leave it to deever

These violent delights have violent ends.

This from Sen... " Nathan Buckley does not believe that Brayden Maynard could have done anything else in his power to avoid contact with Angus Brayshaw last Thursday ". This is why he needs to be punished. It was a ludicrous and careless position to put Gus in. It was a deliberate decision that only had one outcome. He knew the contact with Gus would come and worsened by Maybard tucking in. Maybe he could have elected not to go full tilt at the bloke playing the game in the first instance.

I think the intent was there. Maynard's history and the fact it happened early. But agree the intent is a moot point. An experienced player would know a collision was inevitable going at that speed and height. It must be a mandatory 4 weeks with that impact. There must be a deterrent penalty otherwise this hit or footy act clause could be employed every week and we are back to square one protecting the head and neck.

Bloody hell, I thought the lions port game was today. Oh well no surprises with the result.

Funny, I have the same feeling. Why? It's cfc. Media want them up and winning. $$$. Will set a horrible precedent and fly in the face of everything the Afl says it cares about.

Still may happen. If it does it would be the best flag ever. Especially with Maynard watching from the sidelines. But yea, if Gus wasn't knocked out we probably would be in a prelim.

May have been a decent player but as a " journo" he's a complete [censored].

Not if we have players like Dunstan that we just never play. We need more tgan 1 or 2 fwds as well. Bb and Tmac need to go so there's two. Ideally Petty plays back so that's 3.

Na runner up. Gus gets it while Maynard watches from the back row.

Quite the Irony given how he drums up business for them. Maynard going on and encouraging the push and shove from Viney didn't show much remorse for me. He's a thug I would not have as a mate and I reckon Gus would be the same. Take your wine and...my career is in jeopardy.

I don't think you can rule out the fact Gus's injury may have determined tge game or not. It was a 7 point difference . It's quite possible being a good player down played a part. Especially how our mids were dominated in the first half. That said the issue is for Maynard to be punished and players protected The media went into overdrive at every turn to protect this bloke. A player with his experience must of known he would collect Gus with all his weight. I can't say if it was premeditated or a simple rush of adrenaline bit an experienced player like Maynard knew a collision would result. And he certainly chose at the last second to put his shoulder in. This is why they judge on impact.

I think Grundy plays fwd. We need Max as the reliable mark around the ground that he is. Grundy can't mark and I know that's counter-intuitive to having him as a fwd but we need to get the ball in there first. I'd replace Chandler with Spargo. Chandler has done very little in quite a few now. It's bad enough having Kozzie hot and cold. Speaking of, I'd play Kozzie in the middle for the first half and put Tracc fwd. Traccs slow first halves have really hurt. I wish we could play Schache instead of Tmac or anyone. It's so wrong that's he's been given games this year but it's only by default. Smith has been ok and Fritta has been too. Nowhere near his best but the blokes missed half a season. I also hope Grundy isn't angry with us and checked out like Jackson did last finals.

It's a hard call but Max does the fwd role better . I guess your thinking correctly that Max is needed around the ground as Grundy can't mark. I worry too that Grundy may be annoyed with the club. I hope we overload on big fwds in the off season.

If I had to guess, Id say probably because Tmac shouldn't be playing. No definitely.

Sparrow has always reminded me of another CP.He hasn't really developed enough for me. Love his strength but he does seem to drift in and out of games. Guess we are all very disappointed. Even with our shocking run of fwd injuries we did enough to beat the filth but poor kicking once again was tge main culprit. Hard to swallow that one out of bounds and a behind to be goals and we are in a prelim. And pretty much from so many who played below their best. So close but so far. It's a hard game and a reminder of why we took 57 years. They don't come easy.

I think for the most part there is a lot of accuracy here. For me Anb was pretty good. Sparrow had an absolute shocking first half whicH made his night less than average. Petracca a little similiar but incredible second half. Which makes it all so frustrating tHat we lost by 7 points. Half a game by way too many and the usual rubbish kicking into 50 and at goals as well. Maybe one day we will come out with some intent from the start and make it easier for ourselves. Imagine if we played well all night. We'd probably be in a gf this year. Now just like our catch up footy we've played all year, it's catch up finals. Of all nights for Jv to go missing this one was a bummer . But he's been incredible all year. I don't think Sparrow will ever really make it. Shows some glimpses . Chandler even less so. Kozzie is way too hot and cold. Salem is lost or sick. Lever spends too much time directing others. Laurie was a huge coaching error. Tmac well in by default. Hopefully will retire. Langdon has done little this year. Congrats to May, Max, and Bowey who kept us in it. I would mention Trac but there is something wrong with him lately. He's clearly a champion with 32 touches. But about 75 percent of them came in the 2nd half. Too late. It's been a strange pattern for some time now and difficult to understand why. I guess the upside is we almost beat the minor premiers with only a few playing their best.

Collingwood coach Craig McRae hopes Maynard will avoid suspension. “The act itself, didn’t look it had much malice. I will leave it up to others to decide if that’s worthy of a suspension or not. I don’t know,” he said. So we are all agreed there was malice. Tx. Witness for the prosecution. Let's move on to impact. 5 weeks.

It's just dumb luck. However the constant slow starts and errant goal kicking has never been arrested. So many teams come out of the blocks this year while we just watch them and take half a game to apply ourselves.

And the Pies had eons to get numbers back all night. Couldn't swing a cat in our fwd line most of the time. Good post.

Is Ben Sutton employed by the Cfc. What a complete load of Bs. Why are Goodys comments strange? https://7news.com.au/sport/afl/simon-goodwin-delivers-strange-post-match-comments-on-brayden-maynard-incident-c-11835522 What footy world consensus?

Except your dog would get rabies.

And here's me thinking Pies would play fair in the qf.They live up to their moniker.

Bedford is better than Chandler.

Bedford reminds me of Garlett. Wrong thread.

Maybe some team will get up from the Canvas this week.