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If the AFL is influenced by what people like Whately say then it is WEAK WEAK and not fit to run our game - have things
descended into mob rule?? Sure, everyone is entitled to opinions, and we all know what they are like, but the AFL should be leading not being dragged along by a feaces-stirring media.
Reality always wins in the end.
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(05-16-2018, 03:52 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:If the AFL is influenced by what people like Whately say then it is WEAK WEAK and not fit to run our game - have things
descended into mob rule?? Sure, everyone is entitled to opinions, and we all know what they are like, but the AFL should be leading not being dragged along by a feaces-stirring media.
That is both idealistic and very naive Cookie2.
From the AFLs perspective, the media make the wealth, not the players.
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I thought Ed should have got a week but Zeibell getting off was worse, the AFL should be appealing that.
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(05-16-2018, 03:53 AM)LP link Wrote:That is both idealistic and very naive Cookie2.
Form the AFLs perspective, the media make the wealth, not the players.
My post is heavy on irony.
I know very well ideals are not the AFL's bag.
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(05-16-2018, 03:44 AM)LP link Wrote:Our bigger problem is really Andy Maher and the other weak minded apologists, the others are just doing what they do naturally, favouring the teams they support and stomping on the teams they don't! As a club we have no voice!
Our club should be out in the media slamming the AFL's rudderless media driven agenda, in a hope to force an Appeals Board overreaction, which we could then quickly but at some cost have reversed in court, based on the existing precedents. Don't s h i t where you eat my dad used to tell me.
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(05-16-2018, 03:53 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:I thought Ed should have got a week but Zeibell getting off was worse, the AFL should be appealing that.
Too True!
But the bias is in the absence of May from the AFL Appeal, his contact was more forceful than Hawkins.
If Geelong have a grievance, it should be with the May decision not the Curnow decisions, but that is not Whatley's bent.
Personally, I thought Ed would get a week and Charlie would get off, I thought Hawkins and May should have got more than a week so Geelong and GC should be very happy!
(05-16-2018, 03:55 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Don't s h i t where you eat my dad used to tell me.
What if you are being beaten and starved?
If we are in the care of the AFL, why are they not defending Carlton and MRP in the face of a media barrage?
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(05-16-2018, 03:07 AM)kruddler link Wrote:What LEGAL grounds? None.
There is no new evidence.
It all comes down to a "i think vs he thinks" as to whether it was intentional or not. Nothing more, nothing less.
In other words, this appeal should fall on deaf ears.
Its ridiculous, that these two incidents have resulted in this outcome.
But, this is the world we live in. The fact that May got off, and the Curnows are coming under fire is a bit absurd.
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If you say the May content was not intentional - when the bloke was looking at - and talking to forcefully - the umpire before/during making decent contact, there is no way either Curnow brother can get done.
Moreover, plenty of evidence to support the fact that the brothers weren't even aware of the contact they made (hence lack of intent), that it was minimal at best (neither ump had an issue with the contact).
Case over.
I hope CFC is getting the lawyers ready today.
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This is so pathetic.
What a load or rubbish - neither contact was aggressive for fucks sake!
God I wish there was some bloody commonsense involved but obviously too much to ask for.
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If they don't want us in their crappy competition just tell us.
Don't just keep flogging us
We'll start our own comp > 
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