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Nov 5, 2008
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Katherin
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I don't know why this has taken so long to get here. But, two players players pulled the hair of other player in the last round. Yes, pulled hair, the kind of act that I thought was left to the confines of young Grade 2 boys towards a girl of a specific crush.

Hayden Ballantyne pulled Harry O'Brien's hair during the first quarter as the beginning of his game long attempt to get under the skin of any Collingwood player.

Sam Mitchell did it in the last quarter of the Hawks v Rich game and IMO probably will be remembered more than his last tackle to win the game.

They have both been cited by the MRP and been given $900 fines. Which is an offence as a "misconduct" and probably an apt fine.

My questions and slight moral outrage:

- What self respecting player pulls the hair of another player? Ballantyne is pretty pety and i can prob understand that there is a lack of morality here that would encourage him to pull another man's hair. Mitchell, i had more respect.

- What the the player trying to accomplish by pulling someones hair? Its not going to get your opponent stretchered off and leave you with $900 less for a new xbox or a few new games. Could it be that it would leave a player with the inability to play due to a sense of confusion?

- Do people with dreadlocks deserve to be punished by the pulling due to the fact that the have dreads?

Discuss
 
- Do people with dreadlocks deserve to be punished by the pulling due to the fact that the have dreads?

Discuss
White men yes.

As for Ballantyne, he was probably annoyed at Harry O (see Harry O is irritating thread on bigfooty, he wouldn't be the first). But Ballantyne is obviously a different cat, I'm not going to try to work out whats going on in his head.
 

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I would say that hair gets pulled/pushed every week...its just a bit hidden.. The rub your wrist into the side of the opponents head while on the ground after a tackle...so your not really pushing their head down you are rubbing the hair off their head...:)

Mathew Scarlet has this thing he does thats like that ,watch him...,,also Pratt from the Roos... And we saw what Judd did rubbing around the eyes..

Its just part of the tactics ..... its war out there:cool:
 
Can't even compare the two. Clearly Mitchell's was a dog act while Ballas was just having a bit of harmless fun as he is wont to do.



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I just wonder what Mitchell will do next. Pulling hair, pulling someones nads, he is developing a Libba like reputation.

Yes I can't quite understand why the OP expected this sort of shite from Ballantyne but "had more respect" for Sam Mitchell. This bloke has form in leading Clarko's unsociable football tactics. Mind you with the testicle grabbing and the hair pulling, maybe the OP is onto something... maybe Sam Mitchell really does have a crush on the kid from Richmond.
 
My kids play footy (colts) and they come home with tag marks, pinch marks, scratches, bruises and all sorts of stories of antics on the field. Obviously this doesn't happen every game. Have done ever since about u15's. I'm told that this is nothing unusual from my rugby playing husband (well he doesn't play anymore).

Just because they are playing professional doesn't mean that they don't revert to old tactics!! Probably has been happening for years.......

Juddy did the ole eye gouge trick!
 

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Hayden Ballantyne pulled Harry O'Brien's hair during the first quarter as the beginning of his game long attempt to get under the skin of any Collingwood player.

He's been done for pinching and hair pulling this year.Surely his next charge will be giving an opponent a nipple twister,a wedgie or a chinese burn.
 

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Care factor zero.

If it pi55es em off and puts them off their game then so be it
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Cool...

So does that mean next time Collingwood plays Hawthorn Nick Maxwell can run over Lance Franklin with his XD Ford?

Pretty sure that'll put him "off his game"!
 

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