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Jake Melksham to miss Round 13

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Surgery for an infection after 3 days?

No. 

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    Infection after 3 days from hitting a bloke in the mouth and getting a penetrating injury from the teeth.

    Absolutely possible and serious if that's what happened.

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    clarification

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    Did May have a mark on him in that video he did apologising? Melk probably missed and punched the wall, stuffing up his hand 

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    I'd say this sounds like a plotline from Dumb and Dumber, but I have the feeling that there is more to play out here and that we'll be crowning someone Dumbest of all the Dumb Dumbs by the end of the week.

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    2 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    Another consequence of Steven May’s actions ~

    Melksham to miss Round 13

    "Another consequence of Steven May’s Melksham's actions "  -  so did May bite his hand?  Surely if one choses to punch and injures your hand it is not the fault of the guy who is hit.

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    Yep diddnt come out of his corner at the bell for the start of  round 13........

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    3 hours ago, Bates Mate said:

    Not sure what part you think is missing. They where drinking, a verbal turned to physical end of story. Feel for the other punters in the restaurant no one should have to be around that behaviour when eating out. Seriously thuggish behaviour all around by adults who should know better. Melksham has small kids at home and here he is drinking and punching a teammate on a Sunday night.

    Not only a team mate, but one getting over concussion, from a previous hit to the head. Actually assaulted someone for a verbal barb. Pretty great all round.

    I think Jake might have played  his last AFL game for us, considering his last two games and on top of this incident.

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    1 hour ago, frankie_d said:

    Infection after 3 days from hitting a bloke in the mouth and getting a penetrating injury from the teeth.

    Absolutely possible and serious if that's what happened.

    Infection can set in rapidly. For a Demons example, I saw Rod Grinter at a party the night he clocked Terry Wallace. His hand was infected & had already swelled up like a soccer ball. It caused Grinter to miss the following week (while Wallace played)

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    11 minutes ago, Go the Biff said:

    Infection can set in rapidly. For a Demons example, I saw Rod Grinter at a party the night he clocked Terry Wallace. His hand was infected & had already swelled up like a soccer ball. It caused Grinter to miss the following week (while Wallace played)

    yes but Wallace was a dog 

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    What May said is brutal but in my view not something a reasonably well adjusted adult and father should consider punchworthy. Particularly when that somebody is supposedly a close mate. 

    Bizarre and I suspect more to it than just that sledge. Hope I am wrong and for now will assume I am.

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    37 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    Not only a team mate, but one getting over concussion, from a previous hit to the head. Actually assaulted someone for a verbal barb. Pretty great all round.

    I think Jake might have played  his last AFL game for us, considering his last two games and on top of this incident.

    Agree. Shameful all round. Worse that these are 30 year old supposed leaders, not teenagers!   

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    4 minutes ago, Dee*ceiving said:

    What May said is brutal but in my view not something a reasonably well adjusted adult and father should consider punchworthy. Particularly when that somebody is supposedly a close mate. 

    Bizarre and I suspect more to it than just that sledge. Hope I am wrong and for now will assume I am.

    I don't know what you think May said, but in Gawn's press conference he said that the Grand Final comment in the media was not true.

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    26 minutes ago, Dee*ceiving said:

    What May said is brutal but in my view not something a reasonably well adjusted adult and father should consider punchworthy. Particularly when that somebody is supposedly a close mate. 

    Bizarre and I suspect more to it than just that sledge. Hope I am wrong and for now will assume I am.

    Take that back, irrelvant now Max has said that quote about the GF was all nonsense. 

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    21 minutes ago, ManDee said:

    I don't know what you think May said, but in Gawn's press conference he said that the Grand Final comment in the media was not true.

    Yep, just saw that myself. Retracted...

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    1 minute ago, Dee*ceiving said:

    Take that back, irrelvant now Max has said that quote about the GF was all nonsense. 

    DeeCving, the problem for me is that it may have been worse.

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    2 hours ago, Billy said:

    This is what we have to put up with these days with social media 

    Club & players have to pull their heads in or not he rumours will start flying 

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    If people are stupid enough to not think this is ridiculous, then that's their problem.

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    8 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

    I’ll miss his 5 possessions and zero tackles. 

    Me too... though at the same time still remember the season he had in 2018 where he became one of our most important and reliable players.  Fell off a cliff after that though or maybe the evolution of our game plan meant there was no longer a role for him.

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    4 hours ago, hardtack said:

    Maybe he’s a fan of Zidane?

    or Alistair Lynch and Carl Ditterich.

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    4 hours ago, ManDee said:

    DeeCving, the problem for me is that it may have been worse.

    Agree. In fact it almost surely was. 

    But i also take on face value that they've both manned up, admitted they've made major mistakes and have buried the hatchet. 

    If you've read Max's diary from last year he spent quite a time describing the way the whole club has tried to lift the way they talk to eachother. With more respect and less denigration. He says its still not perfect but it's a lot better, and he referenced that in the press conference today. The whole club has matured, a lot, this is a setback no doubt, but also a teaching moment. 

    Let's see what they do with it...

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