Michael Talia

[boydogs]

Re: Michael Talia

Of those 3 marks, the only one where Jones extended his arms instead of marking the ball on his chest he dropped

[jeemak]

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And chase.

Except for within large patches of finals!

[northernsoul74]

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The Age reporting that no sanctions are expected to be laid against the Talia brothers or the Crows.

Me too. If there was nothing to say they would have said so by now and done a little dance.

[Twodogs]

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The Age reporting that no sanctions are expected to be laid against the Talia brothers or the Crows.

I wonder what the big delay was then?

[jeemak]

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It takes a long time to reconcile conflicting accounts of matters to get the overarching story water tight and impervious to criticism, especially when the auditors of the stories told want a specific conclusion to them and don't apply any pressure on those presenting them.

[whythelongface]

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The Age reporting that no sanctions are expected to be laid against the Talia brothers or the Crows.

Meanwhile the Western Bulldogs will be fined by the AFL for bringing the game into disrepute. The AFL stated that the Western Bulldogs, an AFL club with a small membership base, should never have asked the AFL to investigate this matter as it would not have affected the result of the game. A spokesperson for the AFL stated that "the Western Bulldogs were lucky to make the top 8 and should just be thankful for doing so well this year. They are not one of the strongholds of the competition and therefore the matter should never of been raised. If it had of been an Essendon or Collingwood we certainly would have provided more resources to the investigation and held those responsible to account."

edited for accuracy

[Ghost Dog]

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It takes a long time to reconcile conflicting accounts of matters to get the overarching story water tight and impervious to criticism, especially when the auditors of the stories told want a specific conclusion to them and don't apply any pressure on those presenting them.

BANG, yes! and isn't this just the way it works? Um are you a public servant? a lawyer perhaps? Right....on...the....money.

[jeemak]

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BANG, yes! and isn't this just the way it works? Um are you a public servant? a lawyer perhaps? Right....on...the....money.

No, I'm not employed as any of the above. I'm in transport.


Because it's a people based industry and there's a lot of peripheral stakeholder skin in the game most of the issues that arise involve people trying to sweeten the stupid things that are expelled from various people's cranial orifices who are under their control. It takes ages for feedback to come my way and it's generally easy enough to tell which type of feedback is genuine and truthful and which isn't.

[Dancin' Douggy]

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Insomnia. Last night. Sat up watching some of this years dog's games.

What struck me was Talia's complete lack of awareness of what's going on around him.

I know it's easy to get the knives out when someones gone, but it was just so obvious and repetitive.

While a young player is wearing your own colours you tend to look through rose coloured glasses, and use terms like, "gee he only needs to improve on x,y and z, and he'll be great".

With the cloak of delusion, hope and fantasy removed, you can see the truth about a player.

And the amount of times Talia made the wrong decision, spoilt his own team mates, punched the ball directly into the path of opposition forwards, ran to the wrong spots etc, (and then there's his kicking). It made me feel quite comfortable, FROM A FOOTBALL PERSPECTIVE, that we won't miss him.

It's still a very sad and strange story though, and I really feel for his grandpa, hope it doesn't affect his health too much.

[bulldogtragic]

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I've been pondering about this fella and Gryphone leaving/betraying the year before. I think he deserves the same treatment as the club clearly knows more than the AFL will ever actually admit. So I can't identify him with any respect from here in, so I'm going with the dismissive bastardised name spelling of Tahyleea just in case if you think my spell checker went nuts. I'm still stuck on an interview with Bob Murphy at the AA telecast where Gerard Whately said 'but it didn't effect the game though did it Bob?' In reference to narrowly losing the final. And Bob didn't agree with the comment. That sums it up for me.

[LostDoggy]

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I remember that. In his understated way, Bob said something like: She was a pretty tight game... or something like that, with real regret in his voice.

I hold no hope for penalties or anything like that (the real penalties are beyond the authority of the AFL anyway) but I hope a vague facsimile of what really happened somehow finds its way to the light of day.

[Bornadog]

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I've been pondering about this fella and Gryphone leaving/betraying the year before. I think he deserves the same treatment as the club clearly knows more than the AFL will ever actually admit. So I can't identify him with any respect from here in, so I'm going with the dismissive bastardised name spelling of Tahyleea just in case if you think my spell checker went nuts. I'm still stuck on an interview with Bob Murphy at the AA telecast where Gerard Whately said 'but it didn't effect the game though did it Bob?' In reference to narrowly losing the final. And Bob didn't agree with the comment. That sums it up for me.

nah, let go he is gone and we don't care anymore.

[bulldogtragic]

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I remember that. In his understated way, Bob said something like: She was a pretty tight game... or something like that, with real regret in his voice.

I hold no hope for penalties or anything like that (the real penalties are beyond the authority of the AFL anyway) but I hope a vague facsimile of what really happened somehow finds its way to the light of day.

Yep and yep. Usually on 360 he's always really upbeat and doesn't usually disagree. And as you say his body language, tone and pointing out it was a narrow loss in disagreeing is what will stick with me and the Tahyleea brothers conspiracy before their successful narrow win against our club.

[Ghost Dog]

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How do you think the boys will react when we first play Sydney? I'd be disappointed if our forward line didn't let him how how close knit we are down at Whitten Oval.

[Throughandthrough]

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How do you think the boys will react when we first play Sydney? I'd be disappointed if our forward line didn't let him how how close knit we are down at Whitten Oval.

Bob "where's Talia?"
Buddy "I think the reserves are playing in Brisbane today"