nutbean

Not me - I felt a big wave of "thank christ it is not us" ( says the atheist)

I for one would "shoot the messenger"

Spot on - Footy Ops managers meet with player managers regularly to discuss their players from their clubs. Player managers usually manage more than one player and you can bet that names from opposition clubs are always discussed - "is such and such happy ? interested in a move ? we are interested" - 95% of the inquiries will go nowhere. You don't know the answer if you don't ask the question.

Just a little something I picked up on how much the win meant to them. When Gawn is being interviewed they panned back to the Melbourne players walking slowly to the boundary - you could see the joy. Angus Brayshaw is talking with Harmes. The club song starts blaring again on the loudspeakers and you can see Harmes singing the club song !!!

I would make Petracca our flat and hard kicking coach - he is going to hurt his teamates with that cannon of a leg - it is poetry in motion ( very quick, very hard poetry)

Where there's smoke there's cod fish

Don't disagree with the analysis or the comparison to Jones' early days. Having said that , he is offering more than enough that I wouldn't be dropping him. I know it is hard on ANB but it means that when he gets his chance in the ones he has got to grab it with both hands.

I looked at that and didnt think it was a charge - I am more confused now than ever ( if that is possible)

I can absolutely confirm your confirmation

Spot on - even kicks that are not 100% on the money can be made to look okay when your teamates are always moving and creating an option. I much prefer in Tom McDonalds case that we focus on what he does well not what he doesnt do well - as the pluses outweigh the minuses.

no it wasn't - the bump report is now saying low impact to the head....

interesting - i looked up rules of the game and cant find what your link says ! http://s.afl.com.au/staticfile/AFL Tenant/AFL/Files/Images/2016 Laws of Australian Football.pdf completely different ! more bizarre !

My squeezes son reckons that Hawthorn get a cushy ride from umpires and i have countered that he is looking at isolated incidents - praise be the Barrass that we won on Saturday as I can honestly say we were well and truly shafted for most of the afternoon. It is not only what they do pay but also what the dont pay and the blatant inconsistency between the three umpires adjudicating. Maddening. ( focus your attention on Gawn - the amount of times he was obstructed from getting to a ruck contest or a marking contest and it wasnt picked up was obscene)

Thanks DC - what rule is that ? BTW - i am incensed because the MRP have ruled it to the head - how is that not weeks ?

once he grabbed the leg and lifted NRL style it should have been a free and a report - it is a dangerous tackle.

I ranted on another thread and i will rant here - YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.... if it is deemed head it should be weeks. So we are now assessing impact by a medical report. So if you smash someone with a fist to the face and they get straight back up - then it should be deemed insufficient force. The MRP is a joke ( and a bad one at that.)

okay - now it says head - YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME !!!!!! How can you get a reprimand for that !!!!!!!!!! If he choose to bump and hit the head it has to be weeks. I don't give a rats the Clarrie got straight up ( i do actually). How about you smash someone in the face with a fist and if they dont stay down you claim "insufficient impact". The MRP is a joke of the highest order.

How bizarre is that !! I am tipping it has to be the one that says head - or he would have ( should have) got weeks. But if it is a bump to the body i am trying to figure out why he got fined at all ! To me it was 3 weeks or nothing - bizarre ! ( either way it is wrong)

They cant even get the reporting right !!! Charges Laid: Cyril Rioli, Hawthorn, has been charged with engaging in rough conduct against Clayton Oliver, Melbourne, during the first quarter of the Round 20 match between Hawthorn and Melbourne, played at the MCG on Saturday August 6, 2016. In summary, he can accept a $1000 sanction with an early plea. Based on the available video evidence and a medical report from the Melbourne Football Club, the incident was assessed as careless conduct with low impact to the body. The incident was classified as a $1500 sanction. The player has no applicable record which impacts the penalty. An early plea enables the player to accept a $1000 sanction. Very odd indeed !

only if the head is down (n) bumps or makes forceful contact to an opposition Player from front-on when that Player has their head down over the football. NOTE: – a Player can bump an opposition Player’s body from side-on but any contact forward of side-on will be deemed to be front-on; – a Player with their head down in anticipation of winning possession of the football or after contesting the football will be deemed to have their head down over the football for the purposes of this law. '

especially if you considered that Oliver got a fine for exactly that type of tackle in the practice matches.

The Jetta/Rioli was a howler - that happens with 3 umpires - adjudicating 3 different ways.

no - they graded it to low impact to the body which makes it more ridiculous. It was high impact but it was to the body- still trying to figure out how he could get fined for it. If it was the head he would of ( make that should of ) got weeks.

I have said this elsewhere - if they have deemed that Rioli's hit did not make contact with the head - under what rule would you like him freekicked - i just looked at the rules and they fined him under this "engaging in rough conduct against an opposition Player which in the circumstances is unreasonable;" - what an ambiguous rule - that can just about justify anything ! They have the head is sacrosanct line and i agree - but they have apparently now changed the interpretation to take out bumps to the body as well. Sicily deserved what he got. Mitchell deserved to get off - it was an open hand - you have got to have sufficient force. The thing that irks me is the sheer inconsistency of the MRP - Hawkins must be shaking his head.