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  On 23/04/2024 at 06:41, sue said:

Ha - no myth.  The first time I played in a serious basketball team I crashed the pack and was sent off.  Never played again.

Sue I took the best spekky ever in a basketball match, not paid and sent off! I prefer footy 😄

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      On 24/04/2024 at 05:56, ManDee said:

    Sue I took the best spekky ever in a basketball match, not paid and sent off! I prefer footy 😄

    i breathed on a guy whilst playing bball and got fouled

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    No good bloke defense for Marlon Pickett this week. He's a certified piece of [censored].

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    MRO and Tribunal are so inconsistent that its almost corrupt.

    So if Pendles gets a fine for EXACTLY the same thing, then I'm afraid Pickett does too.

    But its the AFL, and Pickett isn't a BIG name, so don't be surprised if he gets a week cause of the 'NO NAME' factor.

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      On 24/04/2024 at 12:24, Lord Travis said:

    No good bloke defense for Marlon Pickett this week. He's a certified piece of [censored].

    Agree, but he will still get a fine.

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      On 25/04/2024 at 01:54, Redleg said:

    Agree, but he will still get a fine.

    A  $6250 fine reduced to $3750 with the early plea for the strike.

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      On 26/04/2024 at 01:16, biggestred said:

    something is very cooked when you can punch someone off the ball (no matter how hard) and only get a fine. 

     

    Somewhere I recall there have been suggestions that the MRO and tribunal are corrupt incompetent institutions.  There has certainly nothin happen this week to suggest otherwise.

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      On 26/04/2024 at 01:16, biggestred said:

    something is very cooked when you can punch someone off the ball (no matter how hard) and only get a fine. 

    Correct.

    All intentional strikes should be a minimum week.

    It is as disgraceful an aspect to the MRO box-ticking system as there is.

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    Fines are a crock anyway.

    Mean nothing to these guys.

    Who knows who actually pays them anyway.

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      On 27/04/2024 at 07:46, biggestred said:

    Higgins should have just punched aliir in the guts

    Would have saved him 3 weeks suspension.

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    I remember one time at the MCG, I think it was 1989, when Grinter squarely laid a punch in the guts of a Richmond player and got 7 weeks for his efforts (he had some suspended penalties on him).  If he played today he'd be the most heavily fined player in the AFL.

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    Higgins 3 weeks?! No sling just brought him to ground. Held his arm so maybe a week. Allir is twice the size of Higgins, too

    WTF is happening at the MRO

    glad they are challenging

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      On 29/04/2024 at 02:48, DubDee said:

    Higgins 3 weeks?! No sling just brought him to ground. Held his arm so maybe a week. Allir is twice the size of Higgins, too

    WTF is happening at the MRO

    glad they are challenging

    Two weeks ago Lever is in the wrong for flopping his head and Cameron gets off because he’s a good bloke. 
    Higgins does the same thing, Aliir unfortunately is knocked out and he cops 3. Madness. 
     

    Both actions deserve one week. 

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      On 29/04/2024 at 02:48, DubDee said:

    Higgins 3 weeks?! No sling just brought him to ground. Held his arm so maybe a week. Allir is twice the size of Higgins, too

    WTF is happening at the MRO

    glad they are challenging

    That question Dub, is the AFL equivalent of "What is the meaning of life" ?

    ( Or any other unanswerable conundrum that comes to mind )

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