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What happened to clarry then?

Just now, dees189227 said:

Why would van rooyen have passed that off? Back yourself 

Not 15 apparently 

6 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

North were a bit silly in beating GC in round 24 last year.

They had Harley Reid secured after the Eagles gifted them 18th spot in round 23 with a Hail Mary win over the Dogs….

However, they (North) somehow put 20 goals on GC in front of a whopping 4,000 people down in Hobart in a game nobody will care to remember.

Net result - 17th finish. No Harley Reid.

This is the exact reason the draft order should be decided by combining the ladders of 2 or 3 seasons. Means you can't play finals, drop off hard for a year and get pick 2 then play finals again but helps the teams who are down longer. But that's for another thread. What a player Reid is.

https://www.liveladders.com/AFL/

On the other hand, a few more from the pies and its back into the top 4 we go for a bit

This is glorious

That's holding the ball every time. 

2 hours ago, picket fence said:

The intel I have is that Clarry won't be risked next week!

sensible given op and then another 10 days until we play geelong

my saints supporting mate told me last night about 5pm they were coming off a 5 day break and 3 games in 11 days.

i immediately changed my tip to the doggies.

what a joke that is.

19 hours ago, Wodjathefirst said:

Can’t wait until the day when the AFL has to try and defend itself (and it’s joke of a tribunal decision making processes) against aggrieved former / current players in a real court of law. It’s just a matter of time.

i would enjoy having maynard on the stand under oath and asking if he intended to hurt people during that game and if he did all he could to exercise his duty of care to other players

19 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

Best legal defence in the land. 

We need to get more references for our players.

lol we werent even allowed to call an *EXPERT* witness for kozzie last week, let alone 2 character witnesses. [censored] is rigged.

Yeah, except the tribunal doesn't follow precedents.

35 minutes ago, Demon17 said:

I too have done this. I have KAYO but only watch games and First Crack for Joey. Rets is rubbish and its the best thing Iv'e done lately to reduce outrage at the AFL and media.

However, lets just add this to the list of spineless AFL calls which includes:

The Brownlow effect  - favourites get off.

The Cripps rule - no explanation needed( also called the Pendles rule)

The good bloke rule - Cameron 

The media darling rule - Trent Cotchin rule is its correct terminology

The Whately Rule - known as the toe-the-party-line rule. or don't upset head office calling them out

The Robbo rule - see the Whately rule

The Toby Greene Rule - used to be castigated, now loved by everyone so he gets a free pass( but deserves it anyway)

 

There must be others but I'm avoiding even reading this stuff and will await our thrashing of the tiges next week to look forward to.  Everything else is white noise to me. Its fantastic.

 

 

All of these rules can be summarised into "money is king"

I'm gobsmacked he got off. 

what an insult. langdon would never lie to jim stynes.

honestly id back the goal umpires in. 

id do it like cricket. each team gets 1 and 1 ONLY (unless correct) to do a score review. 

anyone can call it. but youre not going to call it unless youre absolutely sure.

get it wrong and waste it? you dont get any more. 

12 hours ago, bush demon said:

I liked Essendon when they had their breakthrough flags in 1984/5 but must say have disliked them since their sniping tactics in the 1990 and especially 2000 grand finals. I still don't like them for this reason, plus the later d**g/p******s  scandal, but must say the whole thing feels tragic now, esp. for many of their supporters. Don't forget the Dees spent generations in this wilderness, and it ain't pretty. They are my feelings after reading through some of these Bomber blitz comments.

I mean just go look at the YouTube video of long smashing into simmonds and rekindle that hatred

I believe Maynard's was intentional as he'd been interviewed the week before saying he was going to make a statement and hurt people, but that's by the by.

I think kozzie deserves a week. I think it's not a good look for us to appeal. BUT

I hope we use "soligo moved into kozzies way" "kozzie was protecting himself" "he was just trying to smother" "it was a football act"

2 minutes ago, Big Col said:

Think of it as an emotional hedge.
We all want Collingwood to lose  but if they don't you're financially rewarded. I have a number of friends who have won/lost lots of money betting against their own teams.

I've made significant dollars the last few finals series unfortunately 

2 hours ago, jnrmac said:

My most hated club

Mine too until September last year.

Deserves a week just so he stops doing it ffs

Genuine lol

In the last 3 seasons before this west coast won 15 games.

North: 9 and a draw. In 3 seasons. 

By the way, in 2012-14 we won 10. 

Tell em to get stuffed.

It's interesting isn't it as the knee lift isn't against the rules but there is obviously large potential for damage and even concussion. I can see them changing the rule down the line tbh

Kid is a star.

Will he make mistakes? Yes.

Is he still a star? Also yes.

16 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

The Gawn one was classic "ruck lotto". The rules in those contests are so unpredictable. If that had gone the other way we'd have been ropeable.

I was equally ropeable at the Rozee one, that was horrendous IMO.

Disagree. The port bloke was facing away from the footy with his arms around gawn. That's a free every time. 

There's only one stat that matters and that's the big one on the scoreboard.