with the Fahour case in addition to the detailed issues within the link suggest Gil has his head fairly and squarely up his own arse.

The AFL is completely out of touch, and once again, lucky their natural competitor codes lack organisation and the significant goodwill of the public the AFL enjoys. If it was any other way, in any other country they'd have been devoured a long time ago.

[merantau]

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Wayne Carey and Jake King as Cup Ambassadors and Ben Cousins to present the Cup - AFL might as well go the whole hog.

[Twodogs]

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The AFL doesn't have a culture issue according to Gil........

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/two-senior-afl-officials-resign-after-emergency-meeting-20170714-gxb8aj.html

I would suggest this, along with the Fahour case in addition to the detailed issues within the link suggest Gil has his head fairly and squarely up his own arse.

The AFL is completely out of touch, and once again, lucky their natural competitor codes lack organisation and the significant goodwill of the public the AFL enjoys. If it was any other way, in any other country they'd have been devoured a long time ago.

Agreed. It's been a poor couple of weeks for City Hall. Gil lacks the bare faced audacity that Andy D. had. It's like watching a kid trying to master a trick he saw a magician do and get it wrong time after time.

[The bulldog tragician]

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I thought this was a hoax.

The AFL & their Old Boys and Good Blokes Network just don't get it.

Imagine Lance Armstrong being allowed to present the medal to the Tour de France winner.

This is beyond embarrassing

[Doc26]

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It smacks of utter arrogance and of the AFL sticking its fingers up at ASADA / WADA for meddling on its turf.

Hey let's glorify the cheats of our game on its biggest stage for the world to see.

It is an incredibly bad look for the AFL and naive in the extreme.

How insular do we look as a code, the sporting world must be asking have the AFL learnt anything from the systematic failure that lead to Australia's worst sports doping event?