THe most Gutless act youve seen on a footy field

[Macca19]

The most gutless thing ive seen would be in the 1990 Preliminary Final in the SANFL between Port and North. North were getting an absolute bollocking (port were 9 goals up at 1/4 time, 13 up at 1/2 time, 16 at 3/4 time)...during the last with north 20 goals down, A ball got kicked high in the air by a north player...in the direction of one Darren Jarman.

David Hutton for Port was running with the flight of the ball, with his eyes on the ball, meaning his head was looking straight up in the air. Storming in comes Jarman, with no intetntion of going for the ball, he came storming in full speed, Hutton jumps in the air, and a split second after he marks the ball, jarman jumps in the air with both his knee and elbow up, and connects him in the face and ribs.
Just watching it then it makes you feel sick...its a wonder Hutton is still alive today!!!
Typical Darren Jarman of that time

 

[Bloodstained Angel]

Leigh Matthews and Neville Bruns

say no more

 

[JUBJUB]

Robert Walls sending Peter Worsfold and Brad Hardie out after halftime to deck Geelong players because the Bears were getting thrashed.

Thats the reason I hate Walls guts and he deserves to be stuck with USC and Bruuuuuce for an hour each week.

REVENGE IS SWEET

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"Hey ,just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand"

 

[JUBJUB]

Originally posted by Bloodstained Angel:
Leigh Matthews and Neville Bruns

say no more

BSA
The most bizarre thing about that incident was that Bruns was booed by Hawk supporters for the rest of his career.
I suppose it was silly of him to hit Matthews arm with his jaw.



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"Hey ,just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand"

 

[McKenna for PM]

1995 - West Coast vs Carlton.

It was the dying seconds and West Coast was ahead by five points when the ball was kicked into Carlton's offensive goal square. Both Tony Evans (pauses briefly in admiration) and Greg "sniffed too much diesel fuel" Williams were running hard for it as it neared the goal line. Side by side, Evans just managed to get his foot to it to send it over for a rushed behind. But Williams raised his hands to celebrate as if it had been his goal, a ploy which the goal umpire went for, and signalled a goal.

Carlton won by a point.

 

[TigerTank]

Plugger on Caven

Long on Troy Symmonds

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TT - Obligatory bad-tempered Richmond supporter

 

[Hawkforce.]

Originally posted by Bloodstained Angel:
Leigh Matthews and Neville Bruns

say no more

Yes... Neville Bruns was a SAINT during that game!

 

[Darky]

As mentioned above, the Long, Lockett and Matthews incidents. Also the Paul Dear trip on Peter Foster about 10 years ago.

 

[Hawkforce.]

Originally posted by JUBJUB:
BSA
The most bizarre thing about that incident was that Bruns was booed by Hawk supporters for the rest of his career.
I suppose it was silly of him to hit Matthews arm with his jaw.

JubJub,

Bruns was booed because Lethal was de-registered by the VFL in the process that led to what is now "Trial by Video".

Anyone who was at that game would know that -

a) Geelong instigated the ill-temper of the day...

b) Neville Bruns was NOT an INNOCENT bystander in what was a disgustingly spiteful period of football.

What Matthews did was inexcusable, and thankfully led to a much needed cleaning up of the game. WHY he did it is much more understandable - if you can understand the temper on the ground at the time.

 

[Grave Danger]

The 4 or 5 Western Bullies sent to rough up Michael Gardiner a couple of years ago was pretty pissweak, even though it was just push and shove. Danny Southern smiling at him would have been scary enough...

 

[Hawkforce.]

Originally posted by TigerTank:
Plugger on Caven

Long on Troy Symmonds

Rubbish, TT... and I am surprised you posted it!

Obviously you must have watched Richmond games from the 70's? To even compare these two incidents to the depradations of Richmond/Hawthorn/St Kilda etc.. players during that period is ridiculous.

The Long incident particularly gets up my nose. It was SO innocuous compared to Matthews/Bruns; Williams/Rhys Jones; Ablett/Gastev(Dipper 89 gf); etc etc...

The dirty acts I particularly disliked were Gary Ablett's cowardly charging. Not because of the act, but because nobody (including the media) ever pulled him up on it. He punctured Dipper's lung and concussed Gastev at least twice and was never reported... and so never stopped doing it.

 

[Maggie Greg]

There is no contest

When that gutless prick Jim O'Dea knocked out John Greening from behind at Moorabbin on 8 July 1972 and effectively ended his stellar career as a result of Greening going into a coma.

 

[Anton Grbac]

Dipper's elbow on Alan 'Rocky' Stoneham at Princes Park in 1983 was pretty crude.
I remember Ronnie belting Lethal and Merv Neagle letting fly with the 'kidney punches' in the second half.

The second time we played 'em that year at Windy Hill, Cameron Clayton (remember him?), in the square up for the Stoneham incident,let go with the hardest punch i've seen on a footy field on Dipper. Knocked him into the next week. Dipper went down like the proverbial bag of sh*t.

Essendon/Hawthorn in the 80's were crude, vicious, brutal affairs. It was a nasty rivalry. We belted sh*t outta eachother.

where's wally?

 

[Turlough]

Wayne Campbell on Daniel Metropolis a couple of weeks back in the ansett cup . Nah, um, it was that idiot at Richmond who sacked Robert Walls. Walls did the best he could with the material at his disposal and the 137 point belting by Adelaide was indictive of Richmond's ability at the time.

PS DID YOU KNOW THAT THE INTERGALACTIC BANK CLAN WILL BE IN EPISODE 2 - WHAT A NAME - WHAT AN ORGANIZATION

 

[Joel]

Dermott Brereton - standing on the Hawthorn players'(I think) head in a practice match (got suspended for 8 weeks). Now that was gutless! When he was playing for Sydney.

[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 21 March 2001).]

 

[TigerTank]

Originally posted by Hawkforce.:


Obviously you must have watched Richmond games from the 70's? To even compare these two incidents to the depradations of Richmond/Hawthorn/St Kilda etc.. players during that period is ridiculous.

I think you have to put into the context of the time. The game has changed, for the better - for the most part.

I do not accept that running through a player who is in a vulnerable position, WITH EYES ONLY FOR THE BALL, is either brave or necessary.


BTW: I might not be quite as old as you think I am - I was single digit for most of the 70s, and had as much appreciation for the 'finer points' back then as, well, you know ...

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TT - Obligatory bad-tempered Richmond supporter

 

[mantis]

Dermie Brereton kissing Billy Duckworth.

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RED & BLACK, THE COLOURS OF FENG SHUI

 

[Carob6]

While it might not be the MOST gutless act of all time, that little one that John Barnes did on Brad Johnson last season was pretty low. Was it a coincidence that Brad was one of the best on ground up till that time?

Carob6

 

[Hawkforce.]

Fair enough, TT, but I reckon the Long "incident" was vastly overexposed. He got the penalty it deserved.

Earlier in the year I was pissed off with how he was perceived as a "golden boy".

 

[Mr Ripper]

Chad Rintoul on Michael Long was a tad ordinary I thought.

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Olmy knows best

 

[Captain Sensible]

Grinter on Wallace-That was ugly

 

[Olmy]

Milane on Osborne was pretty nasty.

 

[Magpie-Fletch]

- Dirty Daniher king hitting Brown in the '90 Grand Final.
- Anthony Stevens cheap shotting Buckley during the Ansett Cup and than pushing a doctor away.

Also you can't mention Cowardly acts on the footy field without mentioning Travis Johnson and Peter Riccardi, who must have heard Alan Macllistars plan for introducing more boundary umpires and decided to take it upon themselves and implement it.

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"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" -Winston Churchill

 

[Macca19]

Originally posted by McKenna for PM:
1995 - West Coast vs Carlton.

It was the dying seconds and West Coast was ahead by five points when the ball was kicked into Carlton's offensive goal square
Carlton won by a point.

I thought it was halfway thru the second or third quarter actually but i could be wrong

 

[Bernie]

Jim O'Dea - definately no. 1. A total disgrace.

Anything by Dipper and Rhys-Jones. Ricky McLean, Balme in the 70s , Andrews and Merritt in the 80s. The Pascoe bros. for North - tag team violence. Terry Wheeler's below-the-waist tackling.