And the slow tumble into decline begins for the AFL.
Er, no, just Essendon (God willing)... And even then the AFL will find a way to help them up after a suitable knockdown period, as they're definetely seen as too big to fail, from a competition standpoint.
Its unbelievable that the club is going to such lengths just to protect young Jimmy. The club must always be bigger than the individual boys, and if it were anyone else, he would have been shown the door back in February.
With every week we're seeing new contradictions and a switch in the Bombers' preferred legal defence that is cringe inducing.
Individuals are coming apart at the seems to boot. I was waiting for Bomber Thompson to revisit his "Leave him alone, all of you!" outburst on Monday night.
Brilliant how things pan out at times. Of all situations for the head honchos from Hawthorn, Collingwood & West Coast to be together with Vlad on their US junket. They must all be getting plenty of amusement from the latest Bomber claims arising from the 7.30 report
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3814616.htm.