GWS Giants player Toby Greene charged

[azabob]

Re: GWS Giants player Toby Greene charged

This is most, most serious. Intentionally Causing Serious Injury and Affray are at top end of assault charges, they go straight to the County Court. No pissy magistrates' Court plea stuff here, they should get a decent CC or higher lawyer.

Very serious indeed. If he fights it and loses he probably does time for it.

Perhaps hard for you both to answer - was Marley Williams lucky?

With having no experience with the law or knowing the facts I get the feeling Greene will get a suspended sentance at worse.

[Bornadog]

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Perhaps hard for you both to answer - was Marley Williams lucky?

With having no experience with the law or knowing the facts I get the feeling Greene will get a suspended sentance at worse.

Also innocent till proven guilty.

[Go_Dogs]

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Perhaps hard for you both to answer - was Marley Williams lucky?

With having no experience with the law or knowing the facts I get the feeling Greene will get a suspended sentance at worse.

Without access to the information who knows.

At a guess he'd be able to plead down to lesser charges, and probably get a suspended sentence, but I'm not at all familiar with the Vic system.

[1eyedog]

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Without access to the information who knows.

At a guess he'd be able to plead down to lesser charges, and probably get a suspended sentence, but I'm not at all familiar with the Vic system.

Suspended sentence, $200 fine (although for him it will be more like $2000 perhaps) and maybe 50-100 hours community work doing re-veg at primary schools.

Better yet would be to attend a session to discuss the ins and outs of his actions with previous victims of violence.

[westdog54]

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Perhaps hard for you both to answer - was Marley Williams lucky?

Personally, I think he was lucky. By playing not guilty you lose a naive playing card when it comes to sentencing. His age would have certainly helped him.

[josie]

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Setting aside thoughts on Toby - let's await the verdict - if GWS culture is stinky poos can we target one or more of their gun players? Whose coming out of contract 2014/15? I like Leon Cameron, however I think he has a problem with too many young guns and not enough level headed senior guys.

[Twodogs]

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[QUOTE=josie;375500]Setting aside thoughts on Toby - let's await the verdict - if GWS culture is stinky poos can we target one or more of their gun players? Whose coming out of contract 2014/15? I like Leon Cameron, however I think he has a problem with too many young guns and not enough level headed senior guys.[/QUOTE

The club would be crazy not to be monitoring homesick ex Vic players from GWS and Gold Coast.

[LostDoggy]

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Police will lay every charge that 1) they see fits the deed and 2) they think they have enough evidence for. It's likely he'd only get done for one or two.

I heard he picked up a stool and crutches and went to work. Innocent until proven guilty, but if so, he'd be hard-pressed to keep his job.

[bulldogtragic]

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Personally, I think he was lucky. By playing not guilty you lose a naive playing card when it comes to sentencing. His age would have certainly helped him.

Yep. But for me it speaks to the legal system more broadly as a construct of an equal society. If he was from Broadmeadows or Frankton (etc) and had no job and no ability to have enough money for a good barrister, he gets locked up for 6 months. But that's enough society chitter chatter, but I agree with all of that.

[Bornadog]

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Toby Greene ban has been doubled to six weeks.

[G-Mo77]

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Toby Greene ban has been doubled to six weeks.

Still got off lightly

[Mofra]

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See, trade week isn't a total disappointment

[Ghost Dog]

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David Rhys Jones empathizes. Cry me a river.
Try empathizing with all the guys who are advanced in age now with niggling health problems thanks to that thug.

[westdog54]

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David Rhys Jones empathizes. Cry me a river.
Try empathizing with all the guys who are advanced in age now with niggling health problems thanks to that thug.

I had a chuckle at that article as well.

Of all the people to get a character reference from, they went with DRJ?

The desperation to paint Toby as some kind of victim or martyr is getting more and more laughable.

[Bornadog]

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This bloke is the biggest slime playing AFL

A new record for Toby Greene ��

A striking fine on the weekend was the 25th charge of his career, equalling David Rhys-Jones' longstanding record as the most sanctioned player in V/AFL history.


15 games worth of bans, $35,600 worth of fines.