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So I compiled a list of MRP/tribunal sanctions* (excluding melee, wrestling, and umpire contact) going back ten years - with 2000 and 1987 thrown in as a bonus. No commentary or conclusions, just a resource - although one point of note; Nat Jones has forked out an absolute fortune in fines. *courtesy of Supermercado's excellent demonwiki.org 2016: Viney, Jetta, Vince (striking) – 1 match. Oliver, Bugg, Pedo, Vince (various) – fines Vince (striking) – not guilty 2015: Dunn – fine 2014: Dawes, Dawes, Mckenzie (striking), Jetta (rough conduct) – 1 match Georgiou (striking) – reprimand Viney (rough conduct) not guilty (eventually) 2013: Sylvia, Spencer (high contact), Clisby (rough conduct) – 3 matches Jetta (rough conduct) – 2 matches Dawes, Sylvia (striking) – reprimand Tapscott (rough conduct) – not guilty 2012: Grimes, Jetta (rough conduct), Tapscott (striking) – 1 match Garland, Bail (rough conduct), Howe (misconduct?), Dunn (staging) – reprimands 2011: Trengove (rough conduct) – 3 matches Dunn (rough conduct), Sylvia (striking) – 2 matches Davey (striking) – 1 match Moloney, Tapscott (rough conduct) – reprimand Davey, Petterd (striking) – not guilty 2010: Cheney, J. McDonald (striking), Moloney (front-on contact) – reprimands 2009: Sylvia (striking) – 3 matches Bartram, Johnson (striking) – not guilty/withdrawn 2008: Miller (rough conduct), Whelan (striking) – 1 match Sylvia, Dunn (striking) – reprimand Dunn (striking) – withdrawn 2007: Davey (striking) – 2 matches Syvia, Davey, Yze, Newton, Holland (various) – reprimand Godfrey, Syvia (head contact) – withdrawn 2000: No sanctions during the regular season 1987: Grinter (striking) – 3 matches Grinter, Grinter, O’Dwyer, O’Dwyer, O’Dwyer, Yeates, Turner (striking) – 2 matches Chiron (striking) – 1 match Grinter, Spalding, Wilson, Healy, Chiron (striking) Williams, Wilson (rough) – not guilty

Yes, because I'm sure if I don't put 'Tram 74' in quote marks people with will think I'm responding to Saty.

It's funny because it's almost (personally) true. An Irish girlfriend dislocated her shoulder once in a mountain-biking accident in Far North Queensland, and the doctor at the 'hospital' had to get out the manual. He had also brought his five-year old kid with him (called in on a Saturday morning), and when he eventually put the shoulder back in, my missus, delirious and dosed up on morphine, started screaming and in a delightful Irish accent threatened to kill the little kid and every last member of the doctor's clan as her new life-mission under promise to God. Maybe that's why no one wanted to stand next to Dean?

Just the thought of this makes me squirm with discomfort. I'd be far more relaxed if he was returning through the seniors where he's not subject to some VFL voodoo curse. On another note, anyone know if Gus will be sporting some shiny new head-gear?

rjay - your use of quotation marks for usernames read like scare-quotes and blanket everything in a strange suspicious tone, like you don't trust that ignition's name is really ignition and you want to convey that you're not fooled by the deception.

Pre-game Saturday night, one of the commentators (think it was Sandy - probably mistaken) said, 'At 9-6 on the ladder, this game is a must win for the Demons'. When was the last time a human being constructed a sentence even resembling that? We're doing alright.

You'll get to see him in the clearances at the end of the year.

Said they don't fit with his Anglican values and should go back to where they came from.

Looking at the GOTY wiki-page, it says no one has ever won the award from a set-shot. I also just read that NicNat, expecting a new car, received 52 boxes of Weetbix as a total prize for MOTY.

Is this certain? I vaguely recall Jurrah won MOTY despite not winning the weekly poll. Is it different with GOTY?

It may be remote, but surely they have pillows in Darwin?

If you look at all the incidents in isolation, they're mostly just the standard or coincidentally-concentrated rather than a result of dirty tactics or an aggressive approach - barring perhaps Lewis on Cripps. Bugg, and the harsh whacks from the MRP have also inflated the total figure of weeks lost to suspension. Hogan, Salem, and Bugg were frustrated responses to niggle (with yes, all going too far through poor individual discipline). Bernie has been doing this crap for two years and his propensity for doing so seems to exist outside of a conscious decision-making process. I'd say it's just as much a result of desire to perform (leading to frustration when it's not smooth-sailing) and our improvement resulting in closer opposition checking than it has to do with an aggressive approach. All of the suspensions have been off the ball rather than squaring someone up in the contest.

We should do no such thing.

He is the white stick.

On Bernie: the club should tape his bloody elbows to his waist and make him run around like a T-rex at training all week.

I'm certain it's to do with his vision and depth perception. Needs corrective lenses. OPSMac.

Woe is Melbourne. AFL corrupt. Protected species. I used to scoff at these comments but I'm now a convert. Bernie deserved a break but I'm sick of the AFL sending messages through our club and conforming to some media narrative. The inequality is there for all to see. After Buggy vs. Sydney, that free in the first minute against Carton was a perfect case-in-point. The umps were clearly on the lookout to assert their authority over Melbourne early on, as if we we'd been branded as some bullying footy team resorting to dirty tactics - why? Because the media says we're undisciplined thugs and the AFL don't like that image.

And Omac is a phonic crumbler. Footsteps and his composure goes to pieces.

The waiting time at Darwin Hospital is atrocious, especially on a Saturday night. And you have to pay for your own parking. Quicker to fly Dean to Melbourne for treatment and save the hassle of searching Goodie's glove-box for coins to feed the meter. Club made the right call.

I was going to suggest that with four goals in the 2000 GF, Paul Barnard could step in as a compromise. But clearly this bloke was pinging as well.

This last part is very presumptuous. Levi 'Uncle' De Veer could very well be his name.

There's an end of 2005 in the brewing here. I would advise getting any scheduled maintenance on pacemakers taken care of in advance.

It's an interesting discussion point Pates. A huge factor in the attraction of sport is not just the athletic prowess but those endeavours in the context of unscripted human drama (the modern focus on off-field and incidental stuff excluded). The emotion conveyed by Kent in those few seconds was enough to shift my perspective of the game entirely, and for me, provide a healthy ego-check through empathy. If Kent gets up again, and were to say kick a huge goal in a grand final, it's these moments that provide the meaning and sport its value.

TBH, people spouting the 'play anywhere anytime or we don't deserve to play finals anyway' line sound like they have no idea about modern football. It is a professional sport. A taxing, contact sport, in an incredibly even competition, and any small competitive advantage can make a difference. Motivation has nothing to do with it. It's about bodies, recovery time and the impacts of flying and travel. No need to whinge (except just to let the AFL know that our spate of exertion injuries coincided with our run of short breaks), but it can't be dismissed as a factor in potentially missing the finals.

I thought this thread was going to be about Crossy's magic-cream.