RichLeMonde
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Turns out Paddy Dangerfield set Vlaustin's house on fire.
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strongandbold12
Nothin' more Tigerish than a bloody Tiger.
Not as embarrassing as the gifted fixture your club receives from AFL HQ every season for the last 4 years.
How embarrassing for your club to be associated with you
Maylandsman
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I didn’t see much in it at the time. Still didn’t stop me calling Danger every name under the sun.
Funny no one mentions it, but oh lets all hate on Lynch (who's off play antics I don't like or condone BTW) .
Danger gets off scott free for that nice little elbow lift at the last second to make contact to his head. I believe that guilt may have got to him and affected his game a little.
....and danger did not even a get a week for that.
what a great post.
Mate stop looking for things that aren't there. Players are allowed to brace for contact etc.
Stop looking for a scapegoat for everything that effects your team. It is a full contact sport, grown men are colliding with each other at high speed all the time. Anyone without black and yellow glasses could see there was literally no intent whatsoever from Dangerfield to hurt him. Sam Menegola made high contact with a shoulder to the head of his own teammate in going for a mark, should he be rubbed out too if the victim wasn't his teammate?
Have some class.
smasha
It's Time!
Just walking past the G when empty,evokes atmosphere.
Wojcinski
Brownlow Medallist
Interesting that no one is hanging it on Cotchin for injuring Ablett's shoulder..
..Probably because he didn't do it on purpose, it was a regulation tackle and sometimes s**t happens. The large majority of Tigers fans here get that the Vlastuin incident was accidental but I guess not everyone can open both eyes.
I'm ok with Danger's use of arms , dont look at the slo mo , look at in real time , Vlas was closing fast
there wasnt time for premeditated anything , just put the bumper up to protect himself
Dangerous point use raise on the Sam M mark
we love the courage of that contest , all 3 players , we dredd that sort of outcome
more often in the player in Sam's position that comes off worst
a la Jonathon Brown
isn't the rule you have to protect a players head at all cost and wouldnt say "opposition"
isn't someone like that endangering a players head ? I hope that gets ignored
How about we get the same treatment, hows that, or does that bother you? Danger lifted his elbow and made head high contact and NOCKED a player out -you are the one not looking at it.
If that was a Richmond player id expect two weeks off at a minimum, simple as that.
Anyway that's the last ill say of it, it is what it is.
It was awful to watch, as you said all three players involved showed tremendous courage. And I know they have to do everything to protect players heads but it is like anything, you can't always allow for accidents and we've just got to accept that they happened
if it was a Richmond player you'd either a) hold a completely different view, or b) be at odds with 99 per cent of your fellow supporters. There was no malice, carelessness, or illegality in it.
my point still the same, id expect 2 week ban and take it on the chin. Like I call Lynch out when he does his crap.
1) Danger made head high contact.
2) contact was severe and K.O'd out a player.
3) raised his elbow right at the last second. - if it was in the same motion (as the spoil) I would call it an accident and call it a day. It was not.
4) there we two motions, one for the spoil and one for the lift.
Some of the awake commentators picked up on this so I'm not the only one calling this out BTW.
Time to move on.
Lynch deliberately tries to get physical on people. None of the stuff he's been criticised for has involved simply going for the ball and accidentally collecting someone in the head.
Yes, there was a second motion. Last time I looked a player making a motion purely as a protective measure is fine.
that's why I called it Lynch's crap.
Lets agree to disagree on this one and move on.
I have no problem with Danger getting off. However how Selwood didn't get a fine for what Lynch has had about 3 fines for this year (shoving Baker's head into the ground) shows the hypocrisy of Christian and how media outrage gets him interested instead of the act. BT was even having a laugh about the act when he was commentating but when Lynch did it earlier in the year he was calling for a suspension.
So if it's the other way around it's still ok? you be alright with that one if it was Danger being knocked out? I call bs, he could of just tucked in his elbow and take the body hit. Doesn't sit well with me.
Winners are grinners, the rest make their own arrangements (insert year)
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It was hard to watch Vlas on the ground, but I dont want that attack on the footy out of the game and
I dont think Dangerfield ought to have copped weeks.
It’s a little bit like the Shiel incident the umpires shouldnt protect people who dont protect themselves.
If they have to the game will change into something crap and kids will get hurt.
I dont think Dangerfield ought to have copped weeks.
It’s a little bit like the Shiel incident the umpires shouldnt protect people who dont protect themselves.
If they have to the game will change into something crap and kids will get hurt.
The Goon
Norm Smith Medallist
He didn’t call for Selwood to be suspended, just fined. Exactly like Lynch was for exactly the same act earlier in the year. I’m totally with Dangerfield not having a case to answer, but if you run with the head shoved into the ground is a fine it should be equally applied, gf or no.
The Goon
Norm Smith Medallist
We‘re just riled up because Lynch was crucified by the media this year, and that was kind of the start of it. But of course in a slow news week in the footy the pack comes hunting and it is what it is. The result is obvious, infuriating double standards. Obviously not your, Geelong or Selwoods fault.
This is in no way condoning what Selwood did at all I just think it’s pointless and stupid but I think what might rile people up with Lynch is that he’s a massive unit and a guy like that has the chance to impose and intimidate every time he’s near a contest. The way guys like Brown and Tredrea used to.
With blokes like Baker, Ballantyne, Libba etc they couldn’t do that because they weren’t physically big and strong enough. I think Selwood now that he’s over the other side of the hill is having to do more of that stuff to try and make his opponents ‘earn’ it than he could at his peak where just crashing packs of players and tackling hard was a way for him to impose himself.
It’s almost like the game has a soft spot for dirty players if they’re smaller, and a target on dirty players if they’re big.
Again not trying to condone it, it just might explain part of why Lynch copped it so disproportionately
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