FireInTheBennelly

4 points DC. It's impossible to win with that differential.

Did he train, or was he just the emergency?

I believe considering the vast amount of it, it's more like burley at this stage ET. It's like someone had a massive spew over the side of the boat.

For anyone with a match review lottery calculator, what does intentional conduct, high contact, and low impact, add up to? Walters admitted it was intentional, hit him between the eyebrows, and he's a weak [censored].

Not sure which maggot you're referring to here. The umpire was clear in his evidence that it was a headbutt, and reportable. So much for umpire appreciation. The only non-biased individual involved, charged with ensuring a fair game, is completely ignored. The other maggot involved, although more of a germ than a maggot, definitely lied saying he was only trying to 'chest' him. Absolute rubbish, but good enough to overturn the suspension, I'd say on the 'Let the stars play' rule.

Apologies, thanks for the correction.

Great clip. Is that what started the nonsense? So Walters was trying to bump Viney, got sat on his date and his teammates didn't like it? Then he head butted Viney? Looks to me like they were deliberately trying to poke the bear. That's madness.

Nice work DD36. Let the haters hate. A lot of pretenders on here.

Surely not, it wasn't even high and shouldn't have even been a free kick. On that basis, 3 weeks with an early plea.

Righto, hands up, who really likes roaming knucklehead? The half time promo for it was sickening. Basically telling viewers it's what they really want. Personally I don't really care, some are good, some duds, but to ram it down our necks. Please. BT is a dead set clown though.

He does have a touch of the Col Garland head drops about him at times.

Personally I think it's come from 2 kicks in particular. Both kicks were shanks after gut running efforts where he was totally stuffed. 1 of those ended with a tackle and holding the ball free, but then he was called to play on for no reason and put under more pressure. I remember thinking at the time he's going to get crucified on here for that, regardless of the circumstances. I can't recall the games sorry.

Exactly right, that's his go. Not the forward line. He'll prove a few on here wrong given time to develop in the midfield.

I see the Bombers have been dealt the old Dalgliesh/Margetts in Perth double. Good luck with that lads!

Has anyone checked the whiteboard lately?

[censored] no Kev, we could lose more players if we trained.

Hopefully whoever we get is more than just a very naughty boy.

Yep sounds like the old ignore it and it'll go away trick. What could possibly go wrong?

Don't forget that in addition to the draft order 'bonus' you also receive a favorable draw for the following year. Cue in rack.

I could've sworn the commentators were calling him Pupopolo last night, but figured I must've been wrong. Commentators are way too professional to get names wrong. Right?

Sportsbet has the bye at $1.10 to beat us

So if he's been at this caper for a while, the question has to be asked. Why was nothing done until it happened to Essendon?

He dropped quite a few contested marks he would've normally taken too, and they will come with match practice. He'll be a beauty for the next few years.

It is fair dinkum always Hawthorn with this rubbish. Always. Their argument will be there's nothing in the rule books stopping it. They've been bending the rules of the game for as long as they've been in the game. Next time someone's in a marking contest with this peanut, if the balls going over the back, pull his [censored] pants down so he can't run, and away you go. Anything in the rule book about that? Make him look as stupid as his haircut does. Oops, am I allowed to say that?

If we're able to execute at training, but not during the heat of battle, surely it means only one thing. We're not training with the players under the necessary pressure or fatigue levels. Can the regular track watchers advise how (if) we introduce/simulate the pressure or fatigue that you'd have during a game into our training? 2 laps of the the oval, followed by a 50m sprint then 30 seconds to kick the goal? Miss, do it again. Or miss, and some other repercussion, number of misses equals number of laps post training. Don't know, just ideas. Kicking bags of balls through the big sticks clearly isn't helping, and has been done a million times through their careers. It works for under 15s, sure, but we need to be a tad better than that. Fix techniques and practice with multiple shots. Fix performance by simulating pressure and fatigue levels.