The Touching Side of Football

legend166

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#26
I think if we all found out the extent of the work many footballers do with the community, sick kids, charity and good causes it would be embarrassing that we call them spuds and shout at them for mis-kicking a football. But I do it anyway, as a grown man it's a weird thing to do.



I would like to see that if you or anyone else has a link.
Here you go: https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/sy...c/news-story/447a0e260f887c61d196bdb5a03fe98b

They ran out with the team on Saturday.
 

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#35
I dont think he said he was "outraged" by it, more said that it wasnt a good look and Roo should have been chaired off by Saints players only.

Darcy was speaking a load of crap, especially with the Maddie game, etc. It was a nice touch and 99.9% of saints supporters wouldnt mind that a richmond player chaired him off.
 

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#40
The unspoken language between players (opp and own) and Sam Jacobs on Thursday night. The AFC and Sam dealt it with it as only professionals and decent humans can.

then fox footy tried to ram it into every single discussion post game, regardless of the topic, disgraceful.
Triple M were just as bad. I knocked off work with about ten minutes to go in the game so I listened to the rest of it on the way home and it felt like for the entire remainder of the game they were discussing how Jacobs would react after the game, whether or not he'd break down when the siren went etc. FFS just call the footy and let the boy play and the family grieve.
 
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#42
There's different kinds of moments.
For me this year it's Nat Fyfe not moving on with the play when Will Setterfield was out cold at Spotless and it seemed like everyone missed it. It's important to make a person unconscious is in the right position to breathe. He signalled our bench for help and left only when that was done.
An important reminder if the priorities in sport I think, and Fyfe's character.
 

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#43
There's different kinds of moments.
For me this year it's Nat Fyfe not moving on with the play when Will Setterfield was out cold at Spotless and it seemed like everyone missed it. It's important to make a person unconscious is in the right position to breathe. He signalled our bench for help and left only when that was done.
An important reminder if the priorities in sport I think, and Fyfe's character.
I missed it, but sounds similar to the Hille v Charman one, where Charman went down and Hille signalled the bench and let him know they were on the way.
 
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#47
There's different kinds of moments.
For me this year it's Nat Fyfe not moving on with the play when Will Setterfield was out cold at Spotless and it seemed like everyone missed it. It's important to make a person unconscious is in the right position to breathe. He signalled our bench for help and left only when that was done.
An important reminder if the priorities in sport I think, and Fyfe's character.
Nat Fyfe's a legend.
 

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#48
As a hawks fan I found it very generous that we decided to roll over to the gold coast by 86 points to give their season a bit of a kickstart. We even let brandon matera snag 6 sausages to give his self esteem a boost!

On a serious note the west coast fans cheering off the crows at subi in 2015 was an incredibly touching moment
Would love to see footage of this. That's just beautiful.
 
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