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You know what is the absolute worst part of the incident? The immediate and constant need felt by media commentators and the general public to exonerate the guy who threw the punch.
The first thing done after the game? An interview with Bugg talking about how "much he regretted it" and "how he'll have to live with what he's done"; the poor guy. Talk from Garry Lyon on the official AFL website about how "Bugg is a great kid who's made a blue". Comments such as "we need to think about Mills' role". He's pretty much been forgiven before he's even been punished, by a force so determined to protect their own brand and not allow anyone to have to stand up to any culpability other than paid leave from a job that they suck at anyway. Even Danny Green, anti-violence "campaigner" (in the actual and BF senses) has been all too willing to come and say "there was nothing in it".
Sometimes it is okay to demonise people. As it stands right now this incident has been nothing more than a microcosmic representation of a far-wider culture of victim-blaming and stubborn refusal to believe that anyone can actually be responsible for anything horrible, a culture that the AFL media sphere has time and time again proven themselves to be happy to hide behind. If you think this is an over-exaggeration, ask Peter Everitt what he thinks of a cup of Milo. This incident should tar Bugg forever and he should be hated and vilified for it, not sympathised with or coddled. It was absolutely sickening.
But we have white ribbon round so I guess its chill.- I'm a visionary - Only here to confirm my biases -Comment
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And that's why progress may never happen to the point of meaning anything. Second the motion.Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Did I hear right, Bugg got 6 weeks?Western Bulldogs Football Club "Where it's cool to drool"Comment
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Piss weak.Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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How long is Mills out for ?
Should at least be as long as the bloke you hit and longer.Bring back the biffComment
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I was having a laugh with someone on Friday thinking of appropriate reprisal given Bugg earned a free kick as a result of the scuffle that ensued post his cowardly act.
Here's the model:
- Cowardly act committed on the field, players from the victim's team call shenanigans
- Three players from the victim's team get to maul coward for ten seconds after the last of the three arrives on the scene (gentlemen's rule that three closest to the original incident get to attack and no kicking. biting or gouging is allowed)
- All footage reviewed. If players from the victim's team call shenanigans incorrectly a five to ten week suspension applies to all players who act out revenge dependent on severity of reprisal
Or, you could just red card someone based on immediate video review to deter the behaviour based on only allowing 17 men to take the field after such an incident............players know when they're being wankers, raising an elbow, throwing a punch - it's just that most players aren't wankers so they don't do it.TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.Comment
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IS the afl going to appeal ?Comment
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MRP will look at Adelaide captain Taylor Walker for Jason Johannisen push
The match review panel is set to scrutinise Adelaide captain Taylor Walker over an apparent shepherd which left Western Bulldogs defender Jason Johannisen nursing a sore head after being knocked into an Adelaide Oval goal post.
Walker was apologetic after bumping Johannisen into the post early in the third quarter of the Crows' thumping win over the Dogs as the ball was sailing through for a Crows major, with no free kick paid against Walker.
As soon as Walker saw Johannisen had collided heavily with the post, the Crow's attention turned to his opponent's wellbeing.
Johannisen was slow to his feet but played out the game, and the Bulldogs said on Saturday that they believed the backman had pulled up OK following the match.
Walker later told Fox Footy that he hadn't intended to hurt Johannisen.
"I had no intention of pushing him into the goal post," Walker said. "I saw Matt Crouch kick the ball and he tried to pierce it through the goal, so I didn't want him [Johannisen] to touch it.
"I've got his best interests at heart ... I went over to him straight away to check whether he was all right."FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.Comment
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It was another hero act to get into JJ's head the ball was already through.Comment
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