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Hird charged - disgraceful, Hird is one of the games greatest players and an honourable man to boot.
 
MrBurns said:
Hird wouldn't do anything to bring the game or himself into disrepute, these charges will be defended by the best QC's in Australia.
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You notice how careful they are not to deny that AOD was taken by players?
 
banco said:
You notice how careful they are not to deny that AOD was taken by players?
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I would bet anything that Hird would not do anything illegal, perhaps dabble in supplements but never deliberately cheat or act illegally.
 
MrBurns said:
Hird charged - disgraceful, Hird is one of the games greatest players and an honourable man to boot.
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The AFL hasn't missed anyone down at Windy Hill. Apart from the actual players they charged the lot.

Hope Hirdy and his legal team rip it up Demetriou. I don't care if the AFL schedules ANZAC Day between the pies and Carlton.

More waiting now!

Duckman
 
Well hopefully it gets sorted out and soon, this has been going on for 6 months, pretty much the whole season.

Sadly, with sport seems to be one thing after another lately.
 
MrBurns said:
Hird wouldn't do anything to bring the game or himself into disrepute, these charges will be defended by the best QC's in Australia.
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Know the Family background, worked for his Grandfather when I was a kid, they are good people.

For a change, +1 MrBurns

I actually feel the AFL would like to ease the Bombers away from Windy Hill as they do not fit with the bow and scrape regime. A Demon follower myself so not the ususal focus, but I remember very well a few years back (around 97) when the umpiring was obviously against the bombers in crucial games. Sheede's continued success was the target.

In my usual humble opinion of course.
 
If it was a team outside of Melbourne the AFL would have dead bodies hanging from lamp poles, the Dons have been completely shamed by a group who refuse to take responsibility for their utter incompetence in placing players health / welfare and the club in jeopardy a long way behind their own career money making ambitions.

James "Armstrong" Hird has absolutely no support / respect outside of Melbourne.
 
explod said:
Know the Family background, worked for his Grandfather when I was a kid, they are good people.
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Know some of the family too. Some of them are great people, some are not so great. Don't think you can extrapolate that because his grandfather was a decent bloke James is as well.
 
IFocus said:
James "Armstrong" Hird has absolutely no support / respect outside of Melbourne.
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It appears that your ability to make grand, overreaching generalisations is not merely limited to the political threads IFocus .

Hirdy and the Bombers have reasonable levels of support here in Qld.

You guys in WA need to get that chip off your shoulders. Just accept that Santa will always visit us first Christmas morning and move on.

Duckman
 
This will just get sillier and sillier. Hird will take down anyone and everyone if needed. The similarities with the Armstrong case is scary.

Armstrong used his cancer comeback to great effect in colouring peoples doubts and suspicions. And the courts and money for anyone who didn't.

Hird is using his legend status and all round golden boy image exactly the same. Meanwhile the season gets rooted and the players have to deal with this worry,

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...mystery-mexican-substance-20130814-2rx6m.html
Essendon club officials have been unable to tell ASADA or their players what drugs some of them were given when they were injected with a substance bought in Mexico by a Melbourne man suffering from muscular dystrophy.
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If this was Scott Watters or Mark Neeld we would indeed have someone hung up from a flag pole on the MCG stand.
 
It is time for the players and the parents of the players to say to the club that enough is enough.
They need to force the club to fess up to what has gone on and cop a ban.
At the end of the day it is only a game and the sun will come up tomorrow if they get points deducted or whatever.

If my kid was in the playing group I would consider legal action against the club.
 

When you are born in WA the chip comes with the DNA......cannot be removed ever

Along with a healthy distrust of all things from that mob on the eastern sea board.

The old saying where there is smoke there is fire the Dons have raging flames.

A couple of points we all know for certain

Players were given injections across the road in some dodgy set-up instead of at the club in clean areas meant for such purposes and they had to sign disclaimers.
All the coaching staff knew this of which Hird is in charge of.
This is the really really big one no records were kept of what and how much was injected into who. Having worked with standards, compliance and audits this what you do when you are up to no good no ifs no buts.

Hird is the one holding the mars bar.
 
This is just BS trial by media. A disgrace. I would have thought those clowns Caro and Robbo would have the games best interests at heart, not try to bring it down with their sensationalistic hearsay commentary. We haven't seen a fact placed on the table yet.

ASADA and the Labor Party have brought the game into disrepute jumping at shadows in the aftermath of the Armstrong debacle. The blackest day in Australia sport has brought down a handful of administrators in the AFL who were doing what the AFL demands of them. Make the players as good as they can be to create a spectacle on the field to gain more money through gate receipts and television rights to pay their ridiculous salaries. Dimheadrio gets what? $500K? WTF!
 
It seems like a world away since the Victorian media were wanting blood from the Crows over the Tippet draft tampering incident.
That seems to pale in comparison.
 
chiff said:
It seems like a world away since the Victorian media were wanting blood from the Crows over the Tippet draft tampering incident.
That seems to pale in comparison.
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... and even further back, when Hird was one of the most scathing critics in the campaign against Cousins and Gardner. Yes, they associated with shady characters and "used" - but that was in their private lives, outside the sport, and what they took certainly did not enhance their performance. Not condoning their conduct, not even agreeing with Richmond's "life line" to the Cuz; but I can't get thoughts like "Holier than Thou" and "hypocrite" out of my mind when I hear how all those earlier arguments are forgotten now that the roles are reversed.

Which Essendon player is, or ever has been, at risk of obesity that they'd need injections?
I'm sure the Legal Team will be able to explain that too.

Disgusted
 
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