Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

[The bulldog tragician]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

They must have been fighting about the size of Tom Boyd's contract. Surely that would be the only reason...

There are so many things liquoured-up young men fight over. A girl. A look sideways. A pass that wasn't delivered correctly. Who knows?

It's embarrassing and just plain dumb.

[G-Mo77]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

I can't help but feel the club threw them under a bus publicly. Rumors always float around we can deny and deny then punish in house. I don't see the point in creating public back lash I'd rather we kept things behind the walls. We've held it out of the public for this long just keep denying.

I don't know the full story here but my feel on it is we're to quick to shame our players when something goes wrong.

Before anyone jumps on me I don't condone violent behavior at all.

[Twodogs]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

The statement said it was a result of skylarking. What does that mean? It could mean anything from falling out of a tree to joining the national front.

[1eyedog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

It's on facebook that they were WWF wrestling and Tom dropped him. Sounds like they were just being 20 year old boys.

[Murphy'sLore]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Sorry, Tragician, I should have made it clear I was being sarcastic!

As for throwing players under the bus,who knows the full truth of the matter. Perhaps the club learned the story was about to be exposed and acted pre-emptively to issue their own statement. That seems the likeliest scenario to me, given it's been under wraps for 'several weeks.'

If the wrestling scenario is true, storm in a teacup.

[Bulldog4life]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Be interesting to know how the other players react to Boyd now

[Bornadog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

I can't help but feel the club threw them under a bus publicly. Rumors always float around we can deny and deny then punish in house. I don't see the point in creating public back lash I'd rather we kept things behind the walls. We've held it out of the public for this long just keep denying.

I don't know the full story here but my feel on it is we're to quick to shame our players when something goes wrong.

Before anyone jumps on me I don't condone violent behavior at all.

These days very hard to keep inhouse, too many people working at the club. It happened a few weeks ago, and perhaps the club tried to deal with it internally, but now forced to go public, due to some sneaky reporter.

[Bornadog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Be interesting to know how the other players react to Boyd now

If they apologise, then life goes on.

[1eyedog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Be interesting to know how the other players react to Boyd now

What do you mean?

[azabob]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

You couldn't script this stuff

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

Suspensions from AFL while they were in the VFL coming back from injury, the bye and still needing another VFL run. Seems we learned a trick from the MRPs one week ban of Viney.

[G-Mo77]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

These days very hard to keep inhouse, too many people working at the club. It happened a few weeks ago, and perhaps the club tried to deal with it internally, but now forced to go public, due to some sneaky reporter.

They could have just said 2 players have been punished internally with fines, counseling etc. Let reporters and fans do guess work after that.

Again I don't know the full story so....

[Murphy'sLore]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

But leaving speculation to run riot only fans the flames of the story, doesn't it? Just my view.

[G-Mo77]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

But leaving speculation to run riot only fans the flames of the story, doesn't it? Just my view.

As apposed to the headlines now? It would have been a small snippet now it's a headline.

[Bornadog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

FFS. Barrett will have a field day. Did they have a donnybrook?

All Zane's fault