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stevie wrote:I just watched the Plugger/Caven one. Caven gets in the middle of a Plugger lead. At full pace, Plugger sees Caven will get the ball and that there will be impact. He turns his body to avoid a lethal shirtfront but gets him high with his arms.
Didn't deserve 8 weeks. Wasn't the act of a thug. Is less 'dirtier' than Wellinghams hit on Simpson last year or any of Gouger f****** Judd's efforts.
correct again.......i was less than 15 yards away....looked okay at the time although i thought he had killed him...even the umps told plugger it was a fair bump...wasn't until i saw the replay at half time that i thought plugger might be in trouble......the hysteria whipped up by pricks like sheahan and barrassi got him a longer sentence than he deserved.....
Thank you stinger
Caven reminded me of a kid chasing a ball onto a road. Into the path of a truck. He chose to do it - and I'm not knocking his bravery at all - but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It is a little bit like the incident where the filth player, was it Toovey? Two years back ran recklessly back with the flight into the path of Hawkin's knee and got himself knocked out. Only diff was the knee and Pluggers arm. Part of the game, no malice
Its actually nothing like that. Plugger was in bad mood all day in that game. He tried to knock a supporters head off with the ball. There was malice for sure. I do agree with the people saying the McKenna incident was very unlucky.
spert wrote:I was there with my late Dad on that day and saw the incident. Best left in the past, but putting it mildly, there was no need for any contact at the time.
Sorry, just coming in to this thread late in the day - so I haven't really been able to follow the gist of it - but Spert are you referring to the O'Dea or Plugger incident ?
My recollection of the McKenna incident was that play had stopped but McKenna was hanging on to Plugger from behind.
He continued to hold him.
Plugger swung his arm back to brush him away.
But it accidentally hit McKenna in the head.
Then as he fell to the ground he landed awkwardly on his head.
That Plugger copped 4 weeks when we were on fire was a miscarraige of justice.
- McKenna was at fault for holding.
- the umpire should have awarded a free kick/penalty to Lockett
- Lockett was forced to brush him off and the contact to the head was a "blind" contact so was hardly deliberate
- any damage was not done by the blow but by hitting the ground
Crucified.
That was possibly the year Plugger was going to kick 200.
The rest of Australia can wander mask-free, socialise, eat out, no curfews, no zoning, no police rings of steel, no illogical inconsistent rules.
They can even WATCH LIVE FOOTY!
Enrico_Misso wrote:My recollection of the McKenna incident was that play had stopped but McKenna was hanging on to Plugger from behind.
He continued to hold him.
Plugger swung his arm back to brush him away.
But it accidentally hit McKenna in the head.
Then as he fell to the ground he landed awkwardly on his head.
That Plugger copped 4 weeks when we were on fire was a miscarraige of justice.
- McKenna was at fault for holding.
- the umpire should have awarded a free kick/penalty to Lockett
- Lockett was forced to brush him off and the contact to the head was a "blind" contact so was hardly deliberate
- any damage was not done by the blow but by hitting the ground
Crucified.
That was possibly the year Plugger was going to kick 200.
yours and my recollections pretty much match
.everybody still loves lenny....and we always will
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