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[Mav]

You are actually wrong on that one. Gilligan will lose his job eventually due to his support for StKilda and his refusal to turn the blowtorch on them for their poor financial management. It is something the AFL Commission is highly concerned about.

I hope you're right!

 

[Mav]

Here's an idea Hocking. How about you do your job and send the letters out so we stop having this sort of thing affecting close games.

 

[Colbys Boots]

The media are fobbing this off. It’s blatant ****ing cheating!! Laidler should be banned from footy, and if he was directed by the coaching staff to do it then they should get banned as well.

If Steven Hocking had the gumption of Robert Mueller, he would threaten Laidler with a lifetime ban, and then offer him immunity if he offered up evidence against his superiors.

 

[muttley45]

Thank you Horse Longmire for my afternoon chuckle at your lame ass excuse presser, and the immediate announcement on SEN after playing it that Steve Hocking is still investigating and wants a please explain, comedy gold.

 

[giantroo]

 

[JD-Roo]

Thank you Horse Longmire for my afternoon chuckle at your lame ass excuse presser, and the immediate announcement on SEN after playing it that Steve Hocking is still investigating and wants a please explain, comedy gold.

 

[Grogg]

Thank you Horse Longmire for my afternoon chuckle at your lame ass excuse presser, and the immediate announcement on SEN after playing it that Steve Hocking is still investigating and wants a please explain, comedy gold.

That was some A Grade bulltish from a bloke who I once had some respect for.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Horse has lost the plot. An AFL official has publicly said a letter was sent.

Hilarious that Hocking tried to protect them as well while he was supposed to be condemning it.

 

[Tectonic]

Reeks of the AFL having to be seen as taking action because the media spoke up.

If there is 18 instances of it happening they should all be queried and it should be stopped.

 

[Colbys Boots]

Reeks of the AFL having to be seen as taking action because the media spoke up.

If there is 18 instances of it happening they should all be queried and it should be stopped.

If there are 18 instances every week of Runners remaining on the ground for two and a half minutes coaching their team and guarding space AFTER all clubs were told to stop doing it, then Steven Hocking is being treated like a joke by the coaches and needs to be replaced.

 

[Horace]

There is no doubt that an umpire should have blown the whistle, paid a free kick to us plus 50 metres and we may have drawn level.

But having said that I didn't see anything in that video that suggested we were impeded by the Sydney runner in anyway. The real reason we lost was the move of Marsh on to Majak and Allir Allir being used as a free man in defence in the last quarter. Maybe we had no-one to match up on him, but I hate those situations where opposition teams places someone as a loose player in defence, who continually mops up indiscriminate kicks into our forward line. Someone should have matched up with Allir and at least forced a contest. It never happened and he kicked the winning goal. Say no more.

 

[JD-Roo]

(putting this in the correct thread.....)

There was a moment in the 2nd when we kicked long from the members wing towards the opposite forward pocket (Swans race side)

My first reaction was ‘Ah s**t’ as I thought it was (yet another) kick directly to the opposition.

That’s what it seemed like at first glance till the pink bastard pissed off out of the free space in our forward line.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

That was some A Grade bulltish from a bloke who I once had some respect for.

My thoughts exactly. While he's pathetically trying to fob it off as nothing, the footage shows Laidler running away from both the boundary and every Sydney player to stand next to our loose player.

You're dead to me now, Horse.

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[shinboner magic]

Just award the lance Armstrong -James Hird trophy to those cheating flogs.

 

[big_e]

They are already providing Sydney's defence for them...

"We've issued a letter. In fairness to Jeremy, it's unfair that he's actually been highlighted to the level he has been. We could probably send out 18 (letters) a weekend," Hocking said.

Yes because every weekend there are 18 games decided by a goal where one side is protecting a slender lead and using illegal tactics to do so.

Jesus. Was the letter printed on a wet lettuce leaf?

 

[Zondor]

Steve Hocking continues a long line of AFL Footy Op Managers that are incompetent idiots. Now how hard is it to employ someone with some semblance of intelligence into this position? :stern look

 

[hilly]

Going to be interesting if there's another close game this weekend..

 

[archereleven]

We should keep our runner on the ground for 5 minute bursts at the end of each quarter. Wonder if the AFL will just brush it of then?

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[JD-Roo]

We should keep our runner on the ground for 5 minute bursts at the end of each quarter. Wonder if the AFL will just brush it of then?

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Then there would definitely be yet another rule change thanks to a North game.....

 

[scottywiper]

I hear some other AFL clubs weren't all that thrilled with Hocking's claim that every club does it.

 

[blackshadow]

I hear some other AFL clubs weren't all that thrilled with Hocking's claim that every club does it.

Rightfully so. Let's hope they speak up.

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[danj]

In the Age the AFL are saying 93 secs the runner was on the ground, very disengenuous if they aren't counting stoppages time????

 

[shinboner magic]

It’d time all clubs united against the free ride that the swans get.

Salary cap , extra men , father/son , breaking rules- time to end this now.

 

[BruceFromBalnarring]

It's almost as though the free kick count wasn't heavily in North's favour.......

 

[Wayne Campbell]

It's almost as though the free kick count wasn't heavily in North's favour.......

Its almost as though thats an arbitrary number that some weeks you come out in front and some behind.