Redleg

Ash sorry to hear you refer to your wife as ex. Hope you are going ok. Keep posting here, most would enjoy your contribution.

As I replied to the poster who wanted to trade Tom Mac a couple of months ago, what?

If Milkshake can find his niche as a good tagger while still getting possessions, that will help us.

Once again we play a team at full strength with a two day longer break, while we have major injury problems.

Interesting about selection, as with the 4 games in 18 days I have been banging on about bringing in fresh legs. Goody has proved me wrong until this game, where ( and being overseas ) I only heard the last half and have read DL and AFL site, but it appears we were dead on our feet. We had players in JKH, Kent and Kennedy who had good form at Casey, yet they selected 2 back flankers. Our spread and uncontested possession was horrible and these two weren't going to help that. Anyway the obvious happened , but unfortunately with the addition of more injuries. When you add Joel Smith, who was in the senior side when injured and who I think will become a regular, to the 8 players named several times on DL out already, that is half the side out , including basically our whole forward line. To have 8 wins up and be in the 8 at this stage of the season given the last 18 days is a great effort. We are on the improve and now need real luck with injuries for the rest of the season.

I still don't understand that and why we were denied another player.

I think Col will retire and be paid out.

There is only one thread you need concern yourself with and you are on it.

They did and got Thomas and Pendles.

The only problem being that we play the strongest Swans side of the season so far and basically at full strength and in form, with 6 wins in their last seven games, with us on a third six day break and having played in Perth last Saturday. Then again we are having a red hot go, no matter who is in the side.

So the AFL is claiming that their Tribunal in the Houli case got it wrong and that no reasonable tribunal could have come to that decision on the evidence. So they are saying they stuffed up. The same tribunal that found Schofield not guilty of elbowing Oliver to the face, even though Schofield admitted doing it, though with very low impact. Sounds like they should be appealing both cases.

That bodes well for our future.

And there you have a lot of the anger on the thread. My favourite and one of DL's favourite young players, is being attacked by a media that knows how everyone should react when elbowed to the face, while the aggressor is given sympathy. Disgusting actually.

And our boys will know that and we should get stuck into them and WIN.

I understand your view. You would agree that it is different in normal society though, where even a threat can be punished. You don't have to actually physically hurt someone to be punished. Even attempting many things is a crime. Schofield may not have hurt Oliver or even attempted to hurt him, but it was found and not challenged, that he elbowed Oliver's chin, no matter how lightly and in a break in play and that is now ok on a footy field. I disagree. i don't want kids being elbowed to the face anywhere. Therefore footy is out of step with the society we live for in.

Players have been suspended for attempting to strike or bump. Moloney as one example got 3 weeks for an attempted bump on Bartel. Look it up. Result is the new indicator. If Danger stays down Shuey was 100% suspended. That was not the intent of the rule made a couple of years ago to protect the head. It just keeps getting changed. The AFL couldn't run a raffle.

This has done a lot for Junior footy. Brawl at half time and punch and elbow and you are fine as long as you don't badly hurt anyone. BTW Colin Sylvia's 6 week broken jaw delivered by an Eagle off the ball, was seen as an accident and Moloney's ATTEMPTED bump on Bartel which missed, got him 3 weeks a few years ago. We now have a new precedent that elbowing to the face at anytime on a footy field, even at breaks, is fine if you don't cause major damage to the victim. Well done AFL, the mums of Australia have another reason to worry about their kids playing footy.

Oliver clearly staged the kicking in danger even though he failed to get a basic free. Look in his left hand and you will see a calculator which he used to calculate when to pull the string in his right hand, which was attached to Shuey's boot, to draw it toward his hands as he reached for the footy. Where is the AFL outrage at this pre meditated attempt to draw a free?

We do have quite a player on our hands.

Need some fresh legs anyway.

Ah yes. Just shows how the written word can sometimes have different meanings.

See that Shuey didn't limp off, but he did have a fairly quiet night for him. Some poetic justice.

Hang on, one was pushed in the chest with an open hand and the other copped an elbow to the face. An umpire in the elbow incident standing close by, reported the offender immediately for striking. Pretty different incidents you would think.

Hope he turns up Friday night.

Viney jumped up to punch the ball away. In play and just for the record, Hurn is reported as having a sore chest. Therefore most likely contact to the chest in play. If Shuey got off for running past the ball and cleaning Danger up in the head, then nothing here. On the other hand he is a Demon so life ban.