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Clarry Act of Sportsmanship against Carlton

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Voted the most selfless player in our premiership year. Rolled Brayshaw onto his side before the trainers or medical staff did when Brayshaw was unconcious. He epitomises what is great about our club.

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    Also noted Joel Smith's sincere concern for Weitering after the throat knock. Lingered with him, patiently helped him up. The body language was eloquent.

    We're definitely the good guys. Will make climbing to being great again all the sweeter.

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    14 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

    We're definitely the good guys. Will make climbing to being great again all the sweeter.

    I know Kozzie broke his nose and Clarry kindly told him to wipe the blood off his face

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    21 minutes ago, SthSea22 said:

    Is it a sign of weakness?

    no. it’s the opposite. 

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    2 minutes ago, Wells 11 said:

    no. it’s the opposite. 

    Maybe i am old school in regard to Oliver's act 

    Could it wait until after the game? Maybe he was thinking of Cripps when he gave away that 50 

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    There is a middle way. Point it out neither to Cripps nor to the umpire.   

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    36 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

    Also noted Joel Smith's sincere concern for Weitering after the throat knock. Lingered with him, patiently helped him up. The body language was eloquent.

    We're definitely the good guys. Will make climbing to being great again all the sweeter.

    That doesn't fit in with the short sighted narrative that you need to be ruthless to win matches/premierships!

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    54 minutes ago, SthSea22 said:

    Maybe i am old school in regard to Oliver's act 

    Could it wait until after the game? Maybe he was thinking of Cripps when he gave away that 50 

    Yabbie Jeans used to tell his players to lick blood off themselves so the opposition couldn't see them bleed. Thats old school.

    Clarry is the ultimate competitor and didn't care it was their captain and the bloke playing on him he still was backing himself to win. Would have won us the game too ig Gawn didnt touch it

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    2 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    Also noted Joel Smith's sincere concern for Weitering after the throat knock. Lingered with him, patiently helped him up. The body language was eloquent.

    We're definitely the good guys. Will make climbing to being great again all the sweeter.

    I don't know if this has been brought up (sorry if it has somewhere else but ice buried my head in the sand after Friday).

    How Weitering wasn't taken off or put under concussion protocol astounds me. He shouldnt be playing this week.

    Rules for some different rules for others? The AFL is corrupt 

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    1 hour ago, Cheap Seats said:

    I don't know if this has been brought up (sorry if it has somewhere else but ice buried my head in the sand after Friday).

    How Weitering wasn't taken off or put under concussion protocol astounds me. He shouldnt be playing this week.

    Rules for some different rules for others? The AFL is corrupt 

    If Smith hadn't have helped him up he may have been down long enough to force their hand to take him off to do the concussion test. This would have made a significant difference in the last couple of minutes. 

    I couldn't believe neither Clarry or Vines notified the Ump that Cripps was bleeding. This is an absolute no brainer and no issue around sportsmanship as far as I'm concerned. Is done all the time in games. It would have forced him off the ground at a critical stage of the game. It was a no brainer and a bad miss.  

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    I really couldn't give a rip right now. We lost the game, still dealing with that.

    Glad he didn't squeal but not in the mood to laud someone for helping the opposition bend the rules. 

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    I'm somewhat confused about all of this. I'm all for gallantry, all for good sportsmanship ...all for a good fair game etc.

    I'm just not 100% about how this should apply to what took place. Quite possibly it's not for the players to call out each other. I really don't know if that happens so have nothing to gauge by.

    Whilst I don't think it was for him to displace Cripps from playing I'm equally of the thinking it wasn't for him to help facilitate it either. To say it had al lthe possibility of an event-changing outcome is not far fetched.  I would wonder if in the  reverse would there be a similar outcome ?? Same Weitering 

    We are talking about the long fingered Bluebaggers who are fond of a good 'story" !!

    I'll just put it all in the "strange umpiring " basket..A lot of that happens at Melb - Blues games doesn't it !!

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    They were flopping all over the place, milking frees and reversals that cost us goals, now we find that we've helped keep their best player on the field when he's leaking blood? Fyck our players are dumb sometimes.

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    i don't understand why we have such a restrictive blood rule these days. the hiv days hysteria is surely passe

    the nrl is much bloodier, yet they don't send players off for just a drop of blood

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    I thought Jack Viney was great in this aspect kicking the ball lace out to Carlton players to make sure everyone got a kick.

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    30 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    i don't understand why we have such a restrictive blood rule these days. the hiv days hysteria is surely passe

    the nrl is much bloodier, yet they don't send players off for just a drop of blood

    While it started as a HIV scare, as a player, I never particularly wanted to get someone else's blood all over me.

    Playing rugby union, and having an opposition prop bleeding from the face ahead of a scrum was not a particularly comfortable experience.

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    I guess I am still bitter that we lost. But seriously Carlton and their obnoxious [censored] supporters can go and get [censored]!

    Patrick Cripps "monstered" us in the semi final. The way he gets hand balls out while getting tackled is absolutely incredible. He is a super star player.

    Maybe I'm an [censored], but I would have dobbed Patrick Cripps in for the blood rule. No doubt about it.

    Sometimes doing the right thing can be the wrong thing.

    Being nice is seen as being weak.

    You gotta be ruthless to win finals. Just look at what Collingwood did in regards to Brayden "the Thug" Maynard knocking out Angus Brayshaw?! Or Mason Cox intentionally trying to injure Max Gawn and Christian Petracca!? They came after us with intent to hurt and injure! To win at all costs!

    Dobbing someone in to the blood rule is comparatively quite harmless and only enforcing the rules. If it meant the difference in beating Carlton with Patrick Cripps off the ground for those crucial few minutes then I would have dobbed him in every single time.

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    3 minutes ago, deanox said:

    While it started as a HIV scare, as a player, I never particularly wanted to get someone else's blood all over me.

    Playing rugby union, and having an opposition prop bleeding from the face ahead of a scrum was not a particularly comfortable experience.

    only said it was too restrictive

    blood streaming everywhere - sure

    drop of blood from small scratch - no

    ymmv

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