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Fat Pizza
15 Jun 2001, 09:04
What was Doc Wheildon's defence, when reported for shaking a goalpost in the last game of 1993?
Mobbenfuhrer
15 Jun 2001, 09:41
Dunno.
Thought it was a player?
Noel Mugavin
15 Jun 2001, 20:02
i spoke to gavin dore who reported him for shaking the goal post. he said that the ball was sailing through for a point, and doc's shake made it a goal. i think doc pleaded "diplomatic immunity" at the tribunal
Fat Pizza
17 Jun 2001, 23:11
Good suggestions Mobbenfuhrer & Noel Mugavin. His real defence was just as silly, but probably true.
There was a bird on top of the post and he tried to shoo it away because he didn't want the poor thing to be in danger of getting hit?
Waltzing Woof Biscuit
18 Jun 2001, 16:43
He was very nervous, and just happened to be clutching the goalpost?
I once heard someone say that S.Loewe had perfected the art of shaking the goal post at just the right time in order to salvage a goal out of a slightly off-line kick.
Not sure if that was true, but he sure seemed to bump into the goal posts on quite a number of occasions, in St.Kilda of years gone by.
Waltzing Woof Biscuit
19 Jun 2001, 13:04
Originally posted by Olmy
I once heard someone say that S.Loewe had perfected the art of shaking the goal post at just the right time in order to salvage a goal out of a slightly off-line kick.
Not sure if that was true, but he sure seemed to bump into the goal posts on quite a number of occasions, in St.Kilda of years gone by.
Olmy, didn't he get reported for that? He either got a fine, or was outed for one week.
Maybe Doc thought the goalpost was Dean Irving, and wanted to see if he could get him to move at all.
Mobbenfuhrer
19 Jun 2001, 21:58
Perhaps he thought that the kick was finally going to go through for a Roys goal, and wanted to 'touch wood'.
Fat Pizza
19 Jun 2001, 22:52
Originally posted by Mobbenfuhrer
Perhaps he thought that the kick was finally going to go through for a Roys goal, and wanted to 'touch wood'.
That's the best suggestion yet :D I like the idea.
His real excuse was that he wasn't shaking the goalpost, he was trying to climb it.
Apparently he climbed a goalpost during one of his Under 19 games with the Roys in early 1989.