Jaded No More

The AFL is arguing that JVR injured Ballard. Since when does free to play next week = injured?

Why did we accept on Tuesday night that contact was not accidental?! Wtf!!

The AFL’s position is just that, a position. We have rules and laws. You can’t just change your position on a written law to suit your current agenda! We are either following the law or we aren’t. Also Ballard was unharmed so who says this spoil was careless?

Is the AFL arguing that their rules are wrong? What a [censored] show

This new lawyer is good. I’m thinking his arguments can’t really be disputed.

Can we play the race card? This is clearly a play to get the Dutch. No non- Dutch players got suspended this week.

We should just go in there and tell them they’re wrong and stupid

We are trying to bamboozle them with lawyer talk 😂

I would like to see the final figures across the league. Would not be surprised to see a drop off. With the insane cost of living, I imagine many people put footy memberships low on their list of money spending priorities. If you can't pay your mortgage or your rent, are you really spending a few hundred bucks on a footy membership?

Hot tip. Don't cut it off, untie it. The pom pom would be actually looped on as both the pom pom and beanie are a fully fashion knit, hence no stitching is used. If you cut it, you will inevitably cut the knit itself which will unravel the whole thing. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Do we know who is on the appeals board tonight?

Casboult was a poor matchup for him. Same as Rosas was a poor match for Bowey.

Always was and always will be my all time favourite Demon. Love Robbo!

Rioli’s incident was downgraded for high impact to medium. Ridley was concussed. Ballard free to play this week. So let me understand this, concussion is now medium impact. A possible injury that didn’t happen is now high impact What. The. Actual. [censored].

Rioli got two week 🫠

No matter what happens tomorrow I am very proud of the way we’ve handled this as a club, not just for baby Roo but for the whole competition. As always we do all the bloody hard work so everyone else can benefit…. Made the game, now we are saving it from itself.

A nobody player who plays for a nothing club. Call me when someone I care about doesn’t back in JVR. By the way, his own club clearly disagrees with his opinion since they gave evidence to say Ballard was not hurt and cleared to play this week. They didn’t need to do that if they thought the action was malicious. Could have said he was hurt and then made a miraculous recovery. Aka what Adelaide did with Dangerfield in the Trengove case.

It’s not ideal but it’s also a good builder of resilience. Sometimes your preparation is compromised and you need to adapt. JVR strikes me as a very strong minded kid. He will be ok.

Good work Dees. Fingers crossed the people on the appeals board are less drunk than those at the tribunal last night.

Are you representing us? 🤔😂

Or the fact that Lynch got off a few weeks ago for a much cruder spoil, or the fact that Fogarty wasn’t even cited in a spoil that resulted in a facial injury to his opponent. Let’s just conveniently shaft a player that has played 6 games playing for a club that traditionally doesn’t pull the big angry mob crowds. Nobody will notice. Nobody will care. AFL read the room wrong. I hope we fight this and I hope we get a decent bloody lawyer not another AFL fanboy.

Because he’s an ex footballer, and a coach, not some washed up lawyer who doesn’t understand football. Anyone who has ever played the game at this level is genuinely bewildered by this result. The only people who got on their high horse and tried hanging JVR are weasel commentators who would [censored] their pants if they had to play AFL. I am all for stamping out dangerous and unnecessary actions in our game. No player should suffer concussion as a result of an off the ball hit. That’s not fair play. But every player is well aware of the risks involved with playing the game at any level, let alone at the highest level. And no player would ever think twice about reasonably assessing in the 0.6 seconds they realize they need to spoil a high ball, that they might get hurt or their opponent might get hurt in doing so.

I want us to appeal for the sheer fact that no big club would stand for this rubbish. I am sick of no name players from smaller clubs being used as a pawn in the AFL's latest games. If we don't stand up against this and fight it, we are saying to the AFL that they can keep using our players to make an example, when the reality is, not a single AFL player is watching this suspension and thinking next time they won't go for the spoil.

Every other commentator who hung JVR prior to the suspension was allowed to have an opinion. So can Jones post tribunal I guess. And for those saying it’s a good chance to rest Roo, this is completely besides the point. What if this weekend was a final and the player in question was Oliver? If we don’t fight this charge we are setting a precedent we don’t want to deal with later down the track when it really matters.

To be fair the Kosi bump, although no injury was sustained, is so so so much worse than JVR’s spoil, that it’s actually laughable that those two ended up with the same penalty. It’s absolutely incomparable actions. One was totally unnecessary and off the ball. One was in play and IN THE RULES. One had the intention to hurt and one had the intention to contest the ball. If we don’t appeal this I’ll be very upset and if we don’t win the appeal I’ll know for sure that the AFL is corrupt. Can you imagine Jeremy Cameron, Scott Pendlebury, or Lachie Neale getting suspended for this same action in September? No you couldn’t, because it would NEVER happen. The AFL makes up rubbish rulings every week to suit whatever dumb agenda they want to push at the time, and young no name players from small clubs suffer as a result.