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Merrett Cleared

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what about the watts incident the other week. Watts ran back with the play for the spoil, made contact with the ball, and then lightly bumped the oppositions head with his arm, barley moving the bloke, gives away a free kick when he wasn't late and made contact on the ball, where as peders gets his his nose smashed pretty severely really, and no repercussions.

Cant wait for peders to come across merret next season.

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    Nauseating

    Typical

    Insider mates-looking-after

    Dismissive of Melbourne (who are they anyway?)

    MRP attempt at black humour ( should that be African-American ?)

    Glossed over putridity

    Not exactly the first time

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    What a joke... Merrett cleared !!! WTF

    What happened to protecting the head. It was reckless, high contact and low impact. 150 points and 2 wks or guilty plea = 1 week.

    WTF x 22

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    Merret's was much better disguised than the Dawes whack.

    Dawes should watch it over and over again so he can become better at it.

    Better disguised ? If anything Dawes hit was more innocuous than Merret's.

    Again - rub out both of them for their incidents or rub out neither - the inconsistency is appalling.

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    Merret's was much better disguised than the Dawes whack.

    Dawes should watch it over and over again so he can become better at it.

    Is this a real post McQueen? Better disguised alright - couldn't see it through Pedersen's nose which was smeared all over his face.

    It should not be a contest in who did a better job of pretending not to punch the other bloke in the face. It should be black and white.

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    Nauseating

    Typical

    Insider mates-looking-after

    Dismissive of Melbourne (who are they anyway?)

    MRP attempt at black humour ( should that be African-American ?)

    Glossed over putridity

    Not exactly the first time

    ...mates protecting their 80's buffoonery hitmen.

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    What was in Merrett's favour was the fact that you cannot actually tell whether he is looking at the ball or Pederson because of the angle between them. They therefore give the benefit of the doubt.

    If the ball was coming from over Merrett's shoulder it would obviously have been very different.

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    What was in Merrett's favour was the fact that you cannot actually tell whether he is looking at the ball or Pederson because of the angle between them. They therefore give the benefit of the doubt.

    If the ball was coming from over Merrett's shoulder it would obviously have been very different.

    To me that should just be the difference between "intentional" and "reckless", not the difference between "he did it" and "he didn't do it."

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    To me that should just be the difference between "intentional" and "reckless", not the difference between "he did it" and "he didn't do it."

    I would hope that 90% of people that know anything about football and Merrett know that it was no accident.

    But being categorically sure, with the video as proof, that that is the case, is impossible.

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    Before we play the Lions again next year I want them to replay the incedent over and over to the players. I want them to be angry that they (MRP and the players) let Merrett get away with it.

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