Mega Thread Oh yeah ... did you know there are 17 other teams? - General AFL discussion #9 - Blues posters only

[Sin City]

RIP Tom Hafey.

Legend.

 

[ESKIE]

Very sad about Hafey

A true legend of the game.

 

[mediumsizered]

Was a very likeable chap Tommy Hafey. I grew to like him more in 1979 & then again in 1981, after despising him following the '73 GF.

Seriously though, he was a quality coach at Richmond & did really well to get some ordinary Collingwood teams into GFs. He probably should have called it a day after the Collingwood gig, but no doubt he was offered some good coin to coach Geelong & a vulgar amount to coach Sydney.

 

[The Coach]

Tommy was and will always be a true legend of the game. What a team he moulded at Richmond - not that I appreciated some of their finals tricks. His achievement to take Collingwood from wooden spoon to drawing in a GF in 1yr was remarkable. I know/remember how he used to call every player in the team the night before the game - do you think any coach does that nowadays. Pre mobile days remember so everyone was supposed to be home

 

[Aphrodite]

Some tweets suggesting it's a GWS player.

 

[Aphrodite]

 

[Aphrodite]

 

[Aphrodite]

 

[Neese]

What a silly Muppet

 

[Silvagnis]

Greene should join Adams, Williams, Swan and Beams at Collingwood.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Assault with a weapon? Holy mackerel.

 

[JamisonRun40]

How could someone be so dumb after what has happened to the other two players recently?

 

[HARKER]

With a weapon? A glass maybe?

Sorry to it to be any player being this stupid but somewhat relieved it hasn't been one of ours for some time now.

This won't do Greene's career any favours. Silly boy.

 

[JamisonRun40]

How disappointing for the Club. Really nightclubs should be off the agenda during the players break plus they did not play well against WCE.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

How disappointing for the Club. Really nightclubs should be off the agenda during the players break plus they did not play well against WCE.

Sorry, but I disagree.

These are grown men. They should be able to, and trusted to, have a night out without assaulting people....just like every other grown man. A blanket ban on nightclubs is not the answer. Holding people accountable for their actions as a deterrent for this sort of behaviour is necessary and will have more of an impact.

 

[JamisonRun40]

MEB I agree with you in part of him being a grown up and should be able to conduct himself properly in a public place but as we know with footballers and alcohol don't go together. I don't expect him to be home tucked up in bed but he is a professional athlete and he has a responsibility to himself and the club.

 

[Wickzki]

Would love to hear the complete story before we condemn the young man.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

MEB I agree with you in part of him being a grown up and should be able to conduct himself properly in a public place but as we know with footballers and alcohol don't go together. I don't expect him to be home tucked up in bed but he is a professional athlete and he has a responsibility to himself and the club.

That's an enormous generalisation. Alcohol and some footballers don't go together, just as alcohol and some other people don't go together.

First and foremost he has a responsibility to himself and society. The sooner we stop holding footballers to a different standard than we do the general population, the better.

 

[HARKER]

How disappointing for the Club. Really nightclubs should be off the agenda during the players break plus they did not play well against WCE.

Nightclub? It's Zagames. A family hotel/restaurant in Caulfield.

Nightclubs shouldn't be/can't be off the agenda. Stupidity and violence should be off the agenda though.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...lfield-nightclub/story-fni5f7qp-1226916081901

Greene and a 19-year-old man from Malvern East were later charged in connection with an assault on a staff member at the business.

Greene, from Rozelle, is facing counts of intentionally causing serious injury, recklessly causing injury, affray, assault in company, assault by kicking, assault with a weapon, unlawful assault, making threats to inflict serious, being drunk in a public place and criminal damage.

His alleged co-offender is facing charges of intentionally causing serious injury, recklessly causing injury, affray, assault in company, assault by kicking, unlawful assault, making threats to inflict serious injury, being drunk in a public place and behaving in an offensive manner.

 

[Wickzki]

If guilty definitely not getting the Marley Williams result.

Another two lives (potentially) screwed properly.

There just has to be more to it. That's just insane.

 

[chunkylover53]

Would love to hear the complete story before we condemn the young man.

Same.

Call me a judgemental arseh*le but if he's belted up a bouncer... Something must have ignited a big blue.

Probably should have just walked away though

 

[Just Kreuzing]

Same.

Call me a judgemental arseh*le but if he's belted up a bouncer... Something must have ignited a big blue.

Probably should have just walked away though

Heard bar staff mentioned.

 

[Dramoth]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...lfield-nightclub/story-fni5f7qp-1226916081901

Rather sadly... that looks like he is more than a little screwed there... thats 2-3 years inside.

 

[James_Blues]

With a weapon? A glass maybe?

Sorry to it to be any player being this stupid but somewhat relieved it hasn't been one of ours for some time now.

This won't do Greene's career any favours. Silly boy.

From a reasonable source, it was crutches that were the weapon