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Football => View from the Outer => Topic started by: one-eyed on March 07, 2016, 10:37:49 PM
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Bombers ‘don’t deserve Anzac Day’
Herald-Sun
March 7, 2016
CHANNEL 7 commentator Dennis Cometti says Essendon has not earned the right to play on Anzac Day this season.
The popular caller has also suggested the Bombers should have been ruled out of the season altogether after 34 past and present players were banned for 12 months for using the banned drug Thymosin Beta 4.
The AFL has allowed the club to recruit 10 top-up players to field a team this year.
Writing a column in The West Australian, Cometti questioned why an alternative — a season without Essendon — wasn’t considered.
And he said even if the Bombers were allowed to play this year, they had forfeited the right to play Collingwood on Anzac Day.
The match threatens to be a blowout if Saturday’s NAB Challenge results are anything to go by. The undermanned Bombers kicked just three goals on the way to an 87-point loss to Geelong.
“What the heck are they doing playing in this year’s (Anzac Day) game?” Cometti said.
“Unfortunately, the players running around last Saturday don’t deserve the honour of being centre stage on one of footy’s biggest days.
“Of course, it’s too late to change anything. In this situation timing was everything. Certainly it made things difficult for the AFL.
“But I can’t help thinking somehow this year the Bombers should have been sidelined for the greater good.
“The club might cry double jeopardy but I find it odd no contingency plan ever saw the light of day.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/essendon/essendon-doesnt-deserve-to-play-on-anzac-day-says-dennis-cometti/news-story/edde9e67cd1565ba50afb3a003df759c
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Commetti's right for once (and just put himself on the Hird Cult's hit list) - and if not made to sit out the season, at least only be allowed to top up with kids & state leaguers, not AFL players who either just retired or were only delisted last year....
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Imagine these drug cheats in the trenches
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Imagine these drug cheats in the trenches
Exactly
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Some gold sen
Crying efc cultists
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Imagine these drug cheats in the trenches
theses a good chance some of them may be in the ground before their time due to what they were injected with, so you can take solace in that
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or their children being born with 14 toes
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future world class swimmers?
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depending on how much horse juice dank pumped in
might be future Ripley's Believe It or Not
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future world class swimmers?
Or tennis players... :shh
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How would having 14 toes help your tennis?
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Stability.
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do you use your toes to swing the racquet
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It should have been taken off them. This year, it will be a Collingwood training session with red and black witches hats :sleep. It'll probably be the first one too that doesn't get a full house.
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It should have been taken off them. This year, it will be a Collingwood training session with red and black witches hats :sleep. It'll probably be the first one too that doesn't get a full house.
Come on mate bummers fans are not fickle
#standhird
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75,000 seats sold and no guarantee of a sellout according to Ch 7.
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Please can Essendon win. :pray :pray :pray
Would almost rather see that than a tiger victory on Sunday night.....
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rubbish. I want the Pies to win to finally have some real heat put on our pathetic coach who has had a good run of late because of Bucks.
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If I were to invade turkey
I would want albert and jobe by my side