Very Jaded

There was nothing in it, so I’m glad. Also now Carlton’s lawyer is free on Thursday and we should hit him up. Knows his stuff that guy.

Out: Anderson In: Scoop Junior

Apologize peasant

That wasn’t me sir. I want a full retraction.

My dog is utterly outraged. He’s gone to sleep with his Melbourne blanket and emotional support chew toy hoping for better news tomorrow.

I reckon we will appeal based off the last line from the article on the website Of course I don’t know what loopholes got closed thanks to Cripps. We may not have a legal avenue to appeal, but surely we can just appeal the stupidity of the reasoning of the tribunal

I want a tribunal member to tell 2 time AA defender Steven May that he is not a reasonable player the next time he accidentally hits an opponent in the head during a spoil.

If his name is Tom Hawkins he isn’t even charged. Let alone gets 2 weeks. The corruption and utter stupidity of this competition is beyond a joke. If Melbourne folded tomorrow I would never watch another game again.

I hope we go to the appeals board. What [censored] clowns sit on that board? More lawyers who have never played football in their life?

Get absolutely [censored]

“We need more lawyers and umpires in the AFL”

Kids whenever they have to wait for anything for longer than 1.3 seconds….right?! Edit: my dog just reminded me it’s his dinner time. The dog doesn’t wait. He’s the king of the house and my favourite child.

The laws don’t apply to Geelong players. Take your nonsense elsewhere.

What about the optics of punishing players for making legitimate attempts to contest the ball in a contact sport? Him not getting off would have bigger consequences than if the charges are dropped.

The AFL’s arguments are deranged. Reeks of people who haven’t played football ever.

And you’d say: “yes I play contact sport. I also tackle opponents when I know it will result in contact”.

This whole “you looked at him for 0.3 seconds makes you guilty” is just the dumbest argument I’ve heard. If players don’t look over at their opponent in play, can you imagine how many horrific head clashes and other impact injuries we’d see every week?! Are players meant to play blind?

Clearly JVR is smarter than the 3 baboons representing the AFL. Sounds about right. Well done young man.

He's suggesting it looks bad for JVR because he took his eyes off the ball. I'd argue that JVR's peripheral vision is good enough to suggest that he knew an opponent was there, and had he not looked over at him to judge the positioning of said opponent, he would have flattened him and probably himself too. He showed duty of care by looking over to judge how to approach the contest. Nowhere in the rule book does it say you can't look at your opponent while attempting to spoil. In fact, I am sure most footballers directly look at their opponent and the ball while going for a spoil, or a lot more players would end up giving away high contact free kicks. You can see in the replay that JVR tries to adjust his arm, which is fully stretched out by the way, to avoid contact with Ballard, which is why he ends up approaching it so awkwardly and his other arm almost loops over the top of Ballard. If JVR wanted to hurt Ballard, he would have approach the contest completely differently, and he would have really hurt him.

Needed a stretcher for impact.

I dunno, to me Trac always looks moments away from both his legs falling off. He has this weird gait like he's suffering some sort of permanent knee/hip/back injury. The amount of times I see him hobble off after a game thinking he's injured, and then he plays the following week and gets 30 touches is truly remarkable.

And what if we sustain an injury 5 minutes in and he has to play a full game? It is a very risky strategy, and honestly if our attitude going into this week's game is that it's no more than a practice game, we will get our arses handed to us. Hawks might be tanking, but the optics of playing really well against us and just losing are not lost on me. It will buy Mitchell a few more weeks without heavy scrutiny. Let's not go into this week pretending like the win is in the bag. Not only is it not, but percentage is going to be extremely important given how tight the ladder is.

I think it's very risky to play someone straight away in the seniors who has essentially missed 2 seasons of football with a variety of injuries. He never looked right to me last season, and I think it would be pointless to rush him in when the season is still very long. For his own confidence if nothing else, I think a few weeks at Casey is needed. I would say not before KB will he play seniors, but what do I know.

Best news when of course Casey has a bye 🙄

I’m sure all 17 Gold Coast fans were totally enraged 😂