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Yes he was. And is. One if the best one on one marks in the AFL. He is not a great pack mark. The be rules would have helped him. a r the dees but Freo's midfield is woeful- even with superbly - so he won't get many one on one chances.

He played well against the cats. Just ok against the hawks and like the rest of the team poor in the prelim. And he played well after he came in during the regular season. A solid footballer with an important strength - pace. I'm happy for him to be in the team. But Omac is ahead of him and as Gawn implies when may is back in omac stays and Frosty is the player most likely to be dropped. Which makes sense because he is a better, more reliable key defender

It's remarkable how little info there has been about that session, particularly given it was supposedly a full scale low practice match and was at a known venue

For those who would have frost ahead of omac these comments from gawny make it pretty clear what the pecking order is from the club's perspective. Sure that may not change your personal ratings of the relative strengths of each player. But nonetheless it is pretty useful info in terms of informing an objective assessment of both players and the likliehoos of one playing ahead of the other. Demons' Mayday set to bring on Frost, says Gawn - http://m.afl.com.au/news/2019-03-15/demons-mayday-set-to-bring-on-frost-says-gawn

Is that a still from a porno? Bitters might be able to confirm

As wiseblood rightly says jlt form means very little. This has been rge case for a few years, in part i suspect as a function of how aerobicaly challenging foory now is and how hard it is to get through a full season. And this year the new rules have thrown an extra curve ball in. And for rhe dees, for the first time in a long time we are coming off finals which is another factor to consider. The other thing about jlt is that from a win loss perspective they are only really relevant for teams outside say the top 10 teams. Bottom teams need wins to build up supporter faith. Top team don't need to worry about that, particularly the top 4 sides. We are one of those sides. And played accordingly. I'm fine with how we played. My bead is the last 15 minutes of the first q against the tigers. We looked every inch the top 4 side we are. We will be ready for port. The bookies have got it right. We deserve to be very short favorites. A loss would be a massive kick in the guts. But it won't happen. For punters jump on the over 39 bet and dees to have the highest score of the round.

Old man rivers you probably didn't have to wear a seatbelt on your way to the ground and you could drink all you want and drive home. Ah the good old days before we went all namby pamby nanny state.

Apologies for lateness of this but my best is Mastering race 9 no 5 Flemington. Should be a class above and form jockey on board helps. By the by my other best bets were alizee (First time I will have backed it) and fifty stars so good alignment today. I had a ripper start to my day snagging swift sis in the first (having had a saver bet on it at its last stsrt which it won at 30s). Love it as it gets my stake back so any wind from here are gravy

And to think he was $12 to won Coleman. As I have previously noted that is how bookies win.

Good Lord I stuffed this communication up. What I meant was I like being able to pause and go back on clips.

I like also that you can find and control the clip inside dl. I often have multiple tabs open on my phone and when listening to a clip on a radio site it is really easy to find it again to pause, go back etc. By the glad is a super impressive interviewee.

Yep I saw it. Part of my point. I didn't make that clear obviously. Listening to tmac now. I like how you can go back when you vague out of get distracted

Thanks for these DL. Just great. I just had to catch a bus and was able to listen to Jones and viney. Couldn't find it on the new annoying Sen app. Was just looking for the goody interview. Not yet up on Sen. A terrific addition to the site in the last little while.mseans you can listen to dl radio!

Yeah me too. That would be great. I hope it is the prelim.

Agree on all points. In terms of time and space he is really skilled at getting back on his left foot kick and doesn't seem to be forced to kick with his right very often (the few kicks i can recall on his right foot have been serviceable IIRC). Has an excellent quick drop and stab kick too when needed. And can kick of the side of his boot when required to go short and wide Great vision of who is available to kick to completes the package. Very happy about this signing.

C'mon deiter you can't be serious. He bumped him. He could have simply braced and protected himself and the result would have been almost exactly the same. With one small difference. He. Would. Not. Have. Been. Reported. Someone (apologies I can't remember who) made the excellent analogy that it was like a hard screen in basketball- the type that leads to a foul - where you lean into it and give the player a sold bump. As opposed to bracing and standing your ground - which is legal if you are not moving. May put a very hard and deliberate block on berry. And unfortunately for all concerned hit his chin. As soon as he did so he was gonski. Again the club acknowledged that. If he didn't put the extra in they would have argued he was innocent.

Pity he put himself in a situation where he won't get the chance.

I hope he is feeling gutted but most of all disappointed he has let the club down. A club that has spent big coin and a high draft pick to get him to our club. It was always going to get reviewed. High impact was a tough call and I thought there was a 50-50 chance we would get it downgraded to low impact and a fine (note: there seems to be confusion - some seem to think we were arguing he was innocent. We accepted his guilt). I understand people being frustrated with the system, particularly in regard to the inconsistencies. I share that frustration. Though I have laugh at suggestions it's somehow orchestrated by the AFL and the dees are victims of a conspiracy (if it was gws blah blah). I mean come on. But personally I'm [censored] off at may. None of the tribunal palaver comes into play if he engages his brain. It's of course not a hanging offence but we got him for precisely the sort of big forward line we come up against in round one. And it is a game of very small margins as the dees no full well. A loss might have huge ramifications. I hope those that give him a pass for his stupidity don't bag omac if he gets out muscled by one of their bigs.

Pretend you are representing May and instead of trying to get it downgraded to fine (ie accept guilt but argue low impact) you try to get him off using this argument. In that pretend world does may get off?

This is the photo you are using for evidence? I hope you are not representing May at the tribunal. By the by you listed 3 options and he didn't take any of them. The closest of your option was option 3 but he added some mayo. The mayo being he moved his body towards Berry. That's to say he took option 4 - bumping Berry. It is why he got reported.

Of course they will deal with things sensibly and calmly. They are professionals. So is May for that matter.Thankfully they will have more discipline than May. They will still be fuming. But because they are professionals they will have the skills to deal with it properly and not allow their anger to dictate their response. As i said its not 1974.

Simple. Brace a for contact (and perhaps turn his body a bit) to protect himself. Don't bump. As soon as you choose to bump you risk a report - and if you accidentally make even slight contact to the head you are sure to be reported. If you make heavy contact you get weeks.

The club will be absolutely furious. As they should be. If you don't think so i respectfully suggest you may not have a sense of how a fully professional, elite football club operates. Its not 1974 and big carl getting pats on the back for giving someone a shirtfront. It is instructive the club isn't appealing on the grounds he is innocent but is instead are arguing to downgrade the impact of the bump so he doesn't get a week. Why? Because May deliberately bumped him. And as such accepted the risk he might hit him high. Which is what happened. The club will be fuming he made that decision. Because it was stupid. And completely avoidable. If we lose next week because their tall forwards towel us up you might reconsider your opinion. Who knows such a loss to Port might cost us a top 4 position. Might be the difference between a flag and no flag. Of course it may not but we wouldn't be having this discussion if May, a player with a shocking tribunal record (something the club would have discussed with him prior to signing no doubt) had engaged his brain in what was a meaningless practice game.

And you manage a spelling mistake in a sentence containing 11 words? Standards at Mensa Oz must have slipped since i left.

Nup. He didn't set out to 'maim' him. he did try to hurt him. And succeeded. He is very lucky he didn't get him more on the head, say flush on the nose, which easily could have happened if Berry had dropped even a couple of centimeters more. Something that is completely out of May's control.Then we would be talking high contact and 5-6 weeks. All for what? What did he achieve by bumping him?