32 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

That's a bit weak.  It wasn't excessive, it was plain wrong.  Excessive implies there was something in it.

48 minutes ago, sue said:

That's a bit weak.  It wasn't excessive, it was plain wrong.  Excessive implies there was something in it.

Funnily enough, I thought the use of the word "excessive" was deliberate. Basically saying those commentators were guilty of hyperbole, that is, the commentary equivalent of staging.

54 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

It beggars belief that it's just been glossed over. As you correctly identify it's a very dangerous thing to do. The AFL and media lapdogs at their 'finest'. ?

Yeah well thats what gets me BB....ok there wasnt a big force behind the strike, but there doesnt need to be. In fact you can easily kill somebody without any trouble break a windpipe etc....

I thought players were supposed to be role models in a sense and not cross that line. This is about education for young players and schoolkids etc. Should have been cited immediately and singled out.

1 hour ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Has Jessie refused interviews, dc?  Maybe the club (rightly) protected his privacy a bit last year and kept him away from the media and he is known to be very private. 

But gee, if media folk can't tell the difference between a private person and a difficult person then they are lower and dumber than I thought they were. 

I'm just glad we have Lewis and Gawn (our two vice captains) with regular media gigs who can speak up on mfc matters.  Helps balance the scales a little bit.

i don't know if he does, lucy, but i was just making the general point of how much the sports media need the players and access to them. blowing up trivial matters, telling a player he should be ashamed etc etc on flimsy evidence when it is mostly unnecessary does them no good in the long term. there have been a number of star players who have/had a black-list of media people they don't talk to. and even if they do talk to certain reporters they give them nothing. not a good move by a reporter in such a competitive industry to get too personal about players unless they are on very very safe ground 

4 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

Yeah well thats what gets me BB....ok there wasnt a big force behind the strike, but there doesnt need to be. In fact you can easily kill somebody without any trouble break a windpipe etc....

I thought players were supposed to be role models in a sense and not cross that line. This is about education for young players and schoolkids etc. Should have been cited immediately and singled out.

Also there was absolutely no need for this kind of thing... It wasnt in general play with one player 'rough-housing'.  It was a malicious assault.

Push someone over...yeah.. whatever...

Striking intentionally at the throat ??

Someone touches an ump ( hardly confronting...but yes ..a no -no ...but hardly....ooooooh...end of world...

Chop to the throat.... nothing

Smack to the head......nothing

Response from AFL....crickets !!!

Absolutely pathetic as others rightly point out.

Speaking of the pathetic media,  here is private citizen and recovering addict Ben Cousins being accosted today out the front of his home for no reason at all by the parasites at Channel 9.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/ben-cousins-has-reportedly-left-the-west-coast-eagles/news-story/b2cfb7018952679cb44b26483c8c196e

They should be arrested for crap like this.

Edited May 9, 20187 yr by Petraccattack

5 hours ago, beelzebub said:

Also there was absolutely no need for this kind of thing... It wasnt in general play with one player 'rough-housing'.  It was a malicious assault.

Push someone over...yeah.. whatever...

Striking intentionally at the throat ??

Someone touches an ump ( hardly confronting...but yes ..a no -no ...but hardly....ooooooh...end of world...

Chop to the throat.... nothing

Smack to the head......nothing

Response from AFL....crickets !!!

Absolutely pathetic as others rightly point out.

Nailed it.

On 5/7/2018 at 4:29 PM, Redleg said:

Jetta was punched in the face by Dunstan,  with the umpire right there. No reversal. No free. No report. No nothing.

 

What stage of what querater was that? I'd like to watch it to see how bad it was...

16 minutes ago, dieter said:

What stage of what querater was that? I'd like to watch it to see how bad it was...

Me too. 

40 minutes ago, dieter said:

What stage of what querater was that? I'd like to watch it to see how bad it was...

Early stages of the third. From memory, right after Membrey took a mark on Jetta near the goal square.

Edit: Apologies for jumping in, just realised you were quoting another member.

Edited May 9, 20187 yr by Dee Zephyr

Nothing to see here ... move along.

Forget the Hype,

The greatest mistake was Jesse's smart arse Aloof shot at goal from the free kick!

Should have gone with set shot routine, rather than fancy around the corner extravagant efforts! 

I don't have to remind anyone that we missed out on finals by barest of margins!

So lets get serious and nail those goals!

4 hours ago, picket fence said:

Forget the Hype,

The greatest mistake was Jesse's smart arse Aloof shot at goal from the free kick!

Should have gone with set shot routine, rather than fancy around the corner extravagant efforts! 

I don't have to remind anyone that we missed out on finals by barest of margins!

So lets get serious and nail those goals!

Fancy and extravagant... is this 1969? It’s a basic skill that anyone could execute from the time they pick up a footy. He was just as likely to miss a drop punt. [censored] happens. 

1 hour ago, Deestroy All said:

Fancy and extravagant... is this 1969? It’s a basic skill that anyone could execute from the time they pick up a footy. He was just as likely to miss a drop punt. [censored] happens. 

Max says hello !

9 hours ago, Deestroy All said:

Fancy and extravagant... is this 1969? It’s a basic skill that anyone could execute from the time they pick up a footy. He was just as likely to miss a drop punt. [censored] happens. 

I disagree. Running straight at the goals and kicking a drop punt from that distance and that angle would be much more likely to be accurate than a round-the-corner attempt.

The bloke was probably trying to see through the red mist, having just been grabbed by the throat. It didn’t look to me to be a shot from someone relaxed and thinking through the shot.

Any excuse to bag him though eh?

15 minutes ago, Nasher said:

The bloke was probably trying to see through the red mist, having just been grabbed by the throat. It didn’t look to me to be a shot from someone relaxed and thinking through the shot.

Any excuse to bag him though eh?

You taking the Michael surely.

He, whilst obviously a little rattled , had got back to his feet...hand presence of mind for a little bro tapwith Tommy.. swaggers past idiot Carlisle...and lairises with a silly inappropriate kick.

You know.. some things just are.. and he stuffed up.  That was a monty 7 days a week.

There's two aspects to the event, Carlisle's dog act.....and Jesse kicking like one

2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I disagree. Running straight at the goals and kicking a drop punt from that distance and that angle would be much more likely to be accurate than a round-the-corner attempt.

that comparison depends totally on the player

but on the average i'd say not much difference between the 2 options

Happy that Patton/Watson/McCartin/Boyd are in the spotlight ATM, feels like the focus has moved away from Jesse, thankfully, the incident is now firmly in the rearview. Jesse I think has really earn't some pats on the back for dealing with all the grief thrown at him and also his body language on the field has also improved out of sight. I seriously wouldn't swap him for any of these other 4.

37 minutes ago, DaisyDeeciple said:

Happy that Patton/Watson/McCartin/Boyd are in the spotlight ATM, feels like the focus has moved away from Jesse, thankfully, the incident is now firmly in the rearview. Jesse I think has really earn't some pats on the back for dealing with all the grief thrown at him and also his body language on the field has also improved out of sight. I seriously wouldn't swap him for any of these other 4.

I wouldn't even swap him for all of those other 4.

Time to move on? 

Slow news day? 

4 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I wouldn't even swap him for all of those other 4.

not even if i toss in a bag of chips?

19 hours ago, picket fence said:

Forget the Hype,

The greatest mistake was Jesse's smart arse Aloof shot at goal from the free kick!

Should have gone with set shot routine, rather than fancy around the corner extravagant efforts! 

I don't have to remind anyone that we missed out on finals by barest of margins!

So lets get serious and nail those goals!

Timely reminder, well done. Every goal counts after last season.