Past #20: Drew Petrie - NM '01-'16 (324gms/428gls) - WCE '17 (8gms/16gls) - thx for everything Drew

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Good thing to keep in mind when making personal attacks on the character of our players after losses. BigFooty is no different from Twitter it's public domain accessible to anyone.
FWIW I've informed a few posters here before that their abusive post directed towards one of our players had been seen by said player/s, and their families and friends. Water off a duck's back to an older experienced player with runs on the board but not necessarily so for younger blokes battling away for opportunities, and often battling things the public's unaware of.
 

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Dunno why you'd say that even if you were joking which you're not ...
Find it bizarre that Boomer would even bother to be honest. Something about arguing with an idiot... I guess I just don't think it will any difference to people who would go to the effort of bagging someone on SM. I could be wrong, and yeah, clearly I will not be signing up on Twitter just to bag Boomer.
 

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Find it bizarre that Boomer would even bother to be honest. Something about arguing with an idiot... I guess I just don't think it will any difference to people who would go to the effort of bagging someone on SM. I could be wrong, and yeah, clearly I will not be signing up on Twitter just to bag Boomer.
I agree that human nature is all spite and schadenfreude so I'll give you that.
 

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Love to read Robbo's take on this. Initially he was scathing of Lake. Then, purely on the word of the MRP (not the footage which he would have seen for himself for 3 days before the MRP's finding) he flips, softens his view and then speaks of the fear Lake would have had with someone's fingers in his eyes. Now that the "Brian was provoked" theory has officially been debunked as bollocks, it will be interesting to see if he reverts to Lake being "pathetic."

To go so hard on Lake in an editorial and then back off , switch views and then end up as straight out wrong is pretty poor.
 
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Whatever happens this whole experience will toughen up Petrie and that live by the player's code will not hopefully be a detriment to his career.
 

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I just presumed it was due to the loss of both eyes.
Apparently he argued that he was just involved in a bit of routine jumper punching. Not a bad defence when you consider what else was available to him, but I would have told him to put on some big sunglasses, a la Ray Charles.
 
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