Carlton and Mick...

[Kickit]

Haha instead of Judd they could have potentially kept Kennedy , picked Masten ( who's getting pretty good now ) and used pick 20 to beat StKilda to the Dempster/Schnieder trade.

[stinger]

Good to see Robert Walls putting the boots into his old "mate" Mick.

"Blues have gone backwards"
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/t ... 2rywb.html

... and so say all of us

and mick has returned serve.....love it


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/c ... 6698397822

[LTN16]

It's really great to see

Absolutely hate MM and love seeing him crack the s***s in the coaches box!

[gringo]

Truth is that Carlton were set back +10 years for cheating the salary cap. Have Essendon cheated worse than carlton, and will they be treated as agressively?

They'll tell you that.
But in reality they missed out on a couple of good picks for Cheating.
What really set them back for 10 years was:

StKilda stealing Hamill off them for Cranage.
Drafting Luke Livingston at pick 4.
Trading ALL their draft picks in a bloody good draft for Cory McKernan, Justin Murphy and Lindsy Smith.
Trading a draft pick for Barnaby French.

Having done massive deals like these prior to their punishment didn't exactly help things. They had no young kids coming through already. So think that it was like StKilda 2010, then you took away most of the 2011, and 2012 draft ... ouch.
Essendon copping the same punishment wouldn't hurt anywhere near as bad.

Then they got impatient before they were ready and went for the Judd and Warnock trades.

My family has plenty of Blues supporters so i observed them pretty closely,my belief is that they kept that premiership list together too long and put them all on mega contracts. They weren't developing a new understudy list and then got hit with draft sanctions. It was poor management prior to the draft that compounded the situation.