Infamous Bulldog Suspensions.

[bulldogtragic]

What comes to mind at the most infamous, worst, unfair or most serious in your mind?

I'm reading wiki on VFL/AFL suspensions and our Wally Warden got 22 weeks for kicking in 1928. Anyone know anything about it, it must have been something massive!

[azabob]

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Todd Curley, 4 weeks

[chef]

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Chris Grant.

[Webby]

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In the old days, kicking was considered lower than the low. Even an ankle tap. A kick of any sort would've easily resulted in a season long suspension. It was an absolute no-no. I doubt it would've been anything earth shattering.

The cultural difference between Australian attitudes to kicking (lowest, most cowardly act) and the Irish attitude towards it (probably seen as less inflammatory than a punch) led to some interesting International Rules matches in the 1980's!

They'd kick one of ours in the leg, and one of ours would throw a fist to the face... The result was extreme violence!

[always right]

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Southern.....last round in 1997. May just have cost us the premiership.

[merantau]

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George Bisset - cost him a Brownlow, I believe, but I could be wrong as it was a long time ago. Chris Grant's suspension was outrageous. One of the fairest champions ever to play the game. Week-in week-out defenders hung off him like baubles on a Christmas tree. Did he complain, did he squeal? No, he just got on with the game. He made fools of many of the hapless chumps who tried to curb his brilliance. In years to come many old men and women will be proud to tell their grandchildren: "I saw him play."

[I'm Not Bitter Anymore!]

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George Bisset - cost him a Brownlow, I believe, but I could be wrong as it was a long time ago. Chris Grant's suspension was outrageous. One of the fairest champions ever to play the game. Week-in week-out defenders hung off him like baubles on a Christmas tree. Did he complain, did he squeal? No, he just got on with the game. He made fools of many of the hapless chumps who tried to curb his brilliance. In years to come many old men and women will be proud to tell their grandchildren: "I saw him play."

In Bissets day you only had to be reported to be out of the Brownlow. He was BOG in that game, was cleared at the tribunal but was ineligible. My first experience of the injustices we face at the tribunal

[Nuggety Back Pocket]

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George Bisset - cost him a Brownlow, I believe, but I could be wrong as it was a long time ago. Chris Grant's suspension was outrageous. One of the fairest champions ever to play the game. Week-in week-out defenders hung off him like baubles on a Christmas tree. Did he complain, did he squeal? No, he just got on with the game. He made fools of many of the hapless chumps who tried to curb his brilliance. In years to come many old men and women will be proud to tell their grandchildren: "I saw him play."

George Bisset lost the Brownlow by 1 vote to Kevin Murray in 1969. He had kicked 6 goals against Carlton in a BOG performance but didn't get an Umpire's vote after being reported on a striking charge which the Tribunal eventually threw out.

[merantau]

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George Bisset lost the Brownlow by 1 vote to Kevin Murray in 1969. He had kicked 6 goals against Carlton in a BOG performance but didn't get an Umpire's vote after being reported on a striking charge which the Tribunal eventually threw out.

Thanks for the heads up on that one - injustice heaped upon injustice eh. Wee Georgie - what a bundle of mischief. Was known to go to the Rosamond Road Drive-in on his horse and cart

[I'm Not Bitter Anymore!]

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Todd Curley, 4 weeks

Reduced from eight weeks I think

[Twodogs]

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Remeber Chris Grant being suspended by the insurance company due to concerns about nerve damage (I think)in his neck? Anyone remember if he missed a game at all? It unfolded in the week leading up to the season opener IIRC.

[bulldogtragic]

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George Bisset lost the Brownlow by 1 vote to Kevin Murray in 1969. He had kicked 6 goals against Carlton in a BOG performance but didn't get an Umpire's vote after being reported on a striking charge which the Tribunal eventually threw out.

Another learned rip off. That post needs an unlike button.

[SonofScray]

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Southern wrestling charge.
Grant v collo
Todd Curley. Had his career ruined by s precious umpire.

[Bornadog]

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George Bisset lost the Brownlow by 1 vote to Kevin Murray in 1969. He had kicked 6 goals against Carlton in a BOG performance but didn't get an Umpire's vote after being reported on a striking charge which the Tribunal eventually threw out.

I remember that one quiet well as those days the umpires wouldn't give you a vote if they reported you, it was guilty till proven innocent. Bisset was robbed and deserved that Brownlow.

[Jeanette54]

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I remember that one quiet well as those days the umpires wouldn't give you a vote if they reported you, it was guilty till proven innocent. Bisset was robbed and deserved that Brownlow.

I remember Wee Georgie getting reported for hitting Carl Ditterich one day at Moorabin. He was pretty angry, and I think the umpire saved Big Carl from a severe mauling at George's hands. Carl hit EJ after he got rid of the ball, but I don't think that Carl expected one of our smallest pups to settle the score.

I also seem to remember one of our players getting 9 weeks for running into an umpire (it wasn't intentional). I am sure someone here can tell us who that was.