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This is a story from "The Bladder", which is a comedy site that often makes fun of ... well, everything!

The website is at http://www.thebladder.com.au/

Radical insurgents target AFL clubs

ST KILDA was an under-siege club in the midst of confusion last night after it emerged that the group planning to challenge the current Saints board is actually the same one that has been trying to challenge the Essendon board over the Kevin Sheedy sacking.

A special Bladder investigation has revealed that the group of disaffected Essendon supporters has had so much fun annoying the committee at Windy Hill that they've decided to branch out to Moorabbin.

A spokesman for the group, who spoke to the Bladder on the condition that his name (Carl Madden) not be revealed, said the group now saw themselves as footballing eco-warriors.

"We've all seen what those hippie environmentalists are like," he said. "They don't actually believe in anything, they believe in everything. So they pretty much turn up wherever there's an issue – no matter what the issue is.

"That's where we're coming from. We're having a great time with the Essendon thing: we get in the media a bit, it gives us something to do in the evenings, we get to rabble-rouse and hang out with some friends and eat pizza and drink beer.

"So we thought, 'why stop with Essendon?' We knew the Saints were sitting targets: they've had a disappointing year, there's been the fighting between Thomas Grant and 'I Can't Believe It's Not' Butterrrrrrsssss, the stuff over moving from Moorabbin. Plus they even had Steve Bedwell threatening to challenge at one point.

"We went to APEC in Sydney for a few days to warm up, and now we're heading to Moorabbin.

"We also like the look of Richmond, and Melbourne have got a bit of promise too. We could be in for a busy summer"

Asked if there was any particular issue at St Kilda that was bugging the radical insurgents, the spokesman replied: "Nah, we just reckon that Butterrrrssss is a bit of a tosser. He has very foppish hair and a weird colour about him."

The Bladder contacted former coach Thomas Grant for a comment about the board challenge, but he couldn't stop laughing long enough to say anything.