Monbon

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.

Tom Browne obviously suffers from delusional eyesight syndrome.

Yes, I thought it a very very strange act. It was almost 'orchestrated'.

The bottom line is that Maynard jumped into him. Brayshaw had already kicked the ball, had it been an attempt to smother Maynard would have jumped up and landed. In other words, if it was an attempt to smother, no foward lunge was necessary. In other words, he charged at Brayshaw after he had kicked it.

So Jackson is a better ruckman that Gawn this year: it seems to me that clowns and men with limited mental capacity rule the world these days.

Is that the Noel the Angels did sing when Santa Klaus delivers my electric train set to the wrong address every friggin year?

What a season this has been. Topsies and Turvies, periods where bottom sides have seriously challenged Top sides, the many close calls, the many askew outcomes. Looking at the Demons until Round 22, the biggest losing margin was against Essendon in Round 5 - 27 points, the second worst 15 points against Geelong at the Fortified Monte Cassino once called Kardinia park where I was called for chucking in a Sub District Seconds match in 1967, the others by less than 11 points. The sides which have beaten us by less than a goal include Carlton and GWS when we scored 5.15 and Port Adelaide in the rain in their home fixture. We have played side which have played exceptionally well on their days - Sunday's game against the Hawks was such a game - but we have managed to hold on and 'Overcome'. By the way, it seems to me that the Hawks are not far away from rapid rise up the ladder. I'm glad Geelong have been found out as a bunch of Geriatrics who got very lucky in 2022. We'll see what happens in Sydney on Sunday. Bring on David Schwartz... .

6: Lever 5: Rivers 4: Melksham 3:Viney 2: Langdon 1: ANB. Sorry, May...

I can see with my own 4 eyes, he's definitely HOLDING THE BALL': SEE....

The Adelaide Fiasco is a bloody disgrace to the game called AFL. That two weeks in a row, teams can lose because of serious mistakes by either the goal umpire, or the so-called 'Replay' system, in Adelaide's case costing it engagement in a Finals Series is a catastrophic blight - as though there ain't enough already - on everything the AFL stands for. And then, for the CEO of this Fantasyland called AFL, to admit a serious mistake had been made and offer no redress to the victim of what can only be called an atrocity, makes me shake my head and ask myself, Why bother following a game which is so loaded with injustice. Think about it: A. How often do the E Colli Wobblers play interstate? B. Ditto Geelong. C. The irrationality of the Fixtures, rational only from economic points of view. D. The fact that Fixtures are NOT based on fairness in that the Draw is staggered; in other words, in each season, each team should either play the same team twice, and if that extends the number of games, the gaps between matches, so bloody well be it. E. The irrationality and inconsistency of the outcome of Match Reviews regarding 'Reportable' offences. D. The changing of the rules, almost as regular as The Changing of The Guard. E. The fact that 4 umpires is like having 4 Pontuis Pilates, all with different backgrounds, affiliations, viewpoints and whistle capacity. D. How a boundary umpire can stand next to a ball blatantly out of bounds, visible to a whole effing arena apart from the umpire's myopia, and for play to be allowed to continue? E. How certain teams are allowed to throw the ball instead of 'handpassing' when there are so-called Laws forbidding the practice? F. How come there is a set of rules which an umpire can either overlook or ignore if and when it suits them? All bloody 4 of them! I could go on...

Davey HBF????? No way: he replaces Fritsch and in comes Febey as HBF.

Love your post: especially the Don Williams, Fowler, Tas Johnson and Sullivan bits. I also understand Fowler played a lot of his Melbourne games as a centreman?

Brian Roet, Tony Anderson, Beckwith, Leahy, Lovett, S.Febey, Case, Thorogood, etc. Whoever came up with the names on this List is obviously from another planet.

What happened? No show for over a fortnight now. Not that it was always interesting....