Paul Roos has got the midas touch.... somehow manages to get rid of a footballer not even average ability imo and gets pick 3 in the draft.... ffs how lucky can you get.

If ASADA was competent we wouldn't be hearing about this sort of stuff, in the first instance, from a retired player. We'd be finding out who was being served show cause notices alongside Essendon players. hmmmmmmmmm..... anyone from Geelong, maybe soemone from Gold Coast, anyone from Richmond ???, How about Melbourne, and ahhhh ... Carlton..... anyone tell us how diligent we were at West Coast ???? ....... ahhhhhh what about Brisbane.

I wonder why only ESSENDON has had to cop all this nonsense !!!! Come on Tony start this inquiry right now.

all the best to Nick Malceski at the Suns, great signing for them - will be missed but good on him for getting a better contract and a leadership role

just leaves the one job on the Gold Coast, unless the Bulldogs one opens up - I think it'll be the happy chappy from the Hawks rather than Thomson

Shows how much these guys know AD - they didn't even mention him

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/the-likely-candidates-for-coaching-jobs-at-adelaide-and-gold-coast-20141001-10orpn.html

Greenwood goes for the $$$$$$$ good luck to him, though is a hypocrite stating mid year he owes a lot to north Melbourne for giving him another chance.

excellent hard nut at the ball but a clanger king.

wowee
lose greenwood for higgins
good luck with that

good on him wanted to be paid what he's worth, that's a big loss for sydney.

dime a dozen hard nuts at north, Higgins will never play greenwoods roll...garner and Dumont more skillfull,younger and just as hard at the ball

H'mm let me see Waite's an aging injury prone prima donna who fires when it suits, the other is an aging but slightly younger injury prone star who gives his all every time he's goes out there, no prizes for guessing which team deserves the compensation Lloydy and it's not Carlton.

Greenwood, who finished third in the Kangaroos' 2014 best and fairest, has agreed to join the Magpies for a four-year deal understood to be worth $1.8 million.


no way he is worth even half that with only 5 months of good form  covering 7 years at north

i wonder what danks charged efc for their coffee hits .. hmmm one twelth of 60 large a quarter, not bad i'd do Job Services Australias how to make coffee baristas course, start a cafe and WORK in it for that. maybe. Just think how much cola efc is going to need in a few years ted..... guess what, your hawks will have to help pay it !!! shocking drug that caffeine ... should be banned from all supermarket shelves look what it does to people ffs.

megsy, i would think most that finish top 3 in b @ f in a finals side
would be on that plus more money..

Hows shaun higgins B&f record at the dogs??? he has been offered similiar $$$

Reckon ziebell showed that he would be more effective up forward took some really strong marks and kicked well.  Can't believe they let Greenwood go for that pretender Higgins, who should be arrested for impersonating a footballer, I may be wrong but a massive backward step for mine.

If this is correct Very there are some very tough times coming up for the Bombers

When supplements scandal is over, Essendon must ask why

The Australian
October 08, 2014 12:00AM

Patrick Smith
Senior Sports Commentator
Melbourne

WHEN the Essendon drug drama is finally done with. When the players get to do a deal with ASADA if that is what they want. When others fight to clear their name at sittings of the AFL anti-doping tribunals. When all of these things are settled, the wise will assess just how much time, money, player energy and opportunity was wasted on the absolutely naive and unnecessary.

It will be substantial. The show-cause notices will start flowing from Monday after the players sought to dissociate themselves from their coach James Hird’s appeal to the full Federal Court. And the players have asked for the tribunal cases to be brought forward as much as reasonably possible.

Why it has come to this must be asked of Essendon chairman Paul Little. His constant position has always been that the club was confident that at no stage during the Stephen Dank era at the club did any player take or was offered a substance that was harmful or not approved by ASADA.

Just why then Little would bother signing up the club to a long-term medical program that will monitor the health of players who were at the club in 2012 remains just one of many mysteries that now define a once mighty club.

Yesterday the bizarre took a new twist. Dead coach walking James Hird addressed the club members through an interview on the club website. He was asked about recruiting/trading; about likely replacement coaches now that Simon Goodwin is Melbourne bound and the likely pre-season training routine. Sensitively, he was not asked how he thought the best and fairest night went or what was the club’s plans in case 20 players were wiped out by ASADA. The poor man looked beaten up, drained and exhausted.

As the players consider dealing with the anti-doping authority they should not build expectations in line with the outcomes Paul Gallen and other Cronulla players were able to achieve last September. The Cronulla players received 12-month suspensions backdated to November last year, which meant they missed the last three games of the home-and-away season. It was a deal cut by the NRL executive and ASADA and, begrudgingly it seems, ticked off by WADA, the world anti-doping body.

However the peptide and supplement programs at each club were vastly different in both length and intensity. In December last year the outgoing president of WADA, John Fahey, said (in part) this of Essendon: “How can James Hird be at the helm of the club as the head coach when 4000-plus injections have been given to playing staff, none of which anybody can tell us what it was, most of which we know is not approved for human consumption, and put at risk these kids …”

The injection program at Cronulla is believed to have run for no longer than four weeks of Dank’s 11-week tenure at the club. It is believed a player like Gallen might have had no more than two injections. When the show-cause letters were distributed to the Cronulla players and seven other NRL footballers previously at Cronulla, ASADA said all had a case to answer regarding the use of banned substances CJC-1295 and GHRP-6.

In the Notice of Charge delivered to Essendon by the AFL on August 13, 2013, it details that Dank began employment at the club on November 4, 2012, and the injection program finished on August 5, 2013. Even if Fahey’s number of 4000 injections is just a wild stab, the figure of jabs at Essendon is going to be a lot closer to Fahey’s toting than the handful administered at Cronulla.

What cannot be contested is the peptide program at Essendon was far more intense, systematic, regimented and ran much longer than the one at Cronulla. The Essendon players were given peptides “unknowingly and unwillingly” throughout a summer and the 2013 season.

The Bombers have twice knocked back negotiated solutions to the future of players issued show-cause letters. Very early in his tenure, ASADA chief executive Ben McDevitt said the players should consider speaking to ASADA because it might be possible the maximum two-year suspension could be reduced to just six months.

It would require players to admit they took banned drugs and also help with the ASADA investigation. No player took up the offer. And no player took up a suggestion by AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan that the players could voluntarily step down until their cases were heard. They did not have to admit guilt but whatever time spent away from the game would be taken into account if they were found guilty by a tribunal. This was rejected by Essendon.

The reality for Essendon now is that they have no bargaining space left. The court case has failed. Two offers of reduced penalty have been rejected and their players front tribunals or ASADA deal-makers with a more complicated and longer history of possible drug breaches. And WADA is watching more carefully now since the NRL players went down. This is the worst possible outcome for the players. And they all marched or have been marched headlong into it under the banner of Little and the board. Essendon have overdosed on indignation and self-righteousness.

Damn straight lloydy. Don't stop at Walker and Jamison either, keep going. Don't bring in any mature players. Swans and Hawks aren't going away yet, Dockers still good and North and Port are on the way. Then we have the Suns and Giants. Zero to gain from mature players, won't be able to topple these teams in the immediate future. Cooney is a joke. The way forwards is to go backwards right now. Kids and picks, need not concern ourselves with anything else.  A fire sale is what is required.

agree rhino pick 5 and 25 a very fair deal if they're after a player they can then do a deal themselves with those picks, if the eagles are any chance of getting christensen I would offer sinclair plus their first round pick if that's what it take or swap first picks with Geelong plus Sinclair. Love sinclair but Christensen is exactly what we need and if sheed or young maginness can step up we're suddnely well placed to be a serious mover. Yeo's going to be an absolute star and give  us the speed were and the good size body we're lacking in the midfied mcgovern is potnetially anything if shuey and gaff can continue to improve as they did in the second half of the season and wellingham gets a good pre season under his belt the same for naitanui who for the first time ever won't touch have his pre season interrupted thorough surgical recovery nagging injuries etc then you might get to see the real Naitanui with any luck next season. If they could somehow et Christensen over the line it would be huge but that's a very big if obviously.

Swans banned from trading for 2 years

It's an absolute disgrace.

Its Kharma for Bris,
They allowed all the Home Sick Vics and Adel players to go for Nothing so in return QLD boys want to come back
Good luck to Bris, hard for them to keep players

yes something wrong when your captain who loves the club wants out, knocked huge dollars from eddie last year as well. Lloydy your way off base the Eagles list manager Craig  Vozzo has said categorically  in today's west they have no interest in lucas whatsoever