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Bellchambers BOG in the 2's.
http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/2013-06-16/bellchambers-standout-in-loss

Makes for interesting selection in the big man department against WCE with Cox & Nic nat.

IN's:T.Belchambers

OUT:C.Hooker

-Bellchambers into the ruck.
-Patty Ryder to play backline for Hooker and relieve in the ruck.
-Hurley to the backline and Carlise forward .
-A smaller player as sub to compensate for talls.

Joey Daniher really looks the goods, I just hope he doesn't get squeezed out.
Very short sighted if they go down that path.
 

+1 Lenny. Team looking good with talent in reserve. First time for some time.
 

Yes Hooker out and Bellchambers in.

If the big guys don't fire we can look slow and lumbering. I don't think you can have Bellchambers, Ryder, Hooker, Daniher, Carlisle, Gumbleton and Fletcher in the same team. Need to lose Hooker and Gumby.

Duckman
 
Joe Daniher will develop into a good player when he gets some meat on him and goes in harder at the ball. He looks very slow and 'Bambi' like. He's kicking is also a bit so-so but that may just be the big games. He is young so I should cut him so slack...great mark though!

Essendon do have a tidy outfit but they seem to fade in and out some games.
 
Mark Neeld has gone and names like Roos, Eade, Clarkson and Williams are being thrown around but not Mark Thompson.

Would Mark Thompson be interested?

Considering Melbourne have made it clear they will be looking for the tried and proven, he must be at least worth talking to? I know he didn't want to continue being a head coach at Geelong but everyone's circumstances change.

I understand that he is quite an astute businessman in his own right, who has built up some wealth, so the big $$$ probably wouldn't interest as much as it would others.

Just throwing it out there - premiership coachs don't grow on trees.

Duckman
 
I don't think so. He seems pretty happy kicking back on what is probably the average Coach's salary with all care and no responsibility. Too soon at least.
 
I still think it's the job for Sheedy, provided he had board support.

Not the position for the young career coach.
 
Logique said:
I still think it's the job for Sheedy, provided he had board support.

Not the position for the young career coach.
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Sheeds offered himself up a few years ago but wasn't willing to go through the entire selection process. As you would expect. They turned him down and chose The Bear. Melbourne must look back to that decision and have pains. He would be very unlikely to even offer himself up there after being disrespected.
 
West Coast supporters a disgrace.

I now question all West Australians.
 
I'm not a west coast or essendon supporter, however if essendon wasn't AFL royalty, they would be in deep poo.

Obviously essendon is a club that isn't allowed to fail.

Unlike Fitzroy.
 
sptrawler said:
I'm not a west coast or essendon supporter, however if essendon wasn't AFL royalty, they would be in deep poo.
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I agree.

But, there are degrees of poo.

I think we are all trying to work out the balance....

of poo
 
Well it has certainly put the AFL heavies in a quandary.
What do you think would happen to Usain Bolt if he admitted to having used a banned performance enhancing substance?
 
kennas said:
West Coast supporters a disgrace.

I now question all West Australians.
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Disgrace is using banned substances then saying you have done nothing wrong, sheezzes you Victorian guys are a total disgrace if it was a interstate team the hanging posses would be riding out of Melbourne with self righteous zeal here you are beating your chests because a crowd made your boy cry.

Watson great player but WTF did he think was happening as they pumped him full of juice is that the definition of "stupid"............ he just got a dose of reality.

Essendon are a complete joke drugs won last night not Essendon as has been the whole season.

Now to put on my flame proof suit
 
kennas said:
West Coast supporters a disgrace.
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Agree it wasn't a good look but what did Watson think would happen when he comes out on national TV and admits to taking a substance that WADA have said is a banned substance?

They certainly weren't going to cheer for him.

The EFC club embarked on a systematic campaign to seek an advantage over the rest of the competition through a program of injecting supplements to allow the players training loads to be increased therefore fast tracking their physical development.
It now appears some of the substances were banned by the WADA code at the time of use. This is the reason fans from other clubs are baying for blood, it is also the part most glossed over by Essendon fans.

Just because the initial intent was to stay within WADA regulations but the program spiraled out of control is also no excuse. They purposely set out to push the boundaries and by their own admission sailed close to the edge. If they weren't smart enough to put in place decent safe guards to protect the club and players from Dank and his mates going too far, they have to cop the consequences. Unfortunately it could be the players that cop the biggest whack.

The EFC have no else to blame but themselves. Now they are trying to seek legal loop holes to escape penalty for what they were doing but the fact is they set out on a course to seek a chemical advantage over the rest of the competition and it now looks increasingly likely they used banned substances to do that.
 
I actually felt sorry for Jobe last night. He is in a position forced on him by a cheating club administration and I think his interview during the week was an ill conceived response to the predicament he is now in. Clearly he has some character and is struggling to deal with the likelihood he is now also a drug cheat.

It was a good game to watch until James Hird was on the boundary smiling and celebrating his team success after the siren while his captain was out in the middle clearly distressed and on the point of balling his eyes out. That made me angry.

Hird :bad:
 
kennas said:
West Coast supporters a disgrace.

I now question all West Australians.
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Watson would have been booed whoever they played. Much as I'm no great fan of Western Australian football supporters in this case they were expressing the disapproval of most fans who aren't Essendon supporters. You would have to have your head in the sand (along with Watson and Hird) not to realise that there is huge amount of anger and disquiet in the football community about what has been going on at Essendon and their apparent contempt for the rules regarding banned substances.
 

Also not sure Essendon supporters can get on their high horse about Watson getting boo'd considering they used to mercilessly boo Stanton.
 
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