Jaded No More

Toby Bedford never left the ground. He didn’t even have eyes on the player. Maynard left the ground. Once you choose to leave the ground according to the AFL you have a duty of care to your opponent. That’s not my rules that’s the rules that they’ve demonstrated over and over again with many other cases. If you choose to leave the ground and lunge at a player with forward momentum, it does not matter if your intention was to smash them, smother the ball, fart in their face or kiss them, you have a duty of care to avoid their head and not render them concussed. Please explain how Hunter got suspended for a footy action trying to get a loose ground ball, because he accidentally collected Butters, but Maynard should avoid suspension for trying to smother the ball and concussing Gus in the process?

His only friends are Tom Browne and Hutchy.

Tom Browne couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag. Needs to stop telling us what players can and can't do. Should go back to bin diving. Suits him best. Trash.

They can suspend Maynard, so that the next player who goes to smother a ball thinks twice before leaving the ground, leaping forward, turning their body and cannonballing themselves shoulder first into an opponent. When they started suspending players for cheap shots off the ball, guess what happened? cheap shots off the ball stopped occurring. Likewise sling tackles. They have told players not to sling a player 360 in a tackle motion and drive them into the ground head first. They suspend players who do, even though tackling is still 100% allowed in AFL.

Last week a few people on here were selling their tickets later in the week as they were sick and couldn't make it. Keep checking back here in case the same happens again. There are bound to be people who can't make it at the last minute.

Better weather predicted will help the neutral AFL members to turn up I reckon. Friday is also better for corporates.

So did I. I shed more than a few tears looking at that image, and thinking of his parents and Danielle and her mum listening to those Collingwood inbred cheer while Gus was motionless on the ground, and rushing down to the rooms to see how he is doing. I think it's little wonder why so many of us are feeling so flat about Thursday. A loss is a loss, we've all seen plenty of them and plenty worse, but this incident, and the frankly pathetic follow up in the media and online since, has really just left a horrible bitter taste in our mouths. If our season ends on Friday, I'll be upset, but if Gus is ok then that is truly what matters. Bigger picture.

I'll remember that the next time one of their star players is concussed. Better not play again. Don't listen to doctors when between 100,000 Collingwood fans you can find 3 functional braincells. They know best.

Right call not to challenge. We could have argued the impact was low, but realistically it was a bloody stupid and dangerous thing to do, and unlike Collingwood, we don't condone that [censored] from our players. Now JVR gets to miss playing in a final. Hope he learns.

Hopefully next week Tuesday. Show Maynard the same respect they showed Bedford and say "sorry we can't find anyone to attend the hearing you have to wait". But no, fat chance that happens when a Collingwood player is involved!

Since when does it matter if his was a footy action? Tackling is a footy action, and tackles that result in concussion lead to suspensions. Why are the rules suddenly different? Because it's a big name player from a big club?

I don't think we need a key forward. We need a key defender. Petty is our key forward from 2024 onwards. Who is helping out May and Lever, or further more who replaces May eventually?

I hope non of them are suffering CTE from their playing days. But going by the rubbish they constantly spit from their mouth, it’s very possible they are.

M50 is a really good bay, it's where our reserved seats are during the season. You're next to the MCC, on the wing, next to the Melbourne bench. It looks like all of Demonland will be there on Friday night. Lets make some noise and win!

But look this thread alone, people still can't get in! So the system can't possibly know that Melbourne fans won't turn up 50 minutes after tickets have gone on sale.

It's not Blues supporter, it's that both Semis are on sale at the same time, as well as NRL finals tickets. WHY oh WHY did they not stagger the release like last week?

Pathetic. I am sorry but given the 50/50 allocation they should be made to WAIT until the end of the members pre-sale period to re-allocate tickets.

It's THE wing. It's next to the Melbourne bench and MCC.

WTF how can they allocate our section to Carlton when members pre sale doesn't finish before 2pm? Do they not know how long it takes to get in just to purchase tickets? It's only 10:40 ffs

My dog's [censored] have more integrity than the AFL and the Collingwood Football Club put together.

FYI it only worked on my app

M50 again God speed

I have 4 devices going 20 minutes and counting. A sick joke of a system

Thank goodness this is the last time we have to do this this year. No chance I am going to Brisbane next week, and we don't need to do this for the GF.

Waiting to get in on Ticketek be like