View Full Version : Choco's spasm.
Pie eyed
23 May 2008, 01:30
Mark Williams attack on the AFL tribunal was f**king great.
From now on a representative of the Tribunal should be made to attend a press conference with the ousted player and effected coach after each ridiculous decision so the the effected coach can "whack" em one.
I wish more coach's would rip into the Tribunal when a stupid decision is made.
Not really Collingwood related unless of course you remember that Choco was a Collingwood Captain.
Good on him, worst tribunal decision of this year quite easily.
Thommo 42
23 May 2008, 08:49
disgraceful, not even a free kick deserved.
The Dawes
23 May 2008, 09:23
Overly zealous officiating at it's worst - he's effectively been penalised only because Mitchell got KO'd.
Sets a dodgy precedent.
jimmy35
23 May 2008, 10:31
Good on him , it was justified .
Made me smile .
Whacker
23 May 2008, 10:33
Overly zealous officiating at it's worst - he's effectively been penalised only because Mitchell got KO'd.
Sets a dodgy precedent.
So true. If he had stood up shaken it off he would off gotten of which stinks of ****
daics cousin
23 May 2008, 11:57
If we cannot win a flag by the time malthouse's tenure is up i reckon choco will be the next collingwood coach.
Choco has made it clear a year ago when the bombers approached him,and he declined their invitation he categorically stated that the only club he would consider coaching outside his home state is Collingwood.
And i can surely say with confidence that if Choco coached the pies he would definately take them to more than one premiership.
Choco would be smart enough to make game plan changes and have more than game plan up his sleeve.Choco never plays players out of position,and he would top up our list with the missing ingredient to help make us a premiership juganaut.
Good on choco you tell em mate.I love this bloke.
Although a true port man,he still loves the pies,was our captain for years and a great gutsy player,no wonder he cannot stand the way the game has progressed and bourgoune should have gotten off i reckon.
Soul_Pie
23 May 2008, 12:21
I agree entirely with him. I'm sick of the knee jerk reactions from the tribunal, rubbing out players for entirely unintentional hits on other players. Yeah, Mitchell got hit pretty badly, but there was no malice involved, and big hits will always occur in a contact game.
By all means rub out bozos like Barry Hall who hit other players, but don't go after players who go hard at the contest.
Magnus the Magpie
23 May 2008, 15:08
Maybe it's an ordinary decision - seems to be the consensus here anyway. However, the AFL have made it pretty clear that they won't tolerate any criticism of the tribunal and associated panels. If Williams gets away with this, then it seems to be open season on the lot of them to me. At any rate, I'll be damned annoyed if Mick or Eddie get fined the next time they have a crack at them.
Pie eyed
23 May 2008, 16:09
Maybe it's an ordinary decision - seems to be the consensus here anyway. However, the AFL have made it pretty clear that they won't tolerate any criticism of the tribunal and associated panels. If Williams gets away with this, then it seems to be open season on the lot of them to me. At any rate, I'll be damned annoyed if Mick or Eddie get fined the next time they have a crack at them.
I would fully expect Choco to get a hefty fine and possibly even a bit more.
But that certainly does not take away from the fact that he said what I and I suspect thousands of other fans, players, coach's and administrators have been thinking for a few years now.
The AFL are the supposed "guardians" of the game and the spirit of the game....they did not invent it and they don't own it. The clubs and players Australia wide own it. All I have seen them do over the last 3-4 years is "crap on" the game to appease the fragile feelings of the "soccer mum" types they hope to convert to our code. Tinkering with rules to make it look like they actually do something for their money. "leading" the game in this direction and that to suit their own agenda and to "equalize" the competition.
Well I say let them find a nice soft not contact game for little Johnny somewhere else. If he wants to play Aussie Rules then he'll have to "harden the f**c up!"
If he'd gone for the ball he never would have been reported... he took out the player, head high and just because he tried to cover it with turning his back into the player didnt mean he should have got off. I thought it deserved a week at least. If Rocca had done it he would have got 6 weeks. remember his bump 2 years ago against Sydney (feet firmly planted on the ground, elbow in and the sydney player ran into him... he got two weeks for head high contact.
Nowdays thats football.