Scandal Ginbey Hit With a Lemon

[ubiquitous226]

Key points for discussion;

• Was it of the citrus, or adult toy variety?
• If it was citrus, did it turn into lemonade once it hit Gibney
• Won't someone think of the children?

 

[AFDogs]

Such scandal.

 

[Beerfish]

Lemons can be pretty hard depending on the size. Essendon supporters know this better than most having had lemon Essendon sides of various sizes thrown at us for years.

 

[Cyclops]

Was it a whole lemon? If it was a slice that'd be a twist.

 

[MisterB]

No investigation needed to identify if any of the lemons in red and black jumpers are guilty. None of them got close enough to an opponent all night to be able to hit him

 

[keithrichards]

Think we all know who the culprit is…

 

[Percel]

Lucky it didn’t hit Seedsman

 

[Atomboy]

A “Ginbey Citrus” sounds like a fancy cocktail.

 

[jdisc]

It is quite a perplexing circumstance.

There was a lot of wind that day so a lot of the trash was blowing around and onto the ground, is it possible a lemon simply blew from a food or drink stall into the crowd and someone picked it up and threw it?

However, from personal experience, there are no food or beverage stalls that serve anything with lemon wedges/as an ingredient - the drinks are all poured into cups from cans/taps and the food is all boxed and generic chips, burgers, chicken, etc.

I am therefore lead to believe that a patron brought an entire lemon to the ground, but why? Not pre-sliced for a garnish on their own food or beverage, but rather an entire, whole, uncut lemon.

I hope we can shed light on what happened here

 

[Borussia Teeth]

 

[sweetiee]

A “Ginbey Citrus” sounds like a fancy cocktail.

or a bogans attempt at a fancy cocktail.

 

[IKnowtheDog]

Was Mrs Doubtfire in attendance.

 

[Cyclops]

It is quite a perplexing circumstance.

There was a lot of wind that day so a lot of the trash was blowing around and onto the ground, is it possible a lemon simply blew from a food or drink stall into the crowd and someone picked it up and threw it?

However, from personal experience, there are no food or beverage stalls that serve anything with lemon wedges/as an ingredient - the drinks are all poured into cups from cans/taps and the food is all boxed and generic chips, burgers, chicken, etc.

I am therefore lead to believe that a patron brought an entire lemon to the ground, but why? Not pre-sliced for a garnish on their own food or beverage, but rather an entire, whole, uncut lemon.

I hope we can shed light on what happened here

So it was a lemon smuggling punter...or could it be citrus are doing it for themselves?

 

[Shinboner roo]

It was a closet Freo fan that threw it at Ginbey, he came from Cockburn to make a Cocktail

 

[The Blue Max]

Was it a whole lemon? If it was a slice that'd be a twist.

 

[The Blue Max]

Lucky it didn’t hit Seedsman

Enough to give you the pip.

 

[TheExtractorFactor]

Unrelated to the incident, he looks like the high school bully from a low budget 90’s film.

 

[Atomboy]

Unrelated to the incident, he looks like the high school bully from a low budget 90’s film.

SWEEP THE LEG !!

 

[cowboy18]

It is quite a perplexing circumstance.

There was a lot of wind that day so a lot of the trash was blowing around and onto the ground, is it possible a lemon simply blew from a food or drink stall into the crowd and someone picked it up and threw it?

However, from personal experience, there are no food or beverage stalls that serve anything with lemon wedges/as an ingredient - the drinks are all poured into cups from cans/taps and the food is all boxed and generic chips, burgers, chicken, etc.

I am therefore lead to believe that a patron brought an entire lemon to the ground, but why? Not pre-sliced for a garnish on their own food or beverage, but rather an entire, whole, uncut lemon.

I hope we can shed light on what happened here

Yes, Ockham's Razor would apply and your hypothesis that a patron brought a whole lemon into the ground. Possibly a garnish, maybe to stave off scurvy, I imagine there are other reasons. But...

It's possibly (even if less plausible) that a group of wedges from a corporate box (noting your observations about a food/beverage stall being an unlikely source at the ground) re-aggregated into something resenbling a whole lemon after being mobilised by the wind, and made their way onto the ground. I haven't run the numbers because it's a difficult model to parameterise.

Perhaps a weekend experiment for any forumites with a wind tunnel at home?

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Perhaps someone was concerned that he may have scurvy - lemons are of course superior to limes if that is the case. Haven’t been over to the west for a few years, are the eagles players subsisting on pemmican?

 

[jpart]

The whole lemon theory is seductive, but I’m not ruling out several wedges combining in the breeze like Voltron. We need vendor records, wind direction and a full citrus provenance report.

 

[Cyclops]

Unrelated to the incident, he looks like the high school bully from a low budget 90’s film.

So you've soured on him?

Yes, Ockham's Razor would apply and your hypothesis that a patron brought a whole lemon into the ground. Possibly a garnish, maybe to stave off scurvy, I imagine there are other reasons. But...

It's possibly (even if less plausible) that a group of wedges from a corporate box (noting your observations about a food/beverage stall being an unlikely source at the ground) re-aggregated into something resenbling a whole lemon after being mobilised by the wind, and made their way onto the ground. I haven't run the numbers because it's a difficult model to parameterise.

Perhaps a weekend experiment for any forumites with a wind tunnel at home?

Lemception.

 

[jdisc]

Yes, Ockham's Razor would apply and your hypothesis that a patron brought a whole lemon into the ground. Possibly a garnish, maybe to stave off scurvy, I imagine there are other reasons. But...

It's possibly (even if less plausible) that a group of wedges from a corporate box (noting your observations about a food/beverage stall being an unlikely source at the ground) re-aggregated into something resenbling a whole lemon after being mobilised by the wind, and made their way onto the ground. I haven't run the numbers because it's a difficult model to parameterise.

Perhaps a weekend experiment for any forumites with a wind tunnel at home?

Quite interesting, I had not considered the corporate box hypothesis

 

[TheEscapeClub]

Someone was offended by his ginger hair and threw him something to bleach it out with.

Does anyone know if Dermie was there doing the game? I think this method was his go to back in the 80s.

 

[ubiquitous226]

Well at least we all get the closure we craved.

Eagles coach backs five-year ban for lemon-throwing fan

The fan who hurled a lemon at West Coast defender Reuben Ginbey has been banned for five years from all AFL and AFLW matches

www.afl.com.au

My favourite part;
"Vision showed the thrower also had a second lemon in his hands, which he didnt use"