I’m more your Blue Nun man, me

54 minutes ago, Wrecker45 said:

This is the biggest non story.

I have a cousin who played with May at the GC. He thinks May will be a dominator for us fwiw. There are team rules and common sense.

Not drinking in short term injuries for a quick turn around is fine but if you are suffering a longer injury, as long as you are not binging it makes no difference, infact it is probably good for their mental health.

i was slammed from pillar to post for saying Weid was not up to it after is break out game in the finals. He simply isn’t a good enough mark for his body size and has no tricks.

May is the opposite he will be a superstar.

 

Going to be a superstar??? Isnt he already 27yhrs of age. Want to hurry up.

54 minutes ago, Beetle said:

Speaking of drinking sessions, thought this might lighten the mood a little...

Thats very funny beetle.

Barrett: Demons' stance on May is control gone mad

I don't fully agree with Purple, but I have some sympathy for his view.  I'm probably somewhere in the middle.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-05-07/barrett-demons-stance-on-may-is-control-gone-mad

1 hour ago, Wrecker45 said:

Bring back Daniher, send all the boys on a weekend on the [censored] and let us all reload.

Let the players let their hair down I say ... all the regimented stuff stifles creativity and flamboyance. 

We've got a list of players who can play footy now but I reckon we may well be getting caught up with the peripheral stuff. 

And people wonder why we have an illicit drugs and/or mental health issues with AFL players. 

We end up driving these young men into transgressing in private.  It ends up being their preferred choice.

Are players in long term rehab allowed to have 1 glass of red wine with a nice steak dinner at a decent restaurant?  Apparently not. 

This whole silly saga is starting to amuse me Wrecker.

Edited May 7, 20196 yr by Macca

12 minutes ago, ProDee said:

Barrett: Demons' stance on May is control gone mad

I don't fully agree with Purple, but I have some sympathy for his view.  I'm probably somewhere in the middle.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-05-07/barrett-demons-stance-on-may-is-control-gone-mad

I can't stand Barrett but I'm closer to his opinion than the opposite.

If it had been Joel Smith having the beer, not May, this story and thread wouldn't exist. 

8 hours ago, Smokey said:

I took a sick day from work today and had a glass of wine with lunch.

Go ahead, roast me demonland. 

Red or white?

1 hour ago, ProDee said:

I do find it amusing that you can't verbalise what you don't like.

Not entirely surprising.

People love to bandy about criticisms, but when they're asked to actually articulate what they mean they can't.

I'll move on.  ?

I verbalized my opinion on a piece of work quite plainly. 

You seem to be somewhere else...

I met Tom Morris at the bar at the Light Brigade Hotel in Sydney moments before the commencement of the preliminary final against West Coast last year.

I recognised him (I think from On The Couch), but I otherwise had no idea who he was. I was wearing a Demons scarf. He introduced himself - he was very friendly and he said he supported the Dees. I think we both said words to the effect “Go Dees”, literally minutes before being humiliated in a packed bar of 10k West Coast supporters. It was tres ordinaire. I nearly necked myself.

Since then, I’ve come to watch Tom Morris on tv. While I don’t know him from a bar of soap, I would say that he’s probably a relatively good natured dude, and that he likes the Dees - but he’s desperate to break stories even if they are kind of weak and not in the interest of the club he purportedly supports. In short, he wants to be relevant.

That’s journalism I suppose.

Surely this story, while not especially flattering to Steven May, is not particularly newsworthy.

I.e. it’s s*#t.

42 minutes ago, ProDee said:

Barrett: Demons' stance on May is control gone mad

I don't fully agree with Purple, but I have some sympathy for his view.  I'm probably somewhere in the middle.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-05-07/barrett-demons-stance-on-may-is-control-gone-mad

I think Barrett’s article shows how out of touch he is. Barrett makes a lot of money producing crap journalism but the riches he has may have gone to his head and his sense of reason.

If you are on $700k a year then you will do most anything that your employer says because with that kind of money comes extraordinary responsibility. Steven May agreed to follow team rules and that includes not drinking whilst recovering from injury. If he is silly enough to do it in public and he has agreed to follow team rules then he needs to cop it.

7 minutes ago, Thehardtackler said:

I think Barrett’s article shows how out of touch he is. Barrett makes a lot of money producing crap journalism but the riches he has may have gone to his head and his sense of reason.

If you are on $700k a year then you will do most anything that your employer says because with that kind of money comes extraordinary responsibility. Steven May agreed to follow team rules and that includes not drinking whilst recovering from injury. If he is silly enough to do it in public and he has agreed to follow team rules then he needs to cop it.

What a strange little article from Barrett

May is on Big Coin and is a needed player who is injured...

he hasn’t been sanctioned, but now knows exactly where he stands

Wow, we are on page 11 of this topic. I was disappointed with May, but in hindsight, learning about his personal problems and now that he has apologized for his "indiscretion" and wants to move on, I am glad he only had a few beers with a couple of mates instead of staying home alone and swallowing some pills to deal with his problems. Let's hope he gets the support he needs from Melbourne and he can get stuck into some hard work as a way to take his mind off things with his team mates around him.

And beware of anyone with a mobile phone in their hands. They can be deadly weapons.

Good sense.

 

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/may-your-news-be-good-news-20190507-p51kyg.html

6 hours ago, ProDee said:

Haha

Sorry to hurt your feelings, kid.

All good, Spot. 

Maintain the rage. 

16 minutes ago, Redlagged said:

Good sense.

 

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/may-your-news-be-good-news-20190507-p51kyg.html

Yes. Perspective. Could have been much worse. 

Connor Rozee would be handy about now.

May is damaged goods, has a Mitch Clark smell-esque going on.

When the chips are down and the news is bad the Village idiot never disappoints with an appearance on Demonland with his/her/it's hindsight input

30 minutes ago, olisik said:

Connor Rozee would be handy about now.

May is damaged goods, has a Mitch Clark smell-esque going on.

Except Rozee went at 5 and we had pick 6 which ended up being King, who is yet to get a game

Edited May 7, 20196 yr by Moonshadow

Melbourne players and coaches reprimanding him for having a beer I can understand; Melbourne fans and AFL fans reprimanding him is depressing.

 

1 hour ago, Thehardtackler said:

I think Barrett’s article shows how out of touch he is. Barrett makes a lot of money producing crap journalism but the riches he has may have gone to his head and his sense of reason.

 

Do ya think.
Purple's a [censored] who floats innuendo hoping it gains traction.

Steven  May knows what he has done, just hope that his personal problems don't affect him mentally. Not to be scrutinised now.  However give him the time to prepare and  hopefully plays well and for the reasons he was bought to the club.                                              

Who hasn't  made mistakes in life ?  Forgiven for now.

 

May looks to be struggling to run at training.  Might even be walking with a limp.  (Could just be my MFCSS)

 

https://www.afl.com.au/video/2019-05-07/steven-may-speaks-danger-doubt-giants-not-spooked

5 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

May looks to be struggling to run at training.  Might even be walking with a limp.  (Could just be my MFCSS)

 

https://www.afl.com.au/video/2019-05-07/steven-may-speaks-danger-doubt-giants-not-spooked

Don’t worry, he’s just drunk.

25 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Don’t worry, he’s just drunk.

Thanks ET, thats a relief.

This reminds me a lot of dartgate last year. The club’s message has basically been “we know you’re going through some stuff, we’re behind you, but please try not to get caught next time”.

I was annoyed about this at first, but no club sanction at all tells me all I need to know about how big a deal this is.

And as always, big thumbs down to the tool who took the photo and ran to the media with it.