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It's not really that tough, it's just that the AFL insists on not defining things explicitly. That way they can control outcomes according to their own desires, and not based on the facts of any given case. I would have thought that the wording for rule determining these suspensions is...

I guess I should have prefaced my comment with "apart from cannabis ...". But the beneficial aspects of cannabis so far outweigh the negatives, that it was almost inevitable. Despite that, it's still taken more than 50 years. So yeah, I'm still not holding my breath for a truly rational...

I wouldn't be holding my breath on this one. People have been advocating this approach for literally decades, and there has been no indication of any movement toward it in the western world. Far far too many vested interests in some drugs being illegal for this to change any time soon.

An interesting inability to accept criticism on display here. I've been in a self-imposed dungeon for so long, I doubt that I'll be affected by a new one. I've not seen any evidence of "Lyon hates Carlton" in relation to this particular issue. But I guess you can see it wherever you look ...

Your defence of media personalities - and your attempts at trying to rid this place of the "victim" mentality - at times display the same level of irrationality as that which you're trying to eradicate. Lyon's campaign to get George suspended for a week began immediately post-match on Friday...

No to mention the fact that compensation starts to be a thing after we lost the league's most valuable player ...

Not to mention the "hands in close". It doesn't always come off, and there are still the hurried/blind kicks out of packs, but they have improved so much at flicking the ball around in tight until they can release to someone on the outside. It makes a huge difference to the effectiveness of...

This is so true. But man, did they burn some inside 50's tonight? If they can get out-to-in 50 connections looking anything like the between-the-arcs connection, they'll go to another level again. I don't know if it's Year 5 or 6 for Abbie, but I think we can now add goal-kicking-mid to her...

Personally, I think the knee to the head (or anywhere) of a defenceless player is a pretty poor look. And before people scream "but that will remove the speccie from the game!!", go back and look at most, if not all, of the greatest marks in the history of the game - I don't think many involved...

I'm sorry Stam, you're normally someone who's opinions I broadly agree with, but you're out of step on this one. I get that you're pissed at the Plow and Crippa incidents (and others like them) and are somewhat comparing those with this one, but in both of those incidents they were already...

I'm sorry, and I don't mean to single you out, but it's getting a bit tiresome reading things like this: "And I’d bet on 9/10 people doing the same, everyone in that scenario would have braced with that shoulder, plain and simple." is a crock. Anyone I've ever seen who's in a position of...

I guess the folks saying they think that was the right call on Newman would have been happy if he'd taken that mark and then had the ball taken off him and given to Marshall ... 🤷‍♂️

Apologies if someone has already suggested, but if they're an image file, you could just right-click and "save image as" ... Sorry, disregard, I see you got them now ... Enjoy!

Same, I only just saw the thread and my heart sunk, after all her comments of "loving the club/team" it would have been devastating if she felt she needed to be elsewhere. So glad it's the opposite! Thanks for some good news at a s**t time Mim :thumbsu:

You can blame Fox for that. In a box full of Collingwood folks, it was always gonna be thus. Don't know why both player perspectives had to be given by Collingwood players.

It's getting harder and harder to maintain any sort of enthusiasm for this mickey mouse competition and their ridiculous seat-of-the-pants decisions. The ones I feel for most are the athletes who have taken the whole thing seriously and most likely made loads of sacrifices along the way, only...

It's funny how everyone obsesses over this holding call but no-one is talking about the glaring inconsistency in the rules relating to what is a "catch". Earlier in the game the receiver clearly catches a pass, has total and solid control of the ball, but gets it knocked out by a defender as he...

You seem to have taken everything I've said out of context. I highlighted the line that I was referring to from your original post, and I simply asked if that line was "over the top". I gave you my reasons for asking. The only "agenda" I have here is that extreme comments don't help. They...

You said "sans serious mentoring or development", meaning that there was none at all. Obviously that's an extreme take, and is refuted by the simple fact that there have been players who have improved and developed in the last few years. Comments like that are no better than "Harf was always a...

I think it's patently obvious that the club isn't using any of that as an "excuse", else why did they call the review? But to suggest that there was "no serious mentoring or development" is clearly hyperbole when quite a few players were indeed able to improve and develop their game during the...

Are you being a bit over-the-top here? Just off the top of my head there's been a fair bit of improvement from Abbie McKay (massive actually) and Lucy McEvoy. Mua is another one who's continually developed her game and even Bre Moody added layers to her game. So the development opportunity...

Hear hear. To me, talking to ex-players seems like the most bizarre suggestion. I mean who are they going to talk to? Tayla? Didn't have the emotional maturity to accept a contract more commensurate with her previous season's output and instead held the club to ransom - then barely landed on...

Not to mention Prespakis and Gee (Velcro). This narrative that all these players have left Carlton because of some culture issue is a bit tiresome. The only real "defectors" - that is, players the club would have preferred to keep, but who left anyway - are Bri Davey, Maddy and maybe Sarah...

It's amazing what hard work and determination will do. Abb's been my favourite player almost from the start. Year 1, in and out of the side, just didn't have the skillset of the others. Year 2, developed her pressure game and was getting games as a pressure mid/run-with type, but not getting...

The post that I responded to didn't mention anything about the Cripps incident other than "Well he knocked a guy out ... you surely understand how he was cited." That is the logic I am referring to. What difference does the incident make? A player was tackled, slung to the ground, hit their...

Perhaps you'd like to apply that logic (or ask the AFL to) when a tackle in last weekend's AFLW game against Freo resulted in a concussion but wasn't even mentioned in MRO review for the weekend's games?

I don't know why there's such resistance to changes like these. Anything that gives even the possibility of a mixed up grid can only be a good thing. In this case, not only do you have the possibility of teams/cars being better/worse with different type compounds, but the drivers themselves...

Given that McL supposedly told DR immediately after the Hungarian GP that he wouldn't be driving for them next year, I think it's pretty clear that they signed Oscar to that seat as opposed to being a reserve driver...

Great effort by Jack given that he opted for the soft front. It started to look like he might fade, but in the end he almost pipped Maverick for second. It'll be funny if Jack finishes the season as the next best Duc rider after Pecco ... I wonder what the team will think of their decision to...

Nice work by Jack. Will be interesting to see how he goes tomorrow. But hell, what an effort by Aleix to get out there when he can barely walk!