Round 19 Green Shoot of the Week

[crashlander]

I mentioned this in the post game thread and it's still the best moment of the game for me.

It was done with intent and must send a message to snipers like Selwood; "Mess with me, or my mates, and I WILL get you!"

Certainly Geelong cannot complain about it. The first free of the game came from trying to snipe off the ball. Unfortunately they were few and far between thereafter, but the point was identified.

I can remember Liam Jones trying to return the favour on Dangermouse, whom he had recognized as pounding our kids earlier: pounded him into the dust as he tried to kick the ball across the field. Jones was a little late, but the umpires ignored it, as they had all of the others since the first couple of moments into the game. Dangermouse didn't like, but Jones did: Jones was making the same point as SPS did. If you live by the sword, you die by the sword.
It was only a very short time later that Dangermouse pounded Kreuzer into the dust and concussed him. It was deliberate, no matter what he says. The creep deserves his penalty and then some. He had played that way from the earliest moments of the game. Nor was he alone. It was a deliberate tactic to me, as many Geelong players did the same thing. I am glad that only one of ours could not go on.