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I took an extra member for the task so we got one each.Three Jack Viney cups? How did you manage to get past the guardians of the plastic cup quota?
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I took an extra member for the task so we got one each.Three Jack Viney cups? How did you manage to get past the guardians of the plastic cup quota?
Brad Miller was charged 10 times. Is he a dog? The Martin hit was pretty poor but it hardly defines his character. It's good having players play on the edge. s**t you must think Bernie Vince is a s**t bloke tooHasn't he now been reprimanded 10 times? And knocked out the SME with a dog hit? Hardly unreasonable.
Jeez lions fans casting some fair assertions on May's character due to some white line fever and on field incidents.
Big from a club whose captain cheats on his partner and breaks up his young family.
I know who I'd rather at my club
I noticed the Melbourne fans' day.
It was held out in the open, I guess.
Melbourne deserves its own dedicated oval and training ground, in the city area.
AFL is a multi-billion dollar industry and should provide seed funding.
We deserve more, but organisations holding events in open spaces should be celebrated IMO. Nothing wrong with it, play onI noticed the Melbourne fans' day.
It was held out in the open, I guess.
Melbourne deserves its own dedicated oval and training ground, in the city area.
AFL is a multi-billion dollar industry and should provide seed funding.
huh? how is having an opinion on May denied because a totally different player is on our list? Especially when that player was widely criticised on our board for that.
FWIW i think calls like dog act and the like are a bit wide of the mark, however May does have an extensive history of stepping over the line during games, especially against the lions. His first instinct is to always bump even when there are alternatives. It doesn't make him a bad guy but he does have a preference to play the person and not the ball in a lot of instances and with that comes consequences when he gets it wrong.
oh and while we're on the topic of casting assertions on character where its not warranted, the criticism of Berry is massively wide of the mark. Sure he's only a third year player but he'd be one of the toughest guys going around, is as hard at it and fair as anyone in the comp. Intimating that he went down unwarranted or as a result of him being small or timid is so far wide of the mark its not even funny.
Got rid of the ball a fair way before he got bumped. He didn't assume that he would get bumped as the ball wasn't in his vicinity and he shouldn't have. Lot of victim blaming going on here... In any case, lets just hope that the next time we play each other, hope for no injuries/reports. Apart from that incident, looked like a good game and was a great test for the real games coming up. Win or loss it didn't matterI don't think berry is soft, but he should know better than to not protect himself especially considering it was may.
I think there's a worrying trend in the game of players not protecting themselves anymore because they expect the rules to do it.
It's not like Berry was jogging to the bench an got Concad from behind. All he needs to do is turn his shoulder an nothing happens.
Got rid of the ball a fair way before he got bumped. He didn't assume that he would get bumped as the ball wasn't in his vicinity and he shouldn't have. Lot of victim blaming going on here... In any case, lets just hope that the next time we play each other, hope for no injuries/reports. Apart from that incident, looked like a good game and was a great test for the real games coming up. Win or loss it didn't matter
Victim blaming lmao.
What's with all these puss bags watching footy?
Get off the dees board, I hope he smashes another 5 blokes an you guys keep having a whinge about it.
If I was coaching Berry id tell him to keep his head up an remember he's on an AFL field at the highest level, not some pissant children's league where no one's allowed to get hurt.
You should always be expecting contact I don't care who you play for.
the ball was in the immediate area, May had every right to bump, because it happened in direct play. he was 2 to 3 metres away from May when he handballed, saying the ball wasn't in his vicinity is complete rubbish.Got rid of the ball a fair way before he got bumped. He didn't assume that he would get bumped as the ball wasn't in his vicinity and he shouldn't have. Lot of victim blaming going on here... In any case, lets just hope that the next time we play each other, hope for no injuries/reports. Apart from that incident, looked like a good game and was a great test for the real games coming up. Win or loss it didn't matter
So you hope that May gets suspended so often that he rarely plays a game? That’s good by me. Logic/10.
Love how you were concerned about players not protecting themselves, then read the term “victim blaming”, then go argo and tell someone to get off the board when they contest your points. Great turn around there.
You should always be expecting contact? No, this isn’t the 70s/80s/90s mate, pepople don’t expect contact because there are rules in place that stop contact at certain points so that potentially career ending injuries don’t occur. According to your statement, players should expect bloody contact during the warm up.
The rules are very clear now, the player needs to have the ball to make the bump that May did and even then it was still high contact as it hit the chin.
The fact that you’ve said you hope that May smashes 5 more players is proof of how far Melbourne supporters have fallen into a toxic pit if you and others are anything to go by.
Now I’m going to go on my own accord, mainly because I don’t want to inflate your ego by leaving after you say the same to me.
To the Melbourne supporters who haven’t been toxic during this debacle, I wish you the best with your season.
Petition for the Dees to change their theme song to this!!!So you hope that May gets suspended so often that he rarely plays a game? That’s good by me. Logic/10.
Love how you were concerned about players not protecting themselves, then read the term “victim blaming”, then go argo and tell someone to get off the board when they contest your points. Great turn around there.
You should always be expecting contact? No, this isn’t the 70s/80s/90s mate, pepople don’t expect contact because there are rules in place that stop contact at certain points so that potentially career ending injuries don’t occur. According to your statement, players should expect bloody contact during the warm up.
The rules are very clear now, the player needs to have the ball to make the bump that May did and even then it was still high contact as it hit the chin.
The fact that you’ve said you hope that May smashes 5 more players is proof of how far Melbourne supporters have fallen into a toxic pit if you and others are anything to go by.
Now I’m going to go on my own accord, mainly because I don’t want to inflate your ego by leaving after you say the same to me.
To the Melbourne supporters who haven’t been toxic during this debacle, I wish you the best with your season.
So you hope that May gets suspended so often that he rarely plays a game? That’s good by me. Logic/10.
Love how you were concerned about players not protecting themselves, then read the term “victim blaming”, then go argo and tell someone to get off the board when they contest your points. Great turn around there.
You should always be expecting contact? No, this isn’t the 70s/80s/90s mate, pepople don’t expect contact because there are rules in place that stop contact at certain points so that potentially career ending injuries don’t occur. According to your statement, players should expect bloody contact during the warm up.
The rules are very clear now, the player needs to have the ball to make the bump that May did and even then it was still high contact as it hit the chin.
The fact that you’ve said you hope that May smashes 5 more players is proof of how far Melbourne supporters have fallen into a toxic pit if you and others are anything to go by.
Now I’m going to go on my own accord, mainly because I don’t want to inflate your ego by leaving after you say the same to me.
To the Melbourne supporters who haven’t been toxic during this debacle, I wish you the best with your season.
More like toxic masculinity. Agree with the last sentence
So you hope that May gets suspended so often that he rarely plays a game? That’s good by me. Logic/10.
Love how you were concerned about players not protecting themselves, then read the term “victim blaming”, then go argo and tell someone to get off the board when they contest your points. Great turn around there.
You should always be expecting contact? No, this isn’t the 70s/80s/90s mate, pepople don’t expect contact because there are rules in place that stop contact at certain points so that potentially career ending injuries don’t occur. According to your statement, players should expect bloody contact during the warm up.
The rules are very clear now, the player needs to have the ball to make the bump that May did and even then it was still high contact as it hit the chin.
The fact that you’ve said you hope that May smashes 5 more players is proof of how far Melbourne supporters have fallen into a toxic pit if you and others are anything to go by.
Now I’m going to go on my own accord, mainly because I don’t want to inflate your ego by leaving after you say the same to me.
To the Melbourne supporters who haven’t been toxic during this debacle, I wish you the best with your season.
Thanks for your input guys, but you can move along now.More like toxic masculinity. Agree with the last sentence
According to your statement, players should expect bloody contact during the warm up.
I don't think berry is soft, but he should know better than to not protect himself especially considering it was may.
I think there's a worrying trend in the game of players not protecting themselves anymore because they expect the rules to do it.
It's not like Berry was jogging to the bench an got Concad from behind. All he needs to do is turn his shoulder an nothing happens.
Certainly hope I never get anywhere near him on the road, his lack of spatial awareness is a major worry.Got rid of the ball a fair way before he got bumped. He didn't assume that he would get bumped as the ball wasn't in his vicinity and he shouldn't have. Lot of victim blaming going on here... In any case, lets just hope that the next time we play each other, hope for no injuries/reports. Apart from that incident, looked like a good game and was a great test for the real games coming up. Win or loss it didn't matter
Now this is really confusing. Berry was pretty much at a medium jog at the point he handballed and took 4 steps at what was no more than a mild jog and in that time while he was still looking at the where he handballed to to make sure he didn't have to follow up again, he should have thought that hey the guy in front of me won't turn and chase the player its gone to, he'll probably bump me in the head because that person who i'm not looking at is steven may and he's got a history of playing the man and not the ball? I mean is he really expected to think that way? That he needs to protect himself against an action that has been banned from the game and severely cracked down upon (bumping someone high) for the best part of 4-5 years?
As for the second bit, berry's focus was on looking where the ball had gone and ensuring that it went to the player and he didn't have to go follow up with another effort to assist. His focus was on the ball, which is where most players focus is most of the time. May however tends to shift focus to the man more often, hence why he finds himself suspended so often. If he was more concerned about where the ball was and how he could have helped out in defence, rather than putting a player who isn't part of the play again on the ground then he wouldn't be in this situation time and time again.
None of that makes him a grub or a dog, the use of those words get thrown around far too liberally these days and are up there with the word Elite for the most inappropriately overused terms in our game. But he does have a preference to play the man rather than the ball, and in pretty much his whole time in football it has been pretty clear that if you decide to do that, the consequences are all on you.
Obviously just a JLT game and all, so I’m not fussed by the result. The bit I found concerning was that I was frustrated watching because we were pretty much playing like arseholes. I trust that during the 14 day break between that and round 1 we have moved to our non-a-hole setting.