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Ethan Tremblay
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Thanks, Angus.

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After 167 games including the drought breaking Premiership Angus Brayshaw has made the heart breaking decision to medically retire from football as a result of a series of serious head knocks over his

DemonSam
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Sue the AFL,  The lack of action on the Maynard incident is messed up.

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Feel for Brayshaw and obviously it's been a loss for us not having him.

But the obsession with Maynard and Collingwood is in my opinion the cringiest thing imaginable. To me, if the incident was actually the thuggish act that Melb supporters seem to feel it was, then it was only marginally that. Brayshaw obviously had a rough history with head knocks and was in the wrong spot at the wrong time.

Collingwood may injure more people but reality is they play the game harder than we do. It's one thing for our fans to be outraged and breathing fire at the prospect of responding to the Pies, but when our players come out with relatively meek physicality every time they match up you start to realise our players mustn't feel as strongly about it as the fans do.

If we want to focus any attention on Collingwood or Maynard, it should be to study how they are able to compete harder than our players for longer than our players.

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2 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

But there’s Olympic swimmers and other random athletes.  Hmmmm.  Can we honour our AFL retirees!!! 

Harry Garside because.........?

He's got a book to [censored] I guess

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28 minutes ago, rufus said:

 

If we want to focus any attention on Collingwood or Maynard, it should be to study how they are able to compete harder than our players for longer than our players.

Please take no offense to this, but this is one of the ****test takes on Demonland. 

Collingwood and Maynard competed so hard post flag they didn’t even make the 8. 
 

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4 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Please take no offense to this, but this is one of the ****test takes on Demonland. 

Collingwood and Maynard competed so hard post flag they didn’t even make the 8. 
 

Collingwood only make finals in seasons where Maynard hospitalises an opponent with a head injury.

This statement stands true since pre-covid times.

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13 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Please take no offense to this, but this is one of the ****test takes on Demonland. 

Collingwood and Maynard competed so hard post flag they didn’t even make the 8. 
 

No offense taken. Just my opinion. If you honestly think that year in year out, week in week out, when the MFC take the field they appear as desperate to win as the Pies generally do then that's great. You likely enjoy watching us play much more than I do.

I also reckon if you surveyed other neutral supporters they'd probably agree that in general MFC players are a tad soft and we're a club that prefers to find and excuse than to find a way.. while Collingwood are not.

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2 minutes ago, rufus said:

No offense taken. Just my opinion. If you honestly think that year in year out, week in week out, when the MFC take the field they appear as desperate to win as the Pies generally do then that's great. You likely enjoy watching us play much more than I do.

I also reckon if you surveyed other neutral supporters they'd probably agree that in general MFC players are a tad soft and we're a club that prefers to find and excuse than to find a way.. while Collingwood are not.

I would rather be soft than a bunch of thugs and sexual predators 

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17 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

big piece by caro today about how much we miss him

along with the usual swipes she just can’t help herself taking at us. And still no one can seem to bear mentioning the act that put him there. 

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2 hours ago, Brownie said:

I think there are still things you can take out of it. 

I think this article helps at least explain that right now, Gus is still very crook.

To those that keep saying, oh yeah we should give him a role. We would if he could but he can't right now.

It's not about the club offering him anything.
That offer to assist has been there since day dot.
He can't even have a round of golf or enjoy a night at the Brownlow with some of his best mates.
It's incredibly sad.
Lot's of love to Gus and his family.
I hope he finds his health and his groove again.
Just a wonderful bloke.

It's been a huge loss. It was crushing on the night it happened and it still seems to be very hard for his team mates.

It looked like Gawn was very upset at the Brownlow during his speech.

Anyways, time to listen to the wisdom and insight of Selwood, Hamish and BT on Seven.

Happy granny day everyone 

Was that mean to sound mansplaniy or it just came off that way? 

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