Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

[Scraggers]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Damien Barrett via twitter :-
Bulldogs were hellbent on covering this Boyd incident up. Went to extraordinary lengths. Very embarrassing for them

[1eyedog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Exactly what I said.

Well I have no idea what that meant but anyway moving on...

[Eastdog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Dissapointing to hear. Let's hope this is the first and last incident we have from both Tom and Zaine. The media will find another scandal soon and this will be water under the bridge.

[Missing Dog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Robbo tweet in support:
"we demand players to be competitive on the field, but then kick them when they overstep the mark off it. Not ideal, but not hanging offence."

[Eastdog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

True. But when one of the young guys is getting paid 1.5mill and is yet to prove his worth (for the record I think he will) then its a big story. If it had been Zaine and Joel Hamling it wouldn't have gone very far.

Tend to agree the media is interested in Tom because he is getting paid a huge sum. If his pay was much less than that then it wouldn't get as much coverage. Tom is still young and has many more years ahead. Just frustrated that he hasn't been playing but hopefully he'll be playing soon.

[The Pie Man]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Barrett wades into some fairly unprofessional territory at times - he's a strange cat.

Anyway...a blue like this off the field is still pretty disappointing, I can't imagine Bont etc will be easily forgiving if it's a heated altercation.

Could (probably should) be an influential moment in Tom's career though, he'll need to work extra hard to regain respect and I'm sure he will. It'll pass, much like Brad Scott's umpire gaffe has already (and that was a MUCH bigger story - I'm still laughing)

[Rocket Science]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Silver linings ... one might assume from this that Boyd's shoulder's just fine.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Robbo tweet in support:
"we demand players to be competitive on the field, but then kick them when they overstep the mark off it. Not ideal, but not hanging offence."

I never thought I'd say this. Robbo is the voice of reason on this.

[Remi Moses]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Maybe he should have threatened to drown him and taken off o/s for a few weeks.
Sounds like 20 year olds being silly and got out of hand .
Looking forward to the grubs exclusive on the brawl in 2026.

[kruder]

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Robbo tweet in support:
"we demand players to be competitive on the field, but then kick them when they overstep the mark off it. Not ideal, but not hanging offence."

I know they are meant to be professionals but they are 20 years old. I spoke to a player recently and what really dawned on me was how young these guys actually are and we probably expect a little too much from them.

I'm fine with Boyd showing aggression, it would be nice for him to show it on the field too when he leads at the pill.

[G-Mo77]

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Silver linings ... one might assume from this that Boyd's shoulder's just fine.

Haha. Good point. They've been keeping him out as because they are showing caution with his shoulder injury.

[Bornadog]

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From twitter don't know how accurate:

[The Pie Man]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

They've hinted a glassing might've been involved on SEN this arvo

That might explain a cut?..?

[1eyedog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

They've hinted a glassing might've been involved on SEN this arvo

That might explain a cut?..?

That's just outrageous. Half the VFL players were in the room when they were wrestling, it's all over at least 3 VFL players facebook sites. They were wrestling WWF-style and Tom dropped Zaine and he hit the corner of his eye on a table. Jesus talk about Chinese whispers!

Tom Libba has shown that you can move past actions you would otherwise avoid. The problem in this instance isn't the wrestling, the cut, and there was no altercation judging by other VFL players present. The issue is the getting pissed mid-season. That's Boyd's problem. No doubt about it he needs to step up in the second half of the year.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

If it were a glassing Tom would be on remand or bail (intentionally causing serious injury & assault with a weapon, the former being a top level serious indictable offence). What gutter & irresponsible reporting. Tom has the money to sue them, and maybe he should.