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Lets hope we smash the Demons by 50+ points and secure top 4!!!
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smash the Demons by 50+ points and secure top 4!!!
Any margin win will secure 3rd or 4th depending on how the other teams fare… If we lose, there's a good chance we finish 8th…
Better dob in a demons player for calling you a poo poo head quick.
Why didn't he self report like Jack Graham did?
Why did he wait for an umpire to file a report?
Because it's a progressive penalty. Self report and get 5 -7 weeks, and guarantee you lose the finals entirely. It was originally 2, then 3, then 4 -5 weeks. He will get 7 now, and would have got 5 for self reporting.
The only path under these rules is run the gauntlet and hope you get away with it, and apologise directly to the person affected (which he did). Isaak is a quite guy who walks around in Mickey Mouse jumpers. He had no malace in it, just school yard trash talk that came out. Deserves 2 weeks. If he repeat offends. Give him half a season.
Sadly, based on history…what he should have done was learn from Braden Maynard and knocked him clean out and ended his career.
Then he wouldn't lose a single game.
Stupid..but facts.
@jv: Under the guise of duty of care, any form of head contact is suspension (regardless of accidental or intentional). He made contact. It made zero sense.
Perhaps look at it another way. Who is in a worse position after the act? Collingwood or Melbourne? Angus Brayshaw or Quaynor?
Either way, the tribunal is rife with mystery.
Whenever a player gets done holding the ball, its obligatory to grab their jumper and slam their head into the turf and push yourself up…. No issue whatsoever! Off the ball, no part of the game, violent acts are fine.
Words..high penalty infringements.
My best mate is gay and calls me "a pile of sticks " all the time. That would make an interesting AFL decision if he got done for making the slur.
@ngengerous: Yeah, maybe. Always hard to tell what's the truth in the media. But, what I do know is the word/s he uses aren't intended to be homophobic. They are just ingrained trash school talk for basically a "shit bloke" (no thought of the sexual side of it). I fully understand this doesn't make it right, and society/ AFL are making a case so kids start realising the origin/ why it is offensive. But if he is making a habit of it, then he obviously can't be in public representing the AFL.
It's a pitty, as he is exciting to watch, and you want the best players competing.
What i'd prefer is for the AFL to use this as an opportunity for Rakine to be seen in public and being an ambassador for all genders. Pro removing anything that belittles anyone. The Isaak underneath isn't homophobic. I recon he would embrace it. You've all seen the guy perform music on stage. He isn't a hating thug. He's just immature. A product of an elite sporting kid who went through school missing a fair whack of education because he was taken out for sporting events.
He just needs to route the speech out of his cerebellum and limbic system (auto part of brain). Again, sadly didn't happen when he was younger. Will be tough in later years (the ole teaching old dogs new tricks). Will take something dramatic to change a neural pathway (unfortunately we aren't robots). This might do it.
I hope the AFL actually turns this into a positive. Just issuing fines or suspension doesnt really address the issue. But again, if he is repeat offending (regardless of intention), then I'm happy for them to "remove" him from being front and center on the AFL field for as long as it takes.
@ngengerous: How about this..
2 weeks, a public apology / explanation of why it's wrong at a game in both weeks, and a 12 month pro ambassador role
…or 6 weeks straight up.
Would soon be able to tell the real character/ intention of the player. No media bias. Just fact.
Opportunity to make change. Why waste it.
@tunzafun001: It does really suck to see an important player rubbed out for the rest of the season - but even if he just threw out the worst thing he could think of in an attempt to get under their opponent's skin, it's impossible for him not to have known the consequences of blurting it out. While I agree that it's an extremely harsh punishment (especially when we see players causing lasting physical damage copping fewer weeks), I can't deny it's probably really effective - if I was a player I'd be eliminating it from my vocab for sure.
I would say education and ambassadorial duties with a lighter sentence would be overall more of a positive outcome, but unfortunately the AFL have let the cat out of the box with their precedent. At this point it'd be impossible for them to wind back the punishments without appearing hypocritical.
@ngengerous: The AFL state there 'isn't' a precedent for this. Each case is on its own merrits. But I think we all know that 'isn't true'. I guess Finlayson got 3 weeks of regular season matches not long ago.
As for blurting it out. Again, we are just a calcium container with mush inside. Impossible to delete something that has 20 odd years of neural pathway. Similar to fight or flight. It would have come out without conscious thought. The only way it ends is if that pathway links to the conscious state. He needs to be thinking about it constantly.
They literally need to train him every day with a new 'auto' retaliation term. Start calling every training opponent a peanut perhaps (sorry peanuts). If not (and he doesn't mean to say it), it will come back.
But anyway, the reality is the AFL is a 'brand'. It's not about improving society or education. It's solely protecting a business brand.
If something is hurting the brand, you get rid of it. If you look back on almost all previous cases, almost all decisions make sense when you look at it from a Brand perspective. Many look very illogical if you look at it from a societal/ integrity/ justice perspective.
Collingwood loses, Australia wins
Collingwood wins, Collingwood wins
You have lost 4 out of your last 5 games. It will be a straight exit from the finals. Enjoy. Another Collingwood flop. The Colliwobbles are back!
You have lost 4 out of your last 5 games. It will be a straight exit from the finals.
That's what they said in 2023 too… 🤣
@Repstar: Let's see how this comment ages in a few weeks. Adelaide minus Rankine, Collingwood plus Howe and there is a very good chance Collingwood beats Adelaide if they finish 1st and 4th (pretty likely).
@billy_bob: The only good part is Adl don't need Rankine. They have elite forwards and mids being omitted each week. Howe is a good in and will make it a better game. But… Adl had a shocker last week, but still got the win.
Anyone's flag this year.
@tunzafun001: Yes, that is my point, anyone could win it this year, including Collingwood, yet most people have written Collingwood off.
Pies will finish outside the top 4 as Gold Coast have a game in hand, and will have a better %
and will have a better %
No they wont.
No it won't. GCS and Hawks can both jump Collingwood if they win out.
Both have lower percentage.
That's why I said they can. Hawks need to win by a couple more goals, Suns will easily overtake Collingwood as they get percentage boosters vs Port and Essendon.
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Usual 2 pack… Find 8 in pieces in the Collingwood pack during August.
"Get your cold pies"…
Houston knocked Rankine out and ended his 2024 season (and AFL finals campaign), not to mention risking his immedate and long-term health — that’s real harm. A slur is offensive, sure, but it doesn’t take someone out of the finals. Punishments should scale with damage, so giving Rankine the same as Houston makes no sense imo. (Not defending the use of the slur, just on a real-world harm scale).
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