Discussion: I'd boo

Jobe Watson too. Only in the AFL could someone admit to use a banned substance on TV and yet to face any sanction.

the important thing Lazy is it wasn't Hirds fault.

and Blair what did the granny say when you tried to move her? Did she deny you were in her seat? Sounds feisty - Pies could do with her in the forward line. Gotta be better than Quentin Lynch.

Unfortunately there's only one language these types understand - you should have sat down and shared a cuppa and done The Age cryptic with her. Oh except you couldn't sit down could you. No easy solution to this one.

Sounds as though Blair-the-nonconfrontationalist got a wee bit feisty himself :)
I vividly remember going with Jamie and you to a Collingwood home game in 1996. The choice of a 'Pies-Dockers match still bemuses me, but I definitely learnt a few new words that day!
(I mean that my vocabulary was expanded by the Collingwood ferals rather than by the articulate Dr Trewin...)

Jamie was a Collingwood man, at least at that stage when Port hadn't yet entered the AFL. It was one of only two games I ever went to at Victoria Park, the other one being when as an innocent nine-year-old I accompanied my Collingwood-supporting cousins in what must have been just about the last game Essendon ever played there. (It's an oddity that, of only about five "neutral" games that I've been to, two have been Collingwood-Freo - the other one was at Subiaco after the 2005 NOLs, mainly for Clare Hawthorne's benefit, and was then - and I think still is - Freo's biggest ever win).

Didn't think I was being too feisty myself. She certainly wasn't interested in being helpful - even tried to cover up the number of her seat in the apparent hope that it would stop me from working out that it was mine.

And I could write for ages about the current status of the Essendon investigation and what is and isn't publicly known, but at this stage it seems to me much less clear-cut than a lot of the coverage would lead you to believe; in particular, from what I've seen reported the possibility seems at least open that somebody in ASADA (and/or the 'Check Your Substances' tool) gave misleading information about the status of AOD-whatever-it-is, and I'm not certain that ASADA are going to be able to make anything stick. I am, however, pretty sure that the AFL will act themselves for "bringing the game into disrepute" or something to that effect - there's no doubt that what was going on was dodgy, the question is what rules (if any) it broke.