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Luke Tapscott

Jesse Christ
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Now Swan is contesting his tripping charge, what are the odds he gets cleared?

you dont understand...Blease fell over Swans foot... totally innocent your honour..... FFS !!
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    I'm torn.I dont want to see our best in the stands. I dont want Tapscott to murder anyone and get suspended but I am comfortable with a bit of justifiable homocide.

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    I'm torn.I dont want to see our best in the stands. I dont want Tapscott to murder anyone and get suspended but I am comfortable with a bit of justifiable homocide.

    The rainbow police will be after you for sure !!!! lol

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    Clearly there are degrees of everything and just as clearly we don't want Tapscott getting suspended every time he takes the field, but there are moments in a club's history where they need some players to make a statement. I'm not overly big on making statements with selection, as those dropped are usually fringe and it's warranted, but I am big on statements made on the footy field. This club has been pushed around for too long. We know it, the club knows it and the players know it. Mitch Clark and Luke Tapscott decided after quarter time that enough is enough. It's no coincidence that when the players became more physical the team gained confidence. In my opinion, occasionally it's justified for a player to cross the line. And on a big stage like Queen's Birthday, the biggest game of the round, with all eyes on the club after a disastrous first half of the year, we needed players to show some aggression. If Tapscott subsequently crossed the line then so be it; in fact, under the circumstances, I embrace it.

    There's one other thing worth noting. It was widely known when Tapscott was drafted by Melbourne that he had a bit of you "know what" in him on the footy field. It's one of the things the club liked about him. They knew we didn't have enough players of that ilk. Footy clubs need players with metal to develop the type of hard edge that generates success. The club wouldn't publicly endorse Tapscott's indiscretion, but I doubt they'd privately bemoan it either. It was the right statement at the right time.

    And Titan. The gentle nudge over the boundary line was nothing more than a show of disdain and gamesmanship. You're over-rating its significance greatly. It was a very mild shove at worst. In fact, Tapscott was obviously mindful of the bunker, otherwise the force would have been far greater. You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

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    you dont understand...Blease fell over Swans foot... totally innocent your honour..... FFS !!

    I noticed Ryder stick his foot out at one of the Swans last week. It was in a pack of players and it didn't drop him so nobody seemed to care.

    So it all depends on the final result I guess.

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    I noticed Ryder stick his foot out at one of the Swans last week. It was in a pack of players and it didn't drop him so nobody seemed to care.

    So it all depends on the final result I guess.

    That's where the MRP falls down in my opinion... if they are serious about ridding the game of certain behaviours, then they should be acting against intent and NOT just outcome; For example, if someone swings a haymaker and misses, they should get sent on a holiday... if they swing a haymaker that connects, they should be sent on a longer holiday.

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