Tom Boyd

[Milanista28]

He'll never be the player Jack Watts has become.

 

[ZingerB]

That's my point

This isn't a dig a Port or the Bulldogs or the Hawks. It's about how much these internal suspensions are dictated by the standing the player has in the team.

Boyd currently playing VFL - OK, we can suspend him indefinitely because won't effect the seniors
Krakour gets his jaw broken - OK, he's out for 6 weeks anyway, might aswell 'suspend' him til he's right to go
Hodge - Captain and top 5 in the club - Ok well we need him out there, let's slap him with a wet lettuce leaf


If it was Stringer who got into a fight, doubt we'd see an indefinite suspension
If Krakour's jaw wasn't broken, he wouldn't have gotten six weeks
If Hodge was one of those players in the 20-25 bracket in and out of the seniors, he'd be suspended by the club

and yes Adelaide has form all the way back when Bock clocked his misses and got 1 game suspended by the Crows


It all stinks

Okay ... it seemed like it was another Adelaide supporter 'Port Sucks' kind of post, but I would imagine you are correct.

 

[hawks787]

Ken has previously said quite publicly that he has chatted to players in quite negative terms for getting suspended before (I recall Westhoff in 2013, Hartlett (can't 2014). If Travis Boak had been suspended twice and then got pinged for DUI, yes I would expect a suspension even if it was a final. Let's be real, if a fringe player did what Hodge did, he would probably be at another club right now. Again Krakour is a pretty good example. By all accounts his only fault was to be drinking while injured and he was slammed by the club.

Well all might expect things, no guarantee to happen despite any previous statements by anybody saying otherwise. Everything's justifiable in the AFL when it becomes about your club, be it fans, players, coaches, admin whoever.
If a difference is to be made in terms of punishments it has to be taken out of clubs hands and come from the AFL. No mitigating circumstances, no defences, no gradings but just set penalties regardless. Imagine the uproar then? But my player wasn't as bad as your player etc etc etc, it's how it is now.
Punish the crime for what it is, not people's opinions of the crime.

 

[Mofra]

FaceBook reporting Tom hurt Zaine with a WWE move while drinking and the players tried to cover it up.

Sounds like good fodder for BigFooty photoshoppers if you ask me.

 

[MotleyLemon]

Did Michael Talia leak this?

 

[hawks787]

FaceBook reporting Tom hurt Zaine with a WWE move while drinking and the players tried to cover it up.

Sounds like good fodder for BigFooty photoshoppers if you ask me.

Actual story or people's comments and theories?

 

[telsor]

Bulldogs need to implement a No dickhead policy and quick. Starting to worry about the #culture.

You're just hoping your club gets exclusive rights to such players with your All dickheads policy.

 

[Kermit]

maybe you forgot what you said.

Maybe you did- did Collingwood trade 2 1st rd picks + a late pick in return for Treloar and a 2nd rd pick? Did I say any different anywhere? In every post on this, I have said you gave up 2 1st rd picks in return for Treloar and a 2nd round pick. Did you have a 1st rd pick in last years draft? Was your 1st pick Brayden Sier at pick 32? Do you have a 1st round pick in this years draft if you do not trade for one? The answers to the above questions are: No, Yes & No. At no point have I said that Treloar was a straight trade for 2 1st rd picks.

 

[Kermit]

Pfft such one eyed bias.

If you cant see they are exactly the same then the joke is on you.

Oh wait not the same.
You actually paid Griff for us last year.
Griff actually is best 22 unlike Boyd

And now

Griff hasnt been suspended by the club.

How is my quote one eyed bias exactly? I think you should take off your orange goggles on this

 

[Colonial]

How is my quote one eyed bias exactly? I think you should take off your orange goggles on this

No goggles on. Both were getting out of contracts early and made the clubs go through managers.

To be fair one was because of a multi million dollar long term deal.
The other was because he was over how a certain club was being run.

Hmmmmm actually makes Boyd look worse.

 

[Ant_]

FaceBook reporting Tom hurt Zaine with a WWE move while drinking and the players tried to cover it up.

Sounds like good fodder for BigFooty photoshoppers if you ask me.

Serious? So drunken idiocy not a fight? Still stupid, but better than them coming to blows I guess.

Edit : How it gets out

 

[ZingerB]

Well all might expect things, no guarantee to happen despite any previous statements by anybody saying otherwise. Everything's justifiable in the AFL when it becomes about your club, be it fans, players, coaches, admin whoever.
If a difference is to be made in terms of punishments it has to be taken out of clubs hands and come from the AFL. No mitigating circumstances, no defences, no gradings but just set penalties regardless. Imagine the uproar then? But my player wasn't as bad as your player etc etc etc, it's how it is now.
Punish the crime for what it is, not people's opinions of the crime.

I don't mean to be rude ... but Hawthorn have a shit record on off field behaviour. The club basically came out the next day after Clarko's incident and literally said he had done nothing wrong. Dean Brogan was spat on and abused by an Adelaide fan and he was still criticised for belting him by the club. Hodge was suspended twice and pinged for DUI in less than a full season and kept the captaincy. Other clubs have demonstrated leadership in the area, whereas clearly Hawthorn haven't. It is ultimately for the club to decide penalty, but it is pretty transparent when a club like Hawthorn is consistently soft on these sorts of issues.

 

[TW Sherrin]

Maybe you did- did Collingwood trade 2 1st rd picks + a late pick in return for Treloar and a 2nd rd pick? Did I say any different anywhere? In every post on this, I have said you gave up 2 1st rd picks in return for Treloar and a 2nd round pick. Did you have a 1st rd pick in last years draft? Was your 1st pick Brayden Sier at pick 32? Do you have a 1st round pick in this years draft if you do not trade for one? The answers to the above questions are: No, Yes & No. At no point have I said that Treloar was a straight trade for 2 1st rd picks.

its been done to death. just keep listening to the voices.

time to move on.

 

[TW Sherrin]

Serious? So drunken idiocy not a fight? Still stupid, but better than them coming to blows I guess.

How it gets out

sen reckon they're getting texts alledging a glass was involved.

 

[Kermit]

No goggles on. Both were getting out of contracts early and made the clubs go through managers.

To be fair one was because of a multi million dollar long term deal.
The other was because he was over how a certain club was being run.

Hmmmmm actually makes Boyd look worse.

Oh dear... Again, 1 was willing to honour his signed contract. 1 was not. Are those not the facts as they were stated by the clubs and managers?

 

[david addison]

Let me get this straight. With 5000 journos covering afl, we're only learning of the boyd/cordy fiaso after a bulldogs press release? Jesus Christ. These lazy f**kers. Busy obsessing with travis cloke. Do they know where the whitten oval is? Does anonymity make the bulldogs a 'destination club'. They could set up a pretty good witness protection program.

 

[MJ_Dogs]

Drinking. Cut. Glass? Doesn't add up

 

[Kermit]

its been done to death. just keep listening to the voices.

time to move on.

At least when I hear voices, they are real- it's actually people talking to me

 

[ossie_21]

Let me get this straight. With 5000 journos covering afl, we're only learning of the boyd/cordy fiaso after a bulldogs press release? Jesus Christ. These lazy f**kers. Busy obsessing with travis cloke. Do they know where the whitten oval is? Does anonymity make the bulldogs a 'destination club'. They could set up a pretty good witness protection program.

Barrett can go **** himself, he throws us under the bus at every opportunity & this is another he will take. It journos just like him which is why we keep a low profile, it's public knowledge Bev wants to rip him apart. Bottom feeder

 

[Colonial]

Oh dear... Again, 1 was willing to honour his signed contract. 1 was not. Are those not the facts as they were stated by the clubs and managers?

Sad.
Boyd was never coming back. You cannbelieve his lip service if you want but its untrue.

 

[MotleyLemon]

Barrett can go **** himself, he throws us under the bus at every opportunity & this is another he will take. It journos just like him which is why we keep a low profile, it's public knowledge Bev wants to rip him apart. Bottom feeder

Barrett is an absolute stain.



That's desperate. Probably still sleeps with the lights on after the serve he copped at the Brownlow.

 

[TW Sherrin]

Let me get this straight. With 5000 journos covering afl, we're only learning of the boyd/cordy fiaso after a bulldogs press release? Jesus Christ. These lazy f**kers. Busy obsessing with travis cloke. Do they know where the whitten oval is? Does anonymity make the bulldogs a 'destination club'. They could set up a pretty good witness protection program.

I reckon someone got the story and the club decided to get on the front foot.

 

[puntking]

highest played vfl player ever, good work!

 

[BG32]

Well Bulldogs are now only paying him $995,000 a season with this 5k fine

 

[hawks787]

I don't mean to be rude ... but Hawthorn have a shit record on off field behaviour. The club basically came out the next day after Clarko's incident and literally said he had done nothing wrong. Dean Brogan was spat on and abused by an Adelaide fan and he was still criticised for belting him by the club. Hodge was suspended twice and pinged for DUI in less than a full season and kept the captaincy. Other clubs have demonstrated leadership in the area, whereas clearly Hawthorn haven't. It is ultimately for the club to decide penalty, but it is pretty transparent when a club like Hawthorn is consistently soft on these sorts of issues.

Not rude, no offence taken.
Nobody seems to think their own club wouldn't be inconsistent, that's my point. Show me a club that's been 100% strong on every person and every issues regarding their own?
I don't remember or know enough about the Brogan issue you mentioned but you said criticised, fairly sure hawks widely criticised hodge.