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Not that it is happening but if it was a top 10 pick, Mitch Lewis and F1st, that could spark interest. Bundle up the F1st with what you get for ANB and you could possibly get another top 10 from the Tigers, who would look to spread their multiple picks this year, into some next year. That could mean we would get Mitch Lewis have 3 top 10 picks for this draft, with one of course being our existing pick 5. That is a very strong influx of talent.

Absolutely not.

PLEASE!

That's the way to handle it.

Yes it helps, but it doesn’t always work. If I was holding a football, you could rightly say, “he looks like an old, bald, unfit man holding a football.”

He just looks like a footballer.

Yes.

That is footy speak for “ no club could get the deal done”. Maybe it will be the same for CP5.

Well if CP stays, as he might, it would be a premature and incorrect title change. We have 7 weeks of this to go and we will see where it all ends up.

You have completely missed my point. There is nothing wrong with expecting a President to speak on a very important/crisis issue. What is wrong, is the President speaking like an unprepared smartie and basically making a fool of herself.

Is that a long length one?

Well that's a bit frivolous. Of course people wanted her to talk and explain, but not pathetically, which she was. If I am starving and have a meal, I am still entitled to be angry if I get food poisoning.

Probably, though it did enter my mind.

I just brought up in my mouth.

Probably too late, the brown paper bags have struck.

Reid to 2026

Contracted to 2027.

I think we might assume Tomlinson will now be a Saint.

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I have 4 comments here. First The Tribunal has found that it was reasonably foreseeable that Moore running towards the ball, would drop to the ground and that Kozzie should have known that and foreseen that as he ran in at speed and that therefore any bump at all could hit Moore in the head. That imo is errant rubbish. Second that The Tribunal allowed an amendment to the charge during the hearing, yet on other hearings refused to allow amendments, like for example Hewett, who was found to have struck a player to the head with his hand, but vision showing they had alleged the wrong hand, but clearly a strike with the other hand. Why was a proven strike simply not just amended to the correct hand. Instead they let him off. Third, how long did The Tribunal take to decide the case and write down the reasons. The findings are lengthy and written down as shown above. It takes time to weigh the evidence and decide on each issue and then more time to write it all down. I am bemused this could be done as quickly as appears, in the time spent on deliberations. Doesn’t sound like a lot of discussion on the issues. Lastly why does the AFL allow a Pies supporting person to chair a Tribunal dealing with Collingwood players?

You would have thought so. I am prepared to have a little wager with myself, that if the Pies were in an Elimination final the next week that maybe things might have been a little different. Moore jumped up and took his kick and stayed on the ground. Gus was knocked out cold and yet that wasn’t rough play but Kozzie’s is after a change in movement at the last second by Moore, give me a break.

I am nearly retired and the club should have plenty of Barristers to select from.

I have said it before, but imo this Chairman makes it up. This is what he said tonight. AFL Tribunal chair Jeff Gleeson KC said that the tribunal did not believe he was contesting the ball and it was “unreasonable” for him to bump given Moore could have lowered his body and been in danger. What he in fact is saying is that you can never bump, or if you take it to its logical conclusion, or for that matter do anything on a football field, as the other player might lower his body, or do something, that leads to him being hurt/concussed and you are therefore guilty of an offence, as it is unreasonable of you not to know that the other player might do something that turns your legal act into a suspension. That is BS. That is not the bloody rule and it never has been. Where does it say in the rules, that if the victim does something at the last second, that causes a legal act to result in an injury, that it is then an illegal act. I am sick to death of this blokes' rulings. Contrast it with what he said when a Pies player is up on knocking out a player. But the AFL tribunal panel of Jeff Gleeson, Scott Stevens and Darren Gaspar found Maynard's actions were "reasonable" in the circumstances. "He committed to the act of smothering when he was ... several metres from Brayshaw," Gleeson said in his findings. "We are not at all satisfied that a reasonable player would have foreseen that violent impact, or impact of the type suffered by Brayshaw, was inevitable or even likely." The MRO Officer a former Pies player didn't even want to charge Maynard in the first place. The AFL revealed later on Wednesday that it won't appeal the decision, despite initially overruling match review officer Michael Christian. AFL bosses sent Maynard directly to the tribunal, despite Christian not wanting to charge him in the first place. Collingwood MRO officer and Collingwood supporter presiding over cases involving Pies players, is an absolute disgrace. APPEAL.

The accused was a Demons player and the victim was a Pies' Captain.

So Gleeson, as I believe a Pies supporter, was allowed again to sit as Tribunal Chairman, on an incident involving a Pies player, in fact the Pies Captain. We should have sought his removal at the start of the hearing due to possible conflict and bias. The old legal maxim of "justice not only has to be done, it has to be seen to be done". This from the Maynard case from Will Schofield. West Coast premiership player Schofield, who had been predicting a ban for Maynard all week, was fuming over the decision. He'd earlier tweeted: "I think this Maynard case is very different if he actually smothers the ball. He didn’t smother the ball. Just jumped in the air and then knocked out an opponent. "In the end, where you sit on this Maynard tribunal decision comes down to whether you like Collingwood or not. Let’s be honest." After the decision he added: "Also while I’m at it. Jeff Gleeson, the chair of the tribunal this evening, is both independent and a Collingwood supporter.