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I'm going to bed.

11 minutes ago, Wodjathefirst said:

Not to forget Bryan Taylor’s  unbelievable biased (barracking) commentary. [censored]!

 

Dustall also post game said he was worried the game was going to blow out, hardly objective.

Crows have a few good players but we have more. 

I'm just wondering how many litres of bleach has gone through Dermie's hair over the last 40 years.

A tough one but a good one.

They must have sh*thouse hairdressers in Adelaide.

One of those tall guys from Casey last year played well tonight, the other one didn't.

Looks like all the toxins are coming out of Oliver's pores.

Put Trac in full forward.

Get Fritsch's radar calibrated and we are good to go.

I was thinking of moving back to Victoria after I heard Dan Andrews was gone but I think I might leave it a bit longer until the filth celebrations die down a bit.

Get some angry Demonlanders at training behind the goals deliberately causing distractions to simulate game day conditions with a psychologist on hand conditioning the players against the psyche out.

1 hour ago, Earl Hood said:

As the biomechanics guy said once Maynard was airborne he was like a frisbee with legs, nothing he could, no control of his body. I mean see this all the time in the Olympics, you know on the high diving tower, the floor routines in gymnastics, the high jump all the time. You know once a strong, trained athlete leaves the ground all they can do is curl up into a ball and hope for the best!
 

Just wondering why the frisbee nonsense wasn’t challenged, there were options and Maynard was in the best position, arms out in front, just before he chose to turn the shoulder that did the damage. I believe He would have stayed open if he was about to collide with a team mate. 

Maybe it was Maynard's body spinning like a frisbee in a counter clockwise direction towards Gus's head.

23 minutes ago, Macca said:

 

 

Possibly the worst prosection by the tribunal ever.  Nearly everything about this whole sorry episode is wrong

 

 

 

Probably the worst defence from a club too. Today I've been visualising Maynard without arms and legs and his torso looks nothing like a frisbee. 

23 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

they'll have to define a sub-conscious decision as equal to a conscious decision

dunno how they'll manage that

Get a psychologist on the tribunal that knows how the human mind works.

I know our cheer squad comes up with ingenious ways of putting off opposition players kicking at goal. Maybe they can all bring frisbees and wave them around next time we play Collingwood.

1 minute ago, Superunknown said:

Tricky eh

Alstonville Saints

Ballina Bombers. Nope. 

I won’t have my kids playing the game though, I’m done 

I went up to Southport to see Casey play instead.

2 minutes ago, kev martin said:

That is not true, they have an AFL hub up at Cavanbah.

Perhaps you feel that way because of the Gold Coast link and area,  

Byron wear magpie jumpers so I made the decision not to support them when I found that out earlier this year.

I'm glad I moved to Byron Bay where no one gives a [censored] about AFL and I can forget about football for a while. 

1 hour ago, old55 said:

Agree Sue, that is ample time. A cricket fast bowler can bowl at 150km/hr that's more than 40m/sec. The cricket pitch is half that long so the ball travels the distance in less than half a second and expert athletes are able to play the ball. Even most tail enders can.

It comes down to training the unconscious mind to react. It takes 0.2 seconds for the signal to travel from the eye to the brain so a conditioned unconscious mind is what makes the reaction. If it was up to the conscious mind in the cricket example the ball would pass by before the conscious mind would even begin to move the body. Batting training is training the unconscious mind. Someone who picks up a bat for the first time is guaranteed to miss because their (slower) conscious mind is what's in charge in that moment.

In Maynard's split second decision, his unconscious mind reacted by turning his right shoulder into Gus's head which comes down to prior unconscious programming in his past as a thug. The way he plays the game is testament to this.

3 hours ago, Chook said:

Apparently they have the same manager (Brayshaw and Maynard). If I were Maynard I would have asked my manager to check in with Brayshaw and ask whether he'd be ok with me coming over to apologise in person at x time on x day. You don't just "pop in".

 

Maynard should have been like George and taken a bottle of Pepsi over instead of wine.

25 minutes ago, Jerry Lundergard said:

Probably been said on here, but I am yet to hear it in the media.

If Maynard could twist right to hit his shoulder into Brayshsw's head, why couldn't he twist left and possibly miss his head?

Go watch the incident from the behind the goal camera angle at 0.25 speed and your theory will be validated.

1 hour ago, grazman said:

Except that he made a conscious decision to run full tilt at an opposition player and should have reasonably foreseen he would make forceful contact with that player as a result.  The end result is the shoulder connected with the head.

He got it wrong - plain and simple. 

Just to clarify, my comment was designed to state that it was in his character to hit Gus in the head with his shoulder instead of a less course reaction. I'm not defending Maynard other than he had thuggery instilled into him somewhere in his formative years.

In a split second decision like this the conscious mind doesn't have time to respond so the unconscious mind reacts by however it has been programmed or conditioned, in Maynard's case it was a shoulder to the head. Case closed.

I can't watch the game and only have this thread to keep me informed so I'm psyching myself up for some intense meltdown moments.

Go Dees!