RussellEbertHandball
Flick pass expert
Never has been, never will be one rule applies to everybody. The stars always get a break.The notable thing from the litany of shame is that the 'superstars' (Tarrant, Swan, Didak, Beams, De Goey, McGuire himself!) are allowed to get away with repeated fu** ups, but the lesser lights are moved on (including one who came our way). I guess they got sick of Chris Tarrant eventually and sent him over west.
They did get tough on Didak and Heath Shaw and dropped them for the rest of the year when they lied to Eddie, Mick, Geoff Walsh etc that Didak wasn't in the car when Shaw blew 0.144. Eddie went off at the media for saying Didak wasn't involved, then was embarrassed when the truth came out. They missed 4 games and 2 finals.
Aug 2008: Heath Shaw blows 0.14 after crashing into two parked cars in Kew and lies about Didak being a passenger in the car.
“Didak will be accused of the Kennedy shooting next,” McGuire said (Classic Eddie the Exaggerator)
This is why Scott Burns was always talked up as a potential coach. It was his first year as captain.
"We want to make sure he's put up here, we're going to put him up Wednesday and the normal midweek one (media conference), and he's definitely going to play on Saturday night," Burns said. "We want him to be in the papers the next two or three days, on talkback radio. He's going to be under the pump and he's got to respond. He's let us down. I'm not happy at all."