Jump to content

Clayton Oliver incident

brendan
brendan
in Melbourne Demons

Featured Replies

  On 10/07/2017 at 10:05, Return to Glory said:

Wiseblood, I want a club official, media manager standing next to a nineteen year old player. I watched that press conference and they did try and trip him up.

Prudence should dictate that. 

Of course many of the 4th estate will try their little figs etc to get a rise get that headline etc. 

Again, as distasteful as it seems to me this club doesn't have the back of many of its charges.

The MFC still strikes me ( unfortunately) as naive. 

You can still box clever whilst protecting the young.

  • Quote
    •  
      On 10/07/2017 at 11:26, Nasher said:

    The ironic thing about the diving thing is that Vince did one of the lamest, most blatant stages I've ever seen, in a period of the game where there was actually something to gain by doing it, and I literally have not seen or heard it mentioned anywhere. I suppose nobody actually punched him in the face, so there's no actual crime we can blame him for.

    Tim Watson got stuck into him on Talking Footy

    The difference is that Vince isn't a young up-and-coming star that everyone wants to bring down so no one really cares.

  • Quote
      On 10/07/2017 at 06:15, McQueen said:

    Wow, you gloated about reading faster than a sixteen year old but contribute this?

    You take yourself far too seriously

  • Quote
    •  
      On 10/07/2017 at 08:31, Demon17 said:

    You must be joking.  The club has done 2 things right - again..

    1.  Got it off the back page in 24 hours - you won't read about it after a small article tomorrow reporting the apology -  PR Rule No.1 .

    Any other action would give the story legs.

    2. Then  - they wheeled out the best team member to handle todays' presser - Jordan Lewis, who put it all in context, and again hammered the " culture" issue as laughable in a contemptible manner. And why was he the best you asked? - because no-one doubts a 4 time premiership player on what successful culture looks like.

    Great media management today, we won the 4 points and Clarry will live to fight another day in Darwin and get 3 Brownlow votes next week,

     

    and conversely to what the Blues banner said about us........

    They can book THEIR September trip to Noosa instead of me. I'll have commitments at the ' G ' .

     

     

    I was wrong. 

    The Age this morning has NOTHING on the issue.  Move on everyone. Clarry quite rightly apologised in a 'non- apolgy ' manner .

    "I didn't threaten him, did I?"  he said looking sideways to his advisor.

    Brilliant repartee. Good on him. Another 30 possies this week coming up.

    Well managed by MFC media department.

  • Quote

    One, or several of us should write a little letter to the Carlton Football Club complaining about this man making physical contact with a player on the ground with a copy to the AFL CEO and to the MCC if it was in the MCC section. This is the way to get some real action such as him losing his membership or being banned.

  • Quote

    http://www.afl.com.au/tickets/conditions-of-entry

    Conditions of entry to an AFL venue

    NOTICE TO ALL PATRONS

    It is a condition of entry to the Venue (including all areas under owner or hirer, the “Venue”) for matches forming part of the Australian Football League’s season that patrons agree: 

    16. not to do any of the following in the Venue or around: 

    (e) disrupt, interrupt or behave in any manner that may disrupt or interrupt any of the matches or other activities at the Venue, distract, hinder or interfere with a player, interfere with the comfort of other patrons on their enjoyment of any of the matches or other activities at the Venue; 

    (f) use indecent or obscene language or threatening or Insulting words, or otherwise behave in a threatening, abusive, riotous, indecent or insulting manner; 

     

    Should have been ejected if the AFL are serious about enforcing the above.

     

     

  • Quote
      On 11/07/2017 at 00:06, GM11 said:

     

    Should have been ejected if the AFL are serious about enforcing the above.

    Good luck witht that. The AFL doesn't even try to enforce the rules of the game or it's poicies about players belting each other unless it suits.

  • Quote
      On 11/07/2017 at 00:06, GM11 said:

    http://www.afl.com.au/tickets/conditions-of-entry

    Conditions of entry to an AFL venue

    NOTICE TO ALL PATRONS

    It is a condition of entry to the Venue (including all areas under owner or hirer, the “Venue”) for matches forming part of the Australian Football League’s season that patrons agree: 

    16. not to do any of the following in the Venue or around: 

    (e) disrupt, interrupt or behave in any manner that may disrupt or interrupt any of the matches or other activities at the Venue, distract, hinder or interfere with a player, interfere with the comfort of other patrons on their enjoyment of any of the matches or other activities at the Venue; 

    (f) use indecent or obscene language or threatening or Insulting words, or otherwise behave in a threatening, abusive, riotous, indecent or insulting manner; 

     

    Should have been ejected if the AFL are serious about enforcing the above.

     

     

    Nice piece of research there. I totally agree....however if they enforced rule 16 (f), then Carlton supporters wouldn't be able to attend at all.

  • Quote
    •  
      On 11/07/2017 at 00:27, Wadda We Sing said:

    Nice piece of research there. I totally agree....however if they enforced rule 16 (f), then Carlton supporters wouldn't be able to attend at all.

    The problem with that is ? 

  • Quote

    Thanks GM11 

     Im currently roughing up my letter to the club. That's a very timely reference. 

  • Quote

      On 10/07/2017 at 14:46, Wadda We Sing said:

    I'm sorry but this is absolutely correct. Clarrys momentum took him to the fence as par the course of the game. The moron stood up and clearly pushed him back....it doesn't matter how hard or soft it was. Its unacceptable that a fan can have any physical contact with a player.

    Yep, he was just big noting, take the bloody seats off him and his tribe for good.

  • Quote
      On 10/07/2017 at 22:38, yoSMOKIE said:

    You take yourself far too seriously

    Don't worry about me. I was merely pointing out your own set of standards and whether they were age related.

  • Quote
      On 11/07/2017 at 00:38, beelzebub said:

    Thanks GM11 

     Im currently roughing up my letter to the club. That's a very timely reference. 

    Don't forget to include that they were "some fringe religious group originally" anyway.......

  • Quote
      On 11/07/2017 at 00:59, McQueen said:

    Don't worry about me. I was merely pointing out your own set of standards and whether they were age related.

    I guess I should've known that my tongue-in-cheek comment would be taken as gospel by some ... classic DL

     

     

  • Quote

    Just watching the replay and I noticed that the mate of that delicate flower tried to restrain him at one point. Obviously knows he's an idiot.   I too am disappointed the club did not add a comment to the apology saying spectators should endeavour not to make contact with a player whose momentum carries them into the fence.   No direct accusation but we know what that means and pretty safe from prolonging the coverage.

  • Quote

      On 11/07/2017 at 00:38, beelzebub said:

    Thanks GM11 

     Im currently roughing up my letter to the club. That's a very timely reference. 

    Settle down, BB!  Why are you taking out your anger on your letter?  What did it do to you to deserve being "roughed up" by you?  Pick on something more your size in future, please!  LOL

  • Quote
      On 11/07/2017 at 01:32, Vagg said:

    Settle down, BB!  Why are you taking out your anger on your letter?  What did it do to you to deserve being "roughed up" by you?  Pick on something more your size in future, please!  LOL

    You're dead right. Any excuse would be marginal at best.

  • Quote
      On 11/07/2017 at 00:06, GM11 said:

    http://www.afl.com.au/tickets/conditions-of-entry

    Conditions of entry to an AFL venue

    NOTICE TO ALL PATRONS

    It is a condition of entry to the Venue (including all areas under owner or hirer, the “Venue”) for matches forming part of the Australian Football League’s season that patrons agree: 

    16. not to do any of the following in the Venue or around: 

    (e) disrupt, interrupt or behave in any manner that may disrupt or interrupt any of the matches or other activities at the Venue, distract, hinder or interfere with a player, interfere with the comfort of other patrons on their enjoyment of any of the matches or other activities at the Venue; 

    (f) use indecent or obscene language or threatening or Insulting words, or otherwise behave in a threatening, abusive, riotous, indecent or insulting manner; 

     

    Should have been ejected if the AFL are serious about enforcing the above.

     

     

    Sorry GM - you must be new to AFL as you appear to be expressing surprise that the AFL are being very selective in enforcing their own rules.   Par for the course IMO.

  • Quote

    Thing is. Oliver didn't run away. The  Club and the AFL did .

  • Quote
      On 11/07/2017 at 02:47, Ethan Tremblay said:

    7piUuuk.gif&hash=5d7bf7fa0c44478c0b1072a

    (Stolen from the interweb)

    Oliver didn't run away, he fired back at the [censored]! This gif is horrible and obviously made by a troll off a Blues forum.

  • Quote
      On 11/07/2017 at 03:12, beelzebub said:

    Thing is. Oliver didn't run away. The  Club and the AFL did .

     Our media department have not exactly covered themselves in glory over the last month. Poor is the nicest thing I can say about them.

  • Quote
    •  

    Archived

    This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

    Go to topic listing

    Featured Content

    • FEATURE: 1925

      A hundred years ago today, on 2 May 1925, Melbourne kicked off the new season with a 47 point victory over St Kilda to take top place on the VFL ladder after the opening round of the new season.  Top place was a relatively unknown position for the team then known as the “Fuchsias.” They had finished last in 1923 and rose by only one place in the following year although the final home and away round heralded a promise of things to come when they surprised the eventual premiers Essendon. That victory set the stage for more improvement and it came rapidly. In this series, I will tell the story of how the 1925 season unfolded for the Melbourne Football Club and how it made the VFL finals for the first time in a decade on the way to the ultimate triumph a year later.

        • Love
        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 0 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • PREVIEW: West Coast

      Saturday’s election night game in Perth between the West Coast Eagles and Melbourne represents 18th vs 15th which makes it a tough decision as to which party to favour. The Eagles have yet to break the ice under their new coach in Andrew McQualter who is the second understudy in a row to confront Demon Coach Simon Goodwin who was also winless until a fortnight ago. On that basis, many punters might be considering to go with the donkey vote but I’ve been assigned with the task of helping readers to come to a considered opinion on this matter of vital importance across the nation. It was almost a year ago that I wrote a preview here of the Demons’ away game against the Eagles (under the name William from Waalitj because it was Indigenous Round).  I issued a warning that it was a danger game, based on my local knowledge that the home team were no longer easybeats and that they possessed a wunderkind generational player in Harley Reid who was capable of producing stellar performances playing among men a decade and more older than he.  At the time, the Eagles already had two wins off the back of a couple of the young man’s masterclasses and they had recently given the Bombers a scare straight after their Anzac Day blockbuster draw against the then reigning premiers.

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 1 reply
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • NON-MFC: Round 08

      Round 08 of the 2025 AFL Season kicks off on Thursday with a must-win game for the Bombers to stay in touch with the top eight, while the struggling Roos seek a morale-boosting upset. Friday sees the Saints desperate for a win as well if they are to stay in finals contention and their opponents the Dockers will be eager to crack in to the Top 8 with a win on the road. Saturday kicks off with a pivotal clash for both sides asthe Bulldogs look to solidify their top-eight spot, while Port seeks to shake their pretender tag. Then the Crows will be looking to steady their topsy turvy season against a resurgent Blues looking to make it 4 wins on the trot. On Election Night a Blockbuster will see the ladder-leading Pies take on the Cats, who are keen to bounce back after a narrow loss. On Sunday the Sydney Derby promises fireworks as the Giants aim to cement their top-eight status, while the Swans fight to keep their season alive. The Hawks, celebrating their centenary, will be looking to easily account for the Tigers who are desperate to halt their slide. The Round concludes on Sunday Night with a top end of the table QClash with significant ladder implications; both Queensland teams are in scintillating form. Who are you tipping this week and what are the best results for the Demons?

      • 67 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • PREGAME: West Coast

      The Demons hit the road in Round 8, heading to Perth to face the West Coast Eagles at Optus Stadium. With momentum building, the Dees will be aiming for a third straight victory to keep their season revival on course. Who comes in and who goes out?

        • Thanks
      • 539 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • REPORT: Richmond

      The fans who turned up to the MCG for Melbourne’s Anzac Day Eve clash against Richmond would have been disappointed if they turned up to see a great spectacle. As much as this was a night for the 71,635 in attendance to commemorate heroes of the nation’s past wars, it was also a time for the Melbourne Football Club to consolidate upon its first win after a horrific start to the 2025 season. On this basis, despite the fact that it was an uninspiring and dour struggle for most of its 100 minutes, the night will be one for the fans to remember. They certainly got value out of the pre match activity honouring those who fought for their country. The MCG and the lights of the city as backdrop was made for nights such as these and, in my view, we received a more inspirational ceremony of Anzac culture than others both here and elsewhere around the country. 

        • Love
        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 0 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • CASEY: Richmond

      The match up of teams competing in our great Aussie game at its second highest level is a rarity for a work day Thursday morning but the blustery conditions that met the players at a windswept Casey Fields was something far more commonplace.They turned the opening stanza between the Casey Demons and a somewhat depleted Richmond VFL into a mess of fumbling unforced errors, spilt marks and wasted opportunities for both sides but they did set up a significant win for the home team which is exactly what transpired on this Anzac Day round opener. Casey opened up strong against the breeze with the first goal to Aidan Johnson, the Tigers quickly responded and the game degenerated into a defensive slog and the teams were level when the first siren sounded.

        • Clap
        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 0 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland
    View All