The Alan Didak Witch Hunt

[Barwick17]

Re: Didak and Shaw for finals

No. We made our bed, now lie in it

 

[Frederlick]

Hey pies fans - was going to post this on the main board but assumed that it would be shot down.

As I see it the only bad action Alan Didak has done wrong is lie to his club and hang his mate out to dry - which is bad enough.

Did he shoot the gun? Did he drive drunk?

He shouldn't have been in the vicinity of these dumb acts by others - but he actually didn't do anything. Not sure what is driving the witch hunt? perhaps $'s generated thorugh advertising in nespapers - but I'd be pretty confident that if the witch hunt didn't happen - he wouldn't have lied to his club.

Exactly! Polak runs into a tram under the influence and gives himself brain damage as well as traumatising the passengers and driver and is a 'victim'!? Gehrig bashes a bloke in a pub with Voss and gets lauded as a great Saint? Hello, no one should apologise in the least for Didak. The AFL and even PM Dudd continue to support the 3 strikes rule? So they are saying you can break the law 3 times as an AFL player and they support that? HUh? Go Didak, society and the AFL support anyone who breaks the law but just don't hang out with other tools who do it. Zip cred to AFL and fed gov ATM.

 

[Gone Critical]

Re: DIDAK and SHAW

Didaka has it spot on.
I still concede the whole thing was and still is a media beat-up.
It was a case of two players, one drink driving for which he copped a far stiffer penalty than any other of the multitude of AFL player over the years in similar circumstances.
Didak was in the car and has copped a penalty enormous out of proportion with his crime!....farc me...let's hang him.

The lying issue was totally an in house matter and should have been dealt with as such.
The club's initial response is the root cause of the circus that followed and face saving become the main focus in drafting the penalties.

I follow the club and have to accept the decision.
There is no way the club can go back on a decision which it decided to broadcast to the world and then proceeded to make a "moral" issue.
There is no way out which will not leave the club open to scathing and warranted criticism for having double standards and little backbone.

I cannot wait until this is a non-issue, after our last game of the year, be it next weekend or the GF.

The club made it's bed....end of story.

Absolutely true

Eddie stuffed this by going so public, there was no need

These two should be playing now

 

[Pie eyed]

Mark Bosnich, self confessed Cocaine user, who was dumped and banned for 9 months for failing a drugs test will front up in the A-League.

Bosnich had the following to say"

"It's time for me to put something back, not only into football, but into the community, and using the experiences I have had to help people less fortunate than me," he said.
"And I'll continue to do that because I think I have a duty and a responsibility to do that.
"It's good to use your bad experiences for a positive."


Collingwood could impose a similar condition on Didak and Shaw.
Play football and do something for the community, man a "Driver Reviver stop or similar, next week?

It has to be said though that Bosnich has not played at the senior level for 7 years.

 

[tess]

Re: DIDAK and SHAW

Bring 'em back! Get the cheer-squad to make a big "Bring Back Didak" banner

That will NEVER happen while Eddie is in Charge. Each banner is cleared by and at times Ed actually orders whats to go up on the banner.


I'm getting sick of the Dids/Shaw threads, either we are Collingwood FOOTBALL CLUB supporters or we follow certain players. If you follow a Player your a Groupie, if you Follow the Club then do that, right or wrong Follow the Club. Make your thoughts known but always make sure you remember "Side By Side we STICK TOGETHER" unlike those ferals that support the other teams.

 

[omen666]

Re: DIDAK and SHAW

I can not believe that people are saying that the Didak thing is a witch hunt,(yes it was a media beat up) but He has made some very poor choices in the past has not learnt his lesson.
My problem with Didak is One if he told the police about the shooting of signs then maybe people in the future would not have got hurt.
Two by lying to the club and either making Heath lie or by letting Heath lie he has stopped any chances of Heath being Capt.

I am yet to see or hear any reason why we should keep him, next season.
he has shown that as soon as his restraints are taken off him he goes back to his boof head ways.
Most clubs who win flags have no players doing this type of thing, and when they do they deal with it and the player learns from it

 

[Bodiefish]

Re: DIDAK and SHAW

The standard was set, and the long term gain could be large.

They need to stick this through.

This is coming from a user with the name didaka so he obviously ranks among my favourite players.

The penalty must stick and he must learn the hard way. Same for Shaw.

They will come back bigger and better for this.

P.S. The club has put themselves in this position and now have no leeway to move around it.

Start looking after the club a bit better.

Amen brother

 

[enosis7]

Re: DIDAK and SHAW

My problem with Didak is One if he told the police about the shooting of signs then maybe people in the future would not have got hurt.

No it wouldn't. Victoria Police publicly confirmed that if Didak had come forward about the incident they wouldn't have pursued it prior to the shooting. Hudson was already wanted over this and other incidents prior to the shooting but the police were not actively chasing him - the info Didak had would not have changed this.

 

[didaka]

As much as it could be seen as a negative, I think this incident has had a real positive spin on the football club and brought it closer.

They look a real tight knit unit lately and they're once again playing for each other.

If Didak and Shaw want to bugger up and not be a part of it, then that's their problem.

But they have to be given a chance to rectify it, and from what we've been hearing, they are doing all they can backstage, so let's back them in, but not let them off, because they owe us.

 

[tess]

Re: DIDAK and SHAW

My problem with Didak is One if he told the police about the shooting of signs then maybe people in the future would not have got hurt.

I'll just assume you have never been in the presence of any sort of outlaw/criminal types now have you. Let me try to explain things.

Scenario 1:
Alan calls the Cops and tells em he was there, but chances are he has NO idea of Chris's surname or the actual address of where they went. He just tells the cops they shot a gun off. Cops can do nothing.

Scenario 2:
Alan calls the Cops he knows full details of Hudson's name and can pin point where they took him. Cops raid Hells Angel Clubhouse and a "friendly" cop lets the boys know it was Alan who blabbed. Dids name is MUD, everytime he goes out he is hassled by big burly biker/security/bouncers types to the point of bruising him without drawing attention to themselves. Alan would soon get the idea he is not welcome anywhere in Melbourne's after dark club scene and would maybe even request a trade interstate. Oh and chances are the Cops would not find Hudson as they were already looking for him and he would go on and do what he did anyway.....


Trust me the last thing anyone does is go to the Cops on the Angels.

 

[Pie eyed]

Re: DIDAK and SHAW

I can not believe that people are saying that the Didak thing is a witch hunt,(yes it was a media beat up) but He has made some very poor choices in the past has not learnt his lesson.
My problem with Didak is One if he told the police about the shooting of signs then maybe people in the future would not have got hurt.
Two by lying to the club and either making Heath lie or by letting Heath lie he has stopped any chances of Heath being Capt.

I am yet to see or hear any reason why we should keep him, next season.
he has shown that as soon as his restraints are taken off him he goes back to his boof head ways.
Most clubs who win flags have no players doing this type of thing, and when they do they deal with it and the player learns from it

The Didak "thing" is a Witch Hunt....The first incident and this latest.
If there was even the slightest chance that Didak could have been in any way implicated in the death which occurred after his "lift" with the eventual gunman the police would have at least charged him with some offence.
I will guarantee even the shooter had no idea he was to kill someone when he and Didak shared a car.

You find it hard to believe one thing, I find it hard to believe another.

Given your Username I would have thought you wold have got in the car and had a ball.....or is is it just a cool title?

I am not religious and apart from Movie it means nothing to me other than to highlight the fact that there are many levels of hypocrisy...the conflict between your actual views and you username and the conflict between Didak's actual crimes and his "punishment's" inflicted as they have been by the media and not the legal system, which explicitly stated severaltimes he had no case to answer.

Where do you get the idea that Didak made Heath Shaw lie????
In all probability it was Shaw who beagn the lie and Didak followed. Who the hell was driving a car while pissed and crashed? It was not Didak....talk about guilt by association.

You and many others get enormously indignant about Didak's behaviour and then defend Shaw, the major wrong doer, in the same sentence and try to imply that Didak made him do it.

Get off your high horse......He did stuff, he has paid far more than he should have and at the end of the day I don't think he would even know you exist let alone care what you think.

Why bother?

 

[Snag Breac]

To anyone shaking their heads in disgust from the lofty reaches of the moral high-ground, when/if Collingwood backs down on the Didak/Shaw suspensions, we can simply say that we're exercising Christian forgiveness, even 'though we're struggling with our lower impulses - to continue to punish the transgressors.

As a club, we've been on an enlightening journey (it worked for Leisel Jones) since the infamous incident. We've had a good hard look at ourselves, and we've learnt (yes, learned will do too) a great deal about who we are. It's been a valuable experience. We're now focussing positively on our future journey, going forward.

Oh, and Didak and Shaw will be coming on that journey with us.

N.B. Anyone with a complaint can submit it in writing it to the Black and White Army. God Bless.

 

[favourites]

Re: DIDAK and SHAW

I'm getting sick of the Dids/Shaw threads, either we are Collingwood FOOTBALL CLUB supporters or we follow certain players. If you follow a Player your a Groupie, if you Follow the Club then do that, right or wrong Follow the Club. Make your thoughts known but always make sure you remember "Side By Side we STICK TOGETHER" unlike those ferals that support the other teams.

Well said Tess. The clubs made the decision, it's not like we have players out there who aren't doing their job. We've won our last 3.. who knows might not have happened if those two boys were still out there.

Maybe the club/players have found a new professionalism and aren't out on the piss all weekend.

With 3 wins from 3 since the event, its safe to say the punishment is having effects right through the playing group.