News Mark O'Connor apologises for playing secret Gaelic match

[Grimoz]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-10-16/cat-apologises-for-playing-secret-gaelic-match

This bloke mustn't be too bright, skips the BnF to go home and then breaches his contract by playing in a Gaelic Football semi final after being told not too

 

[Mr Blicavs]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-10-16/cat-apologises-for-playing-secret-gaelic-match

This bloke mustn't be too bright, skips the BnF to go home and then breaches his contract by playing in a Gaelic Football semi final after being told not too

Pretty typical of our culture at the moment .......too many selfish individuals with a lack of discipline

 

[Turbocat]

He is still young and pier group pressure .. luckily there is no SJ wall type situation here... just a learning experience.

 

[CatsDoItBetter]

Strange that he wanted to and the club let him miss the BnF. I’m sure he’s be keen to go home but he could’ve waited the extra time.

 

[Landgraft]

It was a stupid thing to do, but I love the pluck that not only did he walk right into a final he then also got sent off for fighting.

Here's to big things from O'Connor back in the world of AFL next year...

 

[Grimoz]

Strange that he wanted to and the club let him miss the BnF. I’m sure he’s be keen to go home but he could’ve waited the extra time.

Im assuming he wanted to leave early because of the match but he didn't tell the club that, he should have been at the BnF and could have waited a couple of days to Jet off back home, he was playing in the senior squad at the time, needs to get his priorities right and bloody lucky he didn't do a knee or something of the sort.

 

[Pollywaffle]

I say, why not? Let the guy do it. Just say if he injures himself then have some sort of clause in his contract that cats will not compensate him.

 

[Grimoz]

I say, why not? Let the guy do it. Just say if he injures himself then have some sort of clause in his contract that cats will not compensate him.

AFL is a professional sport and they pay big money for players welfare so they dont take any risks, its like when Nic Nat was under fire from dunking a basketball but this has much more risk involved. The big issue is that he would have known he wasn't aloud to play any matches and he still did it, thats the frustrating thing.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Read it a little earlier and couldn't muster anything more than meh.
He did something minorly wrong, got told off by the club. Nothing more to see really.

 

[THE CAT WRANGLER]

Read it a little earlier and couldn't muster anything more than meh.
He did something minorly wrong, got told off by the club. Nothing more to see really.

Idiot

 

[you pick one]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-10-16/cat-apologises-for-playing-secret-gaelic-match

This bloke mustn't be too bright, skips the BnF to go home and then breaches his contract by playing in a Gaelic Football semi final after being told not too

Safer than water skiing.

 

[catempire]

I read this weeks ago in the Irish press and thought “gee that’s strange that Geelong let him do that”. Makes more sense now.

Obviously would have been a shitstorm had he broken his leg or something but I’m not too fussed otherwise.

 

[CatsDoItBetter]

Partly I’m not that concerned because he’s a fringe player. If it was Tuohy it would be a bigger deal. It doesn’t reflect well on O’Connor though.

 

[RegHickeyStand]

He is still young and pier group pressure .. luckily there is no SJ wall type situation here... just a learning experience.

Unless O'Connor was drunk the whole time (buying the ticket, on the plane, playing), I'd say its much much worse than the SJ incident.

Yeah, I know, alcohol is no excuse in one way.

 

[Down at K Park]

Probably better than sitting on the couch chugging beers, and turning up pre-season overweight. Shout out to motlop.

 

[RegHickeyStand]

Unless O'Connor was drunk the whole time (buying the ticket, on the plane, playing), I'd say its much much worse than the SJ incident.

Yeah, I know, alcohol is no excuse in one way.

But why shouldn't he go. He got so many undeserving games, I'm surprised he didn't take Murdoch along with him.

This is what giving games to people who haven't earned them looks like. You reckon H-S would have done anything like this?

 

[Down at K Park]

Unless O'Connor was drunk the whole time (buying the ticket, on the plane, playing).

Well he is irish.

 

[Lager]

Really, who cares? It's a bit silly to breach contract, but he's young and he'll learn from it.
In fact walking into a semi final side is impressive and getting into a fight... probably good for the skills and aggro.
Expecting big things from Mark this year.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Idiot

Read the room. Clearly there’s a few that aren’t too fussed.

Meh

 

[bulletproof]

Read the room. Clearly there’s a few that aren’t too fussed.

Meh

‘He missed the BnF’ lucky he didn’t win it...... Would have ruined the night. Heinous crime.

In the week Carlton lost a reasonably talented Irishmen to homesickness, you would think we could cut a 21yo some slack.

But, no. Outrage.

And let’s not forget Dangerfield was over there on a state sanctioned trip last year playing Gaelic and injuries can happen anywhere.

 

[Ricky Vaughn]

I support it.

I don't care what country they're in, or what sport they're playing, we need Geelong players to play in more finals.

 

[Max Milburn]

Ha ha. I knew the bloke had balls.

 

[dazbroncos]

He is still young and pier group pressure .. luckily there is no SJ wall type situation here... just a learning experience.

Im glad their was no Pier involved.... that tends to not end well

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[FurTheWin]

So..
It was a 1/4 final, O'Connor did a great job shutting down the opposition in a game his club were expected to lose
They made the semi which they then drew
Can't blame the boy for having a kick with his mates

 

[dazbroncos]

Didnt Libba play a local footy game in Thailand for the same result..

No injury but got the naughty corner at the Dogs.

Its a multi million dollar business. I get the management. Same reason Tom Cruise cant go sky diving/waterskiing/paintballing/skiing et al during a movie.

Too much at stake. I get it. And the same rules apply for player #1 on the list and player #46. Maybe Gaelic football isnt the same business entity that the AFL is - and thats probably a good thing. Its not a hanging offence however IMO.

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