Chemical Laboratory

Highlighting the allegedly outlandish.

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I'm coming around on Dank.

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I needed to rehost my AFL GIFs...

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Consider this brow, furrowed.

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Those players who emerged from last year’s Windy Hill laboratory could have done with a control freak like him.

It's back! Caroline Wilson puts 2 and 2 together to reach a conclusion that sees Bomber Thompson disgraced. Big surprise.

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The ex-players' parents have been invited to a second briefing by the club next week - as they were to an initial meeting last week

Today's article from Emma Quayle appears to contradict Chief Football Writer Caroline Wilson's piece from Tuesday last week:

Fairfax Media was told by representatives of at least five 2012 Essendon players now playing elsewhere that none of their parents had been invited to attend Monday night's parent information session.

Perhaps Essendon held two parent information nights last week; one for current players, one for the ex-players. Perhaps.

Thanks to Bomb Doe on Bomberblitz

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The AFL Integrity Unit will investigate the Lions after all. They seem more willing to give a confessed drug dealer the time of day than I do.

It can be revealed that one person has made himself available for a confidential interview with the AFL's integrity unit and another is considering his position.

Other sources declined.

Has there been a more meaningless column inch printed recently? While many news outlets boast reporting the news as it happens, the Herald Sun will write it before it happens, even if it never happens at all.

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He also claimed he would provide to the newspaper betting slips and phone records to substantiate his claims about match-fixing, but he has since gone to ground and refused to return phone calls.

Not to be out done in the drug dungeon stakes, Brisbane get involved. Jason, the confessed drug dealer, cousin of Lions player Ash McGrath and allegedly accurate source of information has made a bunch of accusations and then gone missing. Conspiracy, or just your garden variety liar?

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In a club publication last week, Malthouse was quoted as saying the Blues could have the makings of a premiership side this season.

That didn't take long. Over promise, under deliver – the Carlton philosophy. Malthouse should know better.

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The type of supporter cherished by players is the one who doesn’t go missing when the team is down.

Good read for Essendon supporters in tough times. While the confidence among supporters of their team being cleared or found guilty seems to bob up and down daily like a cork in the ocean, it didn't seem to deter too many for a typically scrappy pre-season game.

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Thanks guys.

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Looks about right

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The original suspicion was that the Government and ACC were taking a polical opportunity – given the media focus on corruption in sport in Melbourne – but it takes longer than two days to prepare glossy brochures, collate material and write the sort of speeches delivered by amped-up politicians – "We will hunt you down" – that day.

Great read, peel back the hysteria and you end up with a hypothesis like this. I've been thinking that if cleared, Essendon deserve credit for coming forward before the report was publicly known. If this hypothesis proves correct however, perhaps their hand was forced.

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So the key points of Wilson’s opinion piece are just plain wrong - but as we all know in football, everyone’s entitled to their opinion.

Whack. Tough week for Wilson. Seems she can't put her hands to the keyboard without a disclaimer, a lawsuit or a tersely worded response.

Between The Age's runaway train of defamation and Herald Sun's incredible reaching to keep Essendon on the back page, I've never anticipated what lengths the major papers will go to each day.