AFL need to look into Rhys Mathieson!

[mauriesy 7,444]

Learn to tackle lower, or learn to grab the arm a la Viney on Weller.

[Akum 2,660]

1 hour ago, ManDee said:

I recommend tackling an arm not the body, and pull it down and back if possible, may cause a few dislocations but will not give a free kick. This is for the duckers of the world. You asked for it.

Or grab "perpendiculating" arm at elbow & hold it up while teammate smashes into unprotected ribs. 

[Lord Travis 10,819]

Here's this weeks edition of 'weak ducking cheat'. These players need to be shamed as they go against the spirit of the game. I'm glad we don't have any players that resort to this kind of rubbish. Hopefully someone knocks his head off or at very least rips a chunk of that wig off.

https://www.facebook.com/Timmuns/videos/10154179287164110/

[Rhys Mathieson is a gun 0]

You guys are all over reacting to a kid that dropped himself down twice not six times, being a brisbane supporter I agree that he did drop his knees but not all six times some were from sloppy tackles and one wasn't even from a high tackle it was an infringement after a mark. Maybe you should look into the Selwoods who have been getting away with it for years.

[Deestroy All 14,266]

12 minutes ago, Rhys Mathieson is a gun said:

You guys are all over reacting to a kid that dropped himself down twice not six times, being a brisbane supporter I agree that he did drop his knees but not all six times some were from sloppy tackles and one wasn't even from a high tackle it was an infringement after a mark. Maybe you should look into the Selwoods who have been getting away with it for years.

No, Rhys, you dropped your knees every time. Now go practice being a turtle, b!tchmode. 

[CHF 2,825]

I believe there needs to be something done about this otherwise we will either have 30 or 40 of these 'high tackle' decisions given a game or there will be no tackling at all.

If this becomes the SOP of the man with the ball I will stop watching and supporting.

[biggestred 5,311]

Hahahaha this is great.

The blokes lying on his back and throws his whole body backwards but it was a bad tackle.

Kid would get 9.5s from the soviet and chinese judges

[Ethan Tremblay 31,388]

Has anything been said in the media about the stager this week?

[Gorgoroth 13,220]

When he is lying on his back with his jaw re broken he may just sit back and think... I shouldn't have dropped my knee... I'm a fIog.

He would be right. 

[Deemented Are Go! 3,704]

10 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Has anything been said in the media about the stager this week?

They had a look at it on On The Couch - all agreed it's rubbish 

[Gorgoroth 13,220]

Slobbo called him out on it on twitter that night.

[Skuit 10,031]

3 hours ago, JackoTheMuss said:

They had a look at it on On The Couch - all agreed it's rubbish 

The crumpling is rubbish or the reaction?

[ArtificialWisdom 4,045]

6 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

Slobbo called him out on it on twitter that night.

He called it the thursday when he was named in the team. 

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

6 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

When he is lying on his back with his jaw re broken he may just sit back and think... I shouldn't have dropped my knee... I'm a fIog.

He would be right. 

He's already had his jaw or cheek broken this year.

[ManDee 7,395]

2 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

He's already had his jaw or cheek broken this year.

Slow learner?

[ArtificialWisdom 4,045]

6 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

He's already had his jaw or cheek broken this year.

 

3 minutes ago, ManDee said:

Slow learner?

In his defence he was crunched off the ball by a bloke who got 4 weeks...

[Deemented Are Go! 3,704]

3 hours ago, Skuit said:

The crumpling is rubbish or the reaction?

The act itself

[Skuit 10,031]

23 minutes ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

He called it the thursday when he was named in the team. 

Slobbo called him out for a future incidence of ducking? Must have finally reached that worm at the bottom of the bottle.

[La Dee-vina Comedia 17,137]

55 minutes ago, Skuit said:

Slobbo called him out for a future incidence of ducking? Must have finally reached that worm at the bottom of the bottle.

Don't forget even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

[Gorgoroth 13,220]

I hope the umps talk to the lions and words them up they will not pay any head highs for him unless he is standing. 

[Knuckles 73]

So glad none of our players seem to have this habit.

Drives me mad that all we hear about is how protecting the players heads is of the highest importance and then there are cheats like Mathieson doing everything possible to initiate high contact. 

I would have thought the AFLPA should be giving him and anyone using similar tactics a call if they are serious about player welfare. Someone will get seriously injured soon enough and only have themselves to blame. 

Bottom line. It's not in the spirit of footy!! Which surely means something. 

 

Edited May 25, 2016 by Knuckles

[Chris 2,892]

21 hours ago, Rhys Mathieson is a gun said:

You guys are all over reacting to a kid that dropped himself down twice not six times, being a brisbane supporter I agree that he did drop his knees but not all six times some were from sloppy tackles and one wasn't even from a high tackle it was an infringement after a mark. Maybe you should look into the Selwoods who have been getting away with it for years.

Hilarious, i gather that was actually comedy. 

Have a watch again and you will see he at the very least drops a shoulder and his body in every tackle. He played for the free every time. 

[picket fence 18,184]

On 5/22/2016 at 0:44 AM, Deespicable said:

Give him a break - the guy has a flawed technique and he was taught by Windows in the U18s.

If he persists with doing it, he'll end up being a regular concussion head - so it will be coached out of him - eventually.

 

Can't be too Flawed the umps LUUURVED IT!

[low flying Robbo 979]

Its not so much the dropping of the knees that did it for me. It was the throwing up of the arm.... Anyone on the Balcony would have noticed me blowing up about it every time. There was also a couple more that weren't paid because play had already stopped. I wish more players than just ANB had had a go at him for his cheating play

[Willmoy1947 4,261]

Wasn't this the bloke who was being touted as one of our more favored Draft Picks by some on this forum in the 2015 National draft. 

Obviously we all knew nothing about him then, but.......