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Any updates on this? Have the club accepted it?

What are the club doing about the Sparrow suspension? Accepting it? Fighting it? Haven't seen anything about it

The vision I saw was Sparrow airborne holding onto Day who had one arm free. Very different to planting one foot and slinging a player with arms pinned. Once Sparrow was airborne he could not exert any pressure as centripital force would have ket him travelling in the same direction as his initial momentum.

Yeah shocking kicking a ball 40m to our fwd line is terible.

errr I don't think you are correct on that one. Get a new dictionary

@Bitter but optimisticmight be able to stand in

Shocking stadium. No transport Built in a total rainbelt with around 25inches of rain more than the CBD! A car park that became a bog with the slightest rain. Cars couldn't move. 38000 cars all trying to exit out of one gate and get onto the monash freeway via one entry ramp Shocking stands that sloped gently so that row 20 was miles from the action A 10m wide boundary line that meant you needed binoculars if you were further back than 10 rows. I could go on.....

The original plan was to have had the train line extended for patrons but they never did......

People have got short memories. Frost got booed loudly a few games back because he was getting very aggressive and downed a Melbourne player They haven't booed him for leaving melbourne. He was just a d*** when we played the Hawks with his faux toughness.

I suspect its hard to put on a lot of size when you do so much cardio, You can only eat so much food a day!

Extrapolate this into every contest and you dont have a game of footy any more. Every single contest has potential for someone to get hurt. Gawn would get 300 frees a game Imagine players going to tackle and not being committed because they are worried about repercussions. Possibly more injuries would occur because natural instinct and ingrained actions over 15-20 years will be second guessed.

From Big Footy There’s not much to be happy about forward of centre. 17th for inside 50’s 14th marks inside 50 17th shots on goal 18th goal efficiency from inside 50’s 18th goal accuracy 17th for contested marks

Pretty sure Sauce Baker handballed it straight back to Tracc when we played the Dogs!

Petty serves two roles. He takes the opposition key defender and playmaker like Collins from GC or McCartin/McDonald from Sydney, Weitering from Carlton, McGovern from WCE etc and tries to stop their intercept marks. Against Geelong he would probably play Stewart and against the Pies probably Mihocek. The other is clearly to mark and kick goals himself. He isn't being recognised on here for the first paragraph.

Fair question. I presume its predictability but its also predictable to the oppo. In th pre season we varied our kick ins a lot. Have we reverted to old habits? Watch the geelong game last year to see how they crushed us at the kick ins by having Blixacvs (!) jump over the top pf Max and smash it 15 m away where the Geelong smalls swept it away. Our players were at the feet of Max. Good coaching by Scott. We learned nothing from that game IMO

We have a lot of trouble with tall forward lines. Reid from Sydney has given us a lot of grief. Hipwood, Mason Cox, Casboult, Lobb on occasion. Daniher has created problems but fortunately can't kick. We don't have a tall backman - ie over 200cm - that can take those players. Instead we rely on pressuring delivery. And when that breaks down we look terrible against the talls.

This is stupid by the tribunal. Any person running full tilt has to look u p and see where they are running and where to spoil etc. Its a BS argument. If he KEEPS his eyes on the player that might constitute an argument But how many times do you see a player running with the flight to spoil a mark by placing his fist in the place were the player marking has his hands. Its totally legitimate to do that.

Nowhere have I seen comments about Ballard being accidentally kneed in the head a few mins beforehand (and potentially suffering some neck/head response) and when the JVR spoils Ballard holds the back of his head. He isn't holding his face where JVRs bicep brushed it. It seems relevant to me as Ballard said he heard a crack - hence the stretcher and an abundance of caution. But there was no neck damage, nor concussion and he will play this week. So he wasn't hurt in the JVR incident. To say there was potential is also patently ridiculous as there are 100 other footy actions that fall into the same category Also to call it striking is bizarre and clearly incorrect - If he had hit the ball first it could not be striking. And he missed it by mm. Plus the tribunal admitted it was a genuine spoil. The case has so many holes it is difficult to see how he can't get off

And its almost as if the player going for the mark has first mover advantage. Why not the other way around?

Garry Lyon was all over the Newman and Murphy examples

Hard to present any facts saying OMac was the answer 🤣

Pretty sure they'll experiment for some ideas going into finals. But you don't want to disclose all of your weapons this early.

McCartin got concussion from his head lightly touching the ground Better ban the ground

Dangers was actually two actions One a spoil, two lifting his elbow up and thrusting it in the face of Vlastuin - al in the name of 'bracing for contact'

Its insane how Chol's action is not then also worthy of a 2 week suspension - yet not even reported. And if its because of a stretcher that is ridiculous as Ballard was not injured, nor concussed and will play this week. It was purely precautionary according to the Suns because he said he heard a 'crack'. Max Gawn should lie on he ground and call for a stretcher every single time he gets whacked in the head. The AFL/tribunal needs to explain how this can possibly be so. And explain to players how things will be adjudicated. It is as it always has been - a complete [&^%^%$#&^$#&#] lottery, with big name players and big name clubs having all the good tickets.