sunsaint wrote:Thinline wrote:I was aggrieved as a loyalist at the time, but Michael and Scott are not doctors and it was at the time a pretty hot game.
Besides, Roo was doubled over in glaringly serious discomfort after an awkward fall and was otherwise stumbling for and/or signoalling the bench.
Curnow was walking around in circles looking confused.
Surely there's an inherent difference.
you're wrong about one thing and right about another
Roo copped two impacts to the shoulder. He stayed on after the first & it was the second time he
had to go off & that was when the the "gang" bumping started as he headed toward the interchange.
You are right about curnow looking dazed and confused, but in just the same respect he was doubled up clutching his shoulder and heading away from the contest to the interchange
devilhead surely you are being flippant or just need to read up on the rules. GO off the field of play via the boundary & not the interchange rules you out for the remainder of the match (or if stretchered a mandatory 20min bench time)
Roo was a long time ago so I'm not surprised. Even so, I maintain that common sense dictates that Roo was CLEARLY aggrieved and otherwise looked like his arm was hanging by a thread. OBVIOUSLY he was hurting. DUBIOUSLY he was whacked. And whacked pretty hard too.
Montagna's circumstances were far less clear and the contact was inconsequential.
IMO Curnow was running around in circles unsure whether to man up, get a drink, winded, confused, looking for his skipper, lopoking for a trainer, wondering which way was north or which way was south, any number of things.
Now if we as people either at the ground or watching on TV can't come to a reasonable conclusion as to what was going on with him, how on earth can we expect a player to ponder on-field circumstances as lawyer would in a jury trial?
Common sense out the window. Stupid knee jerk decision from an overly powerful/sensitive/market conscious administration whose corporate deadshittery was this morning confirmed by Anderson slipping out a 'please explain' to Melbourne because their players had the audacity to query the dictator's findings in circumstances where there was quite clear and ample public debate about the issue.
This sort of AFL arbitrary decision making is unfair and, realistically, bloody immature.
It's f****** footy. Grey is okay. Quit micro-managing. It's driving me up the bloody wall! And believe me when you live in a one paper town where there's an AFL stooge at the helm of a new local club, you get sick of 'brand management' impinging on football pretty goddam quick!
"The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break in the game. Every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches that's gonna make the f***in' difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!'
