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1 minute ago, Delusional demon 82 said:

Wonder if the Carlton doctor will provide evidence? 

Wouldn't that be icing on the cake? Hadn't even occurred to me but we're not the only club to fall victim of suspect Carlton medical reports.

 
Just now, SaberFang said:

Wouldn't that be icing on the cake? Hadn't even occurred to me but we're not the only club to fall victim of suspect Carlton medical reports.

Unlike the MRP at least the doctor is consistent!!!! 

1 minute ago, Delusional demon 82 said:

Wonder if the Carlton doctor will provide evidence? 

Oohh yeah and we know how good there evidence is. But because its danger they will help him.  It will be interesting to see if kruezer plays next week.  But the fact kruezer didn't come back on didn't help danger. 

 

I'm sure they'll push the concussion angle heavily (then Krruzer will line up next week, right as rain).

Same incredible recovery by Rowe after round 2, and Cripps' magically healed jaw fracture.

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Just now, SaberFang said:

I'm sure they'll push the concussion angle heavily (then Krruzer will line up next week, right as rain).

Hopefully ... would be awesome if the blues beat the bombers this week . Hopefully they can shaft Essendon finals hopes just like us last year ... all about consistency Carlton 


6 minutes ago, SFebey said:

Just looked like any other tackle that was unlucky to me. If people get rubbed out for those type of incidents then they may as well change the name to netball.

Pin both arms and turn a player over then you are putting the head at great danger...

The tag on the front AFL page says it all.  The issue is labelled "MRP Stunner" .  Surely given the past MRP decisions it would only be a 'stunner' if he wasn't charged.

I think Dusty will get more votes than Danger anyway...

...but not as many as Oliver  :cool:

 
34 minutes ago, Delusional demon 82 said:

Let's see how impartial Gerard whatleys summary of this is tonight on 360 ... I suspect words like low grade and careless ... bring in the legal team people 

Gerard was certainly not impartial on 774 this morning.  Clearly innocent according to Gerard

30 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think he will contest this and get off. This way the MRP can maintain it's "integrity" when he gets off and can still win the Brownlow. A win win for the "integrity" of the MRP, the AFL, & Channel 7. 

Exactly.

Highly paid QCs will destroy the AFL / tribunal case.

Opinionated little ferret is "Whatto"


He should accept and move on. He has a Brownlow anyway. If he appeals and gets off it will be a huge elephant in the room on Brownlow night. And if he wins again it will forever be tainted. The tribunal if clearing him will make a mockery to the justice delivered to every player who has payed the price for such crude tackles. 

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The News crews are currently camped outside Clarrie Oliver's house.

48 minutes ago, SaberFang said:

All orchestrated. They'll appeal to tribunal and he'll get off. It's just a transparent attempt at making the MRP look impartial.

Just like councils, who make builders take rennos to VCAT so the council hacks don't have to make a decision.

I will hold off celebrating until the appeal has been heard.

This smells of an AFL set up.  Give him a week as to not look corrupt... then 'lose' the case on appeal.

 

 


And Franklin gets off for nearly taking Hodge's head off.

Vince would've had the book thrown at him for that.

Drag queens everywhere will be beside themselves.

Except for Sam Newman.

 

So the MRP failed to make their weekly outrageous decision.

Fortunately the AFL have the tribunal as a backstop. They have planned for all contingencies.

A QC will claim that Danger did not in fact tackle Kruezer, as a matter of fact it wasn't even a game of Aussie Rules, that the MCG does not exist, that Danger himself does not exist and even if he did this very situation is in the Magna Carta.

The tribunal will find this credible and convincing and Danger lines up next week.

The tribunal members who managed to simultaneously find Steven Dank guilty of injecting drugs into Essendon players, and Essendon players not guilty of being injected by Steven Dank, have been roused from their cryogenic chamber deep below AFL house.

Sirens are sounding and the backup electrical system is in place. All rooms and corridors are bathed in red light. The PA is sounding a recorded message of a sonorous female voice. "Emergency. Proceed to tribunal hearing room. Emergency. Proceed to tribunal hearing room. Emergency ..."

Gil is alert but not alarmed. These heroes have pulled off the impossible before, some of them more than once. Will they once more be equal to the emergency?

One player gets one week for a dangerous tackle. Something that has happened many times before without the sky falling. Sometimes unfairly!

 

But now all of a sudden it happens and people want to change the Brownlow system?


Gill might change the rules this week to make all brownlow votes earned prior to any first suspension in one season count...he probably knows the 2017 tally...Danger can then go back-to-back!

2 hours ago, SaberFang said:

All orchestrated. They'll appeal to tribunal and he'll get off. It's just a transparent attempt at making the MRP look impartial.

My thoughts exactly. 

Whateley being laughably biased tonight on 360. Now bemoaning the "damaging" Carlton medical report, noting the similarity to the damaging Carlton medical reports that sunk Lewis and Hogan back in round 2.

So where was your [censored] outrage back then, Whateley? Or is that only relevant now it's affected the media darling Dangerfield? You didn't have a care in the world about either Hogan or Lewis getting extended suspensions as a direct result of those harsh medical reports -- and ever since you've happily gone along with the media line that Melbourne are  just unsociable.

Embarrassing.

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The entire footy media is now an embarrassment with their open biases and allegiances.

In "good old days" no one knew who anyone "barracked" for. Even ex-players on panel shows were straight up and down and for some it took me years to know who they had played for once upon a time.

Now it's considered acceptable and even laudable to parade their allegiances.

Generally it's not desirable or advisable to turn the clock back but this is one area where it was definitely better in "the good old days".

 

 

 

For bonus points, guess who it was that opened the flood gates on this cancer?

4 hours ago, Demonland said:

 Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think he will contest this and get off. This way the MRP can maintain it's "integrity" when he gets off and can still win the Brownlow. A win win for the "integrity" of the MRP, the AFL, & Channel 7. 

No conspiracy I'll be surprised if it doesn't happen 


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