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Some in the media won't be happy until they can make public whatever upset Petty without having any concern that that may be more upsetting to Petty than what happened on Friday night.

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11 minutes ago, binman said:

That was so, so bizarre.

I had a mate who went. A super passionate dees fan who makes Andylook optimistic.

I was speaking to him as he arrived and was saying what a a hole Zorko was, that he would look to stir up stuff and was a woeful captain.

He has form. Every single match.

I watched the replay last night's  I started watching from the first bounce live, so missed this- but on the replay as the lions run out of the stand I'm sure they had a pair of boxing gloves hanging above them sd they ran onto the fortunate. Several players hit them on the easy through.

I'm assuming they had some theme, maybe something like Rocky or whatever.

Pathetic.

And completely ineffective 

Those gloves have been there all season Bin. 

But no doubt they went the knuckle at any opportunity and they forgot about winning the footy. Totally backfired on them.

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4 minutes ago, sue said:

Some in the media won't be happy until they can make public whatever upset Petty without having any concern that that may be more upsetting to Petty than what happened on Friday night.

Absolutely - on the Herald Sun app, there is no report on the game, just two stories from last night: the Petty incident and BBB getting his face cut up. Real low quality stuff.

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11 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Jesus christ what the hell was said? The poor bloke was in tears and supposedly Alan Richardson gave one of their staff a serve a 3 quarter time according to Matthew Richardson. 

 

Must have been nasty.

He's as tough as they come. To make him cry ...a line was clearly crossed.

I heard a rumours it was something about a family member.

If so he's very loyal and protective.

 

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1 hour ago, The Jackson 6 said:

That’ll catch up with him

Hope so.

A man can't have feelings.

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2 minutes ago, Satan said:

So has Carro , Robbo , Damo  broken the story yet?They have had 11 hours to do so

Social media has. Whether it’s correct or not is another thing.

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22 minutes ago, Webber said:

Brown comes from the era of “if you’re someone who cries…a cry-baby, you shouldn’t be playing football”. It wasn’t that long ago, so things are changing rapidly. Listening to the game commentary - BT, Brayshaw, and then Riewoldt, Lyon and Brown in the after-match analysis, it really iterates how rank and stupid Brown’s macho-garbage attitude is. BT no stranger to this of course. As usual, Kayo-FOXTEL-7 are waaay behind the curve. The more we/viewers/other media call it out, the better. 
Nick Riewoldt, one the bravest yet least aggro players ever, nailed the Lions rubbish tough-rough idiocy perfectly, making the point that it doesn’t work, and always backfires. He was really the lone voice, and you can feel his discomfort with the tough boys club mentality that Brown represents. 
 

As to Zorko, it’s inexplicable to me that this guy is the Lions captain. His angry schoolyard ‘make it hurt’ physicality (typified by the headlock on Lingers) is simply anathema to leadership. That headlock should also have been punished by the umps.
 

I also want to praise Christian Petracca. EVERY single tussle and bit of aggro, he’s in there pulling guys away and talking them down (mostly Jack Viney!). His maturity and sense of responsibility for sportsmanship and fair play is unique. This club is extremely lucky to have him. Love the boy. 

Same with Max.

He could take down 3 or 4 players at once by himself but never does.

Plays footy not the man.

Poor lions they tried to rough as up and got eaten alive.

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11 hours ago, CYB said:

To rattle a bloke in the middle of game would have had to have said something quite sub human. 

Well it was zorko

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Chris Fagan has been good for Brisbane but it's an indictment on his leadership that he's had Beams then Zorko as captains.

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10 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

Same with Max.

He could take down 3 or 4 players at once by himself but never does.

Plays footy not the man.

Poor lions they tried to rough as up and got eaten alive.

Teams that deep down don't feel they can win tend to try to change the dynamic of the game by getting physical ... desperation ... they are our bunnies

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The mainstream media wouldn't be game to report what is on social media, it is so bad.

Even without seeing the social media we know by our club reaction that it was really bad.  We do things quietly be it complain about umpiring, accepting/fighting player suspensionsetc. 

Not this time.  Richardson and Goodwin were very upfront, direct and unequivocal about the incident.  And made a point of saying Brisbane apologised.

Huge kudos to them for publicly and strongly standing up for Petty and drawing a line under abuse. 

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41 minutes ago, binman said:

That was so, so bizarre.

I had a mate who went. A super passionate dees fan who makes Andylook optimistic.

I was speaking to him as he arrived and was saying what a a hole Zorko was, that he would look to stir up stuff and was a woeful captain.

He has form. Every single match.

I watched the replay last night's  I started watching from the first bounce live, so missed this- but on the replay as the lions run out of the stand I'm sure they had a pair of boxing gloves hanging above them sd they ran onto the fortunate. Several players hit them on the easy through.

I'm assuming they had some theme, maybe something like Rocky or whatever.

Pathetic.

And completely ineffective 

Riewoldt on Fox diagnosed it well; they were so riled up about ‘contested footy’ and how we have dominated them that they played distracted with ‘faux toughness.’

It made me really depressed for Fagan’s chances of sticking around post Tigers loss. I think it’s over.

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If Zorko actually said what he's supposed to have said he deserves a long ban. Absolutely disgusting remark. What a low life 

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24 minutes ago, old55 said:

Chris Fagan has been good for Brisbane but it's an indictment on his leadership that he's had Beams then Zorko as captains.

To a point, 1 finals win from 5 games over last 3 years. Not making top 4 this year and likely to be overtaken by Blues and Pies next year.

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enjoyed hearing Daisy/Goody praise his resilience for being able to reset and comeback on.  Lots of warriors bagging Petty on social media for being soft, bunch of absolute pelicans 

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1 hour ago, spirit of norm smith said:

I think James Brayshaw is very very biased against the Dees. Clearly barracked for Pies and Blues in recent games.

Johnathan (DS) Brown is a grub himself. Courageous at the footy but happy to swing his arm to the head on occasions. 
 

I was at the game and Zorko was the agitator.  Langdon runs him down, holding the ball and he proceeds to get Langdon in the head lock (no 50!!). Zorko is their skipper and wanted to rough the Dees up.  It backfired big time !! He was the super-grub last night.  

It actually shows that Brayshaw knows very little about footy and should stick to cricket, if he calls the serial sniper the victim.

You can also hear distinct barracking in his commentary.

Surely there is better out there. Does Huddo have a brother /sister?

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For all the criticism about our ‘apparent’ deteriorating culture and selfishness, last night all I saw was a single united club playing and supporting each other. 

 

Jonathan Brown’s comment is extremely disappointing. As a senior commentator, influential figure in the sport, a father and a 40 year old man, he should have been much more considered in his commentary - particularly given it was known from the outset to be something inflammatory about a family member and Petty is a young 22 year old. I think he behaved completely appropriately in the circumstances.

In addition to their focus of mental health, inclusiveness, women and on field behaviour, Brown and Fox Sports should immediately apologise to Petty, and the AFL investigate the incident.

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49 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

The mainstream media wouldn't be game to report what is on social media, it is so bad.

Even without seeing the social media we know by our club reaction that it was really bad.  We do things quietly be it complain about umpiring, accepting/fighting player suspensionsetc. 

Not this time.  Richardson and Goodwin were very upfront, direct and unequivocal about the incident.  And made a point of saying Brisbane apologised.

Huge kudos to them for publicly and strongly standing up for Petty and drawing a line under abuse. 

This one million percent.

I'm so proud of the staff and the players.

That's real toughness.

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