The football public would respect Selwood more if, when tackled, his first instincts were to break the tackle or get the ball to a team-mate, rather than draw the free by dropping low.
He has been a very good player over the years but, I fear, as he gets older his urge to beat his opponent by...
I worked in Collingwood for a few years in the early 2000s. Walking down Smith Street at lunch, all these people in adidas tracksuits would come up and ask me "are you Jason?"
What if it's not mental illness that caused him to make such a drastic choice? What if he's just a terribly sad and lonely man because his selfish, cheating ways lost him a lot of friendships and nearly killed his football club?
"When you're talking football, you're talking Stephen Jurica", said no one ever. Except Bruce McAvaney. Back in 1995, as Richmond's young forward slotted his fifth against Essendon, Bruce must have felt his trousers tighten as he gutteraly exclaimed Jurica to be the next big thing in footy.
No...
I have the unfortunate ability of saying the wrong thing to the wrong person at the most inappropriate moment.
Applying for a job with Paers communications department right now!
The number of times opponents punched me in the face meant these incidents were statistically unlikely to be accidents.
I can offer my services as a forward line pest a la Ballantyne.
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