Monbon

With all respect - and I mean this genuinely - your defence of 'Aussie Law' is not the full picture. I know of certain 'lawyers' who specialize in, shall we say, selling criminals get out of jail cards. And, by the way, I would have thought a player knocking an opponent unconscious with his shoulder after he has kicked a football over his head has SFA to do with 'Aussie lawyers who spend years being trained to look at events chronologically, reasonably and rationonately.' I note you are a lawyer who can't even spell rationally correctly.

Did you specialize in Jesuistry?

Interesting article though at the end, he sits on the fence and mentions all the sentimental [censored] about the possibility of Maynard missing playing in a GF.

Every time you post, my contempt for 'Lawyers' grows.

Exactly: I'm glad you brought this up. The only difference was May stood still, whereas Maynard thrust his shoulders directly at Brayshwaw's head.

You seem to forget that there are so-called Laws of the game which are designed to deter thugs from inflicting life-long damage. Every form of sport called 'football' by any name, e.g. rugby, soccer, inherently puts a player 'at risk'. However, it is, in the end, a sport not a battlefield or a colosseum, and there is the concept called 'Laws of the Game', laws made to protect partakers from life-threatening forms of assault, which, in the end, is what Maynard perpetrated on his so-called mate and drinking buddy. Your statement that 'you put yourself at risk playing a contact sport' is true only as far as what can be fairly described as accidents, but it should not put you at risk of sustaining 'Common Assault.'

How many times did he roll up on this topic to defend Maynard?????Then to start the 'lawyer talk' was a wee bit more than I could bear. His defence of thuggery and reference to the good old days was bad enough. Keep on Roosting...

Yes, I call to mind a certain aPellation...

Go figure, a retired 'lawyer'. Is anyone surprised by the semantics and sophistry and jesuistry you display? Not to mention your affirmation of football field violence, just like in your 'good ol days'....

Pardon - who HAS kicked it over his numbskull head...

I'd get a head first, Rollo...

Wtf does it matter if he was playing for 'us'. If you are one of 'us', count me out...

You should stop embarrassing yourself. So you were a shameless thug. Good on you. Live with it. Don't excuse equally shameless thugs who are still out there to injure and maim opposition players.

What 'contest'? Brayshaw had kicked the bloody ball, Maynard jumped, missed touching the ball by a mile than turned his shoulder into Brayshaw's natural momentum. Where is this a 'contest"?????????????

Bullsh..t.

What contest? Brayshaw had kicked the ball over Maynard's head, Maynard jumped and then directed his shoulder at Brayshaw's after-kick momentum. We used to call it a shirt front. Your - and my playing days - coincided when thugs and men who committed jail -worthy assaults on football fields were considered heroes and just part of the game.

What's the problem with Gawn's foot?

Good points: however, he wasn't 'trying to kick it away' - he had kicked it over Maynard's head and Maynard decided to basically shirt-front his so-called 'mate' via a shoulder to his head.

You haven't even considered the most obvious deduction yet: That it was Brayshaw's fault because he ran into poor, stationary and innocent Maynard who only had eyes for the ball. Angus should get 6 weeks for damaging Maynard's reputation as a thug: Maynard is INNOCENT - HE WAS PROTECTING HIMSELF FROM A VISCOUS BRAYSHAW ATTACK.

Nonsense: Van R's eyes were on the ball: you maybe need to book a check up with your optician.

As though he should have been allowed to 'clear his name' just after the game, claiming Brayshaw was his mate....

Also, for f sake, he had no forward momentum: he had jumped to smother, then, after the ball had passed him, he thrust his shoulder forward straight into Brayshaw's head. All the thug had to do was land, it's not as though Brayshaw was going to take him out - Brayshaw was playing football, Maynard was playing the man.

It is not even similar: Maynard went AT an oncoming player, his eyes only at the player, and the ball had already cleared his outstretch hands by quite a margin. Duncan had his back to the North player for a start, one arm outstreched, and he seemed to lose his balance: yep, it was 'accidental;.

I feel the same way. If you recall, Hunter got rubbed out after even ATTEMPTING not to make contact. Maynard launched himself at Brayshaw way AFTER the ball had flown over his head. That's criminal assault, in my book.

The ball had already cleared Maynard's head after Maynard jumped and thrust himself at Brayshaw.