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Two words - or maybe one. Bull [censored], or [censored].

I love Roos ❤️ and spot on here. Five weeks .... what, so, if the Eagles bravely battle through without their star mid, he can play in the GF? Utter BS. However many weeks he gets it must be enough for him not to play again this season. A certain ex AFL player benefited from our softly softly judiciaries views on domestic violence it has just been reported. Are you seriously suggesting that we should not have a defence force trained to do hard things when necessary in the defence of our country? Or maybe you mean not letting them back into our society once they have put their lives on the line because they have been trained to kill bad people? Just what do you mean?

Not almost .... actually trumps Trump by a fair margin

It will be interesting to see how he spins this. Galbally! I wonder what he would be saying were the accused a Collingwood player? Well we won’t get a chance to seeGus fronting up to Gaff in two weeks time, but he does get a chance to show WCE what he feels about them as a club. Are you really suggesting that this is not as bad as it looks because Brayshaw ducked into it? ? Fair dinkum ...... AFL can’t get anything tight especially regards rule changes. I haven’t seen any discussion about the almost certain concussion Young Brayshaw has suffered. Must be just awful for his family. NO SUBSTITUTE which is why it must be reserved for rare instances like this. Became an eminent pediatric surgeon I believe.

I don't think that Houli and Bugg necessarily did - both were reckless, dangerous, but wild backward swings that hit their opponents hard - but Gaff was face on so how can you defend that as unintentional? 6 for the act plus more for the result. Very different - see above. Bug swung backwards, recklessly; Gaff hit him face on. I only saw the clip of the actual contact - was a free paid? If not then the (blind) team of 9 maggots (apparently) didn't see it. Agree - this could break Gaff mentally. Certainly not worth more that 50% of his previous asking price, and intense psychological assessment before anyone put a dollar on the table for him. And, maybe Hamish should be allowed apply for special dispensation and get an immediate transfer to Melbourne (or even Freo) to get away from playing with his brother's assailant.

Are you preparing us for Christian’s assessment. In play, accidental, good record, repentant, Downlow contender ...... (forget high severe contact) ........$3k fine, or, if suspension unavoidable for outside pressure considerations, apply the unwritten ‘who plays next rule’ .... oh, Dees in 2 weeks .... one week.

IMVHO this was a lot worse than Bugg Bugg threw a reckless and overzealous arm blindly backwards at someone who was at him from behind: Gaff threw a very deliberate punch to a players face whilst face on, knowing full well what he was going to hit. IF, IF there was any justice, integrity and impartiality in the match review process Gaff would get 6-8, however he will get 2-3 to enable him to participate in finals. Prepare for weasel words and double back flip standards.

IF he turned out like Mason Cox we would all be very excited. Wans't he plucked from US basketball?

It is very clear that either (or both) Michael Christian doesn't have a clue and /or is under instruction to look after the franchise(and "power") clubs.

Yes. You are missing the corruption and ineptitude of the MRP MRO position: could not not suspend him but absolutely zero doubt had a Demon done the deed it would have been "inexcusable, dangerous- 3-4 weeks", but a franchise precious, despite having a poor record, gets a soft penalty.

I must say that every time I have spent a week, or two, in Alice in winter I have come back to cold Melbourne invigorated. Absolutely NO sapping of energy. (Can't speak for Darwin as I have only spent a few days there in Spring).

2018 - big win, running away in the second half Didn't see that coming (to quote Mark Neeld) ... we actually destroyed them and they played under cover at Doglands to previous week. And interestingly, Freo won after Darwin too (or perhaps one could say their opponents lost).

Always interesting to read the truly negative posts to balance some common sense.' No way could one, as of now, call Weideman a debacle. And if I recall correctly at the time Weideman was drafted Tom McDonald hadn't played as a KPP forward at all, or very little. His emergence as a top class marking and goal kicking forward has surprised many here.

Could have, would have, should have. Yes, recruiting isn’t a science and certainly not a precise one. But geez he has found some beauties

Surely possession per se are not how one should judge a KP defender I vaguely recall a game at the G where I think it was Danny Frawley who held some whizz band FF goalless and got BOG with, as I recall, a single possession.

Lookshury!

I seem to recall one club, maybe even MFC, who in a full preseason session were instructed NOT to use their preferred foot. Certainly regularly practicing with the non preferred foot (and hand) fairly quickly improves the skills.

What forward in their right mind would want to play under Lyon? Sure, a negating defender maybe, but a forward?

So, we are doomed because a retired sneaky little staging sniper says so. Woe is me ???

Well, certainly a far better story than anything about Ross's Freo on field 'achievements' since their GF flop only a few years back!

Yeah, but that was offered by Vlad and an artificial club in their set up period.

Who where what why?

Question for Casey watchers How far off is Dion J as an AFL level small defender?

Actually after yesterday maybe we should move more games to venues where I will not be tempted to waste my time and emotional energy by trying to attend. :-((((

Exactly, Dom. You beat me to the punch. Still, there are those who just love to see the negatives and just make their judgements on a single poor team performance. It is not as if the mids applied a lot of pressure to those delivering into their forward line.